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Trump’s prior initiatives eased the implementation of many of his most effective orders during this crisis. President Donald Trump has courted endless controversies for promoting nonconventional policies and entertaining contrarian views. From the outset, he oddly seemed to have believed that having navigated the jungles of the Manhattan real estate market—crooked politicians, mercurial unions, neighborhood social activists, the green lobby, leery banks, cutthroat rivals—better prepared him for the job than did a 30-year tenure in the U.S. Senate. Certainly, candidate and then President Trump’s strident distrust of China was annoying to the American establishment. The Left saw China in rosy...

The nasty Chinese coronavirus is taking a massive toll, not only in America, but also around the world. While not as deadly as past flu epidemics, the final numbers are not yet known. Most of those who catch the virus have mild symptoms, but a small percentage are not so lucky. Those with severe disease may find themselves in an intensive-care unit, connected to a ventilator for several weeks, with no guarantee of returning home. Mitigation methods are in effect, expanding our vocabularies with now familiar terms of social distancing, quarantines, and stay-at-home orders. While mitigation reduces the spread, preventing...

A Philadelphia mail carrier was assaulted by a group of young males late Thursday as he waited for the subway during his commute home, officials said. The attack took place at 7:30 p.m. on the Broad Street Line platform at City Hall, according to Sgt. Eric Gripp, a Philadelphia police spokesperson. Charges were pending Saturday. Gripp said that the victim was cooperating with police and that the attackers could face aggravated-assault and robbery charges. Video of the attack was shared on Facebook after the incident, and quickly spread across social media. In the footage, a group of five males approach...

On Thursday, three pro-life activists stood outside of Valencia Planned Parenthood in San Francisco six feet apart from each other, holding pro-life signs for about 15 minutes. Then, police arrived. The officers issued two warnings and a citation to the pro-lifers for allegedly breaking the Stay-at-Home order issued for the city amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the pro-life activists say they will never stop helping women and defending life. Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, joined activists Matthew Prewett and Ron Konopaski outside the abortion business on Thursday to encourage women to choose life for their...

ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa -- A Mitchell, South Dakota, man is facing a misdemeanor firearms charge of accidentally shooting another man in the buttocks early Sunday morning while he was trying to disassemble a 9mm handgun in the victim's Rock Rapids home. Lance Earl Morgan Bryant, 28, is charged with discharging a firearm in city limits, a simple misdemeanor. According to a criminal complaint filed in Lyon County District Court, at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, Lyon County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a man suffering from a single gunshot wound at a residence in the 300 block of South Adams...

There are a lot of things in life to get exasperated about. The rude guy who cuts in front of you on the highway, a person who is loudly talking on the phone at a restaurant, or people who chew with their mouth open. But Democrat congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is exasperated about the fact that Republicans continue to push for a vote on a bill to stop infanticide. As LifeNews has reported, Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, have blocked a bill to protect babies who are born alive after abortions and provide them with appropriate medical Ccre and treatment a...

The chickens are finally coming home to roost for left-wing journalists in our country, and we can never let them live this one down. For weeks, they mocked and berated President Trump for having hope that hydroxychloroquine could be a powerful therapeutic cure for the Chinese Coronavirus. Now, Trump is getting the last laugh. Not only did more than 6,000 doctors from across the world come out and say that hydroxychloroquine is the "most effective therapy" for Coronavirus, but even the NEW YORK TIMES has caved and is finally reporting on it's positive benefits. "Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve,...

My 1 year old grand daughter got out of her house in Charlotte, NC about an hour ago and is missing. She was naked at the time and it's dark and cold. Please pray for her and that she is found safe. Her name is Aleah. Thank you so much.

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (I Peter 3:18)We have had a very basic look at the Law of God, the Ten Commandments. God has given us his Law, and it is holy, Just and Good. But we have all failed to keep it in perfection. The law is beautiful as an instruction, and as a Revelation of God. It is also a look at what we were actually created to be like. The...

What is currently trending on Facebook, in Canada, is the lack of facemasks. They blame Trump for taking care of his country first. My response to them has been to ask, "Why did Trudeau not take steps to address the shortage before the pandemic?"

Certain media outlets should stop spreading false rumors and creating fear and even panic with the public,” Trump said. The president commented to reporters during the White House press briefing on Saturday afternoon. “I could name them, but it’s always the same ones, I guess they’re looking for ratings, I don’t know what they’re looking for,” Trump said, calling it “so bad for our country and so bad for the world.” The president reminded reporters that they had the lowest approval ratings of anyone during the crisis. “You got to put it together for a little while,” Trump said. “Get...

Most people do not realize that the greatest contributions to life expectancy and quality of life have been very simple: clean water, sanitation, prevention through vaccinations, and quarantine. But you have to know when someone has a disease in order to isolate them. We have a considerable advantage nowadays in terms of sophisticated testing as well as the ability to test broadly. We missed that boat and it is costing us dearly – not only in morbidity and mortality, but also in economic terms. Time is adding to the human death toll, but it is also setting us up for...

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      PALM SUNDAY Matthew 21.1 - 11 1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. 4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was...

The India-based NASSCOM business lobby is asking the Department of Labor to help the lobby keep its huge workforce of Indian H-1B temporary workers in American jobs throughout the coronavirus crash, according to a report in the Times of India newspaper. ... Labor Department officials declined to provide any information about the NASSCOM lobbying and declined to say if the agency would help businesses change the paperwork that allows fired H-1Bs to stay in the United States. ... If the administration moves forward in relaxing regulations governing the H-1B program amid spiking unemployment, “get ready for the pitchforks,” said Kevin...

President Trump on Saturday warned that the United States is approaching what could be the country’s roughest stretch yet amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak while saying that the country can’t stay closed forever. “This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week,” Mr. Trump said at the White House daily briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak. “There [will] be a lot of death, unfortunately.” Mr. Trump spoke as the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. jumped above 300,000. There have been more than 8,200 coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. and more than 14,500 people have recovered,...

As the CPP virus swipes through the United States, much attention has been paid to the situation in large cities. That’s not, however, where the rate of infection has been the highest. The epidemic has been the most concentrated in three suburbs around New York City as well as in New Orleans. While New York City has the highest number of confirmed cases, over 57,000, when counted per capita, the worst hit is Rockland County, a neighboring suburb of some 325,000 on the west side of the Hudson River. More than one in 67 Rockland residents has tested positive, a...

New York State - 3,565. Wuhan (Hubei Province), China - 3,207.

While countries around the world began to lock down workplaces, schools, and public gatherings in response to the rapidly spreading coronavirus, the United Kingdom’s initial strategy sent many into an uproar.... The strategy, an attempt to build “herd immunity,” involved allowing “enough of us who are going to get mild illness to become immune,” Sir Patrick Vallance, the U.K. government’s chief scientific adviser... After new simulations of the outbreak from Imperial College London showed how badly hospitals would be overwhelmed, the U.K. suddenly reversed course on Monday and introduced new social distancing measures... Still, the question of herd immunity’s role...

President Trump on Saturday said he might personally take a drug cocktail he has talked up as a potential treatment for COVID-19 patients, though he has twice tested negative for the virus. “I may take it, OK? I’ll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. The president has talked up the potential for hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, in combination with other antibiotics, to treat people suffering from the coronavirus.