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Our first priority amid coronavirus must be neutralizing immediate threats to health and safety, but the disruption also provides a chance to engage in national reflection. Crises have a way of revealing critical, unspoken truths. If we can recognize these truths, we can emerge from such crises significantly stronger. While AmericaÂ’s first priority in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus crisis must be neutralizing immediate threats to the health and safety of our people, the disruption of our lives also provides an opportunity to engage in national reflection.If we do so, amid the pandemic hysteria, several critical signals emerge....

It’s just the flu, bro. Some good news - Trump’s rhetoric lately seems to be recognizing that this Coronavirus is overblown, relative to the economic damage of a lockdown. He is discussing suicides, apparently. Noteworthy that suicides per 100000 went up by about 4 or 5 (17 to 21, approximately) when the Great Depression started. If he thinks economy first he might save 10000 lives from suicide relative to a cost of a few thousand extra deaths due to Coronavirus. Also note the next trick - almost all deaths will be attributed to Coronavirus over the next year but the...

"A doctoral student in Italy discovered an ancient 5,000-year-old sword in a Venetian monastery..."

You could call it a slip of the tongue. But it was deeply revealing of the fervor with which Joe Scarborough, and the MSM at large, are determined to condemn President Trump regarding the coronavirus. Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe by reciting a litany of the overly-optimistic statements President Trump has made about the virus. Scarborough then said: "Yesterday, in Donald Trump's hometown [New York], 1,000 Americans died of the coronavirus."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Initial claims were 3,283,000 for the week ending 3/21 (+3,001,000). Insured unemployment was 1,803,000 for the week ending 3/14 (+101,000). https://dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

The debate in the United States over whether to move away from free markets and toward socialism may change dramatically as the latest coronavirus spreads throughout the world. That’s because in the fight against the global pandemic, we’ll likely witness one of the most compelling arguments in our lifetimes emerge in favor of free-market systems – and lives will be saved in the process. The pandemic will demonstrate that nations with the freest markets and freest people tend to have the health care systems with the greatest capacity to handle such a crisis. Free-market incentives have produced health care systems...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 136 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.His love endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods.His love endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:His love endures forever. 4 to him who alone does great wonders,His love endures forever. 5 who by his understanding made the heavens,His love endures forever. 6 who spread out the earth upon the waters,His love endures forever. 7 who made the great lights—His love endures forever. 8 the sun to govern the day,His love endures forever. 9 the moon and stars to govern...

Twitter Suspends James Woods For Posting Nude, Drunken Photo Of Prominent Democrat & CNN Contributor Conservative actor James Woods has been suspended from Twitter once again after he posted a photo allegedly showing former Florida gubernatorial candidate and CNN contributor Andrew Gillum unconscious and naked in a South Beach hotel room. The Guardian reported that Gillum was found in the hotel room earlier this month with a male escort who reportedly overdosed on crystal meth. Until that moment, Gillum was a rising Democratic star. As the former mayor of Tallahassee who narrowly lost governor race in 2018, Gillum was reportedly...

It comes as the Royal Navy has been preparing to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the coronavirus outbreak. Nine Royal Navy vessels have shadowed seven Russian warships after detecting "unusually high levels of activity" in the Channel and North Sea. It comes as the Royal Navy has been preparing to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Two weeks after the announcement that former Vice President Joe Biden will join Penn as a professor, administrators, professors and politically minded students alike are still confused about the nature of his role at the University. On Feb. 7, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced that Biden will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. as a "Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor," but nearly a month later the administration seems unclear about what this means. Many students thought Biden would be teaching courses at Penn, ---SNIP--- Although it was first reported that Biden was going...

This is the second in a who-knows-how-long-this-will-take series of thoughts, stories, and comments from the isolation we’re all experiencing. Hopefully, there won’t be many more and we can return to regular programming, but you never know… A lot of choir-preaching going onOne thing you notice while having nothing to do but notice things is just how dramatically different stories are depending on the politics of the outlet. On the same day, the New York Times ran an op-ed about how President Trump is allowing untold scores of New York City residents to die (no mention in the piece about how the...

Why not offer flu tests as part of screening? Cheap, readily available, eliminates doubt. Something hit me the other day like a ton of bricks. Headache, chills, shakes, deep muscle pain, then fever. No cough, no shortness of breath, no chest pain. I met some but not all of the Covid 19 criteria. It struck at work so my office mates were as freaked as was I. It took a long time to get my doc on the phone, a full day, and she said I didn't qualify for the test. Great, I still don't know. I did find that...

Gov. Tom Wolf extended his stay-at-home order to Lehigh and Northampton counties Wednesday as the coronavirus continues to spread through Pennsylvania. In a news release, Wolf said the order would go into effect at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The counties are the ninth and 10th to receive stay-at-home orders, joining Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Erie, Monroe, Montgomery and Philadelphia.

It’s time for the FBI to open up a counter-intelligence investigation and obtain FISA warrants on Joe Biden and his associates — those are the rules, right? Biden on Wednesday admitted during an interview with NBC that he spoke with a foreign leader two weeks ago. After the reporter pressed Biden for more information, he quickly clammed up and refused to divulge any details. “With regard to speaking to foreign leaders, I haven’t spoke with a foreign leader in the last — uh, probably two weeks,” said Biden. The reporter pressed Biden for more details. “Who was the last foreign...

After checking into a hospital with "unbearably painful" symptoms, comedian Kathy Griffin has spoken out against Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak. In a quote tweet replying to the president, Griffin accused Trump of lying about how many coronavirus tests the United States has performed amid the ongoing pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives as it continues to spread around the world.

The ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in crisis came down to what they called pronoia -- the Greek word for "strategic foresight." Some statesmen, such as Pericles and Themistocles, had it. Most others, such as the often brilliant and charismatic but impulsive Alcibiades, usually did not. "Foresight" in crisis means sizing up a nation's assets and debits, then maximizing advantages and minimizing liabilities. The leader with foresight, especially in times of irrational despair, then charts a rational pathway to victory. Such crisis leaders do not fall into panic and depression when the media shouts "Catastrophe!" Nor do they preen...

A National Public Radio station, KUOW-FM in Seattle, Washington has announced it will not air President Trump’s daily White House coronavirus task force press briefings, saying the decision is “due to a pattern of false or misleading information provided that cannot be fact checked in real time.” KUOW is a college radio station owned by the University of Washington with translators and repeaters airing in Bellingham, Olympia and Tumwater. The announcement by KUOW came the same day as Trump’s approval rating for his handling of the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus has soared, with the Gallup poll released Monday having it at...

A grocery store in Pennsylvania says it was forced to trash an estimated $35,000 in produce and other items Wednesday after a customer coughed all over them amid growing concerns over the coronaviruspandemic. The woman came into Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township around 2:20 p.m. and "proceeded to purposely cough" on the store's fresh produce as well as a small section of its bakery, meat case, and grocery shelves, according to the store's co-owner, Joe Fasula

(CNN) — Tired of washing your hands for 20 seconds each time? Fingers starting to prune or feel like sandpaper? Please don’t stop. The world is counting on you to help stop the spread of Covid-19, the deadly new disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Take heart that while you’re scrubbing, you’re also killing off a host of other nasty bacteria and potentially lethal viruses that have plagued humans for centuries — including influenza and a number of different coronaviruses. “There are four coronaviruses that circulate in humans regularly, almost every year,” said virologist Dr....

NEW ORLEANS — City and state officials worked to finalize plans Wednesday to move homeless people off the streets and fill a 155-room hotel in the Central Business District. The general manager of that hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn-New Orleans French Quarter Downtown on Gravier Street, confirmed the plan was to start moving people in groups of 35 from encampments and house and feed them for the next 30 days, using a mixture of federal, state, local and philanthropic funds. “We have transitioned our hotel into an intake facility,” said hotel general manager Adam Turni told WWL-TV in an exclusive...