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taly's Dr. Daniele Macchini, describes his experience with coronavirus. Here it is, translated from the original Italian

...All university endowments over $1 billion in size should pay their fair share in taxes to pay off student loans. A 25 percent–per-year tax on these tax-subsidized behemoths can go towards helping deal with the student loan crisis. Any student attending a college with an endowment of greater than $1 billion is ineligible for student loans or federal student grants or scholarships. The combination of these two items will force the relevant universities to use their endowments to help students out rather than hoarding the money...

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A Joe Biden presidency would be a bonanza for plaintiff's lawyers. After his strong performance in the South Carolina Democratic primary and on Super Tuesday, Biden has been consolidating support among a wide range of key Democratic constituencies. But the trial lawyers have been backing him since before it became trendy. Four Biden fundraising events tell the story. On May 21, 2019, Biden had a fundraiser at a home of Orlando, Fla., lawyer John Morgan. Orlando magazine reported the event raised $1.7 million and reports that Morgan owns, with his wife, the plaintiff's law firm Morgan & Morgan, and also...

That’s it. I have heard it all! As a southern person, I say the word “y’all” all the time. It is a conjunction of the words “you” and “all”. I use it for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re male, female, old, young, white, black….In no way, shape, or form is the word racist. That is, unless you’re a liberal I guess. I came across an article calling for the word “y’all” to be banned because thy fee the word is racist. NPC Daily writer Neville Croft wrote, “[A] new hate word is increasingly being used by the alt-right. The...

"Fortress Europe is an illusion." So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturday editorial: "Europe Cannot Ignore Syrian Migrant Crisis." The FT undertakes to instruct the Old Continent on what its duty is and what its future holds: "The EU will face flows of migrants and asylum seekers across the Mediterranean for decades to come." Can Europe not repel this unwanted home invasion from the Global South? It is "delusional" to think so, says the FT. Europe must be realistic and set about "providing legal routes for migrants and asylum seekers." What occasioned the editorial was...

The TDS press has lost all perspective when it comes to the president and frankly, it's making us all sick. Everyone settle down. Welcome back to Propaganda and the Death of Media 101. Its, um, March 9, 2024. Now we were discussing the role of propaganda and the media in the re-election of Donald Trump by tying his leadership to a global pandemic. Propaganda in these cases seeks to diminish people’s view of a leader’s competence. The ultimate goal is to influence you to vote him out. The word “influenza” even comes from the Italian word for “influence.” Okay class,...

You just cannot make this stuff up. – The Democrat toadies at the Washington Post have a new piece out this morning which details growing concern in the Quid Pro Joe camp about their candidates’ obviously advancing cognitive issues. The buffoon who produced 2-3 wtf moments per week on the trail during the first few months of his campaign has recently been giving us 2-3 such brain freezes each day, and the that frequency was becoming too much for the corrupt news media to gloss over as mere “gaffes.” Thanks to the DNC/Media narrative advancing Biden’s “electability,” none of this...

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has a big problem on its hands. A few weeks ago, it was discovered that TRS—the state agency responsible for overseeing teacher pensions—had signed a multi-year lease for luxurious office space in downtown Austin costing more than $326,000 per month. That handsome sum secured 100,000 sq. ft. spanning three floors at the not-yet-open Indeed Tower, a stunning high-rise featuring “extensive office amenities, including a fitness center, dedicated conference center and outdoor terraces.” Not surprisingly, news of the luxury lease didn’t sit well. Even the Texas Retired Teachers Association, a special interest not known for...

As countries around the world grapple with the coronavirus, Taiwan may offer valuable lessons on how to curb its spread. Just 81 miles away, the island is a short flight to mainland China, where COVID-19 is believed to have originated in the city of Wuhan. As the outbreak took hold in January, many Taiwanese business people and their families based in China were returning to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and up to 2,000 Chinese tourists a day visited the island, potentially bringing the virus with them. And yet, Taiwan has had only 47 cases of COVID-19 and one death...

Is Nicolle Wallace so blinded by her hatred of President Trump that she's forgotten--assuming she ever knew--that the leaders of China don't stand for election. It's a communist dictatorship, you know? On her MSNBC show this afternoon, swiping at President Trump for having worn a Keep America Great cap while touring the CDC, Wallace said: "Ben Rhodes, if a foreign leader like, I don't know, the leader of China or Italy were touring his or her nation’s version of the CDC or the W.H.O. in a cap that reflected their sport's interest, that would be weird. If they were wearing...

PITTSBURGH -- Five years ago, the sad goodbye to an icon began when Macy's decided to close its flagship location in downtown Pittsburgh. The void, alas, still remains. For most of that building's storied 110-plus-year-old life, until Macy's took it 15 years ago, it was Kaufmann's department store: a place where parents, whether they were working-class or well-to-do, took their babies to get fitted for their first pair of shoes; or purchased their communion dress, prom dress, wedding gown, back-to-school clothes; or bought them the sheets, furniture, toasters, pots and pans they needed to start their adult lives. It was...

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One of the weirdest things about the modern left isn’t how much the activist class despises people who succeed, it’s how many of those activists actually come from money themselves. Not that they want you to know it, they pretend it isn’t true while enjoying the freedoms that come from their family’s accomplishments. The latest example of this comes from the New York Post, which exposed a guy named Carlos Maza as a hypocrite on Saturday.Maza, who goes by the name “gay wonk,” is known for whining about people who’ve earned a lot of money and trying to “cancel” conservatives...

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President Trump said Monday he is seeking major policy changes that White House officials hope will arrest the widening economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus outbreak by providing immediate federal aid to workers and a number of business groups. But his proposals were quickly brushed aside by key congressional Democrats, who are working on their own plan that could be released as soon as this week. The sparring comes as financial markets and the public increasingly look to Washington for answers as fear continues to spread. Trump said he will ask Congress to cut payroll taxes and provide relief to...

The UK cannot go climate neutral much before 2050 unless people stop flying and eating red meat almost completely, a report says. But it warns that the British public do not look ready to take such steps and substantially change their lifestyle. The report challenges the views of campaign group Extinction Rebellion. It believes the UK target of climate neutrality by 2050 will result in harm to the climate. The claim comes from the government-funded research group Energy Systems Catapult, whose computer models are used by the Committee on Climate Change, which advises government. Its report says: "A number of...

Futures up - +1,057. Interesting that it drops so far and swings so far back up. Seems somewhat manipulated. Causing margin calls on purpose? Where's the SEC? lol.

Assuming the number of people who have reportedly died from COVID-19 is reasonably accurate, then the percentage of infected people who die from the disease (the death rate) must surely have been much lower than the 2–3% estimates commonly reported. That is because the number of infected people is much larger than the number tested and reported. The triangle graph, from a February 10 study from Imperial College London, shows that most people infected by COVID-19 are never counted as being infected. That is because, the Imperial College study explains, “the bottom of the pyramid represents the likely largest population...

Elected Democrats in Virginia are preparing to give thousands of illegal aliens residing in the state “driver privilege cards” that allow them to freely drive without being pulled over by police for driving without a license. This weekend, state Senate Democrats in Virginia passed legislation to allow thousands of the roughly 300,000 illegal aliens living in the state to obtain driver privilege cards that will allow them to drive vehicles. The legislation mandates illegal aliens to file a tax return or be listed as a dependent on a tax return in order to obtain the driver privilege card. Proponents of...