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Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky excoriated his colleagues in Congress over their efforts to provide relief to Americans while putting the country in debt instead of opening up the economy. "If you print up billions of dollars and give it to people, they are unlikely to spend it until you end the quarantine," said Paul in his speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday after returning from his battle with coronavirus. He went on to point out that there were some studies showing that experts' predictions of mortality rates from coronavirus could be inaccurate and overblown. "The virus is...

An Australian doctor is one of the first two people in the world to be injected in human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine which could be rolled out this year. Sydney man Dr Edward O’Neill, who moved to the UK two years ago, has turned guinea pig for Oxford University’s promising antidote to the deadly virus. When asked if he had any concerns about safety, he said he would “walk in faith” and trust his fellow scientists. (Please see link, for full story)

Wisconsinites are signaling they're done playing political games and aren't buying into the idea that they're 'Safer at Home.' MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin stay-at-home orders were supposed to expire Friday. Instead, thousands of disgruntled Wisconsinites descended upon the capitol in protest after the Evers administration extended the Dairy State’s so-called Safer at Home order another month. Endless blaring honks turned to white noise as vehicles backed up East Washington Avenue before circling the capitol, with many waving signs and flags out of windows and sun roofs. One man drove a Yukon decked out with Trump 2020 gear, pulling a trailer...

It’s not like the NFL was ever rooting for a global health crisis that would keep everyone in the house and wipe out practically any game on the schedule in April. But it certainly led to record-setting television ratings for the NFL. The NFL announced it set record ratings, which is no surprise. There was an average audience of 15.6 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, NFL Network, ESPN Deportes, and digital channels according to the league. The previous high was 12.4 million viewers in 2014. There was a 37 percent increase in viewership from last year’s draft.

More than a dozen countries on four continents have recently disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from test kits tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects. Chinese authorities have refused to take responsibility for the defective equipment ... Slovakian Prime Minister Igor Matovič disclosed that more than a million coronavirus tests supplied by China for a cash payment of €15 million ($16 million) were inaccurate and unable to detect Covid-19. "We have a ton of tests and no use for them," he said. "They should just be thrown straight into...

While Texas is one of the more aggressive states in its reopening schedule, one town has made the decision to outpace even Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s ambitious timeline. Colleyville, Texas has become the first city in the state to reopen several “non-essential” businesses and organizations, including churches, gyms and salons. “Colleyville Mayor Richard Newton became the first in Texas to issue a proclamation allowing churches, retail stores, gyms, salons, massage parlors and restaurants to reopen Friday — with social distancing — ahead of an order by the Texas governor expected next week,” The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The L.A....

It’s entirely understandable that the national conversation has turned to a single question: “When can we get back to normal?” The shutdown has caused immeasurable pain in jobs lost, people isolated and worsening inequity. People are ready to get going again.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Hebrew Worship Words Chagag 1 Samuel 30:16-17 He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. 17 David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. Exodus 5:1  Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God...

The former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University said the United States needs to end widespread coronavirus lockdowns and adopt a more targeted approach that both protects the most vulnerable people and builds immunity in the population. In an op-ed published in The Hill, Dr. Scott Atlas laid out some key facts he believes policymakers are ignoring about the pandemic, and called for leaders to "ignore the panic" when making decisions. "Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts," Atlas wrote....

Government authorities, advisers and analysts who are calling for a continuation of the near-total lockdown of the economy are ignoring five key facts, contends a former top health official at the Stanford Medical Center. Dr. David Atlas, now a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, argued in an column for The Hill that Americans "are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts." "Leaders must examine accumulated data to see what has actually happened, rather than keep emphasizing hypothetical projections; combine that empirical evidence with fundamental principles of biology established for...

This will be a weekly post. Count remains at 191 judges confirmed. 138 District Court judges 51 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices McConnell this week suggested that the Senate will continue to confirm judges when it reconvenes in early May.

The coronavirus patients began arriving the last week of March, transferred to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center under a New York state mandate requiring nursing homes to accept those recovering from COVID-19, even if they still might be contagious. At the time, the Long Island nursing home had only one known resident who had contracted the virus, according to the facility’s president and CEO, Stuart Almer. A month later, Gurwin is battling an outbreak that’s killed 24 residents - only three of whom were hospital transfers - and one staff member, who worked in housekeeping, Almer said. And...

We’ve got a ton of new titles on The Roku Channel next month! This month’s selection includes action-packed movies like Clash of the Titans and I Am Number Four, comedies like Waterboy and House Party 2, and a ton of uplifting films the whole family can enjoy. Watch the below titles and much more on your Roku devices, the Roku mobile app, or on the web at therokuchannel.com.

"If you're seeing this," warns Steven Greer within the first two minutes of his sort-of-documentary, "it's because I'm either dead, or have been entrapped, or have disappeared." Or, perhaps, because I want to hook your attention. In Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, we quickly learn that Greer is neither dead nor disappeared. But he does appear to be trapped in Batman's garage from the Dark Knight movie series. And it is from that stale bunker-like locale that he preaches to us, with interlude narrations from Jeremy Piven, for the next two hours. A medical doctor turned UFO researcher, Greer...

In a piece at Market Watch, House Appropriations Committee member Tim Ryan (D-OH) writes about his plan to “fire up the economy” by introducing “the Emergency Money for the People Act, which will provide almost every American $2,000 a month until employment levels reach pre-coronavirus levels. Every American age 16 and older who earns less $130,000 per year will receive this money tax-free.” [sic] Married couples, he writes, “can earn up to $260,000 per year and receive $4,000 per month,” along with an additional $500 a month for up to three children, capped at a whopping $5,500 per month for...

More than 25 oil tankers are currently floating off the Southern California coastline as the demand for oil plummets. The U.S. Coast Guard filmed video that shows 27 tankers anchored in waters just off the coast by the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach as of Thursday afternoon. Stay-at-home orders across the country have led to a dramatic reduction in the demand for crude oil and now the tankers have no place to deliver the product and instead have become floating storage tanks.

In his famous article of January 20, 1945, the distinguished literary critic Edmund Wilson posed the challenging question, “Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?” He was referring to the mystery novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. In a previous article in 1944 he had found her writing, “of a mawkishness and banality which seem to me to be impossible to read.” Wilson was surprised that prominent individuals such as Woodrow Wilson, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot were interested in the mystery novel genre. He would have been even more surprised that the genre constitutes the largest readership. The...

If Bill Gates delivers a coronavirus vaccine, Roger Stone said he won’t be taking it. In an interview with radio host Joe Piscopo on Monday, Stone, a self-described “dirty trickster” affiliated with InfoWars, said he believes Gates “and other globalists” are using the pandemic as a way to place microchips in people and force mandatory vaccinations. “He and other globalists are using it for mandatory vaccinations and microchipping people so we know if they’ve been tested,” Stone told Piscopo. “Over my dead body. Mandatory vaccinations? No way, Jose!” Gates has long espoused his belief that modern societies are not prepared...

A Democratic Michigan state lawmaker slammed Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after party officials reportedly plan to censure her for meeting with President Trump. During a Friday appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Democratic Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett blasted Whitmer for attempting to "silence" her after thanking the president for touting hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, as a coronavirus treatment that she claimed saved her life. "Why they would expel me is beyond words for me. This is something that I did not expect. I started out with a simple 'thank you' to the man who is the president of the United...