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For those who read the New York Times, the Sunday edition was a scary one. A headline blared, “Official Counts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll.” The subheading was even more disquieting (and ungrammatical): “Inconsistent protocols, limited resources and a patchwork of decision-making has [sic] led to an undercounting of people with the coronavirus who have died, health experts say.” Ah, those experts. What would we do without them? The article opens, as all Times articles are wont to do, with anecdotes. Once upon a time, the Times included those anecdotes to create “hooks” that made facts more compelling....

It has long been a cultural phenomenon that when people are confined to their homes due to dramatic weather events, babies start springing forth nine months later. Nearly half the worldÂ’s population is confined to their homes with two primary tasks: 1. Do not catch nor spread COVID-19. 2. DonÂ’t go nuts from boredom or cabin fever.In trying to accomplish No. 2, people are playing more board and card games. Others are catching up on sleep and preparing more homecooked meals. These are very good things.Husbands and wives are also finding themselves with plenty of time for other activities, and...

In perhaps the most explosive accusation yet against President Trump made by a liberal media member regarding the coronavirus, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski has accused the president of having a "financial tie" to someone that leads to him to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus. Brzezinski's accusation is tantamount to an allegation that President Trump is on the take.<| Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

One classic is, "What is a shipload of lawyers that sinks in the ocean?" "A good start." But now they're losing their place. The new subjects for the sometimes ribald, sometimes outlandish, and mostly funny stories are journalists. (Watch out for the R-rated ones on that link). Twitchy, that aggregator of Twitter social media comments, has pointed out that #JournalistJokes is a new, and big, hashtag on social media. "Full transparency, folks. At this point in the week, we’re just SO GLAD to write about anything other than the freakin' coronavirus. We realize it's the biggest story in the WORLD...

Any pandemic or epidemic is a complicated process, and the current one is not an exception. Besides all the actual problems (how to treat people, how to organize logistics, how to inform media and so on), there are basic ones: how to measure different aspects of the process. It was always not easy; it is very hard now. Here are some often repeated critical comments about different widely published and discussed indicators. 1. The real number of people with the virus is drastically higher than reported (according to some authors, by a factor of 10), because many people have the...

Schools are likely to continue home e-learning efforts in the upcoming weeks as we continue through the pandemic. Parents, use this time to find out what your kids are studying. “Mom, can you look at this assignment?” A few weeks ago, before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic forced my school-aged children home, I looked at the homework sheet my high school-age child was referring to and quickly realized what prompted the question. The freshman world history reading assignment was about parents raising “theybies.” Scratching my head, I read through the assigned article, which included definitions such as “gender is a social...

CBS News posted a video of a nurse crying that claims she Quit her job because she was asked to work in an ICU with no mask. The nurse which the Twitter community labeled as “the Crying Nurse” become viral. CBS posted: In tears, a nurse says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected” Video below: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1246804028601896961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1246804028601896961&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fjussie-smollett-2-0-people-suspect-that-cbs-staged-the-video-of-the-crying-nurse-where-she-claims-she-quit-because-was-asked-to-work-without-a-mask%2F The video divided Twitter users because another video from her social account came to light and one took her side and felt...

The coronavirus cannot kill the spirit of American defiance in the face of government orders Americans believe to be unjust, as shown by Scott Nichols, the sheriff of Franklin County, Maine. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday issued an executive order that requires all out-of-state travelers to self-quarantine for 14 days to lessen the chance of transmitting coronavirus, according to the Portland Press-Herald. The order also tells would-be visitors not to come to Maine if they have symptoms of the virus. Violators could face up to six months in jail and $1,000 fine. "We will not be setting up a...

Duran Duran bassist John Taylor said he is recovering from the coronavirus after testing positive three weeks ago. The 59-year-old musician said he was “blessed with getting only a mild case” and said he was sick for about a week with what he described as a “Turbo-charged Flu.” “I came out of it feeling okay- although I must admit I didn't mind the quarantine as it gave me the chance to really recover,” Taylor said in an Instagram post. “I am speaking out in answer to the enormous amount of fear being generated by the pandemic, some of it entirely...

In a back-and-forth that yielded more desperately needed COVID-19 ventilators for Illinois on Sunday, President Donald Trump, after announcing the new shipment, said Gov. J.B. Pritzker has “not performed well” and is “always complaining.” Trump slammed Pritzker at the Sunday evening coronavirus pandemic briefing at the White House. That was hours after the Illinois governor in a morning CNN show ripped the president over the federal stockpile holding undistributed and urgently needed COVID-19 supplies. “I hear him complaining all the time,” Trump said about Pritzker. “He’s always complaining.” Trump said “we’re building a 2,500-bed hospital” in McCormick Place. Pritzker and...

We told you several weeks ago about the Orange County, New York doctor – Vladimir Zelenko – who has had tremendous success in treating hundreds of symptomatic coronavirus patients with a combination of hydroxycholoroquine and antibiotics. That course of medication is now being copied by many doctors around the country, despite the best efforts of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the corrupt news media to hide the crucial information from the public. This morning comes news out of Los Angeles of another doctor, Anthony Cardillo, who is experiencing similar success in treating his own patients. His approach is slightly different from...

“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life” (Proverbs 6:24-26 KJV).

The moral lesson that I have taken from reading the Bible is that God’s sense of justice, fitness, and proportionality is at odds with my own, but He still gets to be God. There are two Christian concepts on my mind on this Palm Sunday. One is theodicy, the other is the sin of presumption. “Theodicy” means “the vindication of God,” referring to a seeming conundrum that has vexed Christian thinkers since the beginning: How can evil coexist with an all-good, all-loving, all-powerful God? Christians conceive of God as a father, which occasionally places us in the role of resentful...

ALBANY — The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted heavy financial stress and feelings of job insecurity on New Yorkers, a new poll shows. Siena College found that 77 percent of eligible voters are at least somewhat concerned about the virus and serious financial fallout from it, according to a survey released Monday. Paying monthly bills was a concern for 51 percent of respondents, compared to 45 percent who weren’t worried. Younger folks felt the pinch more, with 61 percent of people ages 18 to 34, and 65 percent of the 35-39 set, saying they’re seriously concerned about meeting monthly financial obligations....

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Trump’s newly installed Chief of Staff Mark Meadows discussed appointing a czar to oversee production and distribution of medical supplies and equipment to help combat the novel coronavirus, Fox News has learned. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Meadows spoke over the phone Sunday night about the federal response to COVID-19, specifically, with respect to the administration’s efforts in New York, which has become the epicenter of the virus in the U.S. A source familiar with the phone call told Fox News that Schumer urged Meadows to have the president fully invoke the Defense Production Act,...

A growing number of coronavirus cases in Japan has prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to announce a state of emergency as soon as Tuesday in Tokyo and six other prefectures in an attempt to slow the outbreak. Abe's announcement on Monday came as Tokyo reported 83 new cases of COVID-19. “This state of emergency declaration is to ensure the medical care system stays intact and to ask for even more cooperation from the people to avoid contact with each other to reduce infection as much as possible," the Japanese prime minister said.

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Democratic state representative in Ohio said she "can't take it anymore" and vowed to refer President Trump to the International Criminal Court for "crimes against humanity" over Trump's promotion of a drug that has not been conclusively proven to fight the coronavirus. State Rep. Tavia Galonski tweeted Sunday after President Trump spoke about hydroxychloroquine at his daily press briefing. The drug, normally used to treat malaria, is one of several that the president has pointed to as showing promise in the fight against COVID-19, but its effectiveness has been a subject of debate. "I can’t take it anymore. I’ve been...

The Chinese Communist Party’s Long March through the Institutions has been proceeding right under our noses, and it’s high time we applied serious and penetrating scrutiny to the Party’s practices as they relate to our own institutions. A case in point is the piles of money the ChiComs have been pouring into U.S. colleges and universities without anyone seeming to care. As Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, points out, “The dark money in politics is a fraction of the dark money in education.” Though federal law mandates that gifts of $250,000 or more by foreign entities...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 147 1 Praise the Lord.[a] How good it is to sing praises to our God,     how pleasant and fitting to praise him! 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;     he gathers the exiles of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted     and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars     and calls them each by name. 5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;     his understanding has no limit. 6 The Lord sustains the humble     but casts the wicked to the ground. 7 Sing to the Lord with grateful praise;     make...