[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

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York, September 14, 2018. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) I listened to Andrew Cuomo Friday talk about the need to come back better, the need for transformation. “You pause. You reflect. You learn. You grow. You move forward.” He went on and on about the

[ad_1] The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is moored pier side at Naval Station North Island (2016) (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jimmi Lee Bruner/Released) For declaring in March that the U.S. economy might be reopened by Easter, President Donald Trump was roundly mocked. Yet, it appears his political instincts

[ad_1] The May 4, 2020, issue of National Review — marked by cover art echoing the flag-raising at Iwo Jima and honoring those on the front lines of the pathogen battle — is now off the presses, in the mail, and, for NRPLUS members, available for complete and immediate reading. And there is plenty that

[ad_1] Medical personnel wearing protective face masks at the Spedali Civili hospital in Brescia, Italy, March 13, 2020. (Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters) A quick rundown on what we’ve learned, in just the past four weeks . . . Getting to “herd immunity” is not going to be quick or easy and is going to involve a

[ad_1] Land O’Lakes butter are displayed in a supermarket in New York City, February 15, 2017. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Land O’Lakes has redesigned its butter packaging and purged “Mia,” its longtime Native American “butter maiden” logo/mascot not only from the packaging but also the company website. This may be a victory for woke political correctness, but

[ad_1] Shoppers keep social distance as they wait in line on the sidewalk outside a grocery store in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Yesterday, STAT News reported positive results for the antiviral medicine remdesivir. A clinical trial at the University of Chicago treated 125 patients with the drug, developed by pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences.  Of

[ad_1] South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working to put a meat processing plant ravaged by coronavirus back online after a worker died of the virus. CDC staff canvassed the Sioux Falls Smithfield Foods plan Thursday weeks after the first COVID-19 case was discovered in March. One

[ad_1] If our government knew a virus could leak from the Chinese facility two years ago, why was nothing done? Martha McCallum interviewing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo April 15, 2020. (Fox News/Screenshot) U.S. officials in China cabled Washington several times, warning that a biolab in Wuhan was conducting risky experiments on bats and coronaviruses, according

[ad_1] One of the big critiques of a hyper globalized supply chain in which America’s manufacturing was outsourced was that it would, in a time of crisis, put America at a huge disadvantage. Unable to produce needed equipment or pharmaceuticals, we’d be left at the mercy of the countries who did. But, says the economic

[ad_1]  A project co-founded by the Columbia Journalism Review is asking hundreds of news outlets to focus their reporting on climate change on Earth Day as journalists focus primarily on coronavirus coverage. The journalist heading the effort believes the media should be devoting the same level of attention to global warming as they do to

[ad_1] President Donald Trump answers a question from CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta during the coronavirus response daily briefing at the White House, April 10, 2020. (Jim Acosta/Reuters) Years ago I wrote a piece in these pages about how mass immigration was an immutable value of the Left. (I wanted to call it

[ad_1] People listen to the Notre-Dame Cathedral’s great bell ringing one year after a devastating fire in Paris, France, April 15, 2020. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) 1. A few weeks ago Yanira Soriano, critically ill with COVID-19, was admitted to Northwell Health’s Southside Hospital in Suffolk County, NY. She was also 34 weeks pregnant. (Thread — and