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Sen. Bernie Sanders really would be an easier candidate for President Donald Trump to campaign against in November. Sanders is so far left, with a history of burning bridges, that Trump and the Republican Party could easily and deservedly vilify him. The American public got a taste of Sanders, the true believer in communist revolution, when he sat for an interview with Anderson Cooper on "60 Minutes." Sanders praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for a literacy program after the Cuban revolution. Never mind that Castro also rounded up dissidents, engaged in mass murder and pulled his people into unending poverty....

Scranton Cultural Center Scranton, Pennsylvania March 5, 2020 6:32 P.M. EST Q You’ve got a great crowd here. THE PRESIDENT: Nice audience. Nice crowd. (Applause.) Q Terrific crowd here tonight. Thank you so much, everybody. Q We’d love to get to a lot of questions tonight, and there are a lot of good questions from residents here in Scranton who want to talk about big issues. Q So we’re going to jump right in with the first questioner from our audience. Thank you again, Mr. President, for being here tonight. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. Q Catherine...

"...Whom will Joe Biden endorse, by design, on the eve of the Democrat Party Convention when he announces that, on advice his wife and doctors, he will not pursue the Democrat Party nomination? Answer: Hillary. After having watched Joe Biden's further descent into senility and confusion between March and July, who will relieved Democrats, women especially, embrace as their tried and true candidate? Answer: Hillary. And who, by design, will name as her vice president a fellow with the last name of Bloomberg who just happens to be waiting in the wings with his nationwide campaign offices open and with...

Because the U.S. data on coronavirus infections are so deeply flawed, the quantification of the outbreak obscures more than it illuminates.

Pierce County Readiness Center Tacoma, Washington 5:48 P.M. PST GOVERNOR INSLEE: Welcome to Washington State. We’ve just finished very productive meetings with the Vice President. We in Washington are very appreciative of him being here today. He not only helped us with some issues today in our partnership with the federal government, but he has already helped us in recently removing some federal restrictions that would have made it more difficult to have testing for the coronavirus, which we appreciate. We had very helpful meetings, talking about our ability to increasing the testing capacity for the virus in the United...

Ever since a former reality television star captured the Republican presidential nomination and then the White House, American politics has taken on a stranger-than-fiction quality. The usual expectations that were built on generations of punditry and prognostication often no longer hold, and nowhere has this been more apparent than by where the Democratic presidential primary stands in the wake of Super Tuesday. Joe Biden’s campaign roared back to life after it should have been long dead following stinging losses in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada — in fact, it had already been buried by much of the pundit class. Over...

Carnival shares suffer worst day in 19 years, close at 11-year low; Royal Caribbean’s stock suffers biggest loss in 11 yearsShares of cruise ship operators took double-digit dives Thursday to their lowest closes in years, as the global spread of the coronavirus fueled fears of a drop in travel demand. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s stock RCL, -4.439% plummeted 17.1% to $65.78, to suffer the biggest one-day drop since Jan. 30, 2009. The stock closed at the lowest price since Sept. 19, 2016. It has lost more than half its value (51.3%) since closing at a record $135.05 on Jan. 17....

The White House is holding meetings on how to reduce the threat of coronavirus infecting President Trump and his staff after quietly tightening visitor rules last month, The Post has learned. In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the White House has mandated that guests disclose all countries visited in the past 30 days. And further steps are under review by a group led by Tony Ornato, White House deputy chief of staff for operations. The group was described to The Post by one senior administration official as a “task force” that convenes when necessary to address emerging threat situations....

"... Over the last week to ten days, the Islamist 21st century Sultan on the Bosporus, Recep Erdogan, has abrogated Turkey’s 2016 Agreement with the European Union, under which the Turks committed to preventing a repetition of the 2015 mass migration of Muslim migrants into Western Europe. During the 2015 fiasco, welcomed by German Chancellor Merkel, at least one million “refugees” (read “economic migrants”) from the Middle East and elsewhere streamed into Germany (hence, into all of Europe)....

London Mayor Sadiq Khan was challenged on live TV as he claimed there is “no risk” of catching the deadly coronavirus from joining the millions who ride the city’s packed trains and buses. “It’s very important that we don’t spread panic or alarm based on misinformation,” Khan said on “Good Morning Britain” Tuesday when asked about the assumed “obvious risk factor” of public transport. “There is no risk in using the Tube or buses or other forms of public transport,” he said, noting there are 5 million journeys each day on the underground system along with 6 million on buses....

WASHINGTON - - “Lack of talent.” Unlikable. “Mean.” President Donald Trump laced into former Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday, insisting that sexism wasn’t to blame for the end of the Massachusetts senator’s presidential campaign. Speaking to reporters as he signed an emergency $8.3 billion funding package to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak, Trump was asked whether he thought sexism had anything to do with Warren’s departure from the Democratic presidential race. “No, I think lack of talent was her problem. She has a tremendous lack of talent,” Trump responded. The president commended her debate performances, saying she “was a...

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WATCH: ‘Disturbed’ Protester Unfurls A Nazi Flag At A Bernie Sanders Rally Thursday Night BY CHRIS WALKER March 6, 2020 During a presidential campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday night, a man in the crowd several rows above the candidate unfurled a red flag with a swastika emblazoned on it, the symbol of the Nazi Party in Germany from the 1930s and 1940s. The symbol, then and now, is symbolic of anti-Semitism and white supremacy, and was seen as a direct confrontation and disturbing protest against Sanders, who is Jewish. Supporters at the rally booed the man, and promptly tore...

Senator Chuck Schumer’s threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanagh are not only outrageous and dangerous. They could well be a precursor of what we can expect should the Supreme Court advance the pro-life cause. There will be rage. There will be intimidation. There will be threats. And there will be violence. The same people who were scratching and pounding the Supreme Court doors during the Kavanaugh hearings will not sit quietly should Roe v. Wade be overturned.The same people who violently attack peaceful pro-life protesters will turn all the more violent should pro-life legislation be passed.In terms of physical attacks...

“THE BEST ESTIMATES NOW OF THE OVERALL MORTALITY RATE FOR COVID-19 IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 0.1% AND 1%. THAT’S LOWER THAN YOU HEARD PROBABLY IN MANY REPORTS … IT’S NOT LIKELY IN THE RANGE OF 2 TO 3%.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is intensifying its operations in 10 sanctuary cities, deploying approximately 500 special agents to increase surveillance around the homes and workplaces of undocumented immigrants. ICE has started its 24-hour-a-day surveillance operations as part of its enhanced arrest campaign. It has requested the transfer of hundreds of special highly-trained agents who typically work on long-term investigations involving human trafficking and dangerous criminals, the New York Times reported on March 5. In the coming weeks, the additional officers have been instructed by officials to “flood the streets” and operate in unmarked cars to ramp up arrests...

NBC political analyst and Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Wednesday the coalescing around Joe Biden by suburban voters is a "revolution by the bourgeoisie. " "Seeing our elections moving forward, it is like ... the older voters have their say in presidential years and the younger voters have more of a say (in midterm election)," Belcher observed. "I think the most stark thing that happened on Tuesday was there was a revolution, Chris, going on in our country but it's not the kind that Sanders thinks. It's a revolution by the bourgeoisie," Belcher declared. "What's happening...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Ayn Rand. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Ayn Rand was an author best known for her libertarian positions and celebration of individual rights and initiatives. Her best known books are The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the...

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