[ad_1] The latest conspiracy theory has seen cell phone towers torched and slowed high-tech measures to fight the pandemic. With COVID-19 reshaping our world, there has been no end to the explanations as to where it came from. One recent conspiracy theory claiming 5G (short for fifth generation) is transmitting the coronavirus has spread almost

[ad_1] While mum on why a SWAT team shot the software developer while he lay sleeping, a Maryland prosecutor suggests COVID order trumps Bill of Rights. It has been six weeks since a SWAT team shot and killed 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in a 4:30 a.m. raid at his family’s home in Potomac, Maryland, an affluent

[ad_1] These are the questions on most of our minds today; we’ve accepted that even once restrictions ease, society won’t go back to looking like it did in 2019. Whether that means sitting six feet apart from other diners in restaurants (and said restaurants therefore continuing to hemorrhage money), kids alternating going to school week

[ad_1] Sen. Tom Cotton talks to reporters following a classified national security briefing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 8, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who was wrongly pilloried by much of the media for questioning whether the coronavirus might have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, has an op-ed on

[ad_1] Topics in this post: Donald Trump The President’s Schedule The president and first lady will participate in a Labor Day tree-planting ceremony then President Trump will have lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and receive his daily briefing. The White House Coronavirus Task Force will hold a briefing and the president often participates.

[ad_1] The Wall Street Journal left out a critical detail in its report Tuesday about China’s top virologist on bat-borne viruses saying her lab in Wuhan has no connection to the coronavirus outbreak. The Journal did not include in its report that the virologist told the Scientific American in March she lost sleep worrying about

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr in Washington, D.C. February 6, 2020 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) I am seeing a lot of Twitter outrage and criticism descend on Attorney General Bill Barr for what strikes me as fairly anodyne comments he made on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. The first set of relevant remarks came when Hewitt asked whether

[ad_1] Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot in The Seventh Seal (Svensk Filmindustri/IMDb) Pay attention when Antonius Block, the protagonist of The Seventh Seal, raises his eyes to scan the distance behind his opponent, Death, in their final outdoor meetup over the chessboard. Forget the chess for a moment. Watch the eyes. They tell the

[ad_1] Topics in this post: Donald Trump The President’s Schedule President Donald Trump will meet with Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York on Tuesday. The White House Coronavirus Task Force will hold a briefing and the president often participates. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s Itinerary for 4/21/20 – note:

[ad_1] Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden participates in the 11th Democratic Party debate on March 15, 2020.(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) The Democratic Party is decadent, its future stillborn as its past seizes ownership of its backward-looking present. In 2020, the party is set to nominate for president a man who wasn’t good

[ad_1] It’s time to end the wars and rebuild America. Donald Trump doesn’t understand why America can spend $8 trillion on “rebuilding” the Middle East, but “if you want to fix a pothole in a highway, you can’t do it because they don’t want to give you the funds.” “Frankly, for so many years, we’ve

[ad_1] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the ban on all non-essential travel along the Mexican and Canadian borders will be extended for an additional 30 days. Acting DHS secretary Chad wolf on Monday said that the governments of Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. have mutually agreed to keep their borders closed off

[ad_1] A medical worker makes a phone call at Maimonides Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 14, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) People whose expertise has been questioned often respond in ways that further alienate the skeptics. A good illustration comes from Vanity Fair’s profile of Alex Berenson, a leading advocate of

[ad_1] (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Viable opportunities for Connecticut voters to send a conservative to Capitol Hill have proven rare in the past decade, but with Ryan Meehan — a sharp and energetic fan of Bill Buckley now seeking the GOP nomination to take on the very liberal Democrat incumbent, Jahanna Hayes, in the state’s fifth Congressional

[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch April 20, 2020 Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force hold a briefing Monday to update the nation on recent developments. The briefing is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. EDT. Live Stream of Coronavirus Task Force Briefing Content

[ad_1] Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic presidential debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In a new article at Mother Jones — titled “Sexual Assault Advocates Are Grappling With the Allegations Against Joe Biden” (don’t let the phrasing trouble you; the individuals in question are not, in fact, advocates of sexual

[ad_1] He acts as though all we need to do is return to the pre-Trump status quo. It’s not so simple. My progressive friends are uniformly unenthusiastic about Joe Biden having won the contest to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. Their lack of enthusiasm, which more often than not borders on outright dismay, is

[ad_1] Topics in this post: Donald Trump The President’s Schedule President Donald Trump will have lunch with the Vice President on Monday. The White House Coronavirus Task Force will hold a briefing and the president often participates. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s Itinerary for 4/20/20 – note: this  page

[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch April 19, 2020 Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force hold a briefing Sunday to update the nation on recent developments. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Live Stream of Coronavirus Task Force Briefing Content

[ad_1] In this week’s episode of our NR podcast, The McCarthy Report, Rich and I took a look at the epic collapse of the media-Democrat political narrative of Trump-Russia collusion, brought into sharp relief by new disclosures of footnotes that had been redacted from DOJ inspector-general Michael Horowitz’s damning report on FISA abuse in the

[ad_1] While the Chinese Wuhan Virus has wrought death and havoc throughout the world there have been many theories of how it actually started and spread throughout the world. What we do know for sure is that it started in a virology lab in Wuhan province in China that is next to a wet market

[ad_1] Topics in this post: Donald Trump The President’s Schedule President Donald Trump has no public events on his calendar for Sunday. The White House Coronavirus Task Force will hold a briefing and the president often participates. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s Itinerary for 4/19/20 – note: this  page

[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch April 18, 2020 Topics in this post: coronavirus White House Press Briefings Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force hold a briefing Saturday to update the nation on recent developments. The briefing is scheduled to start at 5:00 p.m.

[ad_1] Almost every day, more studies, strange data, anecdotal reporting, and theories emerge about the virus, many of which could change existing conventional wisdom. In discussions about the nature of any existing sero-prevalence in California, and about how even apparently small percentages of those already infected in the population could radically alter rates of epidemic

[ad_1] Leaving the decision to governors is correct — and his team has provided solid guidelines to protect public health. Like so many of President Trump’s most audacious claims, his bluster that he had “total authority” to re-open the economy was merely an opening bid. The “plan”—really a non-binding set of guidelines—that he and his

[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch April 17, 2020 Topics in this post: Donald Trump The President’s Schedule President Donald Trump has no public events on his calendar for Saturday. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s Itinerary for 4/18/20 – note:

[ad_1] The CEO of a Chinese private equity firm sent a letter to Hunter Biden’s lawyer on Friday saying that the son of former Vice President Joe Biden was no longer serving as an unpaid director of the firm “effective from October 2019.” The lawyer, George Mesires, confirmed that he had received the single-sentence letter

[ad_1] One of my favorite magazine writers, Sam Anderson, has profiled one of my favorite figures in pop culture: Weird Al Yankovic. It’s just about the perfect thing to read to get a mental break right now. What was most fascinating was a peek into the slightly obsessive and meticulous creative process behind Yankovic’s song

[ad_1] My last trip to Washington, D.C. was the very first week of March. It was the first time in a long time that I didn’t visit my friends at the Little Sisters of the Poor there. I had, in fact, promised one of the residents — Carl, a vet who promised me he was

[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Trump Administration, White House Watch April 17, 2020 Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force hold a briefing Friday to update the nation on recent developments. This briefing comes the day after President Donald Trump announced his guidelines for Governors and Mayors to use in re-opening