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This is all good to know. Now, some indictments and perp walks, please? – In his interview aired on The Ingraham Angle last night, William Barr laid down several key markers. During the course of the 7-minute clip below, he endorses President Trump’s firing of corrupt ICIG Michael Atkinson – directly refuting the assessment of his plodding underling, DOJ IG Michael Horowitz – and clarifies that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s role is to prosecute the guilty, not necessarily to write a report. Unfortunately to many of us, he also endorses the renewal of the FISA law that has been so...

Many things about Christianity are counterintuitive but none more than this: God the perfect Father sent Jesus the perfect Son to Earth as a human being to suffer and die for the sins of imperfect human beings so that those who believe in the Son would receive the perfect Holy Spirit and live in eternal love with God. Scripture makes all this clear. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16). "In your relationships with one another, have the same...

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One particularly terrifying consequence of the Chinese Bat Soup Virus that is not yet getting the attention it deserves is how this situation is making already stupid liberals even dumber, especially when they sound off about economics. In the wake of this pandemic, we’ve been subjected to a series of mind-numbing insights from the pinko blue check brain trust that reaffirms the clichéd but true observation that our elite is anything but elite. Leave it to our liberal betters to take a bad situation and seek to make it exponentially worse. For example, Sally Kohn – oh, you know where...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is pivoting to the left as he begins his general election campaign against President Donald Trump, promising to eliminate student debt for a huge portion of people making under $125,000 a year and lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, announced both policy proposals in a Medium blog post on Thursday afternoon, arguing the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus epidemic made both moves necessary. But both shifts - especially on student debt - are designed to appeal to younger and left-leaning voters who were skeptical of his...

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Field reports from physicians around the world suggest that hydroxychloroquine, a relatively inexpensive drug used to treat malaria for more than 60 years, may be useful in fighting COVID-19. Based on this emerging data, President Trump has suggested that doctors consider the “off-label” use of hydroxychloroquine in this global emergency. So why is President Trump being ridiculed or condemned for at least spreading a ray of hope against a disease so new it would be impossible for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have its own officially approved treatment yet? Is the president promoting quackery, or worse? Nothing of...

DETROIT (AP) — Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is joining a growing call for the release of comprehensive racial data on the coronavirus pandemic, which he says has put a spotlight on inequity and the impact of “structural racism.” Biden’s Medium poston Thursday said he is joining Democratic congressional members Ayanna Pressley, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and others who have also called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies to release more data. Biden said he wants data released on income, too, to better help allocate resources to communities in need. Biden acknowledged this...

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Attorney General William Barr late Wednesday claimed that the Washington press corps is on a "jihad" against President Trump over his promotion of an anti-malaria drug to treat the novel coronavirus. In an interview with Fox News's Laura Ingraham Barr lauded Trump's response to the outbreak of the virus, saying that the president has been "very statesmanlike" in his efforts to work with governors around the country to address the crisis. He railed against the media's coverage of those efforts, though, arguing that the president has been the target of "snarky, gotcha questions from the White House media pool." He...

Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise. Workers in hazmat outfits were seen using a ladder to descend into a huge pit where the coffins were stacked. The location is Hart Island, used for New Yorkers with no next of kin or who could not afford a funeral. New York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country, according to latest figures. The state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 jumped by 10,000 on Thursday to 159,937, of whom 7,000 have...

Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University's Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus. ...he offers data to show that China and South Korea had already reached their peak number of cases when they instituted their containment measures...nature had already...nearly achieved herd immunity. With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have...

FORT WORTH, Texas — While physicians, government leaders, and even President Donald Trump turn to the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine in the fight against COVID-19, one Tarrant County woman believed to have contracted the disease in late February says the drug saved her life. Heavy research now surrounds hydroxychloroquine after some physicians saw success in treating COVID-19 patients with it. President Trump even said in a news conference earlier this week that 29 million doses have been added to the National Strategic Stockpile, which is a repository of medical supplies used to respond to medical emergencies. Governor Greg Abbott said Monday...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky doctor has been arrested and charged with attacking a group of teenage girls for not practicing social distancing after video of the violent encounter went viral over the weekend. Dr. John B. Rademaker, 57, of Prospect, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of first-degree strangulation and three counts of harassment, according to officials with the Louisville Metro Police Department. Authorities declined to offer further comment in a post on Facebook, but released a statement to local media outlets. “Obviously, we do not advise individuals concerned about social distancing to take matters into their own hands...

Former Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton has been indicted on a felony charge of injury to a child after his teenage daughter accused him of beating her. A Tarrant County grand jury indicted the 38-year-old Hamilton on Monday. He remains free on $30,000 bond after he turned himself in to authorities on Oct. 30. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence of two to 10 years in prison. Hamilton's attorneys say the Texas Rangers Hall of Famer is innocent of the charge. His 14-year-old daughter told her mother, Hamilton’s ex-wife, that her father struck her after he became enraged by...

Health experts are warning the national count of Covid-19 deaths in the United States could be underestimated as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread. This could be especially true because the reporting data can lag by an average of one to two weeks, according to the latest guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's. Also, deaths due to Covid-19 "may be misclassified as pneumonia deaths in the absence of positive test results, and pneumonia may appear on death certificates as a comorbid condition," the CDC noted, adding that "analyses to better understand and quantify reporting delays" for...

Americans bought over 2 million firearms in March of 2020, over a million more than this time last year. We have to keep each other safe by social distancing and washing our hands and not bringing dangerous firearms into our homes. #StopTheCoronavirusGunSurge #NoRA pic.twitter.com/O5J98QXTFO— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 9, 2020

Former GOP Rep. Ron Paul calls on Trump to fire top coronavirus adivsor Fauci because 'he's a fraud, doesn't give good information and is trying to have total control over the people' Former Texas Republican Representative Ron Paul called on the Trump administrationto fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top coronavirus advisor Paul said Fauci provided 'bad information' after he lowered his national death estimates from the outbreak Thursday from more than 100,000 to 60,000 The lower figures, however, are contingent on continued social distancing continues that would effectively slow the spread of the outbreak Paul, speaking on his program,...

The Trump administration is pushing to reopen much of the country next month, raising concerns among health experts and economists of a possible covid-19 resurgence if Americans return to their normal lives before the virus is truly stamped out. Behind closed doors, President Trump — concerned with the sagging economy — has sought a strategy for resuming business activity by May 1, according to people familiar with the discussions. In phone calls with outside advisers, Trump has even floated trying to reopen much of the country before the end of this month, when the current federal recommendations to avoid social...

Donald Trump says there will not be mass testing for all Americans when the economy reopens but insists deaths will be 'far lower' than 100,000 As White House shares hope of getting people back to work in early May President Donald Trump predicted deaths from the coronavirus in the United States will be much lower than 100,000 'You are looking at a much lower level than the level of, I hope the level of 100,000,' he said at the daily White House briefing 'It's working America,' Vice President Pence said of containment measures President Trump also said the economy was...