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Patrons refuse to take the city’s shelter in place seriously, Cassava’s co-owner says Cassava, a popular restaurant located in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond District, had been open for brunch, dinner, and alcohol takeout since San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order went into effect nearly a month ago. According to Cassava co-owner Yuka Ioroi, while they haven’t been seeing a wild profit with this new model, it was enough to sustain the business — but as patrons aren’t practicing proper social distancing or wearing masks, she has to temporarily shut her business down to keep herself and her employees safe. Ioroi says that...

RUSH: Holy smokes. Did you see the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing yesterday? Holy smokes. That was a throwback to the campaign of 2016. That is exactly why Donald Trump got elected. Donald Trump and the White House comms shop put together a video montage popularized by this program. We were the first to do it on Rush the TV Show and the radio program way, way, way, way back in the early nineties, a montage of leftists and Democrats in the media. And now everybody does it. The White House did their own, chronicling the media lying, chronicling...

Rich Old Homeowners Are California's Future, so Why Shouldn't We Take Our Subsidies to the Grave?MEMO To: California Association of Realtors Re: Death and Taxes Barring some wild technological advance, all Californians eventually will die. But why can’t our property tax discounts live forever? That’s the question raised by your glorious new idea: a ballot initiative to make our state’s famously generous Proposition 13 property tax savings even more generous—and portable. Your “People’s Initiative to Protect Prop 13 Savings” is a proposal as perfectly Californian as the Golden Gate Bridge. It provides a concrete symbol of an undeniable reality: Limiting...

And you already thought Hillary Clinton was humorless. Michael Moore revealed he tried to create a comedy all-star team — including Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Bill Maher — to anonymously help write material for Clinton during her 2016 run for president, but her camp turned Moore down and called Schumer too “dirty,” he said. “Before the debates … I kept thinking, ‘Trump has such thin skin, if Hillary just had like a comedy shiv in her hand, just to slip under that thin skin, he will implode,’ ” Moore said on Schumer’s podcast, “3 Girls, 1 Keith.” The “Bowling for...

(CNN)A federal appeals court late Monday night ruled in favor of supporters of abortion rights and allowed an abortion procedure called "medication abortion" to be used in Texas while an ongoing legal challenge continues. The order by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest development in a lawsuit that has been bouncing between federal courts in Texas, causing chaos on the ground for clinics and patients in the state. Monday's ruling is temporary, but it could stall or maybe even avert a potential Supreme Court showdown over the issue. The controversy began last month when Texas Gov....

Over 80 million Americans are expected to receive a stimulus check by the end of this week as part of the first wave of payments, the Treasury Department said this week. The Department expects “a large majority of eligible Americans” will get their payments in the next two weeks. While some have received theirs already, those who are still waiting for one will soon be able to track it online. Americans will also be able to provide the Internal Revenue Service with their direct deposit information if it’s not on file with the agency. “If you do not receive them...

The XFL's parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, the first business day after the league suspended operations and laid off almost all of its employees. The filing, officially made by Alpha Entertainment, listed the XFL with assets and liabilities each in the range of $10 million to $50 million. The largest creditor was listed as the St. Louis Sports Commission at $1.6 million. Seven of the league's eight coaches also are among the top creditors. In a statement, the XFL attributed its decision to the coronavirus pandemic: "The XFL quickly captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of...

When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates, the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67%, in contrast, the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33%. The multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings, with a 75% probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47%. Conclusions: In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the 'asymptomatic infected individuals' reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832 Editor office’s response for...

And there it is: In TuesdayÂ’s Coronavirus Task Force update, President Donald Trump told the nation that some state economies can begin to open by May 1. He further stated that details on his plan to reopen the largest economy in global history will becoming as the week goes on, but the affirmation that he is looking at starting the process in the next two weeks is a godsend. The President also laid a big olÂ’ MOAB on the World Health Organization (WHO) telling reporters that he is putting a hold on any further funding for that corrupt globalist den...

Louisiana abortion facilities are fighting to continue killing unborn babies during the coronavirus pandemic. New Orleans Public Radio reports the Hope Medical Group abortion facility in Shreveport filed a lawsuit this week to prevent the state from stopping abortions as part of a larger effort to restrict unnecessary medical procedures during the health crisis. The abortion facility, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, argued that abortions are essential and time sensitive – though many OB-GYNs and medical organizations say otherwise. Their lawsuit names the Louisiana Department of Health and Attorney General Jeff Landry. Landry’s office inspected abortion facilities last...

Critics are blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for staging a “photo op” Tuesday in the US ZIP code hardest hit by the coronavirus. A small group gathered in the virally blighted neighborhood of Corona, Queens, in AOC’s district, to hear a pitch for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to offer funeral assistance. The gathering — convened as officials order ordinary New Yorkers to stay home — gave TV networks an opportunity to shoot footage of the duo, but there was no live feed to allow the event to be covered from afar, let alone a virtual press...

First Lady Melania Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr walk together at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Friday, March 6, 2020, before attending the U.S. Department of Justice National Opioid Summit. First Lady Melania Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. Department of Justice National Opioid Summit Friday, March 6, 2020, at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

In The Scarlet Plague, the California Author Imagined a 21st-Century Epidemic Hitting the Bay Area and the WorldJack London saw this coming. So why didn’t we? In 1910 the California author, already famous for The Call of the Wild and White Fang, wrote a short post-apocalyptic novel about a 21st-century pandemic in his home state. To revisit The Scarlet Plague now, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, is to marvel at how much London understood—a century ago—about the challenges facing Californians now. London imagined a global epidemic in the year 2013 that killed almost all the people in California,...

President Donald Trump’s administration is coming to the defense of Christians in Mississippi who were fined $500 each for attending a drive-in church service that followed the rules and recommendations health officials issued for social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As LifeNews.com reported, police fined members of a Mississippi church $500 each for attending a “drive-in” church service and supposedly violating social distancing orders. Meanwhile, the sole abortion clinic in the state continues to kill babies in abortion despite an order from the governor to stop all non-essential medical procedures. The church service required churchgoers stay inside...

New York on Tuesday decided to add “presumed” COVID-19 cases to its death toll, which reached a total of 10,000 victims. On Tuesday alone, 3,700 new deaths were added to the revised death count, according to a report from the New York Times. “These new presumed cases are mostly from ERs and hospitals, which means people weren’t getting tested even in those settings. Lots more were in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities,” NY Times reporter Kristen Danis said. New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones became the state’s first elected Democrat to throw his support behind the president’s 2020 re-election on Tuesday. The Democrat described Trump as a transformative figure in politics whose polices have helped black Americans, veterans and farmers, according to the outlet.

The senior analyst admitted to the FBI's Inspection Division that he had been in possession of the illegal images An FBI senior analyst has been dismissed for possessing child pornography, according to a recently released memo from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice. Though the supervisory intelligence analyst (SIA) was dismissed, the FBI elected not to prosecute the employee. The Office of the Inspector General examined the personal and work devices of the analyst, finding pornographic images on the personal devices, though they were determined not to be images of child pornography. However, the investigation...

This video by Ray Comfort is amazing and very challenging! Ray uses the Coronavirus, the 10 Commandments and Tom Hanks to teach people about Jesus Christ and everyone's need for salvation in Him (John 3:16-16. No gimmicks, just challenging reality for all of us! A must watch!

George Pell gave me a remarkable and frank interview - his first since serving 405 days in jail for a crime he could not have committed. He talks of friends he made in jail and the witch hunt that put him there. He is scathing of the ABC, and amazed by Victoria Police and Victoria's Court of Appeal. And he attacks corruption at the Vatican. Watch.

Virginia will no longer require voters to show a photo ID prior to casting a ballot and the state will join a handful of states across the nation in making Election Day a state holiday, Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced Sunday. Northam said he signed a series of bills aimed at expanding access to voting. “Voting is a fundamental right, and these new laws strengthen our democracy by making it easier to cast a ballot, not harder,” Northam said in a statement Sunday. “No matter who you are or where you live in Virginia, your voice deserves to be heard....