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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden won the support of two of his party’s most prominent climate change campaigners, including former presidential candidate Al Gore, on Wednesday. The endorsements of Gore and Washington state Governor Jay Inslee came as Biden seeks credibility with liberal voters he is courting as he tries to unify Democrats ahead of the Nov. 3 election against Republican President Donald Trump. “I am proud to endorse my friend Joe Biden for President,” said Gore on Twitter.

Behold the Joe Biden from the alternate reality! He's coherently aware of all that is happening now and in the future as he confronts potential problems with energetic alertness. This is how Mika Brzezinski on Monday portrayed a Joe Biden almost no one else is familiar with on Monday's Morning Joe. Of course, Mika needs to do this in order to paint a picture of President Donald Trump being slow to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. And apparently Mika believes a great way to do this is to portray a bold Joe Biden possessed of supercharged coherency.

Today is Earth Day, a day that was founded in part by a murderer known as the "Unicorn Killer" (Ira Einhorn). Wikipedia, along with several other sources I've found, has written him out of the history--a couple sources just dusted him to the side. He committed homicide against his girlfriend, too gruesome for me to detail. Long live Earth Day.

House lawmakers were returning to Washington Wednesday amid a highly contagious pandemic to vote tomorrow on the Senate-passed $484 billion interim relief package that replenishes a small business loan program and also boosts funding to hospitals and testing, as Democrats demanded. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touted that success in an interview Wednesday morning, and in a moment self-reflection, said she probably should be speaking out more strongly with President Donald Trump moving forward. "We must start to insist on the truth with the president. This is what, the conclusion I came to on Easter Sunday. I was saying, other people...

OK, maybe that's not fair. It took a bit of looking, but I was able to find a few articles where the MSM showed genuine sympathy for Americans whose lives have been upended by the The Kung Flu Virus and the Boogy-Wuhan Flu. First, we go to NBC:If the government-mandated shutdown continues through this week – and there is no end in sight – Friday will mark the second paycheck missed by affected workers, whose household budgets have been completely upended.  An estimated 800,000 employees have been caught in the political crossfire of the shutdown, now in its fifth...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite pockets of attention-grabbing protests, a new survey finds Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. A majority say it won’t be safe to lift such restrictions anytime soon, even as a handful of governors announce plans to ease within days the public health efforts that have upended daily life and roiled the global economy. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than a month after schoolyards fell silent, restaurant tables and bar stools emptied, and waves from a...

Did you hear that President Trump recently tweeted that Mexicans were “Plague Spreaders”? Isn’t it shocking that Mike Pence, in referring to women in the workforce said, “We need a list of the virus-spreaders & the virus-adjacent”? Can you believe that Rush Limbaugh actually referred to non-Christians as members of a “Death Cult”? Yeah, me neither. Because they didn’t. However, a professor at Kansas State University recently said those exact things about Republicans when he wrote, “Has anyone developed an app to track Republicans & other plague-spreaders?” He also referred to local Republicans as, “Local branch of death cult, aka...

Victor Davis Hanson is a scholar of the history of ancient Greek warfare, he is a frequent writer and commentator, and a 4th generation farmer in California's central valley. At Professor Hanson's chair as the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, his focus is classics and military history. His podcast, updated several times per month, is The Classicist | Hoover Institution. Eric Metaxas is an Evangelical Christian with a cordial relationship with the Greek Orthodox Church. His show is at MetaxasTalk.com.

THIS POST IS CERTIFIED COVID-19 FREE Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) was a well-known portraitist during the Italian Renaissance, studying with a variety of artists from the age of 14. Upon receipt of a drawing she made for him, Michelangelo informally tutored her for a couple of years. A young Van Dyck visited her the year before her death at the age of 93, and wrote that she had taught him more than all of his teachers had up till then. Lost to history in the centuries since her death, the quality of her work is becoming known again. Music is from...

Yet another highly-predictable outcome. – Late Tuesday, a panel of “experts” – the same kind of “experts” who assured us just a month ago that the Wuhan Virus would kill 2 million Americans – announced their disapproval for hydroxychloroquine in combination with axithromycin as a treatment for the Wuhan Virus. Here’s an excerpt from an NPR report on the matter: A panel of experts convened by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommends against doctors using a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19 patients because of potential toxicities. “The combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin...

The Senate on Tuesday passed a $484 billion package to bolster small businesses and hospitals ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic and expand testing for Covid-19. After the unanimous Senate vote, the bill heads to the House, which aims to approve it by Thursday. The measure injects another $310 billion into a key loan program designed to keep employees on small company payrolls. The initial $350 billion in the so-called Paycheck Protection Program, created as part of the $2 trillion rescue package passed last month, dried up last week. It is unclear how many firms have actually received the money.

WASHINGTON - The financial conditions of the government’s two biggest benefits programs remain shaky, with Medicare projected to become insolvent in six years and Social Security on track to no longer be able to pay full benefits starting in 2035. And that’s without accounting for the impact of the coronavirus, which is sure to impose further pressure on the two programs. For Social Security, the projected 2035 date for exhausting the trust fund reserves means that it would be able to pay only 79% of benefits at that time. The projected timetables, which remained unchanged from last year’s estimates, were...

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau promised a ban on “assault-style weapons,” following the hours-long shooting spree that lasted Saturday night through Sunday morning and left at least 18 dead in Nova Scotia. Buzzfeed reported that the attacker, Gabriel Wortman, was allegedly “looking for a former significant other” when the killing spree began. He used “a replica police vehicle and what looked like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform to pull over random drivers and execute them on the spot.” The Press Democrat reported that authorities have yet to confirm that “assault-style weapons” were used in the attack, but Trudeau indicated he...

Many argued that the shutdown has been extremely devastating to the economy and has destroyed the financial stability for families and businesses. People from across the state attended the event, including from the Capital Region, Westchester, and Long Island. High school and college seniors said they want to go back to school, business owners said they want to reopen or they won’t recover, and parents said they want their children back in their classrooms.

'A lot people should just say no, we're not going back to that'A New York Democrat has advice for Americans dealing with job insecurity during the coronavirus crisis: Don’t go back to work. “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for a national work boycott. The congresswoman says Americans should refuse to go back to work,” said Vice TV, which will include her commentary on the premiere of “A Seat at the Table,” a new talk show which premieres Wednesday night. The lawmaker is not keen on President Trump’s methods to get the nation back on the job and re-ignite the economy...

Former President Barack Obama warned the world Wednesday climate change would be worse than the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve all had to adapt to cope with a pandemic,” Obama wrote on Twitter. “Climate change will force far harsher changes on our kids.” The president shared a story about young people who continue protesting the world’s failure to enact dramatic policies to reduce carbon emissions and shut down an oil-based economy in favor of one fueled by windmills and solar panels. “All of us should follow the young people who’ve led the efforts to protect our planet for generations, and demand...

In the wake of World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman and German forces, leaders of the Allied Powers set out to reorganize Europe, and particularly the wide reach of the defeated Ottoman Empire. As part of the effort to do so, a conference took place in London in the winter of 1920, followed by the San Remo Conference which convened 100 years ago this week. San Remo was significant in many ways, but it’s perhaps best well known for the partitioning of the Ottoman-controlled Middle East. It established an irreversible precedent and support for the establishment of...

When the price of U.S. oil crashed below $0 on Monday, lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sent out a disgusting tweet praising the coronavirus-induced crash. She later deleted the tweet, and the cat caught all three major evening news broadcasts by the tongue. AOC’s vile tweet was a response to another tweet suggesting that “oil producers have to pay people to take [the oil] off their hands,” according to Market Watch. She said, “You absolutely love to see it. This along with record low interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to...

Local Radio traffic update during the Rush Limbaugh Show stating that traffic is snarled in Downtown Pittsburgh due to "a large horn-honking protest of cars circling the City-County Building". That's 2 protests in Downtown Pittsburgh in 5 days!

Kerry Mergen, a contract egg farmer near Albany, Minn., got word on a Wednesday the chickens in his barn would be euthanized. A crew showed up the next morning and started gassing the birds with carbon dioxide. The sudden drop in demand for food at restaurants, school cafeterias and caterers shut down by the pandemic has ripped through farming. Milk has been dumped, eggs smashed and ripe lettuce plowed under. Now, farms are killing animals sooner than planned. Mergen said he initially couldn’t believe it when a field manager from Daybreak Foods, the Lake Mills, Wis.-based firm that owned and...