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We’re already beginning to see the financial impact the Coronavirus crisis is having on higher ed. -Colleges and Universities Already Panicking About Finances Over Shutdowns -Loss of Tuition from Foreign Students is Hitting Universities Hard -Even a Small Reduction in Enrollment Due to Coronavirus Will Devastate Some Schools

Activists from every20seconds.org protested at 4 office Park Drive in Little Rock Arkansas around 8am-11 or so on Good Friday when it was scheduled to be open. The murder the unborn clinic was opened on Tuesday and Thursday of that week and had vehicles from out of state. Governor Asa Hutchinson & his Arkansas Health Department refused to shutdown the abortion clinic in the state like Texas and Louisiana other states have done over a week ago. (Oklahoma and Oregon clinics defied their state orders). A Federal appeals court ruled in favor of Texas shutting down their abortion clinic. After...

The Chinese Wuhan Virus, also known in the PC version as COVID 19, has been shown to have neurological symptoms. The loss of smell and taste is one such telling symptom, but there is another that can affect even the asymptomatic among the left. Insanity. democrats have shown clearly that they suffer from insanity as they block relief funds from small businesses, calling it a "stunt."Democrats wound up blocking the Republican bill proposing an additional $250 billion to small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program, an existing provision from the previous coronavirus stimulus bill. It gives loans to small business owners to...

Prayers up for all the families suffering from the impact of this virus. And we're still praying that the spread starts fading with the warmer Spring weather and that an effective treatment and vaccine are developed before the next flu season starts. And we pray that our people are allowed to go back to work very soon and that our economy comes roaring back. Meanwhile, we may be hurt and slowed down somewhat, but we have faith in the long-run that "what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger." God willing, America will survive and we will survive and we...

This is now stuck in my head for the next lonely 14 days.

Amid lockdowns and “shelter-in-place” orders and social distancing from strangers and even friends, the coronavirus pandemic has been a time, for many of us, of reaffirming the centrality of family in our lives. For utopians of the radical left, though, the pandemic is an opportunity to deconstruct flawed, traditional familial bonds and remake the world along the lines of new-and-improved, collectivist possibilities. As author Sophie Lewis (pictured above) puts it bluntly in a recent opinion piece at Open Democracy: “We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it.” The author...

While many churches across the nation plan to hold their Easter services online Sunday, a Louisiana pastor says his church near Baton Rouge is expecting a crowd of 2,000 or more despite federal coronavirus guidance advising social distancing. “Satan and a virus will not stop us,” Rev. Tony Spell told Reuters. “God will shield us from all harm and sickness. We are not afraid. We are called by God to stand against the Antichrist creeping into America’s borders. We will spread the Gospel.” Spell has gained attention in recent days for insisting on holding in-person services as the coronavirus pandemic...

[Catholic Caucus] Baltimore Archbishop’s Tough Love Claims bishops keep faithful away from sacraments out of love A pro-gay bishop is saying locking the faithful out of churches and away from the sacraments is a sign of love. Baltimore Abp. William Lori — in an interview with Crux yesterday — said he and other bishops are "doing something important for the sake of our people, for the love for our people, recognizing how painful it is to have churches closed and not to be able to receive the sacraments." He also says that statewide lockdowns and blocking the faithful from receiving...

What if the White House, EPA, Congress, UN, EU and IPCC acknowledged that climate models are only as good and as accurate as the assumptions built into them? What if – as the months and years went by and we got more real-world temperature, sea level and extreme weather data – we used that information to honestly refine the models? Would the assumptions and therefore the forecasts change dramatically? What if we use real science to help us understand Earth’s changing climate and weather? And base energy and other policies on real science that honestly examines manmade and natural influences...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear to “take a step back” on Friday after the governor warned residents that they would be forced to self-quarantine for 14 days if they attended an in-person Easter church service — due to the risk of the spread of the coronavirus. “Taking license plates at church? Quarantining someone for being Christian on Easter Sunday? Someone needs to take a step back here,” he tweeted. Beshear, a Democrat, announced this week that people seen taking part in mass gatherings — including in-person church services — would have license plate numbers taken, which...

ATLANTA, April 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixty-five percent physicians across the United States said they would prescribe the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent COVID-19 in a family member, according to a new survey released today by Jackson & Coker, one of the country's largest physician staffing firms. Only 11 percent said they would not use the drug at all. Meanwhile, 30 percent of the surveyed doctors said they would prescribe the medications to a family member prior to the onset of symptoms if they had been exposed to COVID-19, a highly contagious virus that causes a...

How about some brainstorming on how to reduce risk for office workers to return to work if not able to telecommute. How about splitting group of employees into high risk and low risk categories and bring back low risk employees that are younger and have no preexisting conditions. Then split the returning group in shifts so that some workers work one day while others work another day. This would reduce the transmission rate by half. Also use testing to determine who is immune and let them come back full time.

Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Stephen Smith shared some very exciting news Wednesday night on The Ingraham Angle. Dr. Smith has been treating coronavirus patients at the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health in East Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Smith revealed that in his treatment of coronavirus patients he has not seen a single patient severely affected under the age of 70 who was not diabetic, pre-diabetic or obese. Dr. Stephen Smith: The more we see this disease, the more we understand that severe rapid COVID disease especially is in diabetics or prediabetics. We have 19 or 20 patients...

Did you know that Joe Biden is locked in a basement? He is, he said so himself, a couple of days ago, which may be why the New York Post ran this front-page headline Thursday: “SOMEONE WAKE JOE! Tell him he’s the nominee.” With President Trump on live television for a couple of hours every day now, in the interest of fair play and those ancient FCC equal-time rules, it’s imperative to check in occasionally with the 77-year-old nominee of the Democrat party to see what he’s up to in his dotage. In the tradition of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes,...

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 KJV If you read First and Second Kings in the Bible you will see whenever Israel would follow and trust in God things would go well and when they turned away from him it would go horribly. They would keep going to worshiping the Ashura trees and Moloch who they would put their babies on red hot metal to burn. They would turn to paganism which surrounded...

Louisville police plan to record license plate numbers of anyone attending church in person on Easter Sunday, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. Cops have asked residents to stay home and avoid even drive-in services, according to the Courier Journal. They plan to give the license plate information to the city’s health department.

Almost 10 percent of the crew of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while hundreds of test results remain to be reported, the Navy said Friday morning. Of the 92 percent of the crew that has been tested, 447 have tested positive for COVID-19. The Navy is awaiting results for 775 sailors and 339 have yet to be tested, according to a Navy official with knowledge of the tests. The San Diego-based carrier has a total crew of roughly 4,845 service members, including its embarked air wing and command staff. The Roosevelt pulled into...

From an anonymous UPS delivery driver... 5 types of customers since the “rona”: 1) Steve: He has been waiting for this moment his whole life. He has been drinking boilermakers since 10:00 am in his recliner and his AR is within arms reach. He has 6 months provisions in the basement and a bug out bag due west buried in the woods. Steve demands a handshake as I give him his package. He’s sizing me up as I deliver his ammo. Steve will survive this, and he will kill you if he needs to. 2) Brad: He is standing at...

Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson · 1/ Okay, 11 am. Breaking news: it is almost certain more people over 100 have died of #COVID worldwide than under 30 - and more over 90 than under 50. Try to wrap your head around that. We have shut the world for a virus that has killed more CENTENARIANS than people under 30... 2/ How do I know? Well, in general, countries don’t track much data by age on the deaths of people over 85. But some states have reported actual ages; in Florida, 2 of 419 COVID deaths are in people over 100. Here’s...

A former staffer for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has reportedly filed a formal criminal complaint against her former boss with the Washington, D.C. police. Tara Reade, who last month accused the former vice president and longtime senator of sexually assaulting her in 1993 while employed as one of his Senate staffers, told police that Biden “assaulted her in a Senate corridor, shoving his hand under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers,” Business Insider reported Saturday while also noting that the “statute of limitations for the alleged assault has passed.” “We were alone, and it was the strangest...