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(CNSNews.com) – From Hillary Clinton (“He did promise ‘America First’”) to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes (“We are quite literally doing a worse job of containing the virus than any other country on earth”), critics are trashing President Trump over the fact the U.S. is now reporting more confirmed COVID-19 cases than any other country. But numbers of confirmed cases are a function of testing. As testing in the U.S. has ramped up, it was only a matter of time before that testing would detect sizeable numbers of cases moving through the American population. Some of the world’s most populous nations, Pakistan...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Dan Crenshaw. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Dan Crenshaw is a decorated Navy Seal who has been a stalwart statesman recognizing conservative and patriotic principles in the U.S. Congress. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on...

“A small number of religious communities, specific churches and specific synagogues, are unfortunately not paying attention to this guidance even though it’s so widespread,” the New York Democrat said Friday at his daily press briefing. “I want to say to all those who are preparing for the potential of religious services this weekend: If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services,” he added.

Is Wuhan Virus China's answer to Trump's trade war? The Chinese victims could be seen as collateral damage, not totally undesired considering the Chinese communist party has a strict policy to prevent population growth

Guns in the Home: A Detailed Look at the Statistics by The Watcher Emeritus' Mike Antol, a writer at Quora, has an in-depth look at the gun death statistics often cited by gun control advocates. He writes: There are 32,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. Average U.S. population 324,059,091. Do the math: 0.00987% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 32,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:•...

Random daguerreotype photos of men from the 1840's and 50's. A window into our past.

Eleven students who attend Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, have come down with coronavirus symptoms after returning to campus. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. decided to reopen the campus to students at the end of spring break despite public health officials warning him not to do so. The Democratic governor of Virginia Ralph Northam had previously banned gatherings of more than 100 people in the state to which Liberty said it would transition most classes to online.

Twitter on Monday morning deleted Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s viral tweet posted earlier this month touting the drug hydroxychloroquine as having been used by one New York hospital to “very promising results” and claiming that one “seriously ill” patient had a Lazarus-like recovery from the coronavirus thanks to it. On two consecutive nights earlier this month, Ingraham hosted an oncologist she described as being “with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City” to promote the anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump has peddled as a “game changer” in treating COVID-19. The primetime cable star repeatedly touted the doctor’s credentials...

It looks like the millions liberal billionaire George Soros’s Democracy PAC dumped into lefty group Priorities USA’s coffers are paying dividends. An Advertising Analytics March 21-March 27 “The Week in Review” report found that, out of ten coronavirus ads aired on TV last week, Priorities USA’s anti-Trump coronavirus ad “Hoax” led the pack with a whopping “1,074 airings.” Advertising Analytics noted that “The top advertiser for the week was Priorities USA.”

The chief physician executive at Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey discussed on “Fox & Friends” how drugs meant to treat other conditions are now being used to help treat COVID-19 patients. “Anything that might work, it's nice to get out there,” Dr. Daniel Varga said on Monday. “It's great to use it in emergency situations, use it for compassionate use. Even better to get it out in clinical trials.” Varga made the comments responding to a report where two coronavirus patients in New York City were moved out of the intensive care unit after taking an experimental drug typically...

My first of two posts on the breakdown of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or CARES Act. This one pertains to business owners and employees and those seeking grants, funding, and loans as a result of COVID-19. Contact your lender today if you're a business owner and take advantage of these methods to continue paying your employees and operating expenses. This will open up a wide array of new lenders not already under the SBA program. THERE IS LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR: 1. Payroll costs 2. Mortgage interest 3. Rent 4. Utilities There is also a tax abatement...

Yesterday's thread here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3829536/posts?page=1

Former Vice-President Joe Biden sharply criticized President Trump for "pushing an unproven malaria drug as a cure for the virus. A couple in Arizona poisoned themselves by taking it. My son has used his business connections in China to secure millions of doses of a traditional folk remedy for respiratory ailments. It's a formula comprised of bear bile, goat horn and dried fruit." "It's time for us to undo the mistakes of the previous administration," Biden said. "So today, I am issuing an executive order for the Health and Human Services Department to purchase as many doses as Hunter can...

The Democrat doubled down on remarks he made last week defending his decision -- or lack thereof -- not to cancel February 25 Mardi Gras events. He conceded that the raucous partying scene "likely" contributed to the spread of the virus in the New Orleans area, where health experts now say the next coronavirus "hot spot" is emerging. Just one day prior to the city's Mardi Gras festivities, the president said "the coronavirus is very much under control" before going on to tout the day's stock market gains. Speaking on several Sunday morning TV news programs, Bel Edwards tried to...

A study on COVID-19 patients in China links high viral load to worse symptoms Viral load is the amount of a virus inside someone's body during infection As well as reducing the risk of coronavirus spreading social distancing could make people's symptoms milder if they do get the illness, scientists say. It can do this by reducing a patient's viral load - the number of particles of the virus they are first infected with. Having a high viral load gives an infection a 'jump start' and raises the risk of a patient's immune system becoming overloaded in its battle against...

I remember a researcher who’s tracking the genomes of strains in the Seattle area saying earlier this month, “January 1 in Wuhan was March 1 in Seattle.” Washington state could experience the same disaster that China did, he said — if nothing was done urgently to mitigate the disease’s spread. But something was done. Seattle was among the first places in the U.S. to encourage stringent social distancing.Result: Wuhan had to be locked down on January 23 in an urgent attempt to stop the virus’s spread. Whereas Seattle is now 29 days removed from March 1 and the contagion...

So, when I saw that one of my favorite actor’s John Krasinski is starting his news network during the coronavirus lockdown, I had to check it out. The network is called, “Some Good News”. It was sweet, and all the good that was promised was there. This video has everything you need, and I applaud him for making this in a time where most celebrities seem to have lost their minds. Stars can be the worst in our society. So, it is refreshing to have a celebrity that showcases positivity instead of bashing the president or hoping conservatives get coronavirus....

...Klamath River... Now, plans to demolish four hydroelectric dams on the river’s lower reaches to save salmon — the largest such demolition project in U.S. history — have placed those competing interests in stark relief. Each group with a stake — tribes, farmers, ranchers, homeowners and conservationists — sees its identity in the Klamath and ties its future to the dams in deeply personal terms. “We are saving salmon country, and we’re doing it The project, estimated at nearly $450 million, would reshape the Klamath River and empty giant reservoirs. The proposal fits into a trend toward dam demolition in...

The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video. The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the mobile morgue outside Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene, according to a man shooting the clip who does not identify himself. “This is for real. This is Brooklyn,” a man filming the terrifying event can be heard saying in the video. “They putting the bodies in the 18-wheeler … this...

VANITY An anti-Trump person just told me that hospitals are now sending the oldest patients with coronovirus home from the hospital. I know this is bound to be fake (she does watch CNN). I've done research--does anyone have ANY idea what she might be referring to? It might be futile--but I want to set the record straight as much as I can to as many people as I can.