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**SNIP** The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs issued an order Wednesday warning physicians against writing prescriptions “without a legitimate medical purpose” and instructing pharmacists to evaluate the “legitimacy” of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine prescriptions. **SNIP** “[I]f you live in Michigan, and you or a loved one is infected with this potentially lethal disease, you’re out of luck,” said Kathy Hoekstra, who has written for conservative, in a Thursday op-ed for the Detroit News. “Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs literally threatened all doctors and pharmacists in the state who prescribe or dispense hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.”...

America is in crisis, but the celebrities are thriving. They are beaming into our homes, reminding us to stay indoors and “stay positive,” as “we’re all in this together.” When I watch their selfie public service announcements, I find my attention drifting to the edges of the frame: to the understated wall molding visible behind Robert DeNiro’s shoulder; to the Craftsman beams on Priyanka Chopra’s balcony; to the equine wallpaper framing Zoë Kravitz’s crackling fireplace. “Staying home is my superpower,” the “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot reported from her walk-in closet. Ryan Reynolds urged his fans to “work together to...

In 2008, in the midst of our financial meltdown, future-Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel infamously proclaimed: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Following Rahm Emanuel’s playbook today, Big Tech is attempting to capitalize on the coronavirus, the Wuhan-originated pandemic which may cause the biggest public-health and financial crisis we’ve ever faced, by making wholly unrelated demands for: (1) blanket amnesty from antitrust laws; and (2) continued coddling by Uncle Sam (since 1996) in the form of the...

During Monday evening's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Donald Trump highlighted a number of companies that have stepped up to the plate to help provide necessary medical supplies, like personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators. Jockey CEO Debra Waller said her company made parachutes during previous wars. Now, they're making between 30,000 and 50,000 medical gowns a week.United Technologies Corporation will donate more than 1 million pieces of PPE next week. The company has sent out 90,000 pieces this week alone.Ford Motor Company bill be making 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days.My Pillow shifted 75 percent of...

Ever one to see the humor in even the worst circumstances, I set out to try to lighten hearts with a little COVID-19 humor.I authored these:China got this virus right off the bat. I now wash my hands, shower daily, and keep my house disinfected. All it took was the end of the world to become a human being. With all the airports shut down or travel-restricted, CNN's viewership is now nearly 5 people.

After being absent for much of the last two weeks, Jim Acosta reappeared at today’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference. As he always does, Acosta failed to ask anything relevant, instead attempting to engage the President of the United States in a debate. He failed miserably. Here’s the clip – watch as Trump brutalizes the preening little peacock and the airport-based CNN: Caleb Hull ✔ @CalebJHull Trump blasts CNN: "Instead of asking a nasty, snarky question like that, you should ask a real question and other than that, I’m going to go to somebody else." Embedded video 430 5:08 PM...

The Pentagon has ordered military bases and combatant commands to withhold coronavirus case numbers, citing operational security concerns. “As we continue to grapple with the novel nature of COVID19, we are constantly assessing and adapting not only how we respond to combatting the virus, but also how we share critical public health information with our communities,” Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said in a statement on Monday. “We will not report the aggregate number of individual service member cases at individual unit, base or Combatant Commands. We will continue to do our best to balance transparency in this crisis with operational...

Kathy Griffin, the "comedian" who sent her career into a tailspin with repeated barrages of vicious and intemperate jibes at President Trump, the most infamous of which was a picture of her holding what appeared to be his severed head, recently checked into a hospital and demanded she be tested for COVID-19. Since her symptoms didn't meet the guidelines, the hospital refused. After examining the patient, the hospital doctor diagnosed her ailment as a "stomach infection," gave her a prescription and sent her home. Griffin contends that this diagnosis "was politically tainted. I've been on a 'blacklist' ever since I...

I turned on the television to watch the President's Coronavirus Update. NOT A MAJOR NETWORK CARRIED IT! NOT EVEN PBS (Supported by OUR tax-payer dollars) CARRIED IT. This is a pandemic! Up to 200,000 lives could be lost to the virus! I do not want to hear what a COMMENTATOR wants tell me what the President said this evening. I want to hear what the PRESIDENT wants to tell me himself. VENTING.

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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ( 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2)The apostle Paul is trying to comfort a new church, which had received supposed correspondence from Paul, saying that they were already experiencing the “Day of Christ”. It all seemed plausible to them, because they had endured an intense persecution from the very beginning of...

The CEO of Texas Roadhouse will be forgoing his base salary and bonus in order to pay his restaurant’s employees who are working amid the coronavirus outbreak that has caused thousands of restaurants across the country to close. W. Kent Taylor will forgo his salary and bonus between March 18 and Jan. 7 of next year to pay front-line workers at his restaurant, according to Market Watch. Taylor earned $1.3 million in 2018, including a $525,000 base salary, Louisville Business First reported.

Arizona Governor issues stay at home orderGovernor Doug Ducey (R-Arizona) issued a statewide stay at home order Monday afternoon. The order takes effect Tuesday at the close of business. It instructs all Arizona residents to remain in their homes, except for essential needs, to limit the spread of coronavirus. Under the order the following activities are defined as "essential": Employment, or to volunteer or participate in essential functions Employment if, as a sole proprietor or family owned business, work is conducted in a separate office space from your home, and the business is not open to serve the public To...

The source of the hopes for a coronavirus cure should raise a lot of red flags. President Donald Trump’s daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic has been compared to many things: state propaganda, daily talk show, three-ring circus. It is somehow all of these things, but it is also something else: an infomercial. For the past two weeks, the president has been hawking a miracle cure: the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. He has hailed it as “very encouraging,” a “phenomenal drug,” and “the biggest game changer in the history of medicine.” Trump has also portrayed it as a Hail Mary:...

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Rachel Maddow said back on March 20 that President Donald Trump's hospital Navy ship probably wouldn't be around for weeks. Maddow suggested there is "no sign" of the ships getting there on time, or for a few weeks. Maddow was proven wrong as...

Arizona has not rolled out any statewide coronavirus lockdown measures in what some panicked residents are slamming as a “huge, sick experiment,” according to a report. The Grand Canyon State is among 10 states that have no shelter-in-place measures on the state, county or municipal level, the Guardian reported...

Crowds of gawkers ignored New York’s social-distance regulations and packed the west side of Manhattan on Monday to watch a US Navy hospital ship arrive to give badly needed coronavirus aid. The throngs of people stood shoulder to shoulder and took photos of the USNS Comfort as it pulled into Pier 90 near West 50th Street at about 10:40 a.m., photos of the scene show. Some waved American flags and others huddled against one another at the fence of the pier. Meanwhile, joggers out for a morning run brushed past the onlookers.

Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion corporation, will be allowed to continue committing abortions in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. CBS News reporter Kate Smith broke the news on Twitter, announcing that a federal judge granted Planned Parenthood and the Center of Reproductive Rights a temporary restraining order against Attorney General Ken Paxton’s order for all abortions to be banned. Calling abortions non-essential services during the coronavirus pandemic, any abortion that was considered not medically necessary for the life or health of the mother was not allowed, with abortionists who violated the order facing a $1,000 fine or 180 days...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some hospitals in West Virginia are starting to have cash flow problems with the doing away of elective surgeries and other procedures due to the coronavirus. West Virginia Hospital Association President Joe Letnaunchyn said many services normally offered are being put off in the current environment. “The Surgeon General said cancel elective surgeries and you cancel electives, you cancel other related ancillary services and the revenue stream dries up,” Letnaunchyn said during an appearance Monday on MetroNews “Talkline.” “So we’re trying to find alternate ways to provide revenue to the hospitals in the interim until the federal...