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The Trump campaign is slamming Vice President Joe Biden for "sniping from the sidelines" as the country works through and continues to suffer from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. “There is no question that the global coronavirus pandemic is impacting every aspect of Americans’ lives. President Trump is leading the nation through this crisis by approaching the problem in two ways: protecting the health and safety of our citizens and safeguarding the economy. The President has negotiated relief packages for unemployed workers and businesses, while also launching the Paycheck Protection Program through the Small Business Administration," the campaign released in a...

Ron K., who has maintained a peaceful pro-life presence outside a San Francisco Planned Parenthood for over a decade, was arrested and issued a criminal citation today for praying outside the facility. Officers said Ron violated the city’s “shelter-in-place” ordinance and threatened to take him to jail if he did not leave immediately. Ron remained a safe distance away from women and staff entering the abortion mill at all times. The arresting officer told pro-life activists on the scene that their “constitutional right to protest…has to take a back seat to the health order.” Ron was the only pro-lifer who...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — A woman in Stuart who police say caused a coronavirus scare on Facebook Live is now facing charges. Police arrested 38-year-old Melissa Barton-Schmitt on misdemeanor charges of causing a disturbance and violating an executive order to self-quarantine. According to police, several business owners saw Barton walking around downtown Stuart broadcasting on Facebook live on Wednesday afternoon. The witnesses said she reported that doctors recently tested her for COVID-19 and that she's waiting for the results to come back. Barton walked into the Ana Capri Activewear store briefly, then left. According to the arrest report, the witnesses...

Vatican theologian: Pandemic is God’s chastisement for ‘infidelity’ of top Catholic shepherds The COVID-19 pandemic is a ‘warning to the men of the Church’ who have betrayed Christ’s teaching Pope Francis receives Pachamama statue in Vatican gardens during indigenous ceremony, Rome, Oct. 4, 2019. April 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Italian priest and theologian Nicola Bux has identified both the sins within the Church as well as the sins of the world as the root of the current pandemic and its effects on the daily life of Catholics. Like Archbishop Viganò and Bishop Schneider, the former consulter of the Congregation for...

CNN host Brooke Baldwin revealed Friday that she has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, becoming the second high-profile network employee to contract the deadly illness.

Insufferable New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman is exploiting the pandemic to spew climate change drivel at President Donald Trump. In an op-ed headlined “With the Coronavirus, It’s Again Trump vs. Mother Nature,” Friedman used a dubious comparison between Trump’s handling of the coronavirus and climate change as evidence he was “enamored with markets but ignorant of Mother Nature.” Friedman quipped: “[W]e have paid a steep, steep price for that [Trump’s ignorance to Mother Nature] — and will pay an even bigger price when it comes to climate change, if Trump remains in charge.” [Emphasis added.] Oddly, his only...

‘Grandfather of allergy’ survived three years in Japanese POW camp before pioneering medical careerDr William Frankland, a pioneering British immunologist who transformed the world’s understanding of allergies, has died aged 108. Frankland improved the lives of millions of hay fever sufferers by developing the idea of a pollen count. Until his death the oldest survivor of the Japanese prisoner of war camps, he published a scientific paper in September 2017 aged 105. Known as “the grandfather of allergy”, Frankland’s medical career spanned 70 years. He was a British army doctor in the second world war and spent three and a...

But recently released FBI memos show that Samochornov, a translator trusted by the State Department and other federal agencies, provided agents far more information than was quoted by Mueller, nearly all of it exculpatory to the president’s campaign and his eldest son. Despite learning the translator's information on July 12, 2017, just a few days after the media reported on the Trump Tower meeting, the FBI would eventually suggest Donald Trump Jr. was lying and that the event could be seminal to Russian election collusion. Samochornov’s eyewitness account entirely debunks the media’s narrative, the FBI memos show. “Samochornov was not...

Florida’s death count from COVID-19 likely stands significantly higher than the official number, indicating the disease is taking a more severe toll than thought, according to interviews with experts and information from local officials. The number of dead in Florida stood at 144 Thursday, according to the Florida Department of Health. But medical examiners in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, who represent the hardest-hit part of Florida, have flagged 59 additional deaths that may have resulted from the disease and for which they’re awaiting test results. Although a few of these may have been included in the Thursday evening...

President Trump on Thursday denounced “partisan investigations” and political witch hunts during the coronavirus pandemic shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the creation of a new select House committee to probe the government’s response. The story: Pelosi named House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) to chair the committee, whose goal is to “examine all aspects of the federal response to the coronavirus and ensure the taxpayer’s dollars are being wisely and efficiently spent.” The special panel will also have the authority to issue subpoenas.

RUSH: I’ve been chomping at the bit to get here ever since last night, folks, and we’re finally here. EIB, Open Line Friday. Let us get started. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it’s Open Line Friday! RUSH: And for those of you new to the program, Open Line Friday in the normal course of events was an opportunity for people to talk about whatever they wanted to talk about. Didn’t have to be anything that interested me. It’s kind of out the window now because there’s really one topic with a bunch of offshoots that everybody wants...

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UPDATE, 4/3/20, 1:31p ET: Alliance Defending Freedom has sent a letter to the city on behalf of the pro-life organizations themselves involved, Love Life and Love Life Charlotte, the legal organization announced in a press release. The release states: “As our letter explains, the emergency proclamation, the Constitution, and court precedent do not support these interpretations. They all support the free speech activities of Love Life,” said ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot, director of the ADF Center for Life. “Did the city really have no choice but to arrest these pastors and other Christians under the circumstances—and possibly punish them...

The musician, whose songs "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" and "Sailing" topped the Billboard Hot 100, urged his fans to take the growing global pandemic seriously. Singer-songwriter Christopher Cross has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The five-time Grammy winner shared the news in a lengthy Facebook post Friday. "I'm sorry to report that I am among the growing number of Americans who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus," he wrote. "Although I am fortunate enough to be cared for at home, this is possibly the worst illness I've ever had." The musician, whose songs "Arthur's Theme (Best That...

Alabama leaders filed an appeal Thursday to be allowed to include elective abortions in a state-wide restriction on non-essential medical procedures during the coronavirus pandemic. Bloomberg Law reports the Alabama Attorney General’s Office asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to end a judge’s order blocking the state from enforcing the restriction. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday, according to the report. The state order restricts all non-essential medical care during the pandemic. The purpose is to conserve medical resources and prevent further spread of the virus. Alabama and several other states included elective abortions in their...

I am very concerned that the panic is already worse than the disease, and that we are now only hurting ourselves by continuing this exercise in mass hysteria. A solution to the Wuhan Flu (aka: Corvid19) is available. We can use the hydroxychloroquine protocol (HCQ). A vaccine is beginning to be tested in Israel. And now the University of Pittsburgh has a potential solution: HotAir story, "We might already have a vaccine -- and a safer delivery method, too" (Link: https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/04/03/university-pittsburgh-might-already-vaccine-safer-delivery-method/) I believe President Trump's initial response was correct. China's reaction to the outbreak with its quarantine of Hebei Province...

Abortion activists are complaining that women have to travel further to abort their unborn babies during the coronavirus pandemic. New research from the Guttmacher Institute found that Texas women have to travel an average of 20 times further for an abortion because of a new state restriction on non-essential health care, CBS News reports. “The greater the increase in travel distance, the greater the hardship it causes, and the more likely it becomes that some individuals will not be able to obtain the [abortions] they need,” Rachel Jones, a researcher with the pro-abortion group, told CBS. According to the research,...

Walter Ian Lipkin, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, known as a “virus hunter,” revealed in an interview on Fox Business Network that he has tested positive for the CCP virus on March 24. Lipkin is the director of Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity, and has earned the reputation of a “virus hunter” for his efficiency and innovative methods of identifying new viruses. In the past 30 years, he has been involved in the epidemic control of almost all major contagions in the world, including West Nile virus and SARS. In addition, he has discovered and identified more...

The image of courageous and self-sacrificing healthcare workers draped in garbage bags at Mount Sinai West hospital in midtown Manhattan because of a shortage of personal protective equipment is a horrifying picture for the coronavirus crisis. Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s assurances that all is well, nurses report that a dire shortage puts their lives at risk, and a national call to action has been sent out, asking for donations of lifesaving gear. One organization not answering the call is Planned Parenthood, which seems to insist that keeping its personal protective equipment to end lives without interruption is more important than...

Why would I, a Christian preacher, take the time to expound on the Ten Commandments, when we live in a new dispensation, the New Testament ? This is a valid and fair question that more than one have raised since I started this series. The following is an example of this kind of query, from a forum I frequently post on, (Free Republic). … nowhere under the New Covenant of grace are we told our ministry is the condemnation and death of the law. That is the work of the world, the flesh, and the devil who do a very...