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The MLB network is showing old baseball games every day. On Thursday, which was supposed to be Opening Day this year, it showed a bunch of Opening Day games from seasons past. One of the games was the Chicago Cubs 1994 opener at Wrigley Field. In this game, Karl “Tuffy” Rhodes hit three home runs for the Cubs off of Dwight Gooden, ace of the New York Mets. Rhodes hit only ten other homers in his six year career. The Mets overcame Rhodes’s heroics to win 12-8. Hillary Clinton attended the game. At the time, she was going by Hillary...

Thieves stole a painting by Vincent van Gogh overnight from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands, its director said on Monday. The gallery, in the town of Laren to the east of Amsterdam, is currently shut to the public due to the coronavirus epidemic. The painting "Lentetuin", or "Spring Garden," which depicts the garden of the rectory at Neunen and dates to 1884, had been on loan from the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. "I am shocked and absolutely livid that this has happened," Jan Rudolph de Lorm, director of the Singer Laren Museum, said in a video statement...

First, let's talk a bit about zinc. It is an essential mineral for one's health. We cannot live without it. But we don’t need very much. About 15 mgs a day will do. Zinc is important in wound healing, the functioning of our immune system, eyesight, brain development, the proper functioning of sperm and the synthesis of testosterone. (The latter might explain the traditional belief that oysters possess aphrodisiac properties due to their high zinc content). Even our senses of smell and taste depend on enzymes that include zinc in their molecular structure. The possibility of zinc having antiviral activity...

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Oil prices plunged on Monday to their lowest levels in eighteen years, below $20 per barrel, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cripple global oil demand with no signs of Saudi Arabia backing down on its promised supply surge.

Geraldo Rivera lumped praise on President Trump late Friday over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic by likening him to George S. Patton, the late U.S. Army general who commanded American troops during World War II. … “Trump-haters clearly frustrated that the American people-many of whom did not vote for him-approve of the epic job @realDonaldTrump is doing to mitigate the #coronavirus catastrophe,” Mr. Rivera said on Twitter. “He’s flamboyant & unrestrained, but he’s like General Patton, the right warrior for the fight,” Mr. Rivera tweeted.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - It appears someone is trying to take the law into their own hands by breaking the law. Both the Colorado State Patrol and Otero County Sheriff's Office are investigating reports of a white man allegedly pulling people over for breaking the stay at home order currently in place. The Otero County Sheriff's Office says no law enforcement agencies in their area are pulling people over for that reason. "Drivers have described a white male driving a black or dark-colored Dodge Charger with lights on the dash," the sheriff's office wrote on Facebook. "Legitimate Law Enforcement...

The chief of the worldwide Christian ministry Samaritan's Purse, Franklin Graham, says perhaps it is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who should be blamed for "fiddling" with the economic stimulus package and delaying help that people need during the COVID-19 outbreak. His Facebook comment followed an outburst during a television interview in which Pelosi, a California Democrat, viciously accused the president of "fiddling" while people died. She told CNN Sunday that Trump's "denial" of the seriousness of the Chinese conoravirus "was deadly." "The president, his denial at the beginning, was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where it – continues...

It is vitally important, literally life and death, that the proper costs and benefits are weighed with the decision on how much and how long to shut down economic activity through the pandemic. As the coronavirus pandemic continues across the world, leaders and policymakers have scrambled to respond to the growing health crisis. In the United States, multiple state governors have issued statements urging their citizens to follow social distancing guidelines.Other governors have taken more extreme measures, issuing orders to effectively lock down entire state economies. The current goal of these responses has been to slow the spread of the...

Frank Snowden — a historian details how the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and free trade. Wile the [bubonic] plague saw power move up from villages and city-states to national capitals, the coronavirus is encouraging a devolution of authority from supranational units to the nation-state. This is most obvious in the European Union, where member states are setting their own responses. Open borders within the EU have been closed, and some countries have restricted export of medical supplies. The virus has heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, as Beijing tries to protect...

Third week of government-imposed “lockdown/social distancing.” I don’t know why but the feelings of dread I had under the socialist regime decades ago enveloped me again and hung like a heavy cloak. A comedic uncle called today to ask how we are surviving in our lockdown quarantine, if we have food and medicine, if we are lonely, cabin feverish, closer than ever, or ready to kill each other. He told us that his son and best friend were coming out of their police-imposed two-week quarantine upon their return flight from a European Union country. The police made sure they went...

The checkpoint screening travelers coming from COVID-19 hot spots was shut down for four hours due to traffic issues._________________________________________________________________JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Traffic along Interstate 95 was slowed for miles at the Florida-Georgia border Sunday afternoon after a checkpoint was put in place to screen for travelers coming from COVID-19 hot spots on the East Coast. Traffic was slowed from the Highway 17 exit in Florida all the way to St. Mary’s Road in Georgia, just past the St. Mary’s River, around 3 p.m. The traffic on I-95 had cleared up by Sunday evening after the checkpoint was shut down for...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued a stay-at-home order on Monday. “We have reached a critical turning point in the fight to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Republican said during a news conference. “We are no longer asking or suggesting that Marylanders stay at home. We are directing them to do so.” “No Maryland resident should be leaving their home unless it is for an essential job or an essential reason,” Hogan said, adding that buying food and medical reasons are exempt. Violating the order is a misdemeanor subject to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine,...

While elected officials and bureaucrats go about shutting down business, entrepreneurs and the private sector will lead America and the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Case in point are companies such as Pulmotect Inc., a Houston-based bio-pharmaceutical company that develops products to reduce death in patients at risk of severe respiratory diseases. Pulmotect in late January announced that experiments involving its PUL-042 immune system drug showed promise in protecting against both lethal SARS-associated coronavirus and the MERS-associated coronavirus. PUL-042 is delivered as an aerosol. In tests involving mice, a single inhaled dose was shown to protect the host from...

Just like the devious Dems and Media, Fox News is tone deaf to the cries of its own viewers who are saying in increasing numbers: 'Fox News, not only do we not trust you, WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU ANYMORE!" Cutting through Fox News packaged propaganda: One day after their latest anti-Trump poll would have you believe that Joe Biden is “CRUSHING” President Donald Trump in 2020 voting polls, comes Chris Stirewalt saying the Coronavirus outbreak left Joe Biden ‘adrift’ and ‘on the shelf’ (Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, March 30, 2020.) But Stirewalt didn’t mention that it was Fox News who,...

The footage, which was taken on February 24th, is introduced by a reporter noting how Pelosi wanted residents to understand how it’s “perfectly safe to be here” in Chinatown. “We do want to say to people, come to Chinatown, here we are…come join us,” said Pelosi.

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A shortage of kits and testing supplies nationally means rationing of coronavirus tests is likely to continue in Georgia, and state officials do not know when broader testing of the public will be possible, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. Officials hope the two-dozen or so drive-through and other remote testing sites set up by public health agencies, labs and hospitals in Georgia will eventually help expand testing more broadly. Five thousand test kits provided by the federal government were recently deployed to two federal-state drive-through testing sites in Albany and Cherokee County, and the state received 1,550 kits this week...

With support from the Rhode Island National Guard, local police officers set out on Saturday to identify New York state residents in local neighborhoods and provide face-to-face notification about newly imposed quarantine requirements for visitors from the Empire State. The operation represented a more residential offshoot of other law enforcement efforts, mostly on the road, that Rhode Island State Police led off on Friday with support from the Guard. They encountered people in authoritative attire, either police blues or camouflage fatigues, who notified them of a requirement for New Yorkers to immediately go into quarantine for 14 days on arrival...