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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Gavin Newsom. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Gavin Newsom is a communist dictator currently disguised as a governor for the most oppressively-run state in the history of the United States. 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...

ABC’s Nightline has returned to its old timeslot with a larger audience after late local news (instead of after Jimmy Kimmel Live). On Wednesday’s show, co-host Byron Pitts ended an interview with Vice President Mike Pence by asking him “not in a political way,” but whether he “talk[s] to God” about feeling remorse for Americans who have died “because of steps the federal government did not take soon enough.”

When Chinese doctors started sharing information about a new SARS-like coronavirus last December, Chinese Communist Party reprimanded them, called them in for questioning, and ordered labs to stop testing samples and to destroy existing samples. Wuhan was not put on lockdown until January 23, almost a month after officials learned of the new virus. As the disease spread around the world, China delayed any policy response for three weeks. Had authorities acted sooner, they could have reduced the spread by up to 95 percent, according to a recent study.China's denial and delay enabled the spread of a deadly virus...

Morning "They took Jesus, and led him away." John 19:16 He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor rest were permitted him. They were eager for his blood, and therefore led him out to die, loaded with the cross. O dolorous procession! Well may Salem's daughters weep. My soul, do thou weep also. What learn we here as we...

Dozens of people came out for a restaurant crawl Monday night in Chicago's Chinatown community to support businesses that have a seen a dramatic decline in customers due to coronavirus fears. Carlos Matias, the organizer of the food crawl, said he decided to put on the event to "show Chinatown some love." "We just want to give awareness the coronavirus does not exist here in Chinatown," he said.

This is, ah, quite a headline.Jazz Shaw wrote about Sweden’s approach to coronavirus a few days ago. They’re following the original British strategy, the one Boris Johnson was planning to implement before the Imperial College’s model of the contagion convinced him that up to 500,000 people might die if the country didn’t start following aggressive social distancing measures. Initially Johnson’s plan was to encourage older and ailing Brits to quarantine themselves as thoroughly as possible while the younger, healthier part of the population went on more or less as usual. Infection would spread rapidly; many would get sick to...

Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, -5.62% soared 15% in premarket trading Friday, as investors cheered the electric car maker's first-quarter deliveries data. The company said late Thursday that the 88,400 vehicles it delivered during the quarter marked its "best ever" first quarter, despite the negative impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner said the deliveries were "robustly ahead" of his expectations. He now expects Tesla to report of first-quarter profit of 5 cents a share, compared with a previous estimate of loss of $1.25 a share. Rosner also raised his first-quarter revenue estimate by $1 billion to...

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