Surprising Tuesday: Joe Biden came back from the political dead to return to frontrunner status in the Super Tuesday round of presidential primaries. Biden won nine states, including the delegate-heavy Texas and Virginia.

  Biden’s revival was sparked by a 28-point win in South Carolina last weekend. He distinguished himself from Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg with the line, “I ain’t a socialist, I ain’t a plutocrat, I’m a Democrat.”

 With California and Maine still too close to call, Biden now leads Bernie Sanders in the delegate count 670 to 589.

 Billionaire Michael Bloomberg collected 104 delegates, but looks like he’s going to drop out of the race.

  Elizabeth Warren finished fourth for the day, failing even to win her home state of Massachusetts.

  While turnout was heavy in some states, young people failed to show in the force that Sanders needed to stay in the lead. “If you’re Bernie Sanders, this is your worst-case scenario,” commentator Van Jones said on CNN. “Because you’re now beginning to see the logic of the revolution begin to break down — the idea that you’re going to have young people come out in large numbers.”

  Biden broke out early last night, winning the Democratic primaries in Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama. Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who spent half a billion dollars of his own money to run, got on the board with a win in American Samoa, which offers six delegates. 

  While all this was going on, President Trump was tweeting personal insults.

“Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, other than Mini Mike, was the loser of the night. She didn’t even come close to winning her home state of Massachusetts. Well, now she can just sit back with her husband and have a nice cold beer!”

  That’s the man Democrats are determined to replace.

Twister: Twenty-four people are confirmed dead and more are missing after a string of tornadoes ripped through Nashville Tuesday night and tore across several counties in central Tennessee. The storm hit  a popular entertainment district of Nashville while destroying or damaging 48 buildings.

  Outside Nashville, swaths of homes and businesses were reduced to chopsticks. Nineteen of the deaths were in Putnam County. People were killed in tumbling trailer homes and by flying debris.

Bad Medicine: Stock prices took a deep dive yesterday after the Federal Reserve cut interests rates in an attempt to counter effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the economy.

  Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “We do recognize the rate cut won’t reduce the rate of infection,” adding that he believed the rate cut would “provide a meaningful boost to the economy.”

   Instead, the Dow Jones closed down 786 points, giving up more than half of its dramatic gain on Monday.

  The cut dropped the  federal interest rate from 1.75 percent to 1.25, which leaves little room for maneuver in a downturn driven by numbers rather than fear. 

  Lower rates won’t turn around the basic problem around the world, which is closed factories, stalled production, empty tourist hotels, and an overall drop in economic activity because people don’t want to get sneezed on by someone with the coronavirus.

  Nine people have now died in the Seattle area as the infection numbers rise in the US.  

  Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Politico that he doesn’t think that “we are going to get out of this completely unscathed.”

  Fauci has to tread a fine line with the Trump administration, which claims things are under control and a vaccine is coming “soon,” which is complete fiction. Fauci said, “It’s really going to depend on how we mobilize,” but, “I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad.”

Ink: The old joke in the newspaper business is that you should never sue anyone who buys ink by the barrel. In a growing legal fight with the pencil press, President Trump’s re-election campaign  has sued The Washington Post claiming he was defamed in two opinion pieces published last June.

  This follows a similar lawsuit filed against The NY Times. It appears that Trump is making a legal war against the press part of his political campaign.

  Trump is represented by the lawyer Charles Harder, known for helping to run media and gossip blog Gawker out of business.

  It’s tough to successfully sue on behalf of a public figure, especially for any American President who is sure to get some bad press. The exception is for incorrect statements of fact in which publishers are proven to have acted with “reckless disregard” or “actual malice” as defined under the law. 

The Bulletin Board: Just days after signing a peace deal, the US conducted an air strike against Taliban fighters. — The March 17 publication date of the book by former National Security Adviser John Bolton has been pushed back to May 12^th as the government continues its review. — Half of the world’s beaches could disappear by 2100 because of severe erosion linked to climate change, a study published Monday suggests.  — Virginia has become the first Southern state to ban “conversion” therapy for minors who are gay, lesbian, and transgender. The therapy is based on the belief that people who don’t fit into sexual norms have a mental illness. 

Boys Will Be Browse:  Stuffy Fox News host Brit Hume posted a screen shot of an analysis that gives President Trump a 95.1 percent chance of re-election. That’s not the most interesting thing about his post. The 76-year-old Hume forgot to close all the tabs on his browser, one of which was “Sexy Vixen Vinyl.”  

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