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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Monday that there is a way to open parts of the country during the coronavirus shutdown that is safe and could help the economy. “You start somewhere that’s strong and then gradually grow it out,” Gingrich told “Fox & Friends.” Gingrich said that there is a “very strong” hospital system and “relatively low” number of infected people in North and South Dakota. “You could focus on really tracking down just the people who currently have the disease, isolating them and the rest of the Dakota economy could start back up.” Gingrich noted Utah’s...

A conservative group on Friday accused New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio of being anti-Christian after he questioned whether the 68-bed field hospital set up in Central Park by Samaritan's Purse, an organization run by Franklin Graham, would treat all patients equally. William Donohue, the president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, slammed de Blasio and several other New York leaders for questioning the motives behind Graham's gesture. "When [de Blasio] first learned of the relief efforts of Samaritan's Purse, he acted as if New York has been invaded by a hostile force," Donohue...

Two students from Stevenson School in Pebble Beach are helping out their neighbors during the stay-at-home order. Bennet Bishop and James Nielsen started the Wenliang Initiative, named for a Chinese doctor who died in the early spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. The pair are delivering groceries for free to help those who are home bound in Carmel, Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove but are hoping hoping to expand. "We both realized we were young and healthy and mobile and we figured it was our duty to help those who aren't," said Bishop. "A lot of our classmates have...

On Thursday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff called for an independent commission to investigate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Almost immediately afterward, Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins reminded people that Schiff and Democrats spent the last six months trying to impeach and remove the president rather than address the threat of the coronavirus. During an appearance on Fox & Friends, Collins told host Brian Kilmeade there will be time to examine past actions with oversight after the crisis passes, noting that he didn’t think Schiff would like what he’ll see when placed under...

Kentucky courts have ordered several coronavirus patients to wear GPS ankle monitors after they refused to stay at home.Judges have ordered people who have tested positive or are suspected of having the virus to self-isolate, and those who ignore the mandate may be placed on house arrest, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.As of Thursday evening, the fourth and most recent person ordered to wear a GPS monitor is a man who hadn’t tested positive for coronavirus, but lives with a confirmed case and refused to sign a quarantine order, according to the Courier-Journal. The man’s sister allegedly told health officials he...

In light of our national coronavirus epidemic, we see the national inconvenience placed on us and to some, it has brought out the worst of them and to some the best of them. But in light of all past catastrophic events, we today - in light of the coronavirus as Americans - still have many freedoms and liberties here in America to keep us content during this time; and there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. No doubt much good can be found in such times, however as time goes on and as pressures, resources,...

California has lots of money to shovel into its municipal unions and social services complex. But it just wouldn't pay for those ventilators and masks. They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours. Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million...

In light of the coronavirus epidemic plaguing our world and nation; many have been asking, "Does Almighty God even care and where is He?" Dear friends, in the ETERNAL PROVIDENTIAL mind and outworking of Almighty God, He RIGHTEOUSLY LOVES and desires ALL men to repent and to be delivered from their fallen humanity and the RIGHTEOUS WRATH to come (John 3:16-17;36; Acts 17:24-34, Heb. 9:27). So yes, God does ETERNALLY LOVE, care and is working ALL things together to that Divine ETERNAL purpose on our ETERNAL behalf; and for His ETERNAL GLORY! However, for the blood brought child of Almighty...

We’re gonna need some better “experts.” – For the past three weeks now, President Donald Trump has allowed his team of “experts,” led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, to essentially destroy the nation’s economy based on the projections by a statistical model whose have varied dramatically from week to week, and which do not bear even the slightest resemblance to observed results on the ground. Friday morning, Dr. Fauci told an interviewer that he just can’t understand why the entire nation is not already in a lockdown stay-at-home situation. Meanwhile, in Texas, 101 counties that comprise an are about the size...

Hundreds of Navy officers gathered on board the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt's hangar deck to cheer for and applaud their commander, hours after he was dismissed. Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of duty on Thursday due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command and for not following the chain of command to voice his concerns about coronavirus on the ship to service leaders. A video was posted to Michael Washington’s Facebook page, that has since been reposted on several platforms, along with the hastags #MYCO and #WEARETRSTRONG. “That’s how you send out one of the greatest captains...

Russia and Saudi Arabia are locked in a price war to control the oil industry. Here's what it's done to prices for oil around the world.The Exon on the corner of 22nd Street in Washington D.C. is now selling a gallon of gas for the low price of $1.79 USD. In Ottawa, the Petro-Canada on Bronson Avenue sells a gallon sells for $0.69 CAD. In both cases, prices are a fraction of what they were just two months ago. And while drivers across both countries might be enjoying the benefits of cheap gas, itÂ’s an actualized nightmare for the international...

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Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam confirms COVID-19 cases but details silenced by Pentagon US Army bases in Hawaii restricting non-essential visitors in wake of coronavirus pandemic By Mahealani Richardson | April 2, 2020 at 7:11 PM HST - Updated April 2 at 7:24 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Leaders with Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam say there are COVID cases at the intallation, but the Pentagon says military operations cannot publicly release specific numbers to ‘protect operational security.’ “Are there any Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam service members that are sick with COVID, the answer is yes. Until recently we were providing that...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), perhaps the central figure in Democrats' impeachment of President Donald Trump, began circulating draft legislation to investigate Trump's response to the coronavirus. In his press release on Friday, Schiff claimed the investigation is "not an exercise in casting blame or scoring political points," but Republicans are naturally skeptical. On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced a new coronavirus oversight committee, headed by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), who last month said the pandemic gives Democrats "a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision." After all, Democrats stalled the $2 trillion stimulus bill...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin’s chief medical officer for communicable diseases said Friday that data on coronavirus infections continues to show that the state is “flattening the curve.” Dr. Ryan Westergaard first said on Monday that there were positive signs with the slowing increase in COVID-19 cases, a message he repeated again Thursday and Friday. “We are flattening the curve,” he said. He called it a “glimmer of hope that what we’re doing is making a big difference.” **SNIP** Even with the positive news, state health officials have said Wisconsin may not hit a peak in cases for weeks and...

The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine is the best coronavirus drug currently available, according to an international poll of thousands of doctors. Of 6,200 physicians surveyed from 30 countries, the majority (37 per cent) said it was the 'most effective therapy' for the virus. But the World Health Organization (WHO) claims that 'there is no evidence' that any medicine 'can prevent or cure the disease'.

In times of crisis, the audience needs to trust that the journalists tasked with interviewing leading officials will do so without fear or favor.I get that we’re all desperate for levity in these terrible times, and the banter of two loving brothers is a welcome balm to the stressful media coverage. A lot of us are missing our own families right now. I understand, I do. But the conventional wisdom boosting New York’s Cuomo Brothers to hero status right now misses some problematic elements of their schtick. At risk of raining on everyone’s parade, this is a glaring conflict of...

If former Vice President Joe Biden continues to fail at winning the confidence of Democrats in general and the DNC in particular, it seems increasingly likely they will make a move at or before the Democratic National Convention to replace him with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. That’s fine for many Republicans who see Cuomo as a weak leader who is even more unpopular than Biden to many in the progressive base. But those who have actually had to live through his policies over the years are starting to speak out, including lifelong Democrats like Sean Petty and Kelley Cabrera....

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