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Happy Palm Sunday! Having been born and raised Jewish (culturally, but hardly religious), all I knew about Jesus was that Jews did not believe in Him. So, promise not to laugh when I tell you that growing up, I thought Palm Sunday was about glorifying palm trees, and Good Friday was a Friday in spring that was "good." (Especially because my suburban public elementary school was closed for the day — ah, Boston in the 1960s.) But later — thanks to Jesus, who was responsible for my conversion over four decades ago — my understanding the meaning of both days...

Millions of people worldwide are watching President Donald Trump’s frequent press conferences on the global pandemic. (Better ratings than the Bachelor! Maybe better ratings than Monday Night Football!) There are two striking things about these press conferences. The first is what they reveal about the media, and the second is what they show about Mr. Trump. On the first point, the interactions between the president and the press show that the craven, absurdly biased, anti-Trump, pro-China media corps still have not changed their approach, despite an ongoing global crisis and their repeated efforts to cause him to fail. The media...

After failing to deal a lethal political blow to President Trump with the Russia collusion hoax and the Ukraine impeachment sham, they are now using the coronavirus crisis in another last ditch effort to undermine the president. Politicizing the coronavirus is different than the previous efforts to damage the Trump presidency. The Russia collusion and impeachment strategies were manufactured crises by Democrats and amplified by the anti-Trump media. In contrast, with the coronavirus, the president’s adversaries are exploiting a natural phenomena to inflict damage on the president. All three efforts were designed to remove the president from office but differ...

Of course, it if very difficult to get any honest reporting from the mainstream media today ------------ The CDC website is even confusing. The Worldometer coronavirus website says there have been 7,896 coronavirus deaths in the US as of noon on Saturday April 4, 2020. The CDC website has only 1,150 US deaths listed as confirmed or presumed to be linked to the coronavirus. ------------- According to the collected data: ** 79% (910/1150) are over the age of 65 ** 90% (1033/1150) are over the age of 55 ** 3.5% are under 45 ** 0.7 (9/1150) are under 35 Like...

The podcast host Joe Rogan has said he will vote for Donald Trump over Joe Biden in the presidential election, should the former vice-president be the Democratic nominee. The comic was speaking on Friday’s edition of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, which regularly tops the iTunes chart for downloads. Rogan has nearly 6m Twitter followers, regularly appears on television as a commentator on mixed martial arts, and is seen as an influential voice with young and blue-collar male voters. During a conversation with guest Eric Weinstein, managing director of Thiel Capital, talk turned to the election. Weinstein, who works...

Among the American companies with close ties to the Chinese communist regime is NBC Universal, one of the UStates biggest media conglomerates, with a television network, several cable channels, many local television stations, film and television production companies, and theme parks. On Nov. 23, 2010, Chinese 'state-run' media Xinhua and NBC signed a memorandum of cooperation in New York, confirming the two sides established a business cooperation in international broadcast news, to conduct extensive and in-depth in the collection, production, and broadcast of TV news content and personnel training. On Feb. 18, 2020, the U.S. State Dept. listed Xinhua and...

The outbreak of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly referred to as the novel coronavirus, over the past few months has highlighted the close relationships that many Western companies have with Beijing. Among the American companies with close ties to the Chinese communist regime is NBC Universal. NBC Universal is one of the United States’ biggest media conglomerates, with a television network, several cable channels, many local television stations, film and television production companies, and theme parks. Public information shows that the company’s total revenue in 2017 reached $33 billion. On March 14, NBC News published a commentary titled,...

Michelle Obama and Kerry Washington are imploring the public to avoid buying up all the WIC products in the rush to stockpile groceries during these unprecedented times of social distancing and self-quarantine. WIC products (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) are designed to meet the nutritional and healthcare needs of low-income women, children under the age of five, and breastfeeding women. The 43-year-old “Scandal” and Django Unchained actress took to Twitter to elucidate how important these items are for selected populations: When stocking up for #SocialDistancing…If you see something labeled “WIC” please chose another brand. People who...

During an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week," presidential candidate Joe Biden said that he would follow the CDC's new recommendation to wear a mask when in public and urged President Trump to do the same. "I think it’s important to follow the science. Listen to the experts. Do what they tell you," Biden said. "I don't think I'm going to be doing it," President Trump said Friday. "Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens; I just don't see it." "He may not like how he looks in a mask, but the truth of...

Chelsea Clinton on Friday appeared to mock White House senior adviser Jared Kushner for not having the sufficient medical expertise needed for a role in President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force. In a tweet, the former first daughter said she kept thinking how even she ― with her academic experience in public health and health systems ― was not qualified to lead a national effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Kushner, however, has reportedly taken on a significant role in the federal response to the pandemic that has sickened more than 277,000 people...

The United States Penitentiary (USP) Lompoc is reporting 17 inmates and 2 staff members infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Saturday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is currently reporting 120 inmates and 54 staff members have tested positive throughout its 22 penitentiaries throughout the United States. As of Saturday, Lompoc is rated third in the highest number of COVID-19 positive cases in all prisons followed by Danbury, CT and Oakdale, LA. Lompoc's Prison houses 975 inmates as a medium-security U.S. penitentiary with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.In order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has...

New York was facing a $6 billion budget deficit even before the COVID-19 pandemic swept in to deliver a potential $10 billion blow to the state’s coffers. But Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Tuesday he was proud that he and the state’s lawmakers were still able to craft a “robust budget,” despite the circumstances. “This is a particularly difficult budget because there is no money and there is much fear and there is much stress,” Cuomo said. “When we did the state of the state, we had a lot of policy ideas, a lot of reforms for this state...

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President Donald Trump previewed a difficult period ahead of the coronavirus infection peak on Saturday at the White House. “We are really coming up onto a time that’s going to be horrendous,” Trump said. He noted that the United States had not experienced a situation like a coronavirus crisis before. “We’re getting to that point where it’s going to really be … some very bad numbers,” Trump said. Currently, there are over 8,400 deaths from coronavirus. New York has over 3,500 deaths from the virus and New Jersey has 846 deaths. Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted Saturday that New York had...

General Motors will work with Honda to design and develop two electric vehicles using GM’s new EV platform, the automakers announced Thursday. Details on what type of vehicles they are building were not revealed, but Honda will design the bodies and interiors and expects to start selling them in North America by 2024. Honda is already an investor in GM’s Cruise autonomous car division, and they have previously worked together on battery technology. Honda recently said it would discontinue sales of the electric version of its Clarity model, which was the only all-electric car it sold in the U.S. …

The Democratic presidential candidates took part in a debate in Charleston, South Carolina Tuesday night, February 25, 2020. Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, and Mike Bloomberg participated in the debate. ..... This is the last Democratic Debate before the South Carolina Primaries and Super Tuesday.

There are now only nine states in America that are not under stay-at-home orders by their governors. Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas,, and South Carolina are now the only states where residents are not under orders to only leave their homes for “essential” purposes. “The contrast is the starkest in five states — Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota,, and South Dakota — where there are no such orders in place, either in major cities or statewide. Another four had partial restrictions issued locally in certain cities or counties,” the New York Times reports. Is this...

“The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.” Such masterful writing shines like a beacon, cutting through the swirling unintelligent abyss that is Twitter. Thomas Sowell’s words are, as always, both succinct and accurate, and are no more relevant to our lives than today. Not only are many of those who contribute nothing to society often the ones to be allocated the most...

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who warned five years ago that the world’s greatest threat was a pandemic, believes that the current coronavirus crisis is “a nightmare scenario,” but said social distancing and a strong national response can keep casualties lower than the numbers projected by President Trump. Trump predicted that the U.S. could see between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from COVID-19 before the outbreak is under control.

Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Michael Brown. In the midst of the global Coronavirus pandemic, as we all pray and guard our behaviors in order to ensure the health and safety of ourselves and of our neighbors to prevent its spreading, noted anti-Semitic “Christian pastor” and “broadcaster” Rick Wiles has proven that while there will be a cure for Coronavirus, there is no cure for the older and no less deadly virus of Jew-hatred. Most recently, Wiles said that the Coronavirus is spreading via synagogues and is a punishment from God. “Stay out of those things, there’s a...