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In order to receive their COVID-19 stimulus checks, social security and supplemental security income beneficiaries no longer have to file tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service decided.

For the first time in decades, Americans who hear the word "model" are more likely to visualize a graph than a woman on a runway. Now, in the era of the coronavirus, we all are morbidly fixated on the projections that the experts are making regarding the number of people who will contract the virus and the number of them who can be expected to die. On March 31 at the daily White House briefing, we heard from Drs. Fauci and Birx that the most credible model anticipates a final outcome of 100,000–200,000 American deaths due to the virus. Subsequent...

American Airlines Group Inc. AAL, -5.89% said Friday that it will suspend 60% of its international capacity for the "peak" summer travel season compared with a year ago, in response to "record low customer demand" resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The stock rose 2.1% in premarket trading, after plummeting 35.8% over the past five sessions. The suspensions include an 80% reduction in Pacific capacity, a 65% cut in Atlantic capacity and a 48% reduction in Latin America capacity.

Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health in East Orange, New Jersey, said the remarkable results he is seeing in his coronavirus patients using a combination of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin marks the “beginning of the end” of the COVID-19 pandemic. Appearing on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday night, Smith said not a single patient he has been treating with the combination over a five-day period has had to be placed on a ventilator.

The entire country, experts I trust tell us, must be shut down. Businesses shuttered, many with little hope of opening again. Ten million people unemployed in two weeks. Ten million. In that world beyond that Hudson River, an economic hammer is falling faster than the virus can spread. Who can think of money at a time like this? we are told. How callous. But it’s not just money. In its own way it’s lives, it is a way of life. Jack Kerouac — who danced and played and was educated in New York City but found his literary and intellectual...

VIDEO Here is a collection of very recent homegrown "Isolation Blues" songs performed by various YouTubers. I know you stir crazy folks are already in the mood for this. These are just a few samples of many such songs on this theme. Longer versions of each of the songs on this video can be heard at the links below. I don't need to list the names of the songs since they are all either "Isolation Blues" or "Self-Isolation Blues." Perhaps at least one of these songs will catch on and go viral. If so, I hope I will have...

A day after New York reported its first case of novel coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered words of confidence to residents. "This isn't our first rodeo," Cuomo said at a March 2 press conference. "We are fully coordinated, and we are fully mobilized, and we are fully prepared to deal with the situation as it develops." The same day Cuomo, who has been praised by some for his response, made his remarks, President Donald Trump and his administration addressed the nation and called New York's response "a very late start." Here's a comparison of how New York and the Trump...

- Thousands of runners took off from Dodger Stadium on Sunday morning for the 35th annual Los Angeles Marathon, but not without a word of caution from public health officials to take enhanced measures to protect themselves from the spread of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. For spectators and the roughly 27,000 who signed up to participate in the race, an increased number of hand sanitizer stations would be available along 26.2-mile course, which cuts through Chinatown and Hollywood before the finish line in Santa Monic

On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to President Trump, accusing him of failing in his leadership, thereby creating a void that “left America with an ugly spectacle in which States and cities are literally fending for themselves, often in conflict and competition with each other….” (California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, by the way, would disagree.) Schumer further insisted that the only way to solve this alleged leadership failure would be for Trump to hand his responsibilities to a military officer who would then take over the country through the Defense Production Act. Schumer’s attack on President Trump was not...

Thank you for contacting me about reforming the National Security Agency's mass surveillance program. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue. As you may know, I have been fighting against overly broad domestic surveillance for well over a decade, and I remain deeply concerned about protecting Americans' Fourth Amendment privacy rights from unnecessary government surveillance. Currently, a controversial law referred to as Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act permits the National Security Agency (NSA) to engage in a mass surveillance program targeting Americans and their data. The Section 215 law is set to expire in March 2020,...

Get a suppressor in 90 days or fewer!!! That is the thinking behind Congressman Greg Steube (R-FL-17) new bill, “H.R. 6126 – the End the Normalized Delay of Suppressors (ENDS) Act.” Introduced last month, the ENDS Act would cap suppressor transfer times at 90 days, meaning as long as the prospective purchaser wasn’t denied during the National Firearms Act (NFA) process, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) would have to automatically approve the transfer after 90 days. No more insane wait times! Currently, some purchasers can wait up to 18 months before getting their can. “I have...

WE NEED MORE GRANDMOTHERS IN COURT!!! Why Lawyers should never ask a witness a question if they aren't prepared for the answer: In a trial, a Southern small town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand ... a grandmotherly, elderly woman. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've know you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You...

Fauci on Chinese "scientists" and his faith in the WHO

The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count. Now that New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, we are now regularly inundated on cable TV news with the latest pandemic statistics from the city.  The statistics grow gloomier by the hour. These figures have frightened people into submission as state and local governments across America enact repressive measures they say are necessary to contain the virus or slow its proliferation.  After doing everything in their power to...

In response to Rep. Crenshaw’s question: Why? We all know why.They can’t tolerate having a President who believes in American principles, proudly sings the National Anthem in public and loves America.In response to Val Jar’s allegation that the Black Jesus would have done a much better job handling the WuFlu crisis I give you Charlie Daniels analysis:These people are not even decent enough to feel shame.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

As the Great Plastic Bag Ban wars of the 2010’s raged in California, freedom lovers pointed out a number of problems with forcing customers to use reusable bags/totes instead of single use plastic bags, arguing that the single use bags were actually better for the environment and public health because reusable bags harbor bacteria and viruses. Finally, the geniuses in charge in six California counties that have the highest rate of the Wuhan coronavirus infection have seen the light. In a March 31 update to the “Shelter in Place” order, the Bay Area counties added this provision: “Not permitting customers...

Todd McMurtry Challenges Thomas Massie in Kentucky By Elise Cooper Todd McMurtry is running in Kentucky's Fourth Congressional District Republican primary against Thomas Massie, the essence of the swamp. Todd has been a practicing attorney for twenty-eight years. Last year he was voted one of the top fifty attorneys out of a pool of 20,000 by licensed members of the bar. People might know him from one of his most recent cases: defending Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student, against CNN. The initial video released made it appear that the students had triggered the incident, which led to...

A Christian apologist has a couple of suggestions for strengthening the number of Americans who believe, practice, and share the absolute truth of the Bible. A recent survey of American religious life, conducted by pollster George Barna, shows that although seven out of ten Americans consider themselves to be Christian, just six percent actually possess a biblical worldview.

“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her” (Proverbs 3:17-18 KJV).

Just about a week after the Trump hating Democrat Governor of Nevada limited the ability for physicians to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to treat Corona virus, news broke that Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak’s own Department of Corrections has been hoarding the drug for prisoners.