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Four simple words, but to a nation in lockdown they offer comfort and hope. When the Queen assured us in a public address this week, 'We will meet again', she was quoting from Dame Vera Lynn's most iconic wartime song. In doing so, Her Majesty gave us reason to soldier on in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, with the promise of brighter days and reunions with our loved ones to come. At her home in East Sussex, Dame Vera, who turned 103 last month, listened attentively to Her Majesty's TV broadcast. The two women have a warm affiliation stretching...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZxRPdlozIA The commentator illustrates international stories that show 70% of COVID deaths are men but the reaction by leftists is still about how hard this is on women.

This is the sight that greeted a group of billionaires after they attempted to land in the south of France and travel to their £50,000 a night luxury villa during the coronavirus lockdown. The party of ten, three businessmen, three young women and various staff, were planning to fly by helicopter to a stunning £60m villa called Alang Alang where they would stay during the Covid-19 pandemic. But customs and police officers barred them from stepping off the jet and ordered them to return to the UK following a three-hour standoff on the tarmac. Video obtained by Mail Online -...

“The right to travel is part of the ‘liberty’ of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. If that ‘liberty’ is to be regulated, it must be pursuant to the law-making functions of the Congress...Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country,...may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values”. - U.S. Supreme...

National and local leaders have been and will continue to be scrutinized, and justly so. But global institutions deserve the same scrutiny, because COVID-19 isn't a national issue; it's a global one. As the virus began to leave China, the world looked to the World Health Organization for guidance. The WHO made some relevant health recommendations, but its inability to see the advantage of closing borders proved essential. Fears of promoting xenophobia may have prevented the WHO from doing the right thing.

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 recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet...

Like her neighbor to the west – which, quips Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, has been "socially distancing the entire 130 years that we have been a state" – Republican Gov. Kristi Noem says she won't shut down South Dakota in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Noem argues South Dakota isn't New York City, and her job is to protect the right of the people to take responsibility and care for themselves and their neighbors. Barrasso, a Republican, said Monday that Wyoming isn't ordering residents to stay home because social distancing already is occurring. Wyoming has just five people per square...

Vatican City, Apr 9, 2020 / 08:00 am ( CNA ).- China’s first canonized saint was martyred by suffocation on a cross in Wuhan, the epicenter of today’s coronavirus pandemic. St. Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, a Vincentian missionary priest from France, was betrayed by one of his catechumens for money, bound in chains, tortured, tied to a wooden cross and strangled to death in Wuhan in 1840.Dr. Anthony Clark, a professor of Chinese history, spent time in Wuhan researching the life of Perboyre and St. Francis Regis Clet, another 19th-century Vincentian priest martyred in Wuhan.Clark told CNA that Wuhan’s martyr saints...

That is how I read his remarks in the interview with Laura Ingraham earlier this week. RCP’s Ian Schwartz has posted video and transcript at RealClearPolitics under the headline “Barr: Russian Collusion Probe Into Trump “One Of The Greatest Travesties In American History.” I have posted the video below. This must be a preview of coming attractions. Quotable quote: “My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness. There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law, and...

The FBI was warned sections of the controversial Steele dossier could have been part of a "Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations," according to newly declassified footnotes from a government watchdog report.... Footnote 350 in the IG report addresses the FBI's knowledge of Russian contacts with Steele and the potential for disinformation. Steele had "frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarchs, we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received from (redacted) indicating the potential for Russian disinformation influencing Steele's election reporting." The footnote also indicates that warnings to the FBI's Russia probe became more pronounced over time.......

It was concerning a physician who tested the efficacy of various types of masks in an epidemiological setting. Cloth and surgical masks were efficient for stopping 60% of infection. Three paper towels folded in half stopped 70%. Thanks.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has a message for the religiously faithful residents of New York City: “If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church, and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services.” Law enforcement agents rounding up people outside their churches is a painful image, out of place in America. Is it time to ask if we have gone too far in our attempts to contain the Coronavirus? The reality is beginning to set in: Millions of Christians...

Dr. Fauci is the man behind the greatest economic disaster in US history. Fauci and his cohorts, including Dr. Deborah Birx, were able to convince the president of the United States to lock down the greatest economy in world history. Fauci used ever-changing bogus “models” and completely false assumptions to put at least 16 million Americans out of work in one month. The coronavirus pandemic continues to target seniors, obese people and diabetics. Healthy people under 60 are able to survive the COVID-19 with very rare exceptions. We are about to see the devastation of relying on such inept, political...

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper may soon find out what it's like to become "resistance" heroes among President Trump's detractors and targets of his wrath. The pair of Democratic officials will have considerable say about whether to cancel the Republican National Convention, set for Charlotte on Aug. 24-27, due to social distancing concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic. Doing so would be an unprecedented move, but potentially in-line with health guidelines they've been pushing at the municipal and statewide level.

Easter Blessing held in the Oval Office on Good Friday.

RICHMOND, Va. – Gov. Ralph Northam is removing what he calls ‘medically-unnecessary’ restrictions on women’s health care. The governor signed the Reproductive Health Protection Act, sponsored by Senator Jennifer McClellan and House Majority Leader Charniele Herring. Senate Bill 733 will allow any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within such person’s scope of practice to perform a first trimester abortion. Also, the bill eliminates all of the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a pregnant woman’s informed written consent to the performance of an abortion....

At yesterday’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference, the execrable CNN hack Jim Acosta accused President Donald Trump and the Task Force experts of engaging in “happy talk” for the American People. Acosta cites unnamed “governors” and “hospital professionals” who complain of shortages of PPE, ventilators and other equipment while on the air at CNN. He of course refuses to name a single name, because he is making most, if not all of it up at this point. Below is a 6 minute clip of the exchange, followed by a transcript of most of the President’s remarks. As is his habit,...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz unloaded on his Democratic colleagues on Friday in response to Sen. Dianne Feinstein sending a letter to President Trump declaring that she is “disappointed” in his administration’s plan to block funding to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. The Democrats’ demand of Trump to help Iran get $5 billion in aid, Cruz noted, comes “at the exact same time” that they are “blocking desperately need relief to small businesses in America.” In late March, a group of Democratic lawmakers — among them Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), and Rashida Tlaib (MI), and...

On this date in 1554, rebel leader Thomas Wyatt the Younger tied on his own blindfold and laid his head on the block, having declared that not “any other now in your durance [i.e., the Tower] was privy to my rising” That remark exculpated the Princess Elizabeth, who just days before had been ominously rowed to the Tower on suspicion of having known of or involved herself in Wyatt‘s abortive revolt. And Wyatt had had to do more than talk the talk to keep the future Queen Elizabeth I out of the executioner’s way. Sore afraid that Wyatt’s rebellion had...

One thing that Chinacrats (democrats and media who appear to be on the China payroll)  continue to harp on is the alleged "slow response" by the Trump administration. As usual, they are ignorant of the facts and the fact is Trump has been given a lot of really bad information. Despite that, he has done a great job. There are stooges and incompetents at the heads of many agencies, here and abroad. The World Health Organization is headed by a Communist who is a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party. Early on he fed the world incredibly false and damaging...