Month: April 2020

[ad_1] Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, criticized the World Health Organization and the Chinese government, saying that both stymied the global response to the novel coronavirus, likely allowing the disease COVID-19 to spread more dramatically across the globe. “China was not truthful with the world at the outset
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[ad_1] A medical staff member looks on during drive-thru coronavirus testing at a screening centre in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 30, 2020. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters) As the growth rate of new coronavirus cases begins to flatten across the U.S., policymakers are planning for the next phase of the pandemic response. According to the proposal
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[ad_1] The Ruby Princess cruise ship, after allowing passengers infected with the coronavirus to disembark in Sydney the prior month, docks with crew only onboard at Port Kembla in Wollongong, Australia, April 6, 2020. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via Reuters) An international perspective is useful in assessing America’s response to the coronavirus, both in retrospect and
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[ad_1] Abigail Thernstrom passed away late last week.  She was a friend; a longtime board member of the Center for Equal Opportunity, where I work; and an invaluable expert on a wide variety of racial and civil-rights issues. Although Abby did not begin her life, education, and career in circles friendly to conservatism (to understate
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[ad_1] Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson arrives to testify on a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 4, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) In the latest edition of our podcast, The McCarthy Report, Rich and I took a look at “Trump and the Inspectors General” — the
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump rallies with supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, February 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign on Monday reported raising $212 million in the first quarter of 2020. Fundraising increased 36 percent from the fourth quarter of 2019, despite a drop in fundraising in March following the
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[ad_1] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham holds a copy of an intelligence report on the Steele dossier on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Four footnotes in the Inspector General report on the FBI’s Russia investigation, which were partially declassified on Friday, indicate that the FBI suspected that portions of
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[ad_1] Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, threw President Trump under the bus again Sunday in an interview with Rev. Al Shaprton on MSNBC. Fauci said he told the administration “we were in real trouble” from the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus in mid to late January and that Trump’s
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[ad_1] There’s no longer anything unusual about journalism marked by a failure to distinguish between fact and opinion, by blind worship of globalism and free trade, and by neglect of the special interest funding behind establishment think tankers masquerading as scholarly truth-seekers.  And of course, the ritualistic Trump Derangement Syndrome. Much rarer is a liberal
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[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr April 1, 2020. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) The separation of governmental powers established by the U.S. Constitution is a central pillar of our liberty. And it is widely perceived that the executive branch has, over the decades, aggrandized its power vis-a-vis the legislative branch,
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[ad_1] In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic Venezuela is suffering from the most acute fuel shortage in years. Although Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserves in the world, the country’s refineries produce less than 10% of their capacity without investment, maintenance, and difficulties in importing fuel. The shortages prevent farmers from moving their
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[ad_1] Joy Reid treated us to a trifecta of goofs and questionable calls on her MSNBC show this morning. Here’s the transcript. MSNBCAM Joy4/12/2010:04 am EDT JOY REID: Joining me now is House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff. Good morning, sir, and Happy Easter. . . .  And one of the groups of people who cannot
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[ad_1] Leah Barkoukis at Townhall reports a pro-Trump troll pranked CNN hard on Thursday night during their “global town hall” on coronavirus “facts and fears” with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Someone in the CNN control room isn’t familiar with conservative terms like Trump Derangement Syndrome. When the audience was asked to send questions
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