Posts on Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee continued his criticism of the Trump administration in a national TV appearance Sunday morning, lambasting what he called the federal government’s lack of leadership during the coronavirus crisis.
“This is ludicrous that we do not have a national effort in this,” Inslee said on Meet The Press. “I mean, the surgeon general alluded to Pearl Harbor. Can you imagine if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘I’ll be right behind you, Connecticut. Good luck building those battleships.'”
John Prine, one of the most influential artists in folk and country music, has died at age 73 following a battle with coronavirus, his family told The Associated Press and other outlets.
His family announced his death from complications from the coronavirus. He died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been hospitalized last month.
On March 29, Prine’s family shared the star was critically ill and had been placed on a ventilator while being treated for COVID-19-type symptoms.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell on Tuesday indicated that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) engaged in political grandstanding by leaking a copy of a letter of concern about staffing changes within the intelligence community to the press before sending it to him.
Shiff addressed the April 7 correspondence to Grenell, but the press got a copy of it first.
“His letter was sent to the press before it was sent to me,” Grenell asserted via Twitter on Tuesday. “These press leaks politicizing the intelligence community must stop.”
Honor Blackman, the British actress who played Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger, has died at the age of 94. In a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, East Sussex. Blackman was also known for playing Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV series The Avengers opposite Patrick Macnee. The pair had a novelty hit with 1964's Kinky Boots, which reached the Top 10 in 1990. Her other roles included Hera in Jason and the Argonauts and Laura West in 1990s TV series The Upper Hand.
CHARLOTTE — Charlotte sanitation workers are taking a stand against their employer, saying they’re being put at unnecessary risks of exposure to COVID-19. Not only do they allege the city isn’t doing enough, but they also said the city cut back on measures to keep them safe. Union members spoke Tuesday morning about the issues they're facing. “We should not have to risk our lives because people, rich people, want their trash collected,” said Dominic Harris, president of the UE 150 Charlotte chapter.
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has walked back its decision to furlough nearly 100 members of the symphony orchestra despite receiving a $25 million federal bailout, a move that prompted the affected musicians to file a lawsuit against the performing arts center. According to The Washington Free Beacon, the center has offered the musicians pay cuts and a wage freeze instead of furloughs, and the union representing the orchestra’s musicians has, in turn, decided to drop a lawsuit against the center for allegedly violating a contract, which prohibits layoffs without six weeks notice.
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) on Tuesday introduced a resolution demanding Congress withhold funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) until its Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (pictured), resigns from his post.
The measure, which is co-sponsored by over 20 Republicans, also calls for a wide-ranging investigation into WHO’s alleged role in assisting the Chinese Communist Party cover up its handling of the deadly coronavirus strain that originated in Wuhan, China. (Snip)“The WHO helped the Chinese Communist Party hide the threat of COVID-19 from the world and now more than 10,000 Americans are dead, a number that is expected to rise dramatically (Snip) “The United States is the largest contributor
A new report indicates that New York City auctioned off its emergency stockpile of 500 ventilators several years ago, thanks to budget cuts and attention to other priorities.
The story, reported by ProPublica on Monday, echoes a similar report by the Los Angeles Times last week about California’s stockpile. In both cases, Republican leaders built up emergency supplies, which were later cut for budgetary reasons.
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The similarities between the New York City and California cases are striking. (Snip) then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, worried about recent pandemics in Asia, and noting the political fallout of Hurricane Katrina for President George W. Bush, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in ventilators, masks, and mobile hospitals.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday at the White House that he would put a hold on funding to the World Health Organization amid the coronavirus crisis.
“They were wrong about a lot of things,” (Snip)
The president noted that the World Health Organization receives more from the United States than any other country, and would require accounting for their failure to properly alarm the world about the coronavirus outbreak.
“We want to look into the World Health Organization because they really called it wrong,” Trump said. “They missed the call, they could have called it months earlier,
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco officials have reversed a plan to shelter homeless people at the Moscone West Convention Center. Instead, the city will continue with a plan to place homeless people at hotels in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, said Trent Rohrer, director of the city’s Human Services Agency. (Snip) Video and photos of the space at Moscone West showing rows of cots placed closely together drew immediate criticism. “It looked like a World War I flu hospital,” said Matt Haney, a San Francisco Supervisor who has been urging the city to move more quickly
Sen. Rand Paul announced Tuesday that he has retested negative for COVID-19 after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus and placing himself in self-quarantine last month.“I appreciate all the best wishes I have received,” Paul, R-Ky., tweeted Tuesday. “I have been retested and I am negative.” (Tweet) He added: “I have started volunteering at a local hospital to assist those in my community who are in need of medical help, including Coronavirus patients. Together we will overcome this!" Paul, a physician, was the first member of the Senate known to be infected with coronavirus. Last month, Paul tested positive for COVID-19, after having spent time on Capitol Hill engaged in
A man in Brighton, Colo., is demanding an apology from the city's police department for handcuffing him in front of his daughter before briefly detaining him in a patrol car on Sunday. The reason, per Denver TV station KDVR: He was playing T-ball in an empty park. Matt Mooney said a group of officers approached him, asked for his identification and said he was violating state social distancing guidelines. There are no laws in Colorado banning people from going to parks, however; the park Mooney visited has a sign specifically allowing gatherings of fewer than five people. Mooney's 6-year-old daughter
An Ohio state lawmaker said Sunday that she wants to see President Trump prosecuted in the international court for alleged crimes against humanity.The crimes in question? The president’s continuous promotion of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a promising treatment for the coronavirus,“I can’t take it anymore. I’ve been to The Hague. I’m making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow,” Rep. Tavia Galonski tweeted. “Today’s press conference was the last straw,” Galonski added. “I know the need for a prosecution referral when I see one.” (Tweet)
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Hollywood actor James Woods’ trademark sharp wit was on full display Monday in response to a social media user asking if he had a single complaint about President Donald Trump.Woods is an ardent Trump supporter, capable of discerning the truth for himself when it comes to the president’s actions. More importantly, he sees the left for what they are and is not dissuaded by their politically motivated hatred for Trump, which clouds any ability to assess his performance fairly.The outspoken conservative thespian responded to a little spat between actresses and #MeToo activists Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan
CNN host Jake Tapper took heat after he retweeted Kellyanne Conway's husband, George Conway, calling President Trump "insane." "He's 100% insane," Conway said in the tweet Tapper shared. "And nobody in the administration has the balls to tell him that." (Tweet) "Noteworthy comment on folks in the administration from a Trump critic who knows a lot of them," the CNN host said after his original retweet. (Tweet) Critics ripped into Tapper, saying his retweet showed liberal media bias.
Stephanie Grisham is out as White House press secretary and will be replaced by Kayleigh McEnany. Grisham, who replaced Sarah Huckabee Sanders last June, will return to the East Wing as first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff, without having ever held a press briefing, the White House announced Tuesday. “I am excited to welcome Stephanie back to the team in this new role,” a statement from the first lady read. “She has been a mainstay and true leader in the Administration from even before day one, and I know she will excel as Chief of Staff.”
Two major federal agencies are stocking up on hydroxychloroquine, a longtime anti-malarial medication touted by President Trump as a potential “game changer” in the coronavirus pandemic, amid experts’ warnings that its use for COVID-19 is risky and unproven.
Federal contracting records show the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons have placed emergency orders for more than $250,000 of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets from private suppliers over the last two weeks, with both agencies apparently planning to use the drug to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday that President Trump is looking into reopening parts of the U.S. economy as the coronavirus pandemic moves toward its peak, which White House experts say will be this week. “The president is very much looking at how we can reopen parts of the economy,” Mnuchin said on Fox Business. “There are parts of the country, like New York, where obviously this is very, very concerning. There are other parts of the country where it’s not.” Mnuchin also offered a bit of comfort to owners of small businesses, saying,
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly offered his resignation on Tuesday after calling an ousted aircraft carrier captain “stupid” and “naïve.” It was not immediately clear whether Defense Secretary Mark Esper would accept the resignation. Modly had apologized for the comments on Monday evening.
Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for up to $25,000 in “heroes” pay for front-line health care and service industry workers as Congress pushes ahead with a new coronavirus crisis rescue package. “This is a heroes’ fund and they deserve it,” the New York Democrat said Tuesday. The Senate minority leader declared the emerging proposal the “highest priority” for Democrats as congressional leaders and President Trump call for more aid for Americans. Nurses, truck drivers, grocery store clerks and others are “risking their lives” to care for Americans amid the COVID-19 pandemic and economic shutdown, he said.
Alyssa Milano has rebranded herself as a Twitter activist and Democratic party booster since her acting career peaked with the late 90s TV hit Charmed. Thanks in part no doubt to her husband’s powerful connections in the entertainment industry (he’s a managing partner at CAA, a top-tier rep agency in Los Angeles) she’s leveraged her voice onto cable news, podcasts and into political campaigns. She is the celebrity perhaps most responsible for the mainstreaming the #MeToo movement.
Her zenith as an activist came in 2018, during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Milano was the most recognizable face behind the justice during the controversial confirmation hearings in which he faced thinly-sourced
Tonight's pink moon must have not gotten the memo about social distancing; the moon will be the closest to Earth today than any other day of the year, making it the largest full moon of 2020.
Granted, the moon is more than the prerequisite 6 feet (1.8 meters) away from the closest (celestial) body during the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier today (April 7), at 2:08 p.m. EDT (1808 GMT), the moon was about 221,772 miles (356,907 kilometers) away from Earth, the closest it will be all year, according to Space.com, a Live Science sister site. You can see the moon rise in the sky this evening
President Donald Trump has removed the lead watchdog overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus package, just days after the official, Glenn Fine, was appointed to the role. The move came as Trump pursued similar action in recent weeks against independent inspectors general across the federal government. Fine had been the acting Pentagon inspector general until Monday afternoon, when Trump abruptly removed him from his post. “Yesterday, the President nominated Mr. Jason Abend for the position of DoD Inspector General,” said Dwrena Allen, a spokesperson for the Defense Department’s Inspector General
Al Kaline, who in a long and unique Detroit Tigers lifetime grew from youthful batting champion to Hall of Famer to distinguished elder statesman, died Monday afternoon at his home in Bloomfield Hills. He was 85.
A cause of death was not immediately available. John Morad, a close friend of the family, confirmed the news to the Free Press after speaking with Kaline's younger son, Mike. His health had been declining over the past year.
Kaline is survived by another son, Mark, and his wife, Madge Louise Hamilton.
It was hard not to think of President Trump as the Queen of England delivered one of the most moving speeches imaginable in this difficult coronavirus-plagued time.
The 93-year-old Elizabeth II did it to perfection.
“I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge
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The Brit grit the queen showed on Sunday reminds us that, to his great and enduring credit, Mr. Trump, for all his endless factual errors and sloppy misstatements, has for many weeks been trying to set a positive tone and give hope to America.
President John F. Kennedy famously observed during a gathering of Nobel Prize winners: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
And so it is again with President Trump’s daily assemblies at the White House featuring some of the world’s leading public health experts, epidemiologists, business leaders and economists.
Clearly, Mr. Trump listens carefully to his panels of experts. And — clearly — these experts often clash.
Calling her one of the most talented people in the country, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden lauded Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in his podcast this week. The appearance, the first by a person Biden has identified as being on a list of potential running mates, is fueling speculation again that Whitmer is a leading contender for vice president if Biden, the former vice president, wins the Democratic nomination for president. (Snip) “You would expect to be able to call your partners in federal government and get some help,” Whitmer said. “But the crisis was downplayed from the get-go and it’s made
Sickness due to the coronavirus is real. Death — at least some — due to the coronavirus is real. But how much is real versus how much is a best guess? Unfortunately, we don’t know.
Even more unfortunately, we can’t even ask without facing a barrage of criticism from a variety of camps.
History may very well show that the biggest casualty of the coronavirus outbreak may not be the body count, but rather the ability of a population to think critically, to analyze rationally, to arrive at conclusions based on fact and logic, not wildly fearful emotions.
While dealing with the Wuhan coronavirus is taking up a lot of America’s attention, it doesn’t mean we should avoid thinking about the future. The fact of the matter is that while we have to hold the People’s Republic of China accountable, the Butchers of Beijing are not the only ones who bear a great deal of blame for that outbreak becoming a global pandemic.
There needs to be a long look at the World Health Organization, which was an accessory to the cover-up that emerged from what was, at best, reckless disregard for, if not a depraved indifference to
ALBANY, N.Y. – The majority of New York’s more than 4,700 deaths due to coronavirus were among men, and 86% of all deaths were among people who had underlying illnesses, such as hypertension and diabetes, new state data shows. The statistics released late Monday offered the latest glimpse into how the rapidly spreading virus has impacted New York and made it the epicenter for COVID-19 in the nation. Of the 4,758 deaths in New York since the first on March 14, 61% were men and 39% were women, the state Department of Health reportedon its new data portal. In addition
President Trump suggested Tuesday that he might consider cutting funding for the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus crisis and alleged role in helping China downplay the severity of the outbreak.
“The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?” he tweeted.
It's becoming a rare sight on some pharmacy shelves — Tylenol. The medication is selling out or is being rationed in many stores due to a belief that it might be a good way to fight COVID-19, reports CBS Miami. Dr. Parham Eftekari, a nephrologist and internist, told the station Tylenol is preferred for fever over non-steroidal, anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen. "It is safer to give Tylenol or acetaminophen (Tylenol's main ingredient) for fever," he said. "Try to stay away from the non-steroidal. Non-steroidals are good for arthritis, headaches, migraines sometimes, but prolonged use of it definitely has adverse outcomes for
The Founding Fathers were rightly suspicious of political parties as venal bands of very human politicians whose primary instincts were more self-serving than public-serving. We got them anyway.
Now in the United States’ 59th presidential election campaign, an invisible little critter called the coronavirus is forcing drastic change on both major political parties and the ways they compete to capture the nation’s highest office on Nov. 3. [Snip]
But for now, the unprecedented political problems of the pandemic seem more challenging for Democrats with their less than dynamic likely nominee than
The polls show Joe Biden leading President Trump in the presidential race. Looking at the last 10 surveys in the RealClearPolitics average of polls matching Trump versus Biden, Biden is leading in every one of them — by anywhere from 3 to 10 points. Biden's average lead in those 10 polls is 5.5 points.
The results echo polls from this point in 2016, when the general election matchup was Trump versus Hillary Clinton. Taking 10 polls from this time in the last campaign, Clinton led in every one of them — by anywhere from 6 to 18 points. Her average lead in those 10 polls was 10.5 points.
ABILENE, Texas — The City of Abilene will begin enforcing the limited shelter-in-place more aggressively this week. City Manager Robert Hanna said if non-essential businesses don't shut down, the City may have to pull their certificate of occupancy, which means they'd lose their power meter.
"Please do what we're asking you to do," Hanna said. "We're not doing this because we want to hurt y'all. We're not doing this because we want to hurt the economy. We're doing this because it's a public emergency, and we need people to take it seriously."
The City is also expecting revenue issues going forward.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been adamant that people stay home and socially distance for weeks. But a social media post from the woman who cut the mayor’s hair this weekend has some wondering if Lightfoot is saying one thing and doing another. As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported, the stylist in the post, Cashmere Neal, thanked the mayor for allowing her to cut her hair on Sunday. And in the photo, the two are standing inches apart without masks.(Snip)Hairstylists and barbers are not on the state’s list of essential businesses and are expected to be closed.
Under pressure from President Trump, the Indian government Tuesday lifted a ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine, paving the way for the anti-malaria drug to be shipped to the U.S. for use against the coronavirus.
The decision came after Trump appealed to Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi in a phone call, then told a White House news conference Monday that India could face “retaliation” if it didn’t release the drug.
“I said, ‘We’d appreciate your allowing our supply to come out,’” Trump said of his call with Modi. “If he doesn’t allow it to come out, that would be OK. But of course there may be retaliation. Why wouldn’t there be?”
The COVID-19 pandemic has reportedly infected fewer than a dozen men among California’s 122,000 state prison inmates. These cases, all in Southern California, represent a remarkably low number, which is bound to grow dramatically very soon, when the prison system begins to do more testing. he former director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Scott Kernan, has called state prison a “tinderbox of potential infection.” California is not alone. The United States is suffering a hangover from the mass incarceration boom of the past 30 years. Along with Texas, California leads the nation in the number of persons
LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles doctor said he is seeing significant success in prescribing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc to treat patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine has been touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19 by President Trump among others, but it remains controversial as some experts believe it is unproven and may not be effective. .
The phrase “Never let a crisis go to waste” has resurfaced recently. President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a product of the Chicago political machine, most famously gave Democrats this advice amid the financial crisis of 2008 to push through a laundry list of the progressive agenda. We are seeing the same thing as part of Democrats’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time around, one of the top items on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) list is vote by mail. Democrats for years have been looking for ways to weaken voter laws. They claim it will make it easier for folks to vote.
According to some tracking sites, the U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus reached 10,000 victims on Monday. Grim reapers on social media noted the “grim milestone” and forecast more grim days ahead for Americans now trapped by government-imposed house arrest as they helplessly watch their savings and livelihoods and freedom implode in real-time.
The U.S. surgeon general warned that this week’s catastrophic death toll will rival those not seen since the most horrific attacks on American soil. Jerome Adams said that the next several days will be “our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment. Only, it’s not going to be localized, it’s going to be happening all over the country.”
Washington’s Supreme Court has denied Seattle’s bid to reinstate an income tax on wealthy households, declining to hear the city’s case and dealing a major blow to advocates for tax system reform in the state.
In a majority decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday declined to review the city’s request to overturn rulings against the tax by a King County Superior Court judge and the state Court of Appeals.
Without issuing an opinion, Supreme Court dismissed Seattle’s petition for review and a petition written by the Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI), a Seattle-based progressive think tank.
Actor and Hollywood power producer Tyler Perry tipped workers at a Houston’s restaurant in Georgia a staggering $21,000 to help them through the economic hardship they face as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
TMZ reports that Tyler Perry, who regularly frequents the chain in the Northside Parkway district of Atlanta for takeout orders, left the equivalent of $500 each for 42 of the restaurant’s wait staff who cannot work due to the current lockdown throughout the state of Georgia.
On Thursday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp ordered a statewide lockdown with the exception of beaches, parks, churches, and gun stores.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a few jabs at the press during a Monday appearance on Fox News for its handling of coronavirus coverage.According to the Texas Republican U.S. Senator, the mainstream media were rooting for “disaster,” given they believe it would be a mark against President Donald Trump. Cruz cited an example of a tweet from The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who he challenged days earlier for questioning Trump’s remarks about unemployment at the State of the Union address last month. (Tweet)
Why do so many members of the free press keep parroting Chinese agitprop? That includes the preposterous and totally unverified claim that China has had not a single new coronavirus death?“U.S. reports 1,264 coronavirus deaths in over 24 hours,” NBC News claimed this week. “Meanwhile in China, where the pandemic broke out, not a single new coronavirus death was reported.”Chinese officials concede they have new infection cases, but they also say those cases were imported into China by dirty foreigners. This is the level on which they operate -- a sort of ultranationalism that seeks to blame outsiders for their nation's problems. Yet our media are accepting their dubious
Stocks soared on Monday as evidence emerged that the lockdowns have effectively slowed down the spread of the coronavirus epidemic and death tolls in hotspots appear to have stopped rising.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1,627.46 points, a 7.73 percent gain, to 22,679.99. The S&P 500 jumped 7 percent, with all 11 sectors rising. The Nasdaq Composite rose 7.3 percent. The averages ended the day close to their highs for the session, often a signal of growing bullish sentiment.
Boeing shares soared 19.47 percent, the best performing Dow stock. Apple, Visa, and McDonalds shares were all up by more than 10 percent.
GOP Gears Up for Next Relief Fight: Democrats
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The GOP is gearing up for what could be a contentious battle over the next stage of coronavirus relief, as Democrats continue to signal their desire to pursue a variety of changes related to the U.S. election.
Republicans and Democrats are expected to begin the process of crafting the next stage of economic relief after successfully passing a bipartisan measure to provide relief to small businesses and individuals affected by the coronavirus pandemic last month. The measure ultimately passed unanimously in the Senate, but it initially did not go without opposition, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attempted to offer her own version of relief
Matthew McConaughey provided a bit of surprise entertainment for residents in quarantine at a Texas senior living facility on Monday amid the coronavirus outbreak.The 50-year-old actor and his family hosted a virtual bingo for seniors at The Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living in Round Rock, enthusiastically calling out numbers and providing some lively fun for an experience many won’t likely forget.“We got Charles… with the iPad up high….we got two winners!” he was heard yelling in the video, as many of the seniors were captured smiling in the background.
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The mayor told his police department to crack down on anyone violating the Illinois “stay-at-home” order.
The police did just that — and cited the mayor's wife at a downtown tavern.
Alton Mayor Brant Walker revealed in a Monday Facebook post that one of several people cited at a downtown bar early Sunday was his wife, Shannon Walker.
Walker said the Alton police chief contacted him about 1 a.m. Sunday to say they were investigating and stopping a gathering at a bar downtown that was in violation of Illinois’ stay-at-home order
Colleges across the nation are scrambling to close deep budget holes and some have been pushed to the brink of collapse after the coronavirus outbreak triggered financial losses that could total more than $100 million at some institutions. Scores of colleges say they’re taking heavy hits as they refund money to students. (snip) Even if campuses reopen this fall, many worry large numbers of students won’t return.
Even as Joe Biden offers some grudging praise for President Trump, the Democratic candidate who's already lost to Trump, Hillary Clinton, just can't get over it.
More than three years after her stinging loss, she's still at it, sniping from the sidelines against Trump's leadership in the coronavirus crisis on Twitter (snip) As she carps about Trump, looking for that magic word-bullet that can slay him, we know she's got to be furious that the person making the decisions and taking charge of the vast crisis is Trump, not herself. . She was the one who was entitled to the presidency, not him. How can it be that he's succeeding?
Wuhan Derangement Syndrome
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“How can we not be united against death?” (snip) From this point on, there can be nothing that takes priority over shutting down the Chinese exotic-animal trade and wet markets. Nothing. The Chinese should be subjected to the same sanctions and restrictions meted out to white South Africans during apartheid, until the wet markets are closed and exotic animal traders gulag’d like Uighurs. The death toll from COVID has already—in one month—matched and doubled the entire 55-year death toll from apartheid.
Democrats looking to blame President Donald Trump for every single coronavirus death in the U.S. — as well as the economic wreckage caused by the shutdown — keep pointing to South Korea as proof of his guilt.
In his statement on the coronavirus, Joe Biden had this to say: “South Korea detected their first case of coronavirus on the same day we did, but they had tests and sophisticated tracing programs to stop the spread of the virus, so they didn’t have to put the entire country on lockdown.”
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Remember when President Trump said the U.S. media were the enemy of the American people? Well, consider this… In another clear example of how the U.S. media will do anything in their effort to undermine President Trump, yesterday they held hands with Chinese communists.ABC News chief Washington DC narrative engineer Jonathan Karl is the current rotating head of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The WHCA has a customary and traditional role of selecting the journalists who will participate in the White House daily briefing. Yesterday WHCA head Jonathan Karl invited a known propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into the briefing room
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) doubled down on his demands for President Trump to appoint a military “czar” to oversee the distribution of medical supplies to states, providing a list of names Sunday to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Schumer has for days been battling the president over what he believes is his inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic. He has repeatedly accused Trump of failing to adequately manage the delivery of medical goods and supplies to states that need them, lodging his complaints during appearances on both MSNBC and CNN.
“And they have no one, that I can best tell, in charge of the distribution,”
Putting all 30 teams in the Phoenix area and playing in empty ballparks was among the ideas discussed Monday by Major League Baseball and the players’ association. The potential plan could allow the league to begin games "as early as May," according to ESPN's Jeff Passan.
The sides held a telephone call to talk about paths forward for a season delayed by the new coronavirus pandemic, people familiar with the discussion told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because no details were announced. MLB is relying on a "significant increase in available coronavirus tests," per Passan.
Coronavirus-stricken Chris Cuomo is doing “slightly better,” his wife said on Monday, as she detailed his all-natural treatment plan.Cristina Cuomo said her CNN-host hubby still feels “incredible lethargy” but his fever has been down for the past three days, his oxygen levels were normal all week and an X-ray of his lungs on Sunday was clear.“He has maintained his sense of taste and smell, but not his usual hearty Italian appetite,” Cristina, 50, wrote in an Instagram post.
As the world shudders into Easter and the death toll on the China virus continues to rise, the question is: should we quarantine or should we restart the economy before the shutdown kills us? Or, more exactly, when should President Trump brave the sneers of the White House press corpse and proclaim that America is Back? The answer, I think, is pretty clear. It will be midway between the point where only crazed libertarians propose a return to work and the point where Nancy Pelosi would announce that she is appointing a House Select Committee to investigate Trump’s criminal delay in restarting the economy.
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"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength." (Proverbs 17:22 NLT)
Everywhere you look -- from newspaper headlines, to TV "alerts," to those too-long White House briefings, to people wearing masks in public places, there is hardly any news that isn't negative. Stories of people not getting the coronavirus, much less stories about people who have recovered from it, are usually buried, if covered at all. This negative attitude produces its own kind of infection. In a 2016 article for Forbes magazine, neuropsychologist Dr. Fabian van den Berg warned that constant negativity causes stress.
If you watch cable news, something I have assiduously avoided these past few weeks, you will be told that Barney Fife is in charge of the country, that the President lies, mismanages, exaggerates, and has totally botched America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. (snip) Real Clear Politics, as a poll aggregator, combines a number of public opinion polls into an average. Their most recent results show 49.8 percent approval for Trump’s handling of Coronavirus compared to 47.7 percent disapproval. These polls reflect the typical oversampling of Democrats meaning the real numbers are likely even higher for Trump than reported.
Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Al Gore, Bob Dole: All five won their party's presidential nominations after previous failed attempts. All went on to lose.
Democrat Joe Biden hopes to buck the trend as his party's presumptive standard-bearer in 2020 following ill-fated runs in 1988 and 2008. He faces a mercurial incumbent in President Donald Trump, who has never raised his average approval rating above the 40s and now presides over an economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.Experts tell the Washington Free Beacon that Biden faces historical headwinds as a third-time presidential candidate with more than 40 years in national office.
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I’m trying to picture how far the media would turn up the outrage meter if President Trump governed like Lyndon Johnson, and I can’t do it; my imagination isn’t expansive enough. In Great Society: A New History, Amity Shlaes presents a deeply researched, briskly told account of an era of tumult that was promoted and in many cases even funded by the federal government. If you want to be reassured that we of the Trump Era enjoy the privilege of relatively placid times, this is the book to read. Johnson once said, of Martha’s Vineyard, “we ought to blow up that goddamned island.”
Saira Rao and Regina Jackson run Race to Dinner, a for-profit organization that charges white women $2,500 per roundtable struggle session to examine their complicity in institutional racism. Penguin Random House, one of the largest publishers in the United States, gave the two women of color a book deal for their forthcoming tome White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Get Better.
Rao, a former congressional candidate and the daughter of two Indian immigrants, called the book a treatise “on all things white women.” That a major American publishing house thought this subject appropriate for a substantial book deal
A Party of Haters
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The Democrats are hysterically blaming President Trump for the fact that the Wuhan virus is killing some Americans. No doubt, they also will blame Trump for the recession that will be caused, not by the virus, but by government’s reaction–overreaction, in my opinion–to the virus.
In doing this, the Democrats are making some critical assumptions. They assume that voters won’t remember that when President Trump banned travel from China at the end of January, Democrats unanimously (including Joe Biden) denounced his action as racist and xenophobic.
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. — General George S. Patton Jr. on the wisdom of taking prompt action based on limited information. On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, Jim Santilli of Macomb County, Michigan, became seriously ill with severe cardiac and respiratory symptoms. He went to Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, where he was admitted and immediately tested for COVID-19. While he waited four days for the test results, his condition deteriorated “by the hour” to the point where he thought he was going to die. In an interview with radio host Steve Gruber, the 38-year-old Santilli said that he was slowly drowning
City Councilman Mark Gjonaj is rightly pushing to set aside the city’s new 5-cent fee on paper bags at grocery stores and the like in the face of the coronavirus threat.
The Bronx Democrat, who heads the Small Business Committee, say he’s behind the fee in principle “to encourage New Yorkers to use the more environmentally friendly option of reusable bags in normal times, but the science is clear: Reusable bags are more susceptible to carrying the coronavirus.”
Right: Reusable bags in fact are a scientifically proven breeding grounds for germs — something no one needs during a pandemic. (And if you wash your bag obsessively, it’s using up more resources
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asking him to ensure that U.S. oil and gas companies can get federal loans provided for businesses in the coronavirus stimulus package.
“There is no question that one of the hardest hit industries — and one of the most critical to Alaska — is the oil and gas sector,” Murkowski wrote in a letter shared Thursday. “Producing companies and the businesses that contract with them are being impacted not only by the market demand shock from the coronavirus, but also the Russia-Saudi Arabia power struggle against American energy.
Large retail stores are tweaking store policies in order to better manage the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for both customers and employees. The next time you make a run to Walmart or Target for some essentials, your shopping experience will be different. The new policies were enacted Saturday. The biggest change announced by both retailers is the limit on the number of shoppers allowed into the stores at one time. Walmart has a more specific policy than Target, at least as both stores released statements on the change. Walmart is going with a 20% policy – five customers per 1,000 square feet in the store.
Cardinal George Pell welcomed Australia’s highest court clearing him of child sex crimes Tuesday and said his trial had not been a referendum on the Catholic Church’s handling of the clergy abuse crisis.
Pope Francis’ former finance minister Pell had been the most senior Catholic found guilty of sexually abusing children and has spent 13 months in high-security prisons before seven High Court judges unanimously dismissed his convictions.
“I have consistently maintained my innocence while suffering from a serious injustice,” Pell said
U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s financial portfolio saw heavy trading during the month of March, a period during which Congress passed three different spending bills to address the spread of COVID-19 and the markets took a turn for the worse.
The report lists 112 transactions, including 76 stock purchases costing as much as $1.8 million and 34 sales worth up to $825,000. Compared with the 26-month period before the coronavirus swept across America, Perdue’s portfolio activity has increased nearly threefold. There were an average of 38 individual transactions in monthly reports from January 2018 through February 2020.
Equity futures are pointing to a higher open on Tuesday amid a few glimmers of hope that the coronavirus pandemic could be slowing.
The major futures indexes are indicating a rise of 1.6 percent when trading begins. Asian markets were also rising. Japan's Nikkei gained 2 percent, Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 1.4 percent, while China's Shanghai Composite jumped 1.9 percent.
China on Tuesday reported no new deaths from the coronarivus over the past 24 hours and had 32 new cases, all from people who returned from overseas.
Democrats and liberals increasingly seem to believe that it's the federal government that needs to do almost everything. Sure, we take the point that it was federalism, states’ rights, that allowed racial segregation and Jim Crow, and thus, there's rightly a certain suspicion of the idea. Yet in light of how the coronavirus crisis is playing out, it’s time for localism's critics to reconsider.
As an example, Germany is well ahead of other nations on coronavirus testing. The reason?
At his inauguration to the presidency in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
In our lifetime, however, the government has become the biggest purveyor of fear the world has ever known. The government has learned that if it can get us to fear, it can get us to do just about anything. So here we are, washing our hands like crazy (and maybe we are). Our nation has never had cleaner hands than in these past few weeks. Why? Because we are afraid.
Out of this fear, we've given up our jobs, our churches, our businesses,
CBS News was caught once again posting a fraudulent video to make it look like President Trump is failing in his response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
First CBS was caught using footage from an Italian hospital to describe conditions in New York.
Now CBS posted a fraudulent viral video of an ICU nurse crying about a mask shortage and poor working conditions.
CBS on Sunday morning posted a video of a “nurse in tears” who says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a Coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected.”