Posts on Sunday, March 8, 2020
Unlike Eric Holder’s Justice Department, the Trump administration is on the forefront of defending First Amendment religious liberty. This Tuesday, Justice Department Civil Rights Division lawyers will be appearing in an Indiana state court to defend the religious freedom of Catholic schools.
Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband's team will personally appear to defend the Archdiocese of Indianapolis against an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a teacher who was fired for openly flouting Catholic Church teaching on marriage.
Joshua Payne-Elliott, the former teacher at Cathedral High School and plaintiff, is suing because he was terminated from his employment as a high school teacher after openly defying church teaching on marriage
On Saturday night news broke of the first confirmed coronavirus case in St. Louis and Missouri. A 20-year-old woman who was studying in Italy tested positive at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.
The woman in her 20’s was released from the hospital and told to self-quarantine along with her parents at their home in Ladue.
But the family did not quarantine.
The family of Missouri’s first coronavirus patient broke curfew hours later to attend the father-daughter dance at Villa Duchesne on Saturday night.
The father and daughter also attended a preparty at the home of a fellow student.
Now the entire school Villa Duchesne will be closed on Monday.
Sleepy Joe Biden traveled to Jackson, Mississippi on Sunday and visited New Hope Baptist Church.
Biden spoke at the black church Sunday and ripped President Trump as a “boll weevil.”
Boll weevils, which can be referred to in a political way, were also beetles that destroyed the cotton fields in the south in the 20th century…awkward.
And gaffe machine Biden knew it was a bizarre thing to say.
“I’m going to get clobbered for saying this,” Biden said warning everyone, “but we kinda got a boll weevil we gotta get rid of.”
Oh, Joe!
You won’t see this in the liberal mainstream news.
It wasn’t that long ago the Democrat leader Chuck Schumer was bragging to reporters about defunding the flu epidemic.
Back in 2009 Senator Schumer bragged to reporters that Democrats had cut funding to the flu epidemic from the Obama stimulus.
The Obama stimulus package funded Obama bundlers on their green projects and pro-Obama propaganda outlets, but somehow cut funding for influenza outbreaks.
Today Chuck Schumer is leading the charge against President Trump’s efforts to thwart the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
According to recent reports from Italy the coronavirus patient zero in the Pavia area is a Pakistani immigrant who refused to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus.
The EU Times reported that the Pakistani man continued to cook and deliver Chinese food and infected an entire region of Italy.
Mainstream Italian news outlets, such as Il Giornale and ADNKronos are reporting the news.
According to Il Giornale the police intervened following an anonymous tip.
Paul Joseph Watson at Summit News reported:
The man believed to be coronavirus patient zero in Italy is a Pakistani migrant refused to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus and continued to deliver food.
You’ve noticed it right?
The Democratic leadership of 2020 will not tell you the truth about almost anything. They lie to everyone, at nearly every moment, about almost everything, all the time.
They lie to their opponents, to the voters, and of course, they lie to each other.
For instance, after clearly naming two associate Supreme Court justices, and pledging that they “would not know what hit” them, the highest-ranking Senate democrat claimed he never said what he in fact said.
From the same event, a congresswoman with a straight face, said to reporters that “abortions are safer than the extraction of wisdom teeth.” Really?
Joe Biden is racking up endorsements from former rivals and Democratic insiders, but a gaffe-riddled 7-minute speech on Saturday in St. Louis, Missouri, led President Trump to tweet out an edited clip that appears to have the former vice president endorse the current commander in chief. During the brief address, Biden, 77, declared: "If you want a nominee who will bring this party together, who will run a progressive, positive campaign, and turn, turn this primary from a campaign that's about negative attacks into one that's about what we're for -- because we cannot get -- re-elect -- we cannot win this re-election -- excuse me.
Sen. Ted Cruz is quarantining himself after coming into contact 10 days ago with an attendee of the Conservative Political Action Committee conference who was later diagnosed with the coronavirus.Cruz said in a Sunday statement he learned of the interaction with the since-infected man last night, but emphasized that he’s not experiencing symptoms and feels “fine and healthy.”The Republican senator said his contact with the CPAC attendee was limited to “brief conversation and a handshake” at the Maryland event last month.Health officials advised Cruz “that the odds of transmission from the other individual to me were extremely low”
The 2020 presidential election on November 3 will not come down to which candidate has the better ideas, or who is more likable. The election will be decided depending on just how well the press will be able to hide Joe Biden's cognitive disabilities.A brief, seven-minute speech shows just what a challenge that's going to be.Fox News: During the brief address, Biden, 77, bizarrely described himself as an "O'Biden Bama" Democrat and went on to declare: "If you want a nominee who will bring this party together, who will run a progressive,
While panicked Americans have been purchasing bundles of toilet paper, water and other supplies because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Asian Americans have instead been reportedly stocking up on guns out of a fear of backlash — and justifiably so.
The panic is especially prominent along the liberal coasts.
“[T]here’s an acute fear among Asian-Americans that the virus’s origins in China will spark a violent xenophobic backlash. Along the West Coast, where the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the United States have occurred, those fears seem to be spurring a surge in gun sales,” The Trace, a far-left outlet, reported Friday.
“People are panicking because they don’t feel secure,” David Liu,
Donald Trump Jr. challenged Hunter Biden to debate who has benefited more financially from their fathers’ time in public office."We can go full transparency, we show everything, and we can talk about all of the places where I'm supposedly grifting, but Hunter Biden isn't," President Trump’s eldest son said in a Sunday interview with Axios HBO. Trump Jr. stepped in to run the Trump Organization with his brother Eric when their father moved into the White House. When pressed on his book deal and paid speeches, he insisted he has made paid speeches for more than a decade.
Kimberly Guilfoyle celebrated her 50th birthday party at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night with an all-star Republican line up of guests, President Donald Trump singing happy birthday to her, and dancing in the grand ballroom until the late hours.Guilfoyle, whose actual birthday is Monday, was feted in speeches by Donald Trump Jr., her boyfriend of almost two years; by Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump; and by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.Tiffany Trump was also spotted in photos posted to social media by attendees at the party, a rare sighting of the first daughter.
Misbehaving “Lone Star State” whippersnappers best watch their booties, because according to reports, at least one school district in Texas is bringing back old-fashioned corporal punishment like spanking come next August.
Late last month, the Pampa Independent School District board of trustees voted 4-3 to reinstate a deprecated student discipline policy from the 90s that had allowed teachers to handle misbehaving students with some old-fashioned corporal punishment.
The decision didn’t come lightly.
“It was a hard decision, we deliberated for about six months,” board president Richard Qualls told local station WOAI.
“The corporal punishment is a controversial topic because some people are for it, some are against it,” district superintendent Tanya Larkin added.
Progressive MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes lost his mind Saturday night in an unhinged, multi-tweet rant accusing the administration of “incompetence and malevolence” and of being “sociopathic” in managing the growing coronavirus crisis.
“Trump is attempting to cover up the full scope of the outbreak in order to boost his chances for re-election, Hayes wrote. “In doing so, he is quite literally threatening public health,” he added.
The leftist network host went all wobbly and aflutter following a story released by the AP charging that the Trump administration removed from a CDC plan a recommendation that “elderly and physically fragile Americans be advised not to fly on commercial airlines
President Donald Trump has decided to skip the annual Congressional St. Patrick’s Day lunch on Capitol Hill, according to Politico‘s Playbook.
“Since the Speaker [of the House Nancy Pelosi] has chosen to tear this Nation apart with her actions and her rhetoric, the President will not participate in moments where she so often chooses to drive discord and disunity, and will instead celebrate the rich history and strong ties between the United States and Ireland at the White House on March 12,” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a statement.
The annual lunch on Capitol Hill takes place around St. Patrick’s Day
President Donald Trump slammed and snubbed Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday with an announcement he won't attend the annual St. Patrick's Day lunch in the Capitol this Thursday. It's the first time a president has skipped the traditional, non-partisan luncheon since George W. Bush missed it in 2003, shortly before the United States invaded Iraq. The luncheon - formally called the Friends of Ireland Luncheon - is hosted by the Speaker of the House, who is Pelosi, and honors the taoiseach of Ireland.
A Grand Princess cruise ship is headed to Georgia from California, where 32 Georgians and thousands of others on the boat will be transferred to Dobbin Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, for coronavirus testing and quarantine as required.
Local media reported on Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s statement:
I have learned that thirty-four Georgians and additional American citizens from the eastern United States who are currently on the Grand Princess cruise ship off the California coast will be securely transferred to Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia. These passengers will undergo testing and be quarantined for possible exposure to COVID-19.
CNN’s Stelter Tells Trump ‘Get Out of the Way’
on Coronavirus — ‘Just Stay on the Golf Course’ replies
on Coronavirus — ‘Just Stay on the Golf Course’ replies
Host Brian Stelter said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that President Donald Trump should “stay on the golf course,” instead of being part of his administration’s coronavirus response.
Stelter said, “Trump is doing things that undermine the response. He’s continuing to contradict health experts by saying anybody can get a test, which is not true right now. Not true. His behavior at the CDC on Friday spoke volumes about his mindset. He wore a campaign hat to the event. He asked about Fox’s ratings. He insulted the Democratic governor of Washington state and brought up the Ukraine scandal.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a list Tuesday of qualified disinfectants to use for protection against the coronavirus.
“The EPA-registered disinfectant products on our Disinfectants for Use Against SARS-CoV-2 list have qualified under EPA’s emerging viral pathogen program for use against SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus that causes COVID-19,” the website stated.
Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses, which means they are among the easiest types to kill with the appropriate disinfectant, according to the EPA.
There may be additional disinfectants that meet the criteria for use against SARS-CoV-2. EPA will update this list with additional products as needed,” the agency stated.
As usual, the left is howling about the Trump administration's new plan to force detained illegals - the brazen people who cross illegally and turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol authorities for 'services' - to provide DNA samples to lawmen, in order to catch the ones who are already wanted for other crimes, mostly from past occasions of breaking into the U.S.
According to National Public Radio:
Immigrant rights advocates describe it as dehumanizing and a serious breach of privacy against vulnerable populations. "It's about miscasting these individuals, many of whom are seeking asylum in this country ...
Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) complained Sunday on MSNBC that President Donald Trump was putting “his most ardent supporters at risk” by not canceling his upcoming political rallies in light of the current coronavirus outbreak.Speier said, “I don’t think the president is capable of telling us the truth about the coronavirus. And I regret saying that. I think we have to rely on the scientists who are attempting to tell the truth even when they have to contradict the president. ”She added, “The fact that he is not willing to cancel his various rallies suggests
Joe Biden held a rally Saturday at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis. During his rally Joe tripped over his own tongue again.Biden mish-mashed his name with Barack Obama’s name as he was bragging about being a lifelong Democrat.Worse yet, Biden went on to admit he cannot beat President Trump. Joe Biden, “We can not win this election. We can only reelect Donald Trump.” Good grief! What are Democrats doing? (Tweet/Video)
State health officials have responded to more than 200 outbreaks of potentially deadly diseases over the past two years, everything from flu in nursing homes to an ongoing surge in Hepatitis A cases, but few of the threats have matched a potential coronavirus outbreak for seriousness or public awareness. (Snip) “We’ve been preparing for an influenza pandemic — our health partners and community partners — for more than two decades,” said Elizabeth Daly, the chief of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Control.
It's barely gotten any press, but just ahead of Super Tuesday, a large urban center in Tennessee, around Nashville, was hit with a horrific tornado, blowing buildings into matchsticks, and leaving 24 dead.
Super Tuesday, the coronavirus, and other stuff left Nashville kind of a backburner news story.
But not to President Trump, who put Tennessee's ordeal up for attention in his Tweets, offering encouragement and support, as well as a swift release of aid. He paid a swift visit to the area to be with the hard-hit Tennesseans, in Putnam County's Cookeville, 80 miles east of Nashville, where the worst of it happened.
You know that someone has struck a nerve when his Facebook post about coronavirus has well over 632,000 shares. That’s the case with a post that Abdu Sharkawy, an infectious diseases specialist, wrote about coronavirus. His is the modern version of Franklin Roosevelt’s famous warning to Americans on the occasion of his First Inaugural Address, that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Sharkaway works for the University Health Network, which is affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. It is also the largest health research organization in North America.
CNN correspondent Hilary Rosen, although white, was a good friend of America’s first black president. White House visitor logs from 2012 show that she’d visited the White House 35 times. Now though, Rosen’s race relations aren’t so good. That’s because, after first correcting a black woman’s take on a Martin Luther King, Jr. quotation, she then referred to “angry black women.” Ruh-roh.
The trigger occurred when Rosen, representing Joe Biden’s interests, and Nina Turner, a Bernie campaign co-chair, appeared on CNN with Chris Cuomo. In the snippet that exploded, Turner contended that King warned blacks that white liberals were too comfortable to be useful allies.
Are we about to get a new Journal of the Plague Year? In that 1722 novel, Daniel Defoe’s protagonist gives a detailed, supposedly eyewitness account of the progress of the bubonic plague through London in 1665 . . . in order to be certain of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house and make inspection. This they did; and finding evident tokens of the sickness upon both the bodies that were dead, they gave their opinions publicly that they died of the plague. Whereupon it was given in to the parish clerk, and he also returned them to the Hall;
Jesse Jackson endorses Bernie Sanders for
president as Vermont senator fights back
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president as Vermont senator fights back
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Jesse Jackson, the legendary civil rights leader and presidential candidate, endorsed Bernie Sanders on Sunday as the Vermont senator fights back against Joe Biden. Jackson's blessing came ahead of Tuesday's primary in Michigan, a contest he won in his 1988 presidential campaign. Sanders won Michigan in the 2016 Democratic primary - a victory that shocked rival Hillary Clinton's camp. (Photos) He has campaigned there heavily to repeat the win and reclaim the frontrunner status from Biden, who surged ahead in the Democratic primary after a strong showing in the Super Tuesday contests.
A coronavirus patient in his 50s went bar hopping to intentionally 'spread the virus' in Japan before Hazmat-clad police took him to hospital. The man tested positive for the disease—which has killed more than 3,500 with at least 100,000 diagnoses worldwide—but he showed no symptoms in Gamagori City. He was sent home by medics and was told to self-isolate before being taken to hospital. But the man—whose parents both were diagnosed with coronavirus—ignored advice and told a relative he was 'going to spread the virus' before taking a taxi to a bar. He left the first bar and went to
Rudy Giuliani attacked former Vice President Joe Biden for showing “obvious signs of dementia” as he moves closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination. “If you consider that what he’s displaying gets worse, what’s he going to be like three years from now? If he doesn’t know what state he’s in, he can’t figure out who his wife is, and if he thinks 150 million people, which is half the population roughly of America, got killed.
Joe Biden is 'confused' as heck, not just about where he is, but who he wants to be president.
Get a load: (Snip for tweet) Not surprisingly, President Trump is having a field day. (snip for tweet) Imagine what the Biden campaign staff meetings are like now. It's never good news when a rival candidate is cheering your candidate's statements.
It's ridiculous, actually - this man the Democrats have rallied around now made these statements with a teleprompter, with rehearsals, and still managed to endorse the other guy.
In fast-moving sports, that's an own-goal, an accident of spatial vector miscalculations and overexcited players.
Joe's none of that.
He's just a mean and confused old man.
Just two weeks ago, first daughter Ivanka Trump visited Dubai in a show of support for women’s rights. At the same time, a British court found, two of the Middle East Kingdom’s princesses are presumably imprisoned there, after being kidnapped and tortured at the behest of the kingdom’s brutal ruler.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum abducted his two daughters, forced them to return to Dubai, tortured them and began a campaign of intimidation against his now ex-wife, according to a damning “Fact-Finding” judgment by the English High Court court this week.
“I am from Brooklyn.” That statement made by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer was meant to excuse threats he has made against two conservative justices the day before on the steps of the Supreme Court. His “apology” seemed to be a mix of claiming a license for all New Yorkers to use “strong language” and claiming justification because some justices are “working hand in glove” with Republicans. This was like a bizarre road rage defense from a Brooklyn driver who apologizes for the situation but explains that it was all due to the lousy driving of the other guy.
The problem is that this the latest in a pattern
The inundation of Europe with Muslim migrants intent on permanent settlement is unprecedented in world history. Europe, which has accepted vast numbers of the migrants, has become an epicenter of Islamic terrorism replete with alarming levels of migrant crime, including Muslim sex slave gangs and sharia-controlled "no-go" zones. Faced with this reality, four Central European countries — Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia — have adamantly refused to accept Muslim refugees, earning criticism from the European community and prosecution by the European Court of Justice.
But now, with Turkey threatening to open its border and inundate Greece with thousands more Muslim refugees, the European community appears to have paused
The number of gun carry permits in Minnesota totals more than 301,000 -- a record number that has nearly doubled since 2014, according to a report.
Minnesota sheriffs reported issuing 51,404 permits in 2019, according to the state Department of Public Safety’s annual tally of gun permits.
Sheriffis in Hennepin, Anoka and Dakota counties issued the most permits, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
The paper said the trend is being fueled by some Minnesota gun owners' concerns that legislation may be coming that would make it harder to buy firearms.
18 shot, 1 killed following fight between multiple
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motorcycle clubs on Cleveland’s East Side replies
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Eighteen people were shot – including one fatally – late Saturday after a large fight broke out among several motorcycle clubs on the city’s East Side, Cleveland police said. The incident began about 11:30 p.m. Saturday outside a building on East 93rd Street, between Reno and Way avenues, Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said Sunday morning. (Snip) Investigators at the scene learned that the shooting was prompted by a fight at a party with members from several different motorcycle clubs in attendance, Ciaccia said. Some people at the party were thrown out but returned to the
Another high-ranking official in Iran has died from the coronavirus, according to state media. Hossein Sheikholeslam, 68, the former Iranian ambassador to Syria, studied at the University of California at Berkely before becoming a leader of the radical Iranian students who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats captive during the 444-day Iran hostage crisis. He reportedly died late Thursday, two days after testing positive for the virus and shortly after it was announced he was recovering, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, which called him a "veteran and revolutionary diplomat." Sheikholeslam, the sixth politician
In the decade since Fargo agreed to host a sweat lodge for the many Native Americans who live in the area, the simple structure and its users have suffered a series of indignities: The land set aside for the lodge is in a gritty industrial area, a shirtless user was mistaken for a vagrant and arrested, and police mistook the lodge for a homeless encampment and had it bulldozed. (snip) "It would be equivalent to the Catholic Church shutting down its location here in the Fargo-Moorhead area because they realized they had issues they needed to fix," Chalsey Snyder
Speaking at a pro-abortion rally outside the Supreme Court last week, Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., went off-script for a moment and said:
"I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
A murder investigation is underway after a 24-year-old man died in hospital following a stabbing in east London shortly after 5am on Saturday, March 7. Scotland Yard confirmed the victim as being Ricardo Fuller although a formal identification has yet to take place. Police were called to reports of a man suffering stab injuries inside a nightclub in Ilford High Road. Mr Fuller was taken to an east London hospital but died at 11.41am, police said. A 29-year-old man, arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder, is being held at an east London police station.
I find myself trapped at home thanks to the simple act of attending a funeral at my synagogue — and while our quarantine so far is “voluntary,” we all understand it really is not. For the most part, quarantine means sitting at home, wondering if my wife and I will test positive, too. It means getting up each morning and hoping you have no symptoms, getting dressed with nowhere to go — not work, not morning service at the synagogue, which is closed, too, not even shopping for groceries.
Joe Biden’s Hoped-For Restoration. When one sees the words “Joe Biden” in media commentary, one often sees, too, the word “restoration.” As in, Biden promises—or threatens, depending on one’s point of view—to restore the days of Barack Obama. More broadly, it’s often said that a hypothetical President Biden would also bring about the restoration of the entire liberal Democratic Establishment. For instance, on March 5, David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times—and thus a pluperfect pillar of the liberal power structure—headlined his piece, “Biden’s Rise Gives the Establishment One Last Chance.”
The chairman of the American Conservative Union acknowledged he interacted with a Conservative Political Action Conference attendee who tested positive for the coronavirus.Matt Schlapp told the Washington Post on Saturday he had an interaction with the infected attendee, though it’s unclear when the two had some form of contact. He later told Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday that he had "incidental contact" with the attendee "very briefly."
Schlapp appeared on stage with President Trump on the final day of the conference and shook his hand. In a tweet, Schlapp said the infected attendee did not attend the conference on Saturday, the day Trump gave remarks.
Former DNC chair Dean implies GOP
Rep. Stefanik deserved 'vile' note:
'As ye sow, so shall ye reap' replies
Rep. Stefanik deserved 'vile' note:
'As ye sow, so shall ye reap' replies
Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean reacted to an offensive note left on the car of Rep. Elise Stefanik by implying that the New York Republican brought it on herself.
Stefanik shared a photo of what she called a "vile" note which said, “Rot in Hell FASCIST PIG,” on Twitter Saturday, and she lamented “that the radical Far-Left cannot see beyond their vicious hate.” Dean retweeted it hours later with his own. “I don’t condone this, but ‘as ye sow, so shall ye reap,’” said Dean, a former governor of Vermont.
Joe Biden just weighed in on California’s AB5, the job-killing law that went into effect in January and basically killed countless gig-worker jobs all over the state including such jobs as Uber drivers, entertainers, freelance writers and the like.
Biden has come out in favor of the law which millions have been fighting. This is a concern not just to California but across the country because the House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, the PRO Act which has language taken from AB5, so if Biden becomes president and a president like Trump isn’t there to block it, it may become law and put millions more out of work.
Klobuchar 'ticket' slip-up at Biden event
in Michigan sparks speculation she'll be
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in Michigan sparks speculation she'll be
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Is her "ticket" punched for a ride on the Biden train?
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., sparked vice-presidential speculation Saturday when she said she was joining Joe Biden’s “ticket” -- in an apparent slip of the tongue during a campaign rally for the former vice (Snip)
Klobuchar, who has been stumping for Biden across the state ahead of this Tuesday's primary -- since she dropped out of the race and endorsed him last weekend -- told a crowd in Grand Rapids she “couldn’t think of a better way to end my candidacy ... than to join the ticket.”
As the crowd cheered she shook her head at her mistake and laughed, “Kidding …
US Still Has the Lowest Per-Capital
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Coronavirus Rate of the 10 Countries
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Of the ten countries that have reported more than 100 confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus each, the United States as of Thursday continues to have the smallest number – by a significant margin – in proportion to its national population. (snip) But when taking into account the WHO-provided numbers of confirmed cases, the per capita infection rate in the United States is 0.0000388 percent. (The CIA World Fact book estimates the U.S. population at 332,639,102.)
That is almost eight times smaller than the next highest per capita infection rate – Japan’s 0.0002526 percent.
More Bad News for Hunter Biden as
He Allegedly Fails Turn Over Required
Docs to Arkansas Court replies
He Allegedly Fails Turn Over Required
Docs to Arkansas Court replies
Hunter Biden has been playing all kinds of games to avoid giving up information about his finances and how he’s getting paid while his father Joe is fighting for the Democratic nomination for president. The younger Biden has thrown stall after stall at the court in Arkansas that is trying to determine what child support he should pay for the child he had with Lunden Roberts. Roberts has had enough of the game playing and is now moving to have Hunter Biden held in contempt for failing to comply with mandatory requirement to provide documents.
The Coronavirus has infected over 100,000 people worldwide, and a few thousand have died from it. Cruise ships have been quarantined, some nursing homes have become death zones, and people have put down their pets for fear that the pets are infected and might infect their owners.
The stock market is down over 10%, producing a paper loss on the order of the U.S. budget for a year – a loss in the trillions.
The Dixie Chicks are back with their first album in 14 years — Gaslighter — and they discuss how the country music industry “turned” on them for Natalie Maines’s 2003 anti-George W. Bush comments, leading to their long album hiatus. In the new Allure cover story, they recall Maines uttering those controversial comments — "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas” — at a small music venue in London in March 2003, just prior to the
Saudi Arabia has detained three senior Saudi princes including Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the king's nephew, for allegedly planning a coup, sources with knowledge of the matter said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, King Salman's son and de facto ruler of the country, the world's top oil exporter and a key U.S. ally, has moved to consolidate power since ousting Mohammed bin Nayef as heir to the throne in a 2017 palace coup. Later that year, he arrested several royals and other prominent Saudis, holding them for months at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel in an anti-corruption campaign that caused shockwaves at home and abroad.
California Democrats’ infamous ‘gig’ law, AB 5, took effect at the beginning of this year, and now thousands of entrepreneurs, including many with disabilities, are now left fighting for their livelihoods. Thanks to their handiwork, it is now more difficult, if not nearly impossible, to work as an independent contractor in the state.AB 5 isn’t just about gig workers utilizing work platforms like Uber and Lyft. It’s much broader—and much more dangerous.
Workers, entrepreneurs, and job creators in hundreds of occupations—including community theaters, event planning, marketing, and public relations, freelance writing, health care, and many more—have been negatively impacted, losing their careers and much-needed flexibility.
Far too many voices on both the right and left are arguing that Joe Biden's recent success is a repudiation of Marxism.
This is so fantastically wrong that it is a little surprising how often we're seeing and hearing it this week. (Snip) These views that Marxism was somehow repudiated are dangerously naïve, misread what happened, and underestimate just how much that radical Marxist philosophy has already shaped the Democrat party.
Autopsy of an Impeachment
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Now that the politics have settled, it’s the right time to return to impeachment, examine it, and learn why it failed. It was only the third such trial in our history. In one of its final reports, the New York Times, while calling the acquittal of Trump a “resounding victory” for the president, added, “both sides agreed that the final judgment on Mr. Trump will be rendered by voters when they cast ballots in just nine months.” Conventional wisdom holds that Senate Republicans were predetermined to acquit Trump of any charges. While there’s a hint of truth to this conventional wisdom, it’s not the entire story. Impeachments, Staff note. *
Failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton revealed that her apology over her email scandal was made against her “better judgment.”The former first lady reflected on the apology for using an unauthorized email server during her tenure as secretary of state in a segment in “Hillary,” a new documentary released Friday on Hulu.(Photo) “We’ll just say what you did was a mistake. It was dumb. It’s over. And that will end it,” Clinton said about the controversy that plagued her 2016 presidential campaign.“I wasn’t convinced of that. But I understood the frustration of my campaign,” she said in the documentary about her life, according to the Washington Examiner.
Joe Biden: Folks, I am proud to be here in the great state of . . . the state of . . . the . . . what I am saying is, I am proud to . . . er . . . here’s the deal: it’s the state that’s next to that other state, but this one begins with an “M” . . . er . . . Let me just begin by saying that here, in the great state of . . . er . . . in this state, which is definitely a great state, I am glad you all came to see me!
Last week, the IRS released its annual Statistics of Income. This much-anticipated document is exactly what it sounds like: a thorough analysis of taxpayers’ incomes and payments to the IRS, this time for 2018.
Each year, these numbers are illuminating for a number of reasons. For one thing, they show the progression of tax payments over time. For example, revenues have continued to rise since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lowered income tax rates for everyone. And the number of filers taking the mortgage interest deduction plummeted from 33 million in 2017 to just 13 million in 2018, as more taxpayers took advantage
After a week of covering the Wuhan coronavirus as both as a pundit and a biosafety professional, I have come to the conclusion that maybe it is time to dial back the drama associated with the pathogen.
Let’s begin by starting with some perspective. The current flu season has hit 32 million Americans, resulting in 18,000 deaths, and the vaccine that was selected for the flu season was limited in its effectiveness. Yet, we are not doing a daily flu death countdown. Understandably, COVID-19 is a new pathogen. However, American bioscientists and medical professionals have focused on it with impressive intensity. It is from a family
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ripped into his former political party, the Democrats, and laid out why he considers himself now a “Trumpocrat” in a broad, nearly 30-minute-long exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Saturday morning.Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, Blagojevich—whose sentence President Donald Trump commuted last month, releasing him from federal prison—laid out how his old political party has “abandoned” American workers and black voters. Blagojevich said a number of policies his former party’s leaders, from former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
The Supreme Court this week questioned the legality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, specifically whether Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, created during the Obama administration, can be led by a single director unaccountable to the president.
“Congress has always established these as multimember commissions or agencies,” Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said about independent agencies during oral arguments.
“It’s really the next president who’s going to face the issue, because the head of this agency will go at least three or four years into the next president’s term, and the next president might have a completely different conception of consumer financial regulatory issues,
It’s 1968, Redux
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A potential political bloodbath at this summer’s Democratic presidential convention, along with Bernie Sanders supporters’ “establishment versus Bernie” campaign motif, shouldn’t surprise anyone who remembers 1968. Back then, like today, the Democrats faced a showdown between their left and center wings—and that confrontation led to violence in Chicago, site of the Democratic Convention, where anti-Vietnam War protestors fought with police in the streets. Inside the convention hall, New Left activists focused their ire not on Republican candidate Richard Nixon but on Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the eventual Democratic nominee. Ironically, Bernie Sanders is old enough to have been part of that movement. Today, he inspires a movement that echoes it.
Walton's Whack
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You may have read about Senior United States District Court Judge Reggie Walton’s whack upside the head of Attorney General Barr this week. The whack was administered in Judge Walton’s opinion ruling on the Freedom of Information Act case that seeks the Department of Justice’s release of an unredacted version of the Mueller report. The opinion is accessible online here.
Judge Walton’s whack is misguided. The Wall Street Journal takes the time to hit back in the editorial Judge Walton’s political aside.” That’s some “aside.” It constitutes almost the entirety of Judge Walton’s opinion.
The other day I received a call from someone asking me if I knew that the press spokesman for the Paulist Fathers is in a gay marriage. I checked it out and sure enough the caller was right. Paul Snatchko has served as director of marketing and communications for the Paulist Fathers for over four years. In 2013, Snatchko entered into a gay marriage. He spoke to the press about it, telling the Observer-Reporter that the “way same-sex marriage is happening is very healthy. It’s happening state-by-state. People are having conversations in their communities and with their families.” (Snatchko did not return my call.)
That the Paulist Fathers hired
Now that the once-sprawling field of Democrats seeking the presidency has become a two-man race, many in the party are breathing a sigh of relief. All the more so because Joe Biden is the clear front-runner and the dreaded Bernie Sanders looks to be fading.
So it’s all set. Biden will be the nominee and give the party a solid chance of scoring a November trifecta: beating President Trump, taking the Senate and holding the House.
Count me as skeptical. Instead of a smooth ride, it’s more likely that the Dems’ desperate search for a Trump slayer will hit more turbulence and an alternative to Biden still could be necessary.
The current Democratic frontrunner fell and tripped repeatedly over his words as he stumbled through a campaign speech in Missouri on Saturday. The 77-year-old former vice president made a series of gaffes and incoherent statements as he appeared to lose his train of thought. At one point, he even mispronounced his own name.
"... We cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me. We can only re-elect Donald Trump," Biden said to his bewildered supporters. The candidate himself seemed caught off guard by his inability to keep his train of thought.
The NBA fined Dallas owner Mark Cuban $500,000 on Friday for “public criticism and detrimental conduct” regarding officiating. Separately, the league sent a memo to teams reminding them of rules that govern conduct of owners, coaches and other team personnel during games.
The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, laid out parameters for proper conduct by team personnel toward game officials, how team personnel other than coaches are not allowed on the court during games and how they cannot use “profane or objectionable language that might be heard by spectators” during the game.
Further, it said the league’s “enforcement of these rules with enhanced penalties
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a freshman congresswoman from New York state who drew national attention for defending President Trump during impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill last year, has become the latest victim of public incivility against Republicans.
Stefanik wrote Saturday on Twitter that when she returned to her car earlier in the day after grocery shopping with her husband, she found what she described as a “vile anonymous note.”
“Rot in Hell FASCIST PIG,” the hand-scrawled note said.