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American entrepreneurs are finding new ways to manufacture essential masks, ventilators, and other virus-fighting tools. We need to count on them if we want to win this war against the pandemic. As confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases in the United States surpass 60,000, our nation is in war mode. Winning a war requires all hands on deck. It appears American businesses and innovators are up to the challenge, however, as more and more private companies are contriving creative ways to play a part in beating this pandemic.In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been making apparent his state’s dire need for...

An old priest lay dying in a Hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation’s capital. He motioned for his nurse to come near. Yes, Father?” said the nurse. “I would really like to see Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi before I die”, whispered the priest. I’ll see what I can do, Father,” replied the nurse. The nurse sent the request to them and waited for a response. Soon the word arrived. Chuck and Nancy would be delighted to visit the priest As they went to the hospital, Chuck commented to Nancy I don’t know why...

MEXICO CITY -- The governor of a state in central Mexico is arguing that the poor are “immune” to the new coronavirus, even as the federal government suspends all nonessential government activities beginning Thursday in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus. Puebla Gov. Miguel Barbosa's comment Wednesday was apparently partly a response to indications that the wealthy have made up a significant percentage of Mexicans infected to date, including some prominent business executives. Officials say three-quarters of Mexico's 475 confirmed cases are related to international travel, and the poor do not make many international trips. Some people...

VIDEO Let him answer the question, Brianna! CNN's incredibly rude Brianna Keilar on Thursday kept cutting off guest Peter Navarro, the White House trade advisor, as he tried to answer her question about supplying ventilators. As you can see, each time Navarro tried to answer the question, Keilar rudely interrupted him including screeching about "wasting your time" and then abruptly ending the interview before Navarro could even answer the question she asked. Whether the interruptions by Keilar were done on her own or whether she was obeying the producer in her earpiece, it all has the same conclusion: CNN...

No, I’m not talking about Melania; due to the ongoing Covid 19 crisis, FLOTUS Friday, like much of America, has been suspended until further notice and the country remains on lockdown.For what it’s worth this is my take so far:It would seem that the models used to forecast the run of the Wuhan virus run are faulty. The forecast used to predict 2.2 million U.S. deaths and 510,00 deaths in Great Britain was produced by Imperial College in London. It is “the epidemiological modeling which has informed policymaking in the United Kingdom and other countries in recent weeks.”OK, but is...

The founding member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Habib Barzegari, has died of the Wuhan coronavirus, Saudi TV network Al Arabiya reported Tuesday citing Iranian state media. Barzegari was also among the advisers to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, news reports say. With this latest high-profile death, the outbreak has claimed several senior members of the Iranian regime, including several IRGC commanders, Khamenei’s top aides, and senior regime officials.

It wasn’t long ago, just in recent days, in fact, that we were being told the coronavirus was going to kill more than 2 million Americans. But some researchers are indicating the forecasts of doom were driven by faulty models. What then, are we supposed to make of the models that have been fueling the global warming hysteria? The forecast used to predict 2.2 million U.S. deaths and 510,00 deaths in Great Britain was produced by Imperial College in London. It is “the epidemiological modeling which has informed policymaking in the United Kingdom and other countries in recent weeks.” OK,...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 137 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept     when we remembered Zion. 2 There on the poplars     we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs,     our tormentors demanded songs of joy;     they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” 4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord     while in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,     may my right hand forget its skill. 6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth     if I do not remember...

"A good turn"? The guy was coughing up blood----I bet the "good turn" is from the malaria drug. The virus that put John Bessler in the hospital — the virus that left him coughing up blood after days of fever in his apartment, alone — was at first mistaken for the common cold. What else, after all, could it have been? “I didn’t think he had it at the beginning,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Bessler’s wife, tells PEOPLE. “I mean, he was quarantining himself. But based on what he told me, I was far away, but I didn’t really think...

When the United States Senate votes unanimously for what President Trump calls the largest spending bill in the history of the planet, I take it as read that it's just the usual bazillion-dollar boondoggle that will merely lead to "North Troy Syndrome" on steroids. By the way, the $25 million for the Kennedy Center remained in the bill. On the telly, critics of Kennedy Center greasing in a coronavirus emergency bill tend to preface their remarks with "I'm all in favor of the arts but..." Just for the record, the Kennedy Center is nothing to do with "the arts". It...

Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer is the latest Democrat to ban doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drugs hydroxychloroquine and Z-Paks to save senior citizens in the state. Hydroxychloroquine is safe and has tested 100% positive in treating the coronavirus.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says it's going to take a one-world government to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. It's a two-part problem, the former Labor leader explained: first the medical crises and then the economic shutdown imposed in response. "This is not something that can be dealt with in one country," Brown told the Guardian newspaper of London. "There has to be a coordinated global response." That means at least a temporary form of global government, Brown said. It should start with a task force of world leaders, health experts and the heads of international groups that would have...

In this trying time, would you take 50% more pay to work from home? That is essentially the question handed over to city workers by Mayor Jim Kenney, whose administration late last week announced a deal with the municipal unions to keep at least 15,000 city employees – a majority of our city’s workforce – employed as “essential” workers making time and a half as our nation’s economy collapses around us.

Baseball jersey fabric is going to the front lines of the fight against coronavirus. In an effort to help mitigate the national shortage of personal protective equipment that has become a pressing issue for healthcare workers and emergency personnel battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Fanatics, the company that manufactures the official uniforms for Major League Baseball, is taking the raw materials typically used in the creation of MLB jerseys and instead using them to create masks and hospital gowns. MLB and Fanatics are absorbing all costs associated with the endeavor. “We hope this effort can play a part in coming together...

The front page of The New York Times edition for March 27 illustrates the staggering rate of unemployment in the US due to taken to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. The page features a chart showing the number of unemployment claims filed last week, as a growing number of states impose lockdowns and "stay at home" orders. Over three million claims were filed last week — millions more than the number of people who filed claims during the 2008 recession.

...It could be argued that the CCP did not realize the effect that its deliberate actions would have upon the world, but according to the statute, that is irrelevant. The precedent for this is the prosecution of Romania's former president, Ion Iliescu, who was indicted for crimes against humanity for his role in the deadly aftermath of the 1989 revolution that toppled the country's communist regime. The crux of the case was the dissemination of disinformation, which led to the deaths of over 800 people. This is exactly what the CCP did (and may still be doing) in its handling...

On Tuesday (March 24) China ended its lockdown of most of Hubei province. But Wuhan, the city in Hubei province where the coronavirus outbreak first began at the end of last year, will remain under lockdown until April 8, they said. After two months of intense lockdowns and thousands of deaths, Hubei province reported zero local cases of COVID-19 for five days in a row starting on March 19, according to CNN. On Tuesday, Hubei province reported one new case: a doctor in Wuhan’s Hubei General Hospital. However, locals are painting a different picture that suggests that China is not...

Trump should either: 1) Pull a Pelosi and say "Try Again" by flat out vetoing current $2,100,000,000,000 pork filled bill. .. . or . . 2) use Line item veto of the $1,000,000,000,000 in pork. The way I see it 7 new Judges on SCOTUS might see it different than this decision 22 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._City_of_New_York

When it comes to #MeToo sexual misconduct issues, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has made it no secret where he stands: automatically believe women. "For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real," said Biden during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who faced accusations that as a teenager he had assaulted a woman at a party. As vice president, Biden played an important role in...

Rosanna Arquette bashed President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic now that the U.S. has recorded more cases than any other country. The 60-year-old actress took to Twitter on Thursday to share the news that America had surpassed China and Italy in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with more than 82,000 in total. The actress, who has been vocal on social media about her distaste for the way Trump has handled the pandemic so far, laid the blame of the death toll caused by the virus directly on the president and the Republican Party.