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On today's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough told Rush Limbaugh:"Go to your local Publix and bag groceries. Lead by example by going to a local grocery and bagging groceries. You can do it today."Nice, Joe. As his countless fans here are well aware, Rush is a senior citizen with Stage 4 lung cancer. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Relying on a model developed by experts at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Public Health, Governor Tim Walz issued a broad shutdown order on March 25. Governor Walz asserted that, under the model’s projections, up to 74,000 Minnesotans would die of the Wuhan virus absent the shutdown. Later we learned that, under the model’s projection, 50,000 Minnesotans would die with the shutdown. In his most recent remarks, extending the shutdown order to May 4, Governor Walz advised that the model wasn’t to be taken literally. To people like me, who spent time trying to figure how...

JPMorgan economists cut their second-quarter forecast even more, now expecting the economy will decline by 40%The economists said the 16.8 million jobless claims filed in the last three weeks indicate a huge surge in job losses, which they estimate at 25 million in April. A number of Wall Street firms expect contractions in the second quarter of 30% or more. JPMorgan economists issued an even more dire forecast, now foreseeing a 40% decline in the nation’s gross domestic product for the second quarter and a surge in April’s unemployment rate to 20% with 25 million jobs lost.In an earlier forecast, they said...

For Aldo Martinez, a paramedic in Fort Myers, Fla., who often works a 37-hour shift, the long days have become routine since the coronavirus pandemic broke out -- several of his colleagues have had to self-quarantine out of fears they may have been exposed to COVID-19. Aside from filling in for his colleagues, tending to the dozens of calls he receives each day, and keeping himself safe on the job, Aldo feels an extra degree of pressure as one of more nearly 680,000 young immigrants whose ability to work in the country would be threatened if the Deferred Action for...

Some takeaways from the article: "Immunity to seasonal coronaviruses (such as those that cause common colds), for example, starts declining a couple of weeks after infection. And within a year, some people are vulnerable to reinfection." "But studies of SARS-CoV—the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which shares a considerable amount of its genetic material with SARS-CoV-2—are more promising. Antibody testing shows SARS-CoV immunity peaks at around four months and offers protection for roughly two to three years." "Even if the antibodies stick around in the body, however, it is not yet certain that they will prevent...

The AK clone had come into the shop just hours before the picture was taken. Image courtesy Dean Weingarten The NICS numbers for March 2020, established new, all-time records for both the number of projected sales as well as the numbers of NICS background checks done in one month. The previous record for one month was set in December of 2015. In December of 2015, there were 3,314,594 NICS background checks done. The number of recorded long gun, handgun, other and multiple x (2.5) were recorded as 2,213,121 firearms, as a good approximation.In March of 2020, the NICS background checks...

During an interview that aired on Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates was asked to react to other efforts around the globe to take on coronavirus, particularly China, a country that proclaimed to have moved past the height of the pandemic. Gates’ labeled Mainland China’s efforts as “extreme intervention,” describing the outcome as having been able to “crush that epidemic.” “China took the situation in Wuhan, which was quite dramatic, and by extreme intervention in terms of reducing movement — they were able to crush that epidemic,”...

It was probably just coincidence that Nevada’s governor issued an order closing golf courses just a few hours after a newspaper photographer tweeted a picture of O.J. Simpson playing 18 holes in Las Vegas. Simpson himself seemed resigned to it, tweeting in a video later that extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. “This is serious ... people are losing their lives,” he said. Before Gov. Steve Sisolak acted on Wednesday, the idea of people playing golf during the pandemic was already being debated on social media. There was predictable outrage among some, who said golfers were flouting social distancing guidelines...

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matt. 5:6). Only Christ can satisfy your deepest needs. Within every man and woman is a hunger and thirst only God can satisfy. That's why Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst" (John 6:35). Sadly, most people search for happiness in the wrong places. The prodigal son in Luke 15 is one example. He turned from God to pursue sinful pleasures, but soon discovered that sin cannot satisfy...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/strange-total-us-deaths-march-2020-actually-15-average-prior-four-years/ The numbers above have some grey area but essentially fewer people are dying now than in past years. A demographer might say there is a slight trend up or down in overall death rates due to an aging population. Regardless, overall death rates are way harder to fudge than cause of death numbers. But Flubros and Bras don’t need numbers to smell a rat. We have a manufactured crisis. A silver lining? When this is done there will be an anti-modeler/anti-scientist movement in America. This may help the world clue in that if modelers...

Unbelievable. Never let a crisis go to waste must be the motto of media....after being hit with UNPRECEDENTED requests, the media in Miami seeks out ONLY angry people who have not been able to reach the unemployment web site. Governor DeSantis just two or three days ago announced MASSIVE improvements to the site...no matter, media still screams he is failing. By the way, NO EVIDENCE any of the people interviewed have tried to access the web site. Also, the media cannot seem to find ANYONE who has gotten through. Only angry people. Yesterday the media had egg on their face....

Last night Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota went on The Ingraham Angle to discuss how the AMA is encouraging American doctors to overcount coronavirus deaths across the US. This was after Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus. Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis. And hospitals get paid THREE TIMES AS MUCH if...

A Massachusetts man convicted of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old boy was ordered released from jail Friday — because he suffers from health conditions that can make him vulnerable to coronavirus, according to the New York Post. Glenn Christie was convicted of child rape and indecent assault on a child under 14 and was being held for violating his probation conditions, according to the report. This is just one of the many cases where rapists and other criminals are released from prison because of the Coronavirus! A statewide emergency order in California sets bail at $0 for misdemeanor and lower-level felony...

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...