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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the face of the White House's coronavirus response, predicted Tuesday night that the United States will be able to reopen its schools in the fall thanks to the expected progress by then in disease mitigation measures for the coronavirus.

Screen Shot of Rusk County statement showing First Amendment threat, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten On 30 March 2020, the Public Health Department of Rusk County, Wisconsin, issued a statement under the name of the County Sheriff and Dawn Brost, RN, of Rusk County Public Health. The statement appears to be a direct attack on First Amendment rights.  From the Rusk County web page: The Rusk County Sheriff’s Office and Public Health Department take coronavirus infection (COVID-19) seriously. We are informing the public that making false statements and spreading rumors about COVID-19 is a crime and will be prosecuted....

“Imagine being scared of living in your own home,” Phillips said. “I love my husband and it isn’t that I didn’t want him home, but I have an asthmatic son and a 6-month-old baby, so I was worried especially for them.” The couple began discussing ways for Jason to live elsewhere. Hotels weren’t an option because they didn’t want to risk exposing anyone there either, then Emily Phillips' mom made a suggestion. “It was giving us horrible anxiety ... But then one night my mom just called and said ‘Hey, why don’t you guys get a trailer or an RV?”...

Here are a few examples of headlines over recent weeks."Republicans exploit coronavirus to restrict abortions." -- Los Angeles Times "The Coronavirus Becomes an Excuse to Restrict Abortions," -- The New York Times "Texas women forced to travel 20 times farther for abortion under coronavirus ban." -- The Hill Five states -- Texas, Ohio, Alabama, Iowa and Mississippi -- that are prohibiting nonessential medical procedures during the novel coronavirus health crisis have included abortion among these nonessential procedures. These measures have been taken with one objective in mind: saving lives. To suggest otherwise is cynical and obscene. The logic is straightforward....

Like me, Allie Beth Stuckey has spent too much time observing reporters at work in the daily White House coronavirus task force press briefings. Unlike me, Ms. Stuckey has made something of her observations. She calls the video below “Every. SINGLE. Coronavirus Briefing is Like This.” I can testify to that. The young lady deserves a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. In her own way, Ms. Stuckey amplifies the observations of Victor Davis Hanson in “Corona meltdowns.” https://youtu.be/B-iq32_KggE

However you feel about social distancing measures, I think most of us can agree that in some places around the country things are going way too far. Not a good look at all…especially with no response given by the police when asked by reporters. Man in Colorado was arrested while playing tee-ball with his 6-year-old daughter in the park for alleged violation of the social distancing order. KDVR reports: Matt Mooney feels Brighton police owe him a huge apology. The 33-year-old says he was handcuffed at Donelson Park in front of his 6-year-old daughter Sunday afternoon after police told him...

It's starting to sound like they are kicking around the idea that folks who have had corona already can get off the bench and get back into the economy. So basically we will be rewarded for contracting corona. I own a small business. Straight up... I'll find the damn virus and get infected if that's what it takes. I imagine I won't be the only one.

A friend had the following thought last night: “I wonder if we, a nation, will learn anything from this “pandemic”? In time of national crisis, politics and finger pointing should have given way to unity and nationality first.” The answer to the question in the first sentence is no, collectively, we will not learn any real lessons from this pandemic, mainly because the corrupt news media, working in concert with the Democrat Party, will not allow us to do so. The response to that second sentence is yes, that should have taken place, but the corrupt news media, working in...

Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history: more than $2 trillion. For once, both Republicans and Democrats agreed. The Senate voted 96-0. The House didn't even bother with a formal vote. At the White House, a reporter asked the president, pointing out that the bill includes $25 million for the Kennedy Center, "Shouldn't that money be going to masks?" "The Kennedy Center has suffered greatly because nobody can go there," Trump responded. "They do need some funding. And look -- that was a Democrat request. That was not my request. But you got...

As the sun rose on another blameless California morning, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex took their daily turmeric shots boosted with raw ginger, naked opportunism and freshly squeezed brass neck. The world was in turmoil around them, as Covid-19 continued to sweep across the globe. Yet not even a pandemic can stop Harry and Meghan in their self-imposed, grandiose scheme to save the world, one worthy cause at a time. The couple have just announced that they are launching a new non-profit charitable foundation named Archewell which will replace their short-lived Sussex Royal brand. Archewell! It sounds like a...

Many of Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community gathered for the funeral of a beloved rabbi on Sunday despite being ordered to stay home by the governor and after NYPD cops broke up a different funeral hours earlier. The funeral was for Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Meislish, 80, and was in Williamsburg on Sunday night. Mourners flocked to the streets to pay their respects without wearing masks or gloves, ignoring social distancing guidelines despite repeated pleas from local government leaders to stay at home. Hours earlier, NYPD officers broke up the funeral of Rav Yosef Kalish, 62, in Brooklyn's Borough Park.

It’s probably no surprise that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has been imagining a Joe Biden victory for the White House in November. But what had some liberals freaking out Tuesday was Friedman’s suggestion that Biden, if elected, form a “unity cabinet,” composed of both Democrats and Republicans. The coronavirus outbreak provides the perfect opportunity to renew a bipartisan spirit in the U.S. after years of partisan acrimony, Friedman argued.

We black people are so convenient and useful to America's leftists. Whenever there's a bit of silencing to be done, just accuse a detractor or critic of racism. A recent, particularly stupid, example is CNN's Brandon Tensley's complaint that the "Coronavirus task force is another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity." Tensley said the virus experts are "largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who've dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning." I'd like for Tensley to tell us just what racial or sex diversity contribute to finding a cure or...

Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News medical contributor, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday that his 96-year-old father was recently weak and struggling to breathe but recovered after he was administered an anti-malaria drug and antibiotics. Siegel was discussing hopeful signs that hydroxychloroquine has shown in recent studies when combined with antibiotics for coronavirus treatment. Siegel said his father, who lives in Florida, recently complained about weakness, shortness of breath and feared that he was going to die.

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis went on record Tuesday to defend Glenn Fine, the Pentagon inspector general relieved of his duties by President Trump earlier in the day. “Mr. Fine is a public servant in the finest tradition of honest. Competent governance,” Mattis wrote in an email to Yahoo News. “In my years of extensive engagement with him as our Department of Defense’s acting Inspector General, he proved to be a leader whose personal and managerial integrity were always of the highest order.” Mattis, 69, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, served as defense secretary from January 2017 to January...

This week, according to members of the federal government, and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. The excitement was muted -- after all, trends can easily reverse -- but real. Americans have abided by recommendations and orders. They've left their jobs to stay at home; they've practiced social distancing; in many places, they've donned masks. The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. According to the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the Trump administration, the expected need for...

CNN, along with MSNBC, remains one of the media bastions still remaining hostile toward the use of hydroxychloroquine. One big reason for this hostility is that President Donald Trump has been publicizing its use in the treatment of coronavirus. Therefore if the Orange Man thinks it is good, then CNN (and MSNBC) automatically think it is bad. An example of this attitude came on Monday when New Day anchor John Berman got into an argument with the Director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, Peter Navarro. Berman's ire was raised by Navarro's defense of the hydroxychloroquine...

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, fired back at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, accusing the former U.S. secretary of state of once again using the coronavirus outbreak to score political points against President Trump. On Monday, Clinton retweeted a Washington Post story that was critical of Trump and said the U.S. was “beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged.” Clinton’s Twitter message quoted from the Post article: “It took 70 days for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but as a lethal force poised to kill tens of...

It’s just the flu, bro. Open up the country for work! There are a few things I am watching today: 1. Countries have made their curves too flat and there is too much social distancing. This means that the probability of the virus starting up again is high. This has happened in SK and Wuhan. The government is putting too many roadblocks in front of healthy people (who are better off catching it now than later). Only the vulnerable should have a CDC recommendation to social distance. Remember the science of voluntary health-differentiated social distancing (HSD). 2. Civil liberties -...

Dallas County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to limit some of the authority for county Judge Clay Jenkins during an emergency. The changes now require a majority of the county commissioners to approve any extension of the "safer at home" order beyond April 30.