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This large, quiet, genial man wearing a Jets cap pulls up to River Grille in Chatham, N.J, on Sundays now, a golden retriever in the backseat, and uses his credit card to pay for the $101 order. And then adds $100 for the tip. The man’s name is Joe Douglas. SNIP Does he leave $100 every time? “He has the past two times.

Matt Ridley is one of the best-selling—and best-regarded—science writers on the planet. He wrote recently that in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, "We are about to find out how robust civilisation is" and "the hardships ahead will be like nothing we have ever known." Given that Ridley's best-known book is called The Rational Optimist, this is bracing stuff. Ridley's next book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, will be published in May. Nick Gillespie spoke with him from his home in northern England. They discussed why the coronavirus caught him by surprise, when he thinks the...

There is a movement for Andrew Cuomo to replace Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee. Governor JB Pritzker desperately wants the Cuomo status. Cuomo has received praise because he has been mostly measured and extremely transparent. Conversely, Governor Pritzker's. . . press conferences have been low information, highlighted by political outbursts deflecting all blame to the federal government. In the midst of crisis, few if any have stopped to question the validity of the things they are being told. Our media and political culture have strongly discouraged dissent. I was asking for legitimate data from Pritzker’s administration to ensure good...

SAN DIEGO — Ever since COVID-19 began spreading in the San Diego community in early March, military leaders here have been challenged to balance their mission obligations with the need to protect the health of personnel. Some service members and their families are questioning that balancing act. They’re criticizing Navy leaders’ decisions and noting the variery of ways various units are responding to coronavirus outbreaks.

A Democrat state representative from Detroit, Michigan, has given credit to hydroxychloroquine and President Donald Trump for saving her life as she battled the deadly coronavirus

Muni’s massive cutback in service to cope with the coronavirus pandemic will leave just 17 bus routes active in San Francisco, with the rollout starting in phases Tuesday and taking full effect Wednesday. The decision to eliminate service on 51 of Muni’s 68 bus lines was made because almost 40% of the citywide transit system’s drivers were not expected to report for shifts Monday, said Jeffrey Tumlin, the agency’s transportation director. The drivers are considered to be in high-risk groups if they were to contract the virus. When the cuts are completed, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s system will...

Instead we must tar Trump with his lack of preparedness the way “the emails” were stuck to Hillary Clinton in 2016, “the hostages” to Jimmy Carter in 1980, “the pardon” to Gerald Ford in 1976, and “Hoovervilles” to Herbert Hoover in 1932. So what should the frame be? I’m partial to a headline in the March 28 New York Times: “The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19.” The article detailed how testing screw-ups (by a still-unnamed pharmaceutical company) and bureaucratic bumbling led the government to lose the critical weeks it needed to get on...

The High Court has quashed Cardinal George Pell’s convictions, unanimously allowing his appeal.

I have a purpose to this. And I think this may be an appropriate time to pose the questions. What does it mean to be good? And what does it mean to be free? I want to be both. I think that being good means supporting oneself. Raising one's own children. Being a good citizen when it comes to obeying laws and social mores. Military service, if called upon. Being free means minimal control from whatever happens to be the government. That one is tough. We all seem to sacrifice freedom when some elite or another demands we do it....

No source I can link to yet, but Cardinal Pell will be freed from prison today, cleared of all charges. Thank God. Because the case against him was severely flawed.

Up for discussion.

Trump says he 'may look into' dismissal of ousted Naval captain President Trump on Monday said he may look into the dismissal of a Naval captain who was relieved of his duty aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt after warning of an outbreak of coronavirus on board in a letter that leaked to the press. The controversy surrounding the exit of Capt. Brett Crozier was amplified on Monday when acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told the sailors aboard the ship that the captain was "naive” or "stupid" to think the letter would not leak.

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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...