[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] At his April 15 press conference, President Donald Trump launched into a fierce attack on the Voice of America, the U.S. government’s broadcasting entity that reaches out to the world in 47 different languages and is a part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The president called the VOA’s coverage of the COVID-19
[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] President Donald Trump and administration officials indicated that testing for the coronavirus is headed for a big increase, as the administration moves toward reopening the economy. “Earlier this week the [Food and Drug Administration] authorized two new antibody tests, which is very exciting, that will determine whether someone has been previously infected with the
[ad_1] Another set of Trump tweets, another Alyssa Milano meltdown. It just never gets old, does it? As part of his campaign to get the United States of America to reopen from quarantine in the coming months, Mr. Trump, as he always does, made slogan-style tweets urging various states to “liberate” themselves from coronavirus lockdown.
[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] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks in front of stacks of medical protective supplies during a news conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, which will be partially converted into a temporary hospital during the coronavirus outbreak, March 24, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The ventilator shortages of which we were
[ad_1] It’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of Americans process news and data, and calculate that self-quarantining, wearing masks, and social distancing make sense for themselves, their families, and the country. Free people act out of self-preservation, but they shouldn’t be coerced to act through the authoritarian whims of the state. Yet this
[ad_1] From a foreign policy perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic shows why the United States should be in the business of preserving and advancing freedom, civil society, and other democratic values in practical partnerships with like-minded and willing allies, such as South Korea. In fact, South Korea’s response to the coronavirus outbreak has been exemplary. That
[ad_1] Chinese officials have long claimed the first case od COVID-19 was diagnosed in Wuhan on Dec. 1, blaming a nearby wet market that sells exotic animals as the cause. Not so, says a bombshell new report by scientists from the University of Cambridge in Britain. “While coronavirus was previously believed to have originated in
[ad_1] The media tell us China “beat coronavirus.” I don’t believe it. The Chinese government lies. The American Enterprise Institute’s Derek Scissors argues that the Chinese have underreported the number of COVID-19 cases by millions. Still, it’s possible that China has the virus under control. But at what cost? >>> When can America reopen? The
[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] The biggest joke in Barack Obama’s endorsement video for Joe Biden was his warning about what Biden was facing. “It won’t be easy. The other side has a massive war chest. The other side has a propaganda network with little regard for the truth,” he said. Obama has almost the entire news media eating
[ad_1] A woman wearing a face mask holds a placard as hundreds of supporters of the Michigan Conservative Coalition protest against the state’s extended stay-at-home order at the Capitol building in Lansing, Mich., April 15, 2020. (Seth Herald/Reuters) Dissenters and protesters could grow into a more significant minority. ‘Live Free or Die,” read one protester’s
[ad_1] As the pandemic continues, there have been more and more examples of government intervention. Police ticketed people attending church in their cars on Easter. One Florida county introduced curfews. And localities across America are mandating face masks in certain situations. What is the government allowed to do, and what is it not? John Malcolm,
[ad_1] If you have been watching FOX News over the years, you probably remember Dennis Miller’s regular appearances on The O’Reilly Factor. It has been three years since Miller has appeared on the network, but he showed up on the Sean Hannity show this week with hilarious results. The Hill reports: Dennis Miller jokes he’s
[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] This Thursday’s edition of CNN’s coronavirus town hall turned into a Democratic Party campaign event when co-hosts Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta invited former Vice President Joe Biden onto the show to rip President Trump, and opine about how he would do things differently. And while there were frivolous campaign questions asked, neither
[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] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Bill Hemmer today on FOX News Channel. The mayor told Hemmer he does not expect New York City to open until July or August. March-April-May-JuneThere will be nothing left in the city in July. This is a good time for New Yorkers to look for an
[ad_1] President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a cautious, three-phase approach—one that still gives wide latitude to governors—for reopening the shuttered economy in states that have had low rates of transmission of COVID-19. “Based on the latest data, our team of experts now agrees that we can begin the next front in our war, which