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Harvard Law students are asking the Ivy League school to help them avoid having to take the bar exam, citing the coronavirus pandemic. As reported by the Harvard Crimson, nearly 200 law students set to graduate this year signed a letter asking Harvard Law to advocate on their behalf to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, asking it to issue "emergency diplomas." According to the Crimson, the letter claims that the postponement of the bar exam until July 2020 will disproportionately affect minority students. "we respectfully request that the Committee enact a diploma privilege for all recent graduates and 2020...

Think about this article sometime later today, sometime when you are surrounded by other people—maybe in the lunch line, or at a department meeting, or at a party, or in a crowded plaza. Notice the people around you. Are they fools and tools, or do they sparkle with interesting individuality? Notice, in other words, if you are wearing your jerk goggles. We all look through jerk goggles sometimes. But we are not stuck with this vision of the world. Merely by reflecting on it a bit, we can, I think—most of us, at least momentarily—see what is deficient in that...

President Trump on Monday claimed that an inspector general report finding "severe" shortages of supplies at hospitals to fight the novel coronavirus is "just wrong." Trump did not provide evidence for why the conclusions of the 34-page report are wrong. He implied that he is mistrustful of inspectors general more broadly. He recently fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, which has drawn outrage from Democrats. "Did I hear the word inspector general?" Trump said in response to the reporter's question about the findings. "It's just wrong," Trump said of the report. The inspector general report, released earlier Monday,...

Trump calls out ABC reporter Jonathan Karl called out as fake news reporter playing gothca over HHS IG's report about supply problems discovered March 23 but not reporter by IG until 4/6/2020

James Drury, star of one of the longest-running Westerns in the history of television, The Virginian, has died. Dury’s assistant confirmed his death in a Facebook post, writing that he died of natural causes. He was 85. “THE COWBOY took his last ride,” Lindsey Karen wrote. “It is with immense sadness that I let you all know that James Drury, our beloved Virginian and dear friend passed away this morning of natural causes, Monday, April 6, 2020. He will be missed so much. It is beyond words. Memorial service to be determined later.” Drury was best known for his role...

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WSPA) – Boeing officials announced they will temporarily suspend all 787 operations at Boeing South Carolina until further notice, starting Wednesday, April 8. According to the news release, the suspension of operations will begin at the end of the second shift on Wednesday, and will impact the Airport Campus, Emergent Operations, Interiors Responsibility Center South Carolina and Propulsion South Carolina. “It is our commitment to focus on the health and safety of our teammates while assessing the spread of the virus across the state, its impact on the reliability of our global supply chain and that ripple...

A “virtual” concert benefiting the World Health Organization co-hosted by Trump-hating late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon will be streamed and broadcast on April 18, organizer Global Citizen announced Monday. The show is being curated in coordination with Lady Gaga and is scheduled to feature Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, John Legend, Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Lizzo and many others...

There was lots to be angry about after the Orlando shooting. It's outrageous that the shooter was able to get a gun legally, despite the red flags on his record. It's outrageous that it's so easy to get a gun that can spray a room (including an armed off duty police officer) with bullets in a matter of seconds. It's outrageous that, before the echos of the ambulance sirens died away, we started right in saying horrible things about all gay people, all Muslims, all gun owners. There are fifty people dead. There is lots to be angry about. One...

Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Lou Dobbs on Monday to discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. During their conversation Dr. Oz revealed that Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down his study to determine the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in the early treatment of the coronavirus. And, Dr. Oz is not pleased with the governor’s actions.

I watch some marginal shows like 911 and Station 19. They both got some political/societal garbage that I put up with. Then I saw the ads for 911: Lone Star. I said this has got to have some rough and tumble. In the first 10 seconds of the first episode there were two guys kissing. Since it was recorded I fast forwarded thru and watched the rest of the episode. Decided to give the series another shot and watched the second episode. Oops, didn't watch the entire episode. Somewhere around the middle of the episode there was a scene that...

Gov. Phil Murphy insisted Monday New Jersey residents need to continue to strictly adhere to his orders to stay home and practice social distancing to fight the coronavirus outbreak, but said officials are beginning to see some encouraging news as he offered projection charts for the peak in coronavirus cases for the first time. “What you’re doing is making a difference. We have enough data now to say that comfortably,” Murphy said, while cautioning that any wavering in that effort could produce disastrous results. “We’ll be overwhelmed, like a tsunami,” Murphy said, referencing a worst case scenario. State officials are...

Despite COVID-19 restrictions, pro-life sidewalk counselors continue to save lives. This past week in Radford, Virginia, Pastor Anthony Mathenia of Christ Church continued to lead a group of counselors in helping women and girls to reconsider abortion as they ministered outside abortion businesses. Upon adapting to social distancing guidelines, the group continued their operation and saw a joyful success as a teen decided not to abort her twin babies. According to a report from Liberty Counsel, the teen at first slammed her car door in the counselor’s faces. Her mother, who drove her to the facility, took her to the...

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) holds a significant lead over Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in the race for her Senate seat, a new poll found. A Battleground Connect survey of likely voters in the upcoming special election first reported by Politico revealed that 36 percent support Collins, who has represented the 9th district in Georgia since 2013, for the Senate seat currently held by Loeffler. Loeffler currently trails both Collins and a Democratic opponent, pastor Raphael Warnock of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and sits at 13 percent in the poll. Warnock registered support from 16 percent of voters, indicating that Collins...

That is the theme of this article in the Spectator by Dr. Matt Strauss, a critical care physician. He begins: ‘More ventilators!’ cried the journalists on Twitter. ‘Yes, more ventilators!’ replied the politicians. ‘Where are the ventilators?’ demanded the journalists, now screaming on television. ‘Yes, even more!’ replied the government, somewhat nonsensically. That sums up a lot of the current discourse succinctly. I am a critical care physician, specializing in the use of such machines. I’m flattered by all the attention our tools are receiving. But I fear the current clamor reminds me of nothing so much as the panic...

End the Shutdown. Pass it on.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has become a beloved doom prophet fomenting mass hysteria among the American public amidst the coronavirus pandemic, once worked with technocratic oligarch Bill Gates on his “Global Vaccine Action Plan.”...The “Global Vaccine Action Plan” was announced in 2010 as a public-private partnership of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Health workers screening patients for coronavirus were “manhandled” by a mob of 40-50 Muslim minority group members in southern India on Wednesday, local authorities alleged. The reported incident occurred in East Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state. The health workers, along with other health officials, were conducting door-to-door coronavirus surveys in Sadiq Nagar, a minority Muslim area of Bangalore. They were sent to the area at the request of government officials, who had identified the zones as coronavirus hotspots following a large Muslim gathering in Delhi in March, from which many people contracted the coronavirus – including seven...

China lied and people died. In December, China ordered its scientists to destroy samples that showed they had a pneumonia-like virus on their hands. They strong-armed doctors from trying to spread the word, kept medical staff in the dark, and prevented new cases of what we know was the Wuhan Coronavirus, or COVID-19, from being reported. And now doctors who tried to raise awareness have vanished. Vloggers documenting the situation on the ground have also disappeared. China allowed Chinese New Year to be celebrated which led to scores of people being exposed. In all, some 5 million people had left...

A man was arrested after he allegedly coughed and spit on produce at a grocery store in Kingston, Massachusetts, on Saturday. The unidentified 65-year-old man could face charges after witnesses said they saw him cough and spit on food at the Stop and Shop located at 160 Summer Street, according to Boston 25 News. “It’s terrifying and no one should ever do that, even if it is a joke,” said Kyle Mann, who recorded video footage of customers tackling and pinning the suspect to the ground. “Especially with the CDC now recommending everyone wear face masks, someone doing this makes...

Boris Johnson’s move to the intensive care unit (ICU) of St Thomas’ hospital signals that he has severe Covid-19. Oxygen was available through a mask on the ward he was admitted to on Sunday, but the move to intensive care on Monday strongly suggests that was not enough to help him with the breathing problems caused by the viral pneumonia that the virus triggers. Most people in intensive care, according to the World Health Organization, require ventilation. Around 15% of people with Covid-19 become seriously ill and need oxygen therapy in hospital. A further 5% are moved into intensive care,...