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While front line health professionals are waging a 24/7 battle to care for COVID-19 patients, the Trump campaign has been using donated funds to buy meals to feed some of these workers. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), leader of the recent attempt to impeach and remove President Trump from office, is demanding that the Federal Election Commission penalize the campaign for "this misappropriation of campaign funds." "Campaign funds are supposed to be used for campaign activities, not acts of benevolence," Schiff complained. "Donors give campaign contributions expecting that it will be used to win elections or purchase favorable laws or policies....

Frequent commenters Jimmy McAfee, Phineas Gage (a pseudonym), and Gregg Updike put up a series of posts this morning detailing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s amazing inconsistency on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an effective treatment for viruses, and his record of miserable failure when it comes to development of vaccines. With Dr. Fauci continuing to poo-pooh HCQ, in combination with azithromycin, as an effective treatment for the Wuhan Virus, and his boosting of a “vaccine” as the only way out of this mess, these walks through his history on those two subjects become especially compelling. Given that, I am reproducing...

A French pensioner survived being flung out of a plane at 2500 feet after grabbing the ejector handle to "steady himself". The incredible story has been revealed by a French aviation investigation report which has found significant failures in the safety procedures for the flight. In March 2019, the unnamed 64-year-old was given a flight in the jet to celebrate his retirement. He did not really want the flight but was convinced to do it anyway by his colleagues at the defence contractor where he had worked for most of his career. "This situation generated a feeling of stress for...

For several days now we’ve been seeing reports of President Trump’s approval rating regarding how he’s responded to the novel coronavirus pandemic beginning to slip. I normally wouldn’t find such a shift surprising, given the relentless (and frequently contradictory) negative coverage he’s received in most MSM outlets. But even if that sort of ratings slide is real, it only makes the latest Fox News poll of the upcoming election all the more surprising. Joe Biden has been consistently leading Donald Trump well outside the margin of error nationally, but now, at least according to this single survey, that lead has...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested negative for the coronavirus after leaving the hospital where he underwent COVID-19 treatment, his spokesman said Monday. Spokesman James Slack said the prime minister is continuing to recover after being discharged from St. Thomas’ Hospital in London Sunday, The Associated Press reported. He now is at Chequers, the prime minister’s country residence, and is “not immediately returning to work.” Slack denied that the government had downplayed how sick Johnson was, according to the AP. Over the weekend, Johnson also spoke with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputizing for Johnson during his...

Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Monday it expects to post a pre-tax loss of about $600 million for the first quarter as the coronavirus outbreak pummeled its sales and shuttered vehicle assembly plants, resulting in a 21% drop in vehicle sales to dealers versus the same quarter in 2019.

On April 11, The Washington Post ran an article about plans being made to reopen the economy. The article complains that state governors (rather than the White House) are leading the planning, which has resulted in a “mind-boggling level of disorganization,” according to a Centers for Disease Control director. The incessant bleating of prominent health leaders over the lack of federal control in this crisis only underscores how little they understand or respect this country’s Constitution and the freedoms it seeks to protect. Although the White House certainly has emergency authority to mandate all number of efforts to respond to...

It appears CNN's media critic Brian Stelter is unfamiliar with the concept of federalism. Even for the wildly biased CNN media critic Brian Stelter, a tweet of his over the weekend betrayed a stunning lack of understanding of the basic tenets of the American government. Now, I don’t want to shock anyone, but the tweet was an attack on President Donald Trump, that is after all pretty much the sole reason why CNN exists at this point. So let’s have a look and see what the problem is. Admin officials "say the White House has made a deliberate political calculation...

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hold arguments by teleconference in May in key cases, including President Donald Trump’s bid to shield his tax and other financial records. The court will make live audio of the arguments available for the first time. It had previously postponed courtroom arguments for March and April because of the coronavirus. The court will hear 10 cases in all between May 4 and May 13. In addition to fights over subpoenas for Trump’s financial records, they include two cases about whether presidential electors are required to cast their Electoral College ballots for the candidate...

The left wing media has pounced upon something Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview yesterdayTapper said, “Do you think lives could have been saved if social distancing, physical distancing, stay-at-home measures, had started the third week of February instead of mid-March?” Fauci said, “You know, Jake, again, it’s the what would have, what could have. It’s very difficult to go back and say that. I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But...

Far-left Hollywood star Barbra Streisand has launched a vicious attack against President Donald Trump, blaming him for the deaths of over 20,000 Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic.During an anti-Trump outburst on Twitter Sunday, Streisand claimed that the president is directly responsible for all the people who have died of COVID-19 in the United States.

Liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg may have failed his ridiculously expensive White House bid, but the amount of cash he continues to spend is still being put to use for Democratic Congressional contenders. Data compiled by Advertising Analytics recently revealed that the liberal House Majority PAC had spent a whopping $52,303,503 on advertising so far helping Democrats competing for seats in the House of Representatives. Open Secrets data show that Bloomberg funded the super PAC with at least $11,400,000 so far this cycle, which is the equivalent of approximately 22 percent of the PAC’s 2020 House race expenditures. House Majority PAC...

“Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos revealed Monday that he’s tested positive for the coronavirus, but has been relatively symptom-free. The ABC newsman revealed his diagnosis on the show, telling co-host Robin Roberts that, “I feel fine.” Stephanopoulos’ wife, Ali Wentworth, had come down with COVID-19 and tweeted that she’s “never been sicker.” Her husband has been taking care of her, their children and doing his TV job in the interim. …

Shi Zhengli is the virologist from Wuhan, in China, and discovered the gene sequence for coronavirus but was then 'muzzled' from releasing her findings, which were eventually made public a week later.For 16 years Shi Zhengli has prepared to fight the deadliest panedmic the world has seen for a generation.The virologist, from Wuhan in China, is the 'Bat Woman' scientists who discovered the coronavirus gene sequence within days of the first reported case of the outbreak.  But she was then 'muzzled' from revealing the truth about her incredible discovery in the fight against Covid-19, fuelling fears of a cover up...

MADISON, WI — COVID-19 and Gov. Tony Evers’ emergency orders have pummeled business and Wisconsin’s economy at large. As earlier dire pandemic projections improve, restive lawmakers and business leaders insist the social-distancing cure for the coronavirus may be deadlier than the disease — at least for Wisconsin’s failing economic health. Evers’ top jobs administrator, Department of Workforce Development Secretary Caleb Frostman underscored the problem Friday during a Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce COVID-19 teleconference update. Frostman laid out the woeful numbers: more than 313,000 total new applications for unemployment benefits between March 15 and April 6, with weekly claims hitting nearly...

A plague of locusts that struck Africa hard has returned with a vengeance and like the archetypal plague in Egypt. Billions of young locusts are spreading out from their breeding grounds in Somalia, newly hatched after seasonal rains, eating more than the older insects that passed through already. A wave of locusts swept through East Africa last year but the current wave is estimated to be 20 times larger and is described as the worst in 70 years. This wave very much resembles the Biblical plague in this respect, coming as part of a wave of catastrophes that left the...

According to the “Securitists” (Bitkhonistim) movement, the Palestinian Authority is “persecuting” Palestinian Authority (PA) Arab farmers who want to work on Jewish-owned farms in the Jordan Valley, in an effort to damage Jewish settlement in the Jordan Valley region even though this results in the loss of livelihood for the Arabs concerned. Even during the coronavirus crisis, PA Arab workers are permitted to enter Israeli agricultural areas and work for Jewish farmers, but the Palestinian Authority is actively trying to stop this, arresting those Palestinians who find work and issuing them with steep fines. In several cases, they turned up...

These facts establish the FBI used Russia’s meddling with the 2016 election as a pretext to investigate Donald Trump and the special counsel’s office was complicit in this ploy. On Friday, the Department of Justice released newly declassified information from an inspector general report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse, revealing for the first time that the FBI had received information indicating the Christopher Steele dossier contained Russian disinformation. The newly unredacted portions of the IG’s report also confirmed there was no “network of sources” backing up Steele’s reporting. While both revelations provide further fodder for attacking the Carter...

The Wuhan Virus “crisis” offers both threats and opportunities; but these threats need not be disasters for our liberty. In fact, the august pronouncements of Doctor Anthony Fauci have given us an opportunity to not let this “crisis” go to waste. If handled properly we can use it to kill mail in voting, at least for next November. The “crisis” narrative for killing our economy and embarrassing President Trump with a never ending economic shut down is falling apart. The voices demanding, we reopen our economy are growing louder. There is now a reasonable chance that the “back” of this...

In true timely fashion, Digital Aerolus, a global leader in autonomous technology for any vehicle that flies, drives, dives, or swims, has developed the first indoor drone with C-band ultraviolet (UVC) lights, created specifically to combat the spread of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus with a 99% disinfection rate. By using its patented technologies, the Aertos 120-UVC can fly stably inside buildings and sterilize areas, thereby reducing exposure of frontline workers to infections. Digital Aerolus’ industrial drones do not use GPS or external sensors, allowing them to operate stably in places other drones cannot go – including small and confined spaces....