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Campaign finance laws? What campaign finance laws? – Apparently, federal campaign finance laws never envisioned the scam just pulled off by Mini-Mike Bloomberg. I told you when he got into the race that this was all a scam, that he wasn’t really seriously seeking the nomination, and his actions since that time only made my case. Stop Dieting - Get Life Long Results Noom uses technology to help you get healthy. Learn more! Here’s how the scam worked: In most campaign seasons both the RNC and DNC are flush with money and able to throw millions around to vulnerable campaigns...

One of Elizabeth Warren’s key 2020 presidential campaign pledges was eschewing big money donors and PACs, claiming they were dangerous to democracy...In typical Warren fashion, however, she refused to name the donor who had plunked down $14 million for her Persist PAC . . . until after Super Tuesday. Her campaign had previously stated that all such donors should be revealed prior to Super Tuesday...

Geologists in Canada have found that an ancient continent was 10% larger than previously estimated after analyzing rock samples dug up during diamond exploration work. Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) made the chance discovery while studying diamond samples from Baffin Island, the largest island in Canada. They identified a new part of an ancient fragment of the earth's crust known as the North Atlantic Craton, which ran from Scotland to North America and broke up 150 million years ago. The scientists said the samples they analyzed had a "mineral signature" displayed in other parts of this particular...

Park Closures to Slow Spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) As a public health precaution, effective March 23, all park campgrounds, picnic areas, and restrooms will close for the safety of staff and visitors. Sugarlands, Oconaluftee, and Cades Cove Visitor Centers remain closed until further notice.

... Our nation has been through this before. In 1918, Americans fought a similar battle against the Spanish flu epidemic, which claimed 675,000 Americans and between 50 and 100 million lives around the world. ... Spanish flu, like coronavirus, wasn’t really a single national crisis. It was a set of hundreds of crises that played out differently in major cities, towns, states and Army and Navy World War I training camps. ... Worst off was Pittsburgh, where wartime steel and munitions production made officials reluctant to shut down and isolate. Pittsburgh didn’t confront the epidemic in time, found Brian O’Neill...

As the coronavirus continues to spread, there is no question the U.S. economy is taking a major hit. Economists at Goldman Sachs warn GDP will collapse at a 24% rate, a far cry from the “4, 5, and even 6%” growth scenario presented by President Trump just over two years ago. “We are in a global recession,” Allianz’s Mohamed El-Erian said on Yahoo Finance’s On The Move. “We're in a global recession because of what economic sudden stops do.” Economic contractions often happen gradually, not suddenly, giving policymakers and business leaders some time to adjust so that growth may resume....

It's only been a week and already quarantine is getting pretty old.As I woke up, the living room lights were on full blast, CNN droning in the background. According to the little numbers on the cable box, it was 4 a.m. I thought, It’s four in the morning, you should go back to sleep. But then I thought, You can’t go anywhere anyway, what difference does the time make? So I made some coffee and shuffled into the chilly backyard to smoke. I’m not complaining. I’ve had a pretty productive week in quarantine. I read some Shakespeare, wrote a...

Hat tips to wattojawa for pointing out that New York was trending differently than the rest of the country, and to SaxxonWoods and FreeReign for pointing out that death rate was a better measure of speed of spread, since case count is determined in part by breadth of testing.

Two Virginia teens allegedly recorded themselves coughing on produce in a local grocery store last week and uploaded the video on social media, police said on Friday...“The investigation concluded the teenagers were getting close to other patrons and coughing into their own sleeves while filming it on their phones,” police wrote in a Facebook post.

I never realized exactly how much attention celebrities craved until they were locked up.

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China, Chinese Virus, CNN, Corona virus, In an article and TV segment yesterday, CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh and Vasco Cotovio argued that the Chinese virus pandemic was not the fault of China’s communist government or bats, but “human activity.” The big winner in this bizarre way of telling the story is China, which is launching a furious disinformation campaign to distance itself from blame for the pandemic.According the CNN theory, the real problem is a global one. Through climate change and other means, natural habitats are being destroyed. This displaces animals such as bats. When the bats are displaced (and...

Hat tips to wattojawa for pointing out that New York was trending differently than the rest of the country, and to SaxxonWoods and FreeReign for pointing out that death rate was a better measure of speed of spread, since case count is determined in part by breadth of testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_New_York_(state)

Gov. J.B. Pritzker sparked a Twitter spat with President Donald Trump Sunday morning after the governor claimed that the lack of federal action has made it harder and costlier for Illinois to fight the coronavirus outbreak. The flare-up began after Pritzker told CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper” that the White House should issue a nationwide shelter-in-place order as the number of cases soar, and complained that the lack of federal initiative has forced Illinois to pay more for crucial supplies as they compete with other states. “This should’ve been a coordinated effort by the federal government," Pritzker...

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif) has claimed "sovereign immunity" in his attempt to thwart public scrutiny of the Trump impeachment hearing transcripts and supporting documents that he has declared "must forever remain secret." "The essence of effective government relies heavily upon our ability to conceal our methods from those without a 'need to know,'" Schiff argued. "Right now, China is overtaking us as the world's dominant power largely because of their ability to operate without fear of external scrutiny. If we hope to keep pace we must adapt similar methods. Outsiders like the execrable Judicial Watch, who seek...

Press briefing for 3-22-20. Supposed to start at 3:30 but has late start. Links:whitehouse.gov/live Right Side Broadcasting

Ruthenians (Belarus) vs the Germans in WWII.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continuing to target the United States as part of an increasingly antagonistic disinformation campaign over its mishandling of the pandemic—now confirmed to have infected over 265,000 globally. Over the past few days, as part of this anti-U.S. campaign, the CCP began pushing a new conspiracy theory, one that alleged the United States had access to the virus long before anyone because it was so swift in its development of a potential vaccine. Regime officials and state-run media have amplified conspiracy theories on social media platforms such as Twitter, recently pushing claims including that the...

"Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10). Your prayers make a difference! Matthew 6:10 literally says, "Whatever you wish to have happen, let it happen immediately. As your will is done in heaven, so let it be done on earth." That's a prayer of active commitment to God's will. Many people don't pray like that because they don't understand God's character. They think their prayers don't matter and that God will impose His will on them no matter what they do. They tend to pray with passive resignation, indifference, or resentment. I remember praying...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that as businesses continue to close and people lose their jobs over the CCP virus lockdown, a family of four could receive $3,000 as well as unemployment insurance following the passage of a new stimulus package. The Epoch Times refers to the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic. Mnuchin is set to meet Sunday with House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-Calif.), Senate Majority...