Posts on Saturday, April 4, 2020
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.It’s time for the brightest in business to use the bulging billions on their balance sheets to help save the US economy.A consortium of Apple, Warren Buffett and JPMorgan need to lead us out of this mess by pooling $200 billion and leveraging resources for the good of the country — plus end up with a profit.If they do, they will go down in history as the rare geniuses who acted in a time of need, actually doing “God’s work” and Making America Work Again (MAWA).Apple, which has $207 billion in cash on hand, should suspend its stock buyback and put its cash
It’s lucky I’m being such a good American and sheltering at home.(Snip)Can you imagine if an aging swamp creature like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden were our president right now? Hillary would have appointed Bill head of the Coronavirus Task Force in February and he’d still be out in Las Vegas interviewing show girls for his staff. Before he took any action, to appease the AOC-Sanders wing of his party, Biden would form an ethnically diverse, politically correct and perfectly color-balanced 35-person commission composed of union bosses, Yale law professors, illegal immigrants, Nation magazine editorial writers and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scarborough.
Former CIA Director John Brennan on Saturday lashed out at President Trump for firing Intel Community IG Michael Atkinson.Brennan has now failed twice to remove President Trump from office.Brennan was the architect of Spygate and he planted the CIA ‘whistleblower’ inside the White House to try to take down Trump with the Ukraine impeachment hoax.On Saturday, he called on Americans to “fire” Trump in November.
After Threat Of Lawsuit, New York Times
Issues Corrections On Article
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Issues Corrections On Article
Defaming Sharyl Attkisson replies
The New York Times has issued several corrections regarding an article published two weeks ago insisting Attkisson was a “coronavirus doubter.” After the article was published, Attkisson and her lawyers sent a letter to the Times demanding they correct their story or face a defamation lawsuit. The Times article was about five people, including Jerry Falwell Jr. and Dr. Drew, who doubted the severity of the coronavirus. As Attkisson’s attorneys stated in their letter, the Times’ article included “false and defamatory” statements regarding the ex-CBS journalist’s reporting on the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump said Saturday he was thinking about creating a second coronavirus task force focused on reopening the country for business.
The president detailed his desire to reopen the country during a White House press briefing.
“We have to open our country,” Trump said, repeating that “the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”
Trump endorsed the idea of a second task force on Twitter on Saturday after it was proposed by Fox News host Dana Perino on Twitter.
“Good idea Dana!” he wrote. [Tweet]
Trump said he wanted the country to reopen as soon as possible.
Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19). The drug is widely available and can be “repurposed” for this application, doctors said.
The ScienceDirect journal, Antiviral Research, published an article by a group of Australian researchers from Monash University in Melbourne reporting that Ivermectin appears to be effective at inhibiting the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The article states:
Ivermectin is an inhibitor of the COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro.
A single treatment able to effect ∼5000-fold reduction in virus at 48h in cell culture.
Ivermectin is FDA-approved for parasitic infections, and therefore has a potential for repurposing.
President Trump on Saturday said there’s no “contingency plan” in place for the Republican National Convention, which is slated to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina in late August. “We have no contingency plan — we’re having the convention at the end of August and we think by the end of August we’ll be in good shape,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “I think we’re going to have a great convention.” The president on Saturday said the country should brace for a rough stretch amid the coronavirus outbreak but that the U.S. can’t stay closed forever.
Kentucky Directorate of Coronavirus
Compliance Orders Ankle Monitors
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Compliance Orders Ankle Monitors
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Comrades, the state officials have judicial authority. Attempting to defy the dictates of the state will not end well as this young citizen comrade discovered. (Photo) “DL” is forced by state authority to live with a coronavirus infected resident. DL, has tested negative for the virus, but now becomes a potential carrier because the state is requiring DL to remain in close proximity to the infected citizen. DL doesn’t like this and attempted to leave his confinement; he was captured by the state. A judge ordered DL to wear an ankle monitor to ensure he remains compliant to the containment order. Kentucky –
President Donald Trump has told American professional sports leagues that they can expect to have fans back in stands and stadiums by August and September despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Trump reportedly told NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that the football season will still begin in September in a conference call on Saturday as the president claimed we 'have to open our country again'. He later tweeted a promise to Little League players that they will be back on the field soon telling them to 'hang in there' after the league was halted in March.
Pete Souza, official White House photographer for President Barack Obama, swore at President Donald Trump on Twitter Saturday, dropping the F-bomb on Trump and calling him a “pathetic human being”.The episode is another example of the potentially violence inducing hatred expressed by senior Obama officials against President Trump in the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus crisis. (Photo)
Additional federal resources to combat the coronavirus pandemic are coming to Nevada. Gov. Steve Sisolak announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved a Major Disaster Declaration for the state. The declaration comes just days after Sisolak wrote President Donald Trump a 41-page letter outlining Nevada’s response to the pandemic, and the unprecedented havoc COVID-19 was expected to cause on the state. As of this morning, COVID-19 had 1,742 confirmed infections in Nevada with 45 deaths, most of them reported in Clark County, where the virus had infected 1,418 and killed 41, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
President Donald Trump said Saturday at the White House that Inspector General Michael Atkinson did a “terrible job” in his position.Atkinson was the Inspector General for the Intelligence community that informed Congress of the whistleblower report about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.The president announced Friday that he had dismissed Atkinson, prompting criticism from Democrats.“It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General,”
A noted infectious disease specialist who has treated 72 COVID-19 patients with the drugs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is claiming that the combined use of the antimalarial medication and antibiotic are “an absolute game changer” in the war against the disease.(Snip)During an appearance on “Ingraham Angle” Wednesday night, Smith pointed out that not a single COVID-19 patient that he put on the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin regimen for five days or more has had to be intubated, a medical procedure that involves putting a tube into a patient’s trachea and placing them on a ventilator for respiratory support. Most of the people, he said, got better after only two days
Oil giants gathered at the White House Friday, meeting with President Trump in the hopes of securing aid as crude prices have plummeted amid the coronavirus outbreak and a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Oil prices have skydived under the twin threats, dropping to prices in the mid-20s for a barrel of oil, down from more than $50 a barrel in February. As stresses on the industry magnify, there have been growing calls from Republicans to assist oil producers. “We’ll get our energy back,” Trump said at the meeting. “I’m with you 1,000 percent. It’s a great business, it’s a very vital business
The U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy has treated a total of 15 patients since it arrived at the Port of Los Angeles last Friday, according to the ship's commanding officer.
The 1,000-bed hospital ship is treating patients with non-COVID-19 ailments in an effort to relieve the stress of L.A. area hospitals that are dealing with the rising number of novel coronavirus cases.
Oil set to ‘crater’ Monday as OPEC
meeting delayed, tensions flare
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meeting delayed, tensions flare
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The virtual meeting between OPEC and its allies scheduled for Monday has been postponed, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC, amid mounting tensions between Saudi Arabia and Russia. The meeting will now “likely” be held on Thursday, sources said.
The Monday meeting was set after President Donald Trump said to CNBC on Thursday that he expected Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to announce a deal to cut production by up to 15 million barrels, and that he had spoken to both countries’ leaders. The delay is likely to hit oil prices next week following a record-setting comeback week for crude.
Doing the Friday-night news dump thang, while attention is in any case focused on the coronavirus, President Trump moved to get rid of the Intelligence Community's inspector general, Michael Atkinson.
That's the guy who changed the rules to accommodate the so-called whistleblower, with zero firsthand knowledge, to file his whistleblowings about President Trump with Adam Schiff's House Intelligence Committee staff, planning it all out beforehand, in order to open the gates to impeachment. Until Atkinson came along, a whistleblower needed to have firsthand knowledge of official wrongdoing, not water-cooler talk from fellow malcontents in the Deep State
Beijing has lied about the coronavirus from the start, while here in the West our corporate media has actively and enthusiastically spread its lies to households across the free world. But now that news of China’s lies is beginning to seep out, will it make a difference? Will there even be corrections? Don’t count on it.
Even before reports on incinerators “working around the clock,” massive orders for urns, government bribes to keep mourners quiet, and total government censorship, China’s lies were obvious. (Snip)The press should know this, and they do know this, yet still corporate news outlets unquestioningly repeat Beijing’s line.
Long Beach officials are in talks to convert the historic Queen Mary ocean liner into a medical facility to help with the wave of coronavirus patients expected to flood hospitals in the coming weeks, the Post has learned.
It is unclear exactly how the Queen Mary would be used. But multiple sources said the ship could be used as a type of convalescent facility for patients who no longer need intensive hospital care. The nearly 100-year-old ship, which is owned by the city, is currently a hotel with more than 300 rooms and a large parking lot. The Queen Mary would join the U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy
The coronavirus has already dealt a vicious blow to key sectors of the U.S. economy. If the pandemic drags on into the fall, though, it’s likely to devastate yet another area that has so far escaped with minimal damage: higher education. The problems confronting the nation’s colleges and universities long predate today’s crisis. But if current trends continue, the pandemic is likely to act as a catalyst for a historic reckoning that may transform the delivery of higher education in this country. It’s common knowledge that the cost of attending both public and private institutions has grown far faster than
A group of local residents, gun stores and gun rights organizations including the NRA have filed a federal lawsuit against four Bay Area counties for mandating that gun stores close as "non-essential businesses" during the region's coronavirus outbreak.
The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court for Northern California Tuesday, alleges that local officials from Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties violated the United State Constitution's Second and Fourteenth Amendments by ordering that gun stores be closed.
A newly released international poll has found that doctors around the world prefer using hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by President Trump, to treat patients with the coronavirus, according to the Washington Times. In a survey of of 6,227 physicians in 30 countries, 37 percent rated hydroxychloroquine as the “most effective therapy” to fight the virus from a list of 15 options.The survey, which was conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company, also found that the most commonly prescribed treatments for COVID-19 patients are analgesics (56%), azithromycin (41%) and hydroxychloroquine (33%).
News station launches ‘What Day Is It?’
segment: ‘Cleveland news has officially
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segment: ‘Cleveland news has officially
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An Ohio news station has stepped up to help its viewers dealing with the isolation and disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis. Cleveland’s Fox 8 News launched a new segment this week aimed at reducing the stress and confusion for viewers stuck at home amid a statewide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.(Photo) Called “What Day Is It?” the daily reminder throws a lifeline to those whose days have all begun to blend together amid the unprecedented times facing the world.The segment was highlighted in a now-viral video tweeted Wednesday by @abbyhoward26 who captioned the post, “Cleveland news has officially lost their minds…” (Tweet/Video)
The claim: Unless there’s a critical need, avoid grocery shopping during the first three days of the month because that’s when low-income families receive WIC and SNAP benefits As a new month begins, multiple Facebook users have encouraged people to stay away from grocery stores during the first three days of the month unless they have an urgent cause to go. The reason: That’s when many people receive food assistance, resulting in an influx of shoppers at that time. A Monday post by Facebook user Betsey Brock with this message had received more than 12,000 shares as of Thursday evening.
Biden Flip-Flops, Now Supports
Trump's China Travel Ban He Once Called
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Trump's China Travel Ban He Once Called
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Joe Biden, in what can only be called a stunning flip-flop, now supports President Trump's travel ban with China, which was imposed on January 31. "Joe Biden supports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials, and backed by a full strategy," Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager, told CNN. "Science supported this ban, therefore he did too." But Joe Biden did not support Trump's travel ban with China.
President Trump has used emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic to implement the kind of strict enforcement regime at the U.S. southern border he has long wanted, suspending laws that protect minors and asylum seekers so that the U.S. government can immediately deport them or turn them away. Citing the threat of “mass, uncontrolled cross-border movement,” the president has shelved safeguards intended to protect trafficking victims and persecuted groups, implementing an expulsion order that sends migrants of all ages back to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. U.S. Border Patrol agents do not perform medical checks when they encounter people crossing into the country.
Prince Charles Will Reportedly Cover
Part of Harry and Meghan's Security
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Part of Harry and Meghan's Security
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The bombshell decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to lay down their royal duties and move to Los Angeles unsurprisingly inflicted some additional security costs, and according to the US president’s recent Twitter rant, he was not about to pay for the couple’s protection in their newly found home. Charles could reportedly cover half of his son Prince Harry’s and his wife Meghan Markle’s security costs in the US, a royal insider told the Daily Mail. The Prince of Wales, who has just recovered from coronavirus, would pay a “private contribution” of up to £2 million ($2,5 million) every year
Coronavirus patients delivered to
hospital ship Comfort in New York
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hospital ship Comfort in New York
by mistake: US officials replies
EXCLUSIVE - Multiple patients infected with coronavirus were transferred to the hospital ship Comfort from the Javits Center in New York by mistake, three U.S. officials tell Fox News. The number of Covid-19 patients brought on board the hospital ship was estimated to be “less than five,” one official said. (Snip) The patients were transferred sometime Friday, according to the officials. At the time the patients were transferred to the hospital ship Comfort, the initial screening did not indicate they were positive, officials said.
A fire that burned for hours in a grassy area next to Southwest Florida International Airport Friday has been contained. The airport is fully functional and the inbound lanes of Terminal Access Road reopened at 11 p.m. Friday, according to Vicki Moreland, communications director for the airport. The cause of the fire will be investigated by the State Fire Marshal and the extent of the damage is still being investigated, Moreland said.Saturday morning, the Forest Service returned to the scene to make sure the fire did not pick back up last night or this morning, according to Melinda Avni, Forest Service mitigation specialist.
A New York doctor hopes to help his elderly COVID-19 patients with a treatment plan inspired by the success tentatively being reported with hydroxychloroquine — and which he says shows promising results. Dr. Mohammud Alam, an infectious disease specialist affiliated with Plainview Hospital, said 81 percent of infected covid patients he treated at three Long Island nursing homes recovered from the contagion. Headline split
…The recent IG report that outlines Atkinson’s gross incompetence in the FISA scandal, vis-a-vis the 42 DOJ-NSD Accuracy Reviews, is the atomic shield against the political narrative….
President Trump has sent a letter to congress giving them 30-days advance notice and informing them of the removal of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson: (Image)The necessary, albeit politically controversial, move comes about two months after President Trump assigned Ric Grenell to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Grenell is ultimately the acting boss of the overall intelligence community. It is likely DNI Grenell provided some key insight into the sketchy background activity in/around Atkinson’s office,
A woman traveling to see her elderly mother one last time before she died was given first-class treatment as the only passenger on her round trip American Airlines flight. Sheryl Pardo, 59, didn't realize she would be the only passenger on her flight from Washington, DC, to Boston until she boarded the plane on the early morning of March 27. The flight attendants, Jessica and Dion, made the flight special for Pardo by bumping her up to first class and treating her to a personalized welcome message over the loudspeaker.
A man has killed two people and injured several others, one critically, in a knife attack in a town in south-east France. Police arrested the man at about 11am after he had attacked customers in a shop and passersby at Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme, 20km north of Valence. Witnesses said the man first attacked the owner of a tobacconist and two customers inside the shop in the town centre. He then walked out and began stabbing people in the street. One of the dead was inside the tobacconist. A second man, a butcher from a nearby shop, was killed outside.
A Marshall Plan for Main Street
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For three years, small-business optimism has been at record highs. Lower taxes and fewer regulations unleashed the best economy in half a century and gave small businesses the means to hire more employees, pay higher wages, and reinvest capital. These conditions still exist but are being seriously challenged by the coronavirus pandemic, a true "black swan" catastrophe. While our nation continues to fight against this pandemic, we have a responsibility in Congress to help small businesses survive this storm.
As one of America’s main employers, Main Street is the engine of our economy.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, democratic governments across the world have implemented unprecedented peacetime lockdowns. One California city is even using night vision equipped drones — made in China, ironically — to enforce it. A city in Washington encourages citizens to snitch on those who violate the “stay home” order.
Let’s pause a moment to consider the serious ramifications of what we are doing.
To combat a virus, some state and local governments have ordered everyone, including perfectly healthy people, to stay home for an undefined period of time. Travel has been curtailed. Americans abroad (like me) are stuck, not knowing when we can return home.
Since the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord rallied to the cause of liberty in 1775, the American military has held a unique place of respect and affection in our national ethos.
Yet in the Coronavirus relief package recently passed by Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats tried to include language making it easier to commit vote fraud with the ballots of our military stationed overseas.
House Democrats' proposed additions to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act included changes to election law that would provide cover for individuals and activists yearning for federal protection for voting fraud schemes that could include military ballot manipulation.
While the Trump administration is forecasting some 100 - 240k or more deaths from the coronavirus scare (and lots of hell) over the next few weeks, South Korea is well on its way in sliding out of its bell curve since the middle of March.
South Korea was also hit pretty hard with this virus, being right next door to China. (snip) South Korea has a crowded population of some 52 million people crammed into a geographical location about the size of Indiana, a perfect situation for a pandemic to spread – but it didn't.
For weeks now, nearly every media outlet has behaved as though the Covid19 virus was a cause for celebration. They broadcast the numbers like they show the stock market or election returns. It is positively ghoulish. Even Fox News, which used to have more sense, has capitulated to the hysteria; that network, too, is all in on manufacturing panic and fear.
They are engaged in panic-mongering. They are encouraging the wholesale destruction of the American economy. The worst are hoping and wishing for that outcome.
Everyone is up in arms about the fact that the Navy brass fired Captain Brett Crozier, of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, after Crozier complained about people on his ship being infected with COVID-19. To many people, he was a lone man fighting a hardened bureaucracy on behalf of the men and women in his care. To others, though, he was a dangerous malcontent who placed his entire ship at risk by ignoring rules that exist for a reason.
The report about Captain Brett Crozier, whose ship, the USS Roosevelt, was docked in Guam, broke like a bomb on March 31
Even as China’s role in creating the COVID-19 crisis becomes more clear, the left is trying to blame President Donald Trump for the resulting deaths. None of it makes sense, and all of it is beneath contempt at a time when the country is still at war with this invisible enemy.
On Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNN’s “State of the Union” that “The president’s denial at the beginning was deadly. His delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly … As the president fiddles, people are dying.”
While Pelosi was uttering this shameless screed, intelligence
A little girl and her grandfather in Nashville, Tennessee, are not allowing the coronavirus pandemic to separate them completely.Six-year-old Kira Neely adores her grandfather, Marvin, so social distancing guidelines have been tough for her to abide by, according to her mother, Sherrie.“It’s been a really special relationship because otherwise it would just be the two of us. Having mom and dad next door, it’s been such a wonderful thing for Kira because our family is larger,” she commented.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Friday released a letter with Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) calling on President Trump to comply with the oversight requirements Congress attached to the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package signed into law last week.
“With trillions of taxpayer dollars being spent, it is critically important for the Administration to ensure full transparency and willingness for independent oversight,” Romney and Tester wrote in the April 3 letter to Trump.
According to data compiled by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH), there have been 3,352 laboratory-confirmed cases and 65 deaths from COVID-19 virus in Los Angeles County since late February 2020. This equates to a 1.9 percent mortality rate out of all cases or 6.5 deaths out of every 1 million persons in the county or 335 cases (not deaths) per 1 million persons.Public health data has been sorted in the data tables below by the highest, lowest and moderate rate of cases, not by deaths. Location-The highest rates of COVID-19 cases are located in Democrat West Los Angeles and Hollywood communities
The world’s hazelnut supplies could be threatened by a stinkbug that has recently invaded Turkey, scientists have warned.
The brown marmorated stinkbug, which is native to north-east Asia, has been spreading across the world in shipping containers, breeding freely thanks to warmer temperatures and a lack of natural predators.
The stinkbug– named for the pungent chemicals it produces as a form of defence – was seen in Turkey for the first time in 2017, after wreaking havoc in neighbouring Georgia
U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the Russia investigation is putting increased scrutiny on former CIA Director John Brennan, searching for any undue influence he may have had during 2017’s intelligence community assessment of Russian interference.
Durham, selected by Attorney General William Barr last year to lead this inquiry, drove to Washington, D.C., in March to ensure the investigation stayed on track during the coronavirus outbreak. The top Connecticut federal prosecutor is looking into highly sensitive issues, including whether Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.
On Friday, a reporter from Telemundo asked California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom what emergency relief he would be providing for illegal aliens amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
"No state in America does more to help residents regardless of their immigration status," the governor rightly assured the reporter.
Newsom first bragged about the state's healthcare coverage for illegal aliens before explaining how his administration is now helping illegal alien small business owners obtain grants while a large part of the American economy remains shut down.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) on Friday defended his previous claim that coronavirus is a "tremendous opportunity" to advance Democratic policy goals.
"I find it kind of interesting that one of my colleagues said he has a problem with me because I'm a ‘restructure government' person," Clyburn told Roll Call. "Yes, Jim Clyburn is a restructuring government guy and everybody with any common sense, and looking at where we are today, needs to be a restructuring government person."
Anthony Fauci goes nuts
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Anthony Fauci, the medical professional at the eye of the coronavirus storm, has just come out and said the federal government should issue a national order for all Americans to stay home, stay inside, stay put.
Is he nuts?
Let’s rephrase: He’s nuts. On CNN, Fauci was asked by host Anderson Cooper, “Knowing the science, does it make sense to you that some states are still not issuing stay-at-home orders? I mean, whether there should be a federally mandated directive for that or not, I guess that’s more of a political question, but just scientifically, doesn’t everybody have to be on the same page with this stuff?”
And Fauci said — yep.
Joe Biden disclosed Friday evening he has told his Democratic rival Bernie Sanders that he is moving forward with cabinet and vice presidential picks.
Biden told donors at a virtual fundraising event his campaign is to unveil a committee to vet potential vice presidential candidates “sometime in the middle of the month," and said he has held discussions with others about potential cabinet positions.
"One of the things I learned a long time ago, and I really mean this, a good leader has to be willing to have people that are smarter than them, know more than they know about a subject, bring in people who in fact have an expertise
Maine's Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols has a strong message for the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, who issued "stay-at-home" orders with threats of police punishment if not followed. Sheriff Nichols issued a statement on the Franklin County Facebook page saying in no uncertain terms he will not follow the unconstitutional order.
"We will not be setting up a Police State. PERIOD," he wrote. "The Sheriff’s Office will not purposefully go out and stop vehicles because they are on the road or stop and ask why people are out and about. To do so puts our officers at risk.
I imagine there are some people who love New York City more than I do, but I do love it. I love it with fervor of the convert. A Philadelphian by birth, for 20 years I have now walked the storied steel canyons of the world’s current capital.
There’s a reason the United Nations meets here, why artists and would-be stock barons alike come here. Now we are in the grip of the coronavirus, locked down. But our peril must not mean that the nation we represent must be destroyed.
I had occasion this week, as the virus ground us all to a stop, to talk to a friend in Indiana.
Boom, Baby, Boom?
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One persistent prediction arising from our pandemic house arrest is that we’ll have a baby boom in nine months. There are good reasons to doubt this.
Sure, people are going to do things to pass the time. Makin’ whoopee is one of those things and, all things being equal, more sex means more babies. We should see a slight uptick in births from this national downtime. Yet the increase in babies will likely be a slight uptick only.
Before coronavirus measures cratered the U.S. economy, Americans were doing extraordinarily well. The stock market was going gangbusters. We were about as close to full employment is it is possible to get.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth, they say, though when Mayor Bill de Blasio is on hand, the other end of the animal is usually involved.
Gotham’s chief executive this week might have accepted with some grace an offer of assistance from a crisis-tested, and devoutly Christian, emergency-relief organization — but he gave it the fisheye instead.
It seems that in Blasville, evangelical Christians armed with tons of the sophisticated medical equipment so sorely lacking in the city right now, plus the expertise to use it, are presumptively suspect. And are perhaps to be expelled.
A family of five in Odessa, Missouri, had its faith in small-town America restored after losing everything Sunday in a house fire, amid the already stressful coronavirus outbreak.
The Villegas family's house burned down, but the community, which is on a stay-at-home order with 20 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in their county, immediately rallied to help out in a big way. "Our home was still on fire when our neighbors first came over and offered shoes and coats," Marilyn Villegas, a service-connected disabled veteran, told Fox News. "This was a blessing because none of us had any shoes on or sweatshirts."
CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta was widely blasted for interrupting Dr. Deborah Birx during Friday's coronavirus briefing to attack President Trump.
Birx took a moment at the podium to address the "who knew what when" concerns and said all the countries affected by the pandemic can "look back" to develop a timeline but not while "in the middle" of the crisis.
"We can talk about why didn't Italy do something or Spain do something or Germany do something, or we can really say right now -- we all can do something," Dr. Birx explained.
Hopefully the advanced information CTH provided on the food supply-chain has helped to understand the issues, challenges and demands many are seeing. Inside the food manufacturing industry the impacts of COVID-19 are stunning; crazy increases in business; and there are going to be interim shortages on popular products.To understand the ongoing issues with empty shelves, and also prepare for future shortages on specific products (hint: buy extra pet food now), here’s some interesting background: Champaign, Illinois – […] “We can’t make enough mac and cheese right now,” said Dilton “Dee” Gibbs, plant manager at the facility that makes half of the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
President Donald Trump shut down a question from a reporter on Friday, dismissing what he described as a “gotcha question” about his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.CBS reporter Weijia Jiang questioned why Kushner said “our” stockpile while referring to the federal stockpile of medical supplies versus state stockpiles.
Trump was not amused.“So what are you asking … what is that, a gotcha question?” he replied.Trump said that “our” meant the “United States” and included all of the states in the country.“It’s such a basic, simple question, and you try and make it so bad,”
Democrats Should thank God President Trump is a president for Every American. President Trump won the 2016 in an electoral college landslide. He won over 30 states and a huge percent of counties around the US. The areas that he did not win were the Democrat held big cities. Areas like New York City, Washington D.C. and San Francisco all went to former first lady Hillary Clinton. Now the areas that voted against President Trump need him the most. Fortunately for the Democrat strongholds, President Trump is doing all he can to help them overcome the China coronavirus.
Despite a steady wave of attacks from much of the media in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented national emergency, President Donald Trump’s ratings on handling the crisis have been strong. The nightly White House briefings have much to do with that, as the president stands before the nation and gives them an update on the actions being taken to counter the coronavirus — updates that come without the typical liberal media filter. It is in that regard that an influential far-left media group has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to develop a wide-ranging censorship plan of Trump’s press conferences,
Playing the role of life preserver, the liberal media are desperately trying to buoy Joe Biden’s sinking candidacy — but the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee keeps clinging grimly to the anchor that is dragging him down to the depths of political irrelevance.
The New York Times recently published an article arguing that “Joe Biden’s campaign and top donors are racing to reimagine the ways they raise money as worries grow that the coronavirus could choke off contributions from donors big and small.” The article sought to put a positive spin on Biden’s predicament, analyzing how the Democrat front-runner might be able to “close” the “cash gap”
'I think a lot of people cheat': Trump
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dismisses expanded mail-in voting
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President Trump said he did not want to see expanded mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic because of the potential for fraudulent votes."Do you think every state in the country should be prepared for mail-in voting?" ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Trump during a Friday press conference."No, because I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting," the president responded. "And it shouldn't be mail-in voting. It should be, you go to a booth, and you probably display yourself. You don’t send it in the mail where people pick up all sorts of bad things can happen by the time they sign that,
When President Trump announced a restriction on travel from Europe in a mid-March Oval Office address, European Union officials erupted in outrage.The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, issued a joint statement with the president of the European Council thundering, “The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent, and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action.”Just a few days later, von der Leyen advanced her own proposal to ban nonessential travel into the European Union.
Despite the fact that the Mueller report proved there was no collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians during the 2016 campaign, Democrats were convinced that there was more evidence out there, perhaps in the tiny fraction of the report that was redacted for national security reasons, that proved Trump actually did collude with the Russians.
It turns out that the most interesting things about Mueller's investigation were not what was redacted from the report, but what wasn't included in the first place. According to investigative reporter John Solomon, Bob Mueller hid evidence exonerating Donald Trump Jr. over the infamous Trump Tower meeting,
In a critical health crisis like the one we are experiencing, no single activity is more important than the role of the news media.
People need the best information on the nature of the threat, how they can protect themselves, what to do if they suspect they are infected, etc.
On March 25, President Trump conducted a daily briefing on the coronavirus. Attorney General Barr was there to warn people about price gouging. Health experts were there to update everyone on the latest information about testing –
White House Senior Adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner made his White House coronavirus briefing debut on Thursday, announcing he’d secured a month of N95 masks for Big Apple hospitals.
President Trump asked Kushner to become involved in the government’s coronavirus response several weeks ago and is now running his own task force looking for “outside the box” solutions, Kushner told reporters.
Kushner told reporters how Trump called him early on Thursday morning after hearing “from friends in New York” that Big Apple hospitals were running critically low on supplies, he said.
He called Dr. Mitchell Katz, the president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals,
Some states and cities that have been shipped masks, gloves, ventilators and other essential equipment from the nation’s medical stockpile to fight the coronavirus have gotten an unwelcome surprise: the material is unusable.
Nearly 6,000 medical masks sent to Alabama had dry rot and a 2010 expiration date. More than 150 ventilators sent to Los Angeles were broken and had to be repaired. In Oregon, it was masks with faulty elastic that could cause the straps to snap, exposing medical workers to the disease.
“Several of the shipments we have received from the strategic national stockpile contained (personal protective equipment) well past expiration dates
On Jan. 20, the United States confirmed its first case of the coronavirus. The nation’s political and media elite obsessed over Mitch McConnell’s just-announced resolution governing the impeachment trial of President Trump.
On Jan. 23, China locked down the city of Wuhan. Cable news in America lit up with praise for the epic, nay historic, performance by House impeachment manager Adam Schiff in the trial’s opening arguments.
On Jan. 30, the World Health Organization declared a world-health emergency. The US Senate prepared to vote on impeachment witnesses.
On Feb. 5, the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined thousands of passengers after a major outbreak on board.
President Donald Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community who handled the whistleblower complaint that triggered Trump’s impeachment.
Trump informed the Senate intelligence committee Friday of his decision to fire Atkinson, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
Trump said in the letter that it is “vital” that he has confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general, and “that is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general.”
Atkinson was the first to inform Congress about an anonymous whistleblower complaint last year that described Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate Democrat Joe Biden and his son.
Anyone meeting President Trump or Vice President Pence will now be subjected to rapid COVID-19 tests to prevent the leaders from becoming infected with the virus, the White House said Friday.
Starting immediately, people expected to be in close approximately with either Trump or Pence will be given a the test to “to evaluate for pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic carriers,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
“As the Physician to the President and White House Operations continue to protect the health and safety of the President and Vice President, starting today anyone who is expected to be in close proximity to either of them will be administered a COVID-19 test