[ad_1] (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Trump administration said this week that Planned Parenthood will not receive any of the coronavirus-relief funding earmarked for small businesses that are struggling amid the pandemic. The administration will not grant the mammoth abortion provider any funding from the $670 billion Paycheck Protection Program, according to reports. “Through the Paycheck Protection Program,
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[ad_1] (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters) Some foreign workers who lived in the U.S. at some point during the last two years have mistakenly received economic stimulus checks designated for U.S. citizens due to an Internal Revenue Service glitch. Thousands of college-age workers, some of whom left the U.S. before the coronavirus was discovered in the
[ad_1] A sign informing visitors that Mulholland Scenic Overlook is closed during the coronavirus outbreak, Los Angeles, Calif., April 5, 2020. (Lisa Girion/Reuters) Continue more modest restrictions, keep watching the data, and focus on hospitals and protecting the most vulnerable. One of the main questions on the minds of Americans is when government restrictions aimed at
[ad_1] Warnings of the possibility of coming meat shortages have left many Americans wondering whether we will see the meat and poultry cases in grocery stores just as barren as the toilet paper shelves. The coronavirus has led a number of large meat-processing plants, such as Tyson Foods Inc. and Smithfield Foods Inc., to close plants
[ad_1] While Americans are focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and its damage, the Medicare trustees are warning—once again—of the enormous financial challenges posed by the accelerated spending of the Medicare program. The Medicare trustees’ 255-page report covers the program’s financial condition in 2019, a chronic problem generating annual federal deficits and national debt. That condition
[ad_1] A crab-eating Macaque monkey plays with toys at the Monkey’s park near Tel Aviv, Israel, December 6, 2004. (Nir Elias/Reuters) To state the obvious, the U.S.–China relationship is at the lowest point since Chairman Mao was alive. President Trump bluntly declares: “The virus could have been stopped in China and it wasn’t, and the
[ad_1] The spread of COVID-19 has created a serious public health challenge for governments throughout the world, but several countries have responded differently. The U.S. and many European nations, for instance, have introduced widespread social distancing and “stay at home” orders. South Korea, the country that has shown the most success at reversing the course
[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch May 1, 2020 Topics in this post: Donald Trump President Donald Trump participates in a Presidential Recognition Ceremony Friday. The event is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN
[ad_1] Fiscally troubled states are nothing new. In fact, our nation was born during a time of great economic upheaval, in which many of the new states found themselves deeply indebted immediately after the American Revolution. The residents of those states paid a high price—literally and figuratively—for their freedom from King George III. >>> When
[ad_1] Ambulances lined up at the emergency entrance outside Mount Sinai Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 13, 2020 (Mike Segar/Reuters) A couple people disagree with the assessment below that “we are likely through the worst” of the coronavirus outbreak. They point to warnings about the inevitable second wave, and point
[ad_1] The Wall Street Journal, which is generally considered conservative when it comes to economic issues, published a front-page story last Monday with this headline: “Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is Back.” Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff for President Barack Obama and a former mayor of Chicago, is quoted: “The era of
[ad_1] The Trump administration cannot withhold grant money from cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, an appeals court ruled Thursday. President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold public safety grants from jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as “sanctuary cities,” violates the Constitution’s separation of powers provisions, the
[ad_1] Actor Robert Redford is a Trump-hater and climate change nut. And the coronavirus pandemic allows him to indulge in both passions, writing NBC op-eds about how bad the virus makes the president look and how it also presents us with an opportunity to make our post-quarantine lives part of a new climate-conscious collective. Ah
[ad_1] Senator Mitt Romney in Washington, D.C., January 31, 2020 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) released a proposal Friday to raise wages for essential workers for three months, with debates on a possible phase-four relief package intensifying as the Senate returns to D.C. next week. Romney’s plan, titled “Patriot Pay,” calls for bonuses
[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the coronavirus lockdowns “fascist” and said that people are essentially under house arrest. “This is not freedom,” Musk said during a Q1 Tesla earnings call. “Give people back their goddamn freedom. “The extension of the shelter-in-place, or as I will call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their
[ad_1] I’ll get into this at more length later, but there’s a problem with Joe Biden’s naming Chris Dodd to run his vice-presidential search beyond the obvious waitress-sandwich stuff. The Democrats talk a pretty good “diversity” game, but think about what that really looks like in a party where the bosses are rich and white
[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch May 1, 2020 Topics in this post: Kayleigh McEnany White House Press Briefings White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a press briefing Friday to update the nation on recent developments. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m.
[ad_1] One suspects that Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman doesn’t see any irony in launching his new capitalistic subscription-based website with a tweet noting the celebration of May Day, a nefarious and un-American tradition. In 1901, May Day (the one for “workers,” not the Catholic one) became a mandate by the Second International Socialist Congress that
[ad_1] A health worker wearing a protective mask in Madrid, Spain May 1, 2020. (Sergio Perez/Reuters) We don’t have enough money to stay idle at home, but we don’t have enough confidence in our own safety to go out and spend again. From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been obvious that the
[ad_1] The May 18, 2020, issue of your favorite magazine is off the presses, piping hot, and ready to mollify your intense fortnightly anticipation. And this is indeed an issue worth anticipating — the cover piece is by the esteemed historian Andrew Roberts, who writes that teaching “Western Civ” is imperative, while ignoring it is
[ad_1] A lot of us wake up in the morning and get ready for another day in our office cubicles. For Idaho Air National Guard Capt. Mike Shufeldt, that cubicle is often a 29,000-pound gunship with space for one and lots of buttons, levers, gauges and switches to play with. Shufeldt’s been flying the A-10
[ad_1] A top World Health Organization official said Thursday that China is blocking the WHO from participating in China’s investigation into the origin of coronavirus. Dr. Gauden Galea, the WHO’s representative to China, told Sky News that the WHO has made repeated requests to join the investigation, to no avail. “We know that some national
[ad_1] An FBI memo dated Jan. 4, 2017 authorized closing a counterintelligence investigation into Michael Flynn, according to documents released Thursday. Peter Strzok, who was deputy chief of FBI counterintelligence, stopped the investigation from ending, text messages show. Three weeks later, Strzok would interview Flynn at the White House, setting off a chain of events
[ad_1] There has always been a double standard for Dems when it comes to sexual assault from Clinton on down to now Biden. There is a saying that goes when it comes to democrats if it were not for double standards they’d have no standards at all. When Paula Jones brought her allegations against Clinton
[ad_1] Topics in this post: Joe Biden Tara Reade 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden’s accuser is willing to testify under oath, she told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday. The former vice president has remained silent on Tara Reade’s allegations of sexual assault, ignoring many requests for comment from the DCNF on the matter, but
[ad_1] A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) This is not a recipe for government by the people. One of the big asymmetries in today’s Washington is that our system’s rules and procedures make it much easier to increase spending than to cut it.
[ad_1] A healthcare worker, accompanies a patient suffering from the coronavirus to a triage station in Mexico City, Mexico, April 23, 2020. (Gustavo Graf/Reuters) Back on March 30, I wrote: Everything we are seeing right now indicates that the coming five weeks or so are going to be brutal. You can quibble with this projection
[ad_1] We now know that the China coronavirus is deadly disease — except for with children and healthy adults.If you’re in your 70s or 80s with comorbidities it can be very deadly. We also know that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx rushed in to the Oval Office in early March to warn President Trump
[ad_1] AR-15 rifles displayed for sale at a gun show in Oaks, Pa., in 2017 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Supreme Court should and will take a Second Amendment case very soon, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) won’t be happy. When Whitehouse basically threatened the Supreme Court over a recent Second Amendment case, perhaps he didn’t
[ad_1] Central Park, New York City, April 2020 (Jay Nordlinger) The above shot is of Central Park, snapped a few days ago. A pastoral scene in the middle of New York City. I include it at the end of my Impromptus today. It is maybe the only thing in the whole column that’s not controversial.