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Chinese state media continued its relentless campaign to spin the coronavirus pandemic to the Communist Party’s advantage with an editorial at the Global Times on Tuesday blaming the “three arrogances” of the West for preventing the world from uniting against the disease and forgetting Beijing’s role in spreading it. The editorial began with the biggest of Big Lies, the false assertion that China had no idea the coronavirus was so contagious until it had already escaped from the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak began. In truth, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knew how contagious the virus was for weeks...

I explore some of the local reactions to the COVID19 outbreak, and explain why New York City was so ill-prepared to tackle this pandemic.

On this date in 1903, the wife-poisoner George Chapman was hanged at Wandsworth Prison in the United Kingdom. He had at least three deaths on his record … and, if you fancy, possibly quite a few more...Sugden thought Chapman was a much better Ripper candidate than any of the other suspects he discussed in his book, but that didn’t mean he was definitely or even probably the real Ripper: “That Chapman committed crimes of which we have no present knowledge I can well believe. That he was Jack the Ripper is another matter.”

RUSH: All right. I am a known troublemaker, right? I’m a known troublemaker and raconteur, nonconformist speaking outside the box and a far distance away from conventional wisdom. Can anybody tell me, did the Wuhan virus, did it spread to Beijing? (interruption) Nor Shanghai, right? Not in significant numbers. Did the ChiCom stock market crash? It didn’t. And Wuhan is up and running back in normal life operations. I’m just asking. Greetings, folks. Great to be back here. Great to be with you. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. We are at 800-282-2882. If you want to call, the email address,...

Trumpy Bear says, "Defund the WHO Now". April 7, 2020 The first problem with the WHO - World Health Organization- is that the Director is NOT a medical doctor. The Director helped China conceal the coming pandemic. A University study in the United Kingdom found that the spread of Covid-19 could have been reduced by 95% if the Chinese government had told the world. The former Governor of Michigan, Thad McCotter, has studied the WHO and said that it is "corrupt beyond repair." Dr. Anthony Fucci, who panned President Trump's travel ban and has also been against using hydroxychloroquine to...

Adam Lankford (2016) claims that the United States accounted for 31 percent of the world’s public mass shooters over the 47 years from 1966 to 2012. After four years of extensive worldwide media coverage, Lankford—in response to our paper (Lott and Moody 2019)—finally made one of his datasets available. In doing so, he revealed that he used a definition of public mass shootings that is inconsistent with those of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the New York Police Department that he had claimed to be following. We find that his dataset does not even follow his own...

Ok Freepers. Here's what should be done to get the Dems and Media off the "we will bring this country down to get rid of Trump" situation. It's simple. Trump should start firing career bureaucrats from all the agencies and replacing them with ordinary americans until we go back to work.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted" (Matt. 5:4). Sin is a serious issue with God. He never winks at it or takes it lightly. Satan desires to desensitize Christians to the heinousness of sin. He wants you to stop mourning over sin and start enjoying it. Impossible? Many who once thought so have fallen prey to its power. It usually doesn't happen all at once. In fact, the process can be slow and subtle— almost imperceptible. But the results are always tragic. How can you remain alert to the dangers of sin and protect yourself from...

Dr. Jen Villavicencio, an ob-gyn and abortion provider in Michigan, sits six feet away from her husband in her living room after another grueling shift. In a small corner by the door lie her work clothes, which she took off as soon as she got home and before immediately showering. She no longer kisses her husband, touches her husband, or sleeps in the same bed as her husband. They use separate bathrooms and try not to occupy the same room at the same time, and she no longer goes into their kitchen. As the coronavirus pandemic worsens, this is her...

Because black people are treated like criminals if they do the same. CNN has published a lengthy article suggesting that wearing face masks to guard against coronavirus is racist due to African-Americans not being able to wear them over fears they will be treated like criminals. Yes, really. Noting that the CDC has encouraged all Americans to wear face masks in the fight against COVID-19, Trevor Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University, says he “will not be following this guidance.” “We have a lot of examples of the presumed criminality of black men in general,” Logan, who presumably...

I love Wordsworth's original but I also find value in refocusing on God.

Locals in Wuhan, where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated, have heard screams coming from funeral home furnaces, and some treated in hospitals say they saw workers put living coronavirus patients in body bags, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday.

More than half of U.S. states have instituted lockdown measures in response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These policies are justified as an effort to “flatten the curve,” a phrase coined by Dr. Howard Markel, a pediatrician, and professor of medical history at the University of Michigan. The hypothetical COVID curve we are trying to flatten — the time rate at which the number of people needing intensive medical treatment will grow to exceed our capacity to care for them — is based on assumptions about when COVID was brought to the US, the speed of its transmission,...

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly offered his resignation on Tuesday after calling an ousted aircraft carrier captain “stupid” and “naïve.” It was not immediately clear whether Defense Secretary Mark Esper would accept the resignation.

White House update on Coronavirus situation - scheduled to start at 5 PM, Eastern.

Corporate immigration lawyers are asking a federal judge to take control of the immigration system from President Donald Trump and then suspend routine visa deadlines for at least two million foreign workers until after the coronavirus epidemic has passed. The judge should “assume jurisdiction over this matter” and order the Department of Homeland Security to extend the visas for the foreign workers, says the April 3 lawsuit by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The stakes are very high. Under federal rules, whenever U.S. and Indian companies fire visa workers — such as H-1Bs — in the coronavirus crash, the visa...

A co-founder of Home Depot claimed that Congress was too distracted with the impeachment of President Trump when it "should have been investigating" the coronavirus when it first appeared in China. “I could tell you this: This whole country was tied up for 2 1/2 months on the impeachment. And nobody in Congress was doing what they had to do," Bernie Marcus said Monday morning on Fox Business. "Their eyes were not on where it should have been. They should have been investigating what was happening — this pandemic had started [in] China."

A Los Angeles doctor prescribing hydroxychloroquine in conjunction with zinc is seeing a 100% success rate with every patient he has treated suffering from the Coronavirus. “Every patient I’ve prescribed [hydroxychloroquine] to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free,” said Dr. Anthony Cardillo, the CEO of Mend Urgent Care. “So clinically I am seeing a resolution” for people suffering from the Coronavirus.

Two Walmart grocery store employees and a greeter at a Giant store are among at least four supermarket workers who have died from the coronavirus in the U.S. A Walmart spokesperson confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday that two workers at a Chicago-area store died after contracting the virus. "We are heartbroken at the passing of two associates at our Evergreen Park store and we are mourning along with their families," the company said in a statement. The employees were identified in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the company as Wando Evans, 51, and Phillip Thomas, 48. Evans' brother,...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been adamant that people stay home and socially distance for weeks. But a social media post from the woman who cut the mayor’s hair this weekend has some wondering if Lightfoot is saying one thing and doing another. As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported, the stylist in the post, Cashmere Neal, thanked the mayor for allowing her to cut her hair on Sunday. And in the photo, the two are standing inches apart without masks. Mayor Lightfoot on Monday was asked about the photo, whether it is acceptable social distancing, and any concerns that...