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Police say a disabled Texas woman shot and killed an intruder and fended off another during an attempted home invasion at her Houston apartment this past week. Citing investigators, KHOU reported that on March 14, two teens attempted to enter the woman’s northwest Houston apartment through a patio door during a brazen, daylight home invasion. After shattering the woman’s glass patio door, one of the would-be intruders then reached inside and attempted to unlock a door, police said. That is when the resident reportedly fired one shot with her firearm — hitting one of the teens. The outlet did not...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

I think it is fair to say that ChiCom Flu data have been gathered for a long enough time to do some statistical analysis. However, I cannot vouch for the validity of data, e.g., China's or Iran's data. But I will run the mortality percentages for some nations and you can draw conclusions on what ever you like. Tell me if the sky is still blue and white if you see that in the data. I am not drawing my own conclusions here. This is just something to think about. 1. China: 4.01% 2. Italy: 8.57% 3. Spain: 5.34% 4....

In the end, this flu season will be of greater interest to social psychologists and social and political historians than to virologists and epidemiologists. Among an innumerate and paranoid population obsessed with its health, and which believes that the role of the government is to solve all problems, it was easy for the media to trigger a panic that would take down the markets and capsize the economy. No public official or CEO can risk being viewed as irresponsible, and the decisions they’ve felt obliged to take have had devastating economic consequences for the majority of Americans. There are two...

"For some time now, we have been in combat against the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. From all that we can tell – and one of the difficulties of the combat is that so much about the pestilence remains unclear – , the battle will yet continue for some time. The virus involved is particularly insidious, for it has a relatively long incubation period – some say 14 days and some say 20 days – and is highly contagious, much more highly contagious than other viruses we have experienced."“We cannot simply accept the determinations of secular governments, which would treat...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow urged television networks not to air White House updates on the coronavirus outbreak, claiming “misinformation” from President Trump will “cost lives.” “I know we ought to be getting used to this kind of thing by now, but I’m not,” Maddow began Friday night. “President Trump today, again, just flat-out wrong in public about this malaria drug that has gotten stuck in his mind, quite some distance from the facts.” The liberal primetime host was referring to Trump’s claim Friday that the drug they’re hoping to use against the coronavirus is “effective,” but Dr. Anthony Fauci of...

It is time for China to consider the requests for help by US states like California and New York in fighting against the deadly coronavirus based on a humanitarian spirit as the infection numbers in the US surged to nearly 20,000 Saturday. Despite Washington's escalating xenophobic slur and hostility toward Beijing by repeatedly calling the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus", states like California and New York, which have had long-term subnational international cooperation with China, are mulling on seeking support from China as some local medics are eager to learn more about China's clinical experiences in treating critically ill patients and...

When the Coronavirus entered most Americans’ radars, the deadly pandemic was largely contained to China. To try to keep the virus from entering America, President Trump on January 31st announced a ban on travel from China to the U.S. The move was almost reflexively panned as “racist,” “xenophobic,” and not in line with science. More than a month and a half later, it’s now widely acknowledged that limiting travel from “cluster” regions is one of the only ways to slow the virus’ rapid spread, and that this travel ban helped the United States gain time to prepare its defenses. Americans...

In times of great crisis, it’s natural and normal for people to ponder and pose any number of questions. Lately, I’ve been asked how an all-powerful God would allow the coronavirus to wreak such havoc clear across the world. This virus has claimed the lives of thousands and ravaged hundreds of thousands more. Many people want to know why God won’t stop it. Where is He in the middle of this global pandemic? Theological questions of this nature have been asked, I suspect, since the beginning of time. Unexplained tragedy, unspeakable suffering and inconceivable circumstances of all kinds have marked...

Several publications on the Internet have been examining the emergency proclamation of 11 March, and emergency proclamation of 16 March by Mayor LaToya Cantrell, of New Orleans, Louisiana. The claim seems to be that Mayor Cantrell is promoting restrictions on the ownership of guns and/or the exercise of Second Amendment rights.  That claim is not justified by Mayor Cantrell's actions. What mayor Cantrell did was to follow the law, nothing less, nothing more.Here is the controversial paragraph in the emergency proclamation issued on 11 March, 2020. The proclamation of 11 March clearly states: Subject to the provisions of ACT 275...

The U.S. has the lowest per capita death rate of this group, tied with Austria, at 0.7 per million, up from 0.3 four days earlier. Italy has the highest mortality rate by far, at 67 per million. It is too early to gauge the ultimate course of the epidemic, but in crude terms it looks as though Italy is heading for a death rate of something like 100 per million. It could easily go higher than that. I don’t think the U.S. will experience a mortality rate anywhere near as high as Italy’s, for a number of reasons including our...

That old Walter Mitty thing doesn't stop for Joe Biden. He was there as vice president at the Parkland shooting. He was shot at in Iraq. He was a coal miner. His chopper was shot down by bin Laden himself over Afghanistan. Always the irrelevant placeholder, dating at least from his Obama years when he had to beg Obama to quit making fun of him, the former vice president and now Democratic frontrunner has now decided to conduct pretend-presidential briefings on the coronavirus crisis to upstage President Trump. According to Fox News: The all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee – in a...

A trillion bucks is a lot of money. The costs of shutting down the economy are larger. California's GDP is essentially zero at the moment. US GDP was about $22 trillion per year before the virus hit, almost $2 trillion per month. Shutting everything down and staying home for a few weeks is a sledgehammer. OK, our leaders have to hit a virus with a sledgehammer when they have nothing else up their sleeve. But it cannot last. Businesses will close, people will lose jobs, the economy will not be there to start up again. Needed fast: a plan to...

There are different public opinions on COVID 19 or Coronavirus. Some people are panicking and others are taking the necessary steps but are calm and observe the situation. Well, we have another type of people who are using the viral media nature of the virus to get media attention. Wuhan Corona Virus (COVID19) is a legitimate health concern, and it is no cause for panic or irrational hysteria, but it’s not a type of stuff that people should use to get more attention too. A man was sentenced to 10 weeks in jail on Friday after being found guilty coughing...

Since I published several days ago, COVD19 grips the world even more. Cases spiral upward, and fatalities accrue and gain momentum. Besides closure of all athletic events, schools, and theaters, the trauma metastasizes to restaurants and many major retailers and small businesses, now idling a giant swath of our economy. My views on this virus have not changed; in fact, only grown in intensity. Heterodox thoughts that Coronavirus remains only a flu with meager rates of mortality garnered a censure from one of the giant temples of leftist propaganda, Facebook. They removed my previous Coronavirus article as “against our community...

Standard Macro policy, taught to every student, says that the government should accumulate “budget surpluses” during good times (like the past few years). That the positive balance should then be accessed and spent, when the “business cycle” kicks in and our economy dips for whatever reason. …..In short, the Federal government should not have to borrow to fund all the emergency-assistance being discussed in the news (or have the Federal Reserve furiously printing more fiat dollars to bail out asset prices). These policies only take us further down the road to a larger debt - and inflation. This “bill” will...

Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said on Saturday that negotiators are doubling the size of a forthcoming coronavirus stimulus package as they try clinch an agreement. Kudlow said the size of the package would be approximately 10 percent of the county's gross domestic product (GDP), calling it a "very large package." When a reporter noted that 10 percent would be more than $2 trillion, he added: "That's correct." The decision is a significant uptick from the $1 trillion request initially submitted by the administration. Lawmakers are under significant pressure to quickly pass massive legislation to try...

While the world is focusing on containing the spread of the Wuhan virus, communist China declared the largest expulsion of American reporters this week, further escalating a media war with the United States.On March 18, communist China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it would revoke the press credentials of all U.S. nationals working for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. About a dozen American reporters will have to leave China, and won’t be allowed to report in Hong Kong and Macau. The world hasn’t seen such a level of expulsion of foreign journalists from communist...

For all the talk of online learning during shutdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic, many U.S. public school students will find that the work they do while at home is actually optional. It won’t be graded and it won’t count. Some public schools are calling online work “enrichment,” not part of the curriculum, because they can’t guarantee that all students will have access to it. Students without the internet or home computers can’t do it, and special-needs students may require accommodations to complete it. As a result, millions of schoolchildren risk missing weeks of school. Most states have closed schools,...

The Chinese communist government continued its campaign against Christianity during the country's coronavirus outbreak by destroying crosses and demolishing a church while people were on lockdown.On March 13, a church in Guoyang County, Anhui Province saw its cross removed by authorities. A video shared by the Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness documented the moment when the crane removed the red cross from the church's rooftop. 2020?3?13???????????????????? pic.twitter.com/RUnrAMgrpP— ????????? (@ccfr2017) March 13, 2020 A Christian with the surname Chen told persecution watchdog group China Aid that this church usually has 40 churchgoers attending its services. Authorities used the lockdown as an...