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Dr. Deborah Birx cautioned governors from including hair salons and barber shops — even when people are wearing masks — in their first round of reopenings, even as some governors in some states are either considering taking the step or have taken it already. Birx said on Fox News Sunday that haircutting is “safer” when people are wearing masks but it’s not a “good phase 1 activity,” a reference to the three-phase guidelines released by the White House advising states on how to gradually reopen their economies.

VIRGINIA — A solid majority of Virginia residents disapprove of the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, and an even greater majority disapprove of President Donald Trump's performance during the crisis, according to an informal reader survey Patch conducted Friday. About 60 percent of the survey's nearly 1,900 respondents said they are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the federal response, compared with 31 percent who say they are either satisfied or very satisfied. Almost 67 percent of respondents said they are either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the president's performance, compared with 28 percent saying they are satisfied or...

We have allowed our rights to be woefully diminished by continually voting for numskulls and not doing our homework when it comes to this most important civic duty.

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is ordering red “Trump branded” face masks, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Campaign organizers hope the masks, meant to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, will help Trump woo older voters who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 — and who are increasingly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden amid the pandemic, according to the Journal. They’ll be handed out free or provided in exchange for a campaign a donation, the newspaper reported. The masks are an ironic touch, given that the president dismissed the threat of COVID-19 as recently as March. He also...

Political coverage tends to cut only one way at the D.C.-based news website The Hill, and it's not the pro-liberty way. That's why it was more than a little surprising to see the site run what quickly became their top-trending article – a piece by Stanford University's Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Scott Atlas, MD. Atlas's credentials include a stint as the head of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center. In other words, he knows medicine, understands disease, and respects science. He also argues that the data we have now accumulated tells us that isolation must end, and the public fear-mongering...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The intended target of an attempted armed robbery acted in self-defense during a deadly shooting Thursday night on East Smiley Avenue, according to investigators. The Baton Rouge Police Department reported Tony Falgout, 18, was killed when he and two others tried to rob a 26-year-old man around 9 p.m. in the 2200 block of E. Smiley Ave. The victim of the armed robbery is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, police said.

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Are You Smarter than a Sheep? A Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter This homily is in video form below if you prefer to watch it. The Fourth Sunday of Easter is traditionally called Good Shepherd Sunday, for the readings focus on how our risen Lord Jesus is our shepherd, who leads us to eternal life. Of course the flip side is that we are sheep. We sometimes miss the humor of the Lord calling us sheep. He could have said we are strong and swift as horses, beautiful...

Docuseries host and prop collector Dan Lanigan embarks on a road trip through cinema history, meeting stars and creators of such classics as 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Muppet Movie.' Movie blockbusters aren’t what they used to be, and that doesn’t just apply to recent months with theaters closed. (Streaming anything good lately?) A few decades ago, when studios poured $50 to $100 million into films such as “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Tron,” or “Mary Poppins,” the silver screen lit up with story ideas and visuals never before seen. Today, such budgets are most often reserved for paint-by-number remakes and tiring...

An Atlanta mall saw massive crowds gather Saturday to buy the new Air Jordan sneakers after lockdown restrictions were lifted, according to a report. Shoppers packed close to form lines that wrapped outside Greenbriar Mall on Saturday to get their hands on the new Air Jordan 5 “Fire Red” sneakers, news station 11Alive reported. Video posted to social media showed people waiting to get into the mall and then again outside of the shoe store Jimmy Jazz. “Everyone I talked to was in line for a new Air Jordan 5 that sold out online,” tweeted NBC producer Charlie Gile. The...

The California State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology is threatening disciplinary action against any salons, barbershops, or licensed establishments that are open for business in defiance of Governor Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home order.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez compared the sexual assault allegations made by former U.S. Senate staffer Tara Reade against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to Hillary Clinton using a private server to store her emails during her tenure as secretary of state, under President Barack Obama.

The latest evidence comes from his Morning Joe interview. While everyone focused on the Tara Reade issue, this sequence went mostly unnoticed. Biden claimed that 600,000 Americans had been killed by the coronavirus–off by a factor of ten. He repeated the claim twice before Joe Scarborough gently corrected him: Maybe Biden isn’t following the news these days. Maybe spending his entire adult life in Washington has dulled his mind to numbers. (Billion, trillion, who can tell the difference?) Whatever the cause, Biden’s oft-demonstrated mental vacancy disqualifies him from the presidency.

President Trump might reconsider calling Coronavirus "The Chinese Virus", because it's just the latest Chinese viral pandemic -- by my count, the sixth in the past 103 years. This means China has been, in effect, a virus producing factory whose pandemics killed millions worldwide, and who remains a biological threat globally. Here is my list of the Six Chinese Viral Pandemics, two of which are in dispute, both from the H1N1 virus, the first based on a Chinese report of deaths in November 1917: Number First Year Name Origin Virus Died Remarks 1 1917 "Spanish Flu" northern China H1N1 around...

Dr. Deborah Birx said protesters who gather without wearing masks and not practicing social distancing at rallies against states’ lockdown regulations are “devastatingly worrisome” because they could spread the coronavirus to at-risk family members. Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, was asked by host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” about crowds that gathered at Michigan’s state capitol from a “public health standpoint.” “It’s devastatingly worrisome to me personally because if they go home and, in fact, their grandmother or their grandfather who has a co-morbid condition and they have a serious or a very or...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee. He has received the endorsements of every major figure in the party, including former President Barack Obama, and 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Biden was also endorsed by all his opponents in this year’s nomination battle, including U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Despite this unified support and his consistent lead in the polls over President Donald Trump, Biden is in serious trouble. His media appearances in the past few weeks have been embarrassing. Biden continues to make serious gaffes, looks confused and does not inspire any...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Greg Gutfeld. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Link to articleGreg Gutfeld is a pundit on Fox News, who along with libertarian Kat Timpf and massive sidekick Tyrus, hosts the most popular late night talk show on TV, even the weeknight lib-fest hosts Kimmel, Trevor, and Fallon. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle:...

At this point, journalists — print, online and television — are used to the Trump pace. Weekends are gone. Work-life balance is not a thing. (And that was true even before the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the biggest story of the last 20 years.) But that doesn't mean that national journalists want to do it for four more years. A senior CNN producer tells The Hollywood Reporter that the network's journalists are not rooting against the president in November but guessed they would welcome a return to a more "normal" presidency and accompanying news cycle. "As journalists, I...

Governors and mayors across the nation have claimed that their emergency powers allow them to ban large groups during the coronavirus pandemic. They don't want groups gathering in malls, movie theaters or even churches, despite the constitutional protection of religious rights. Now one official is moving into extreme territory, demanding churches provide him with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of anyone who shows up to worship. The move by Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, already is attracting the attention of Liberty Counsel, which has been defending churches amid the coronavirus lockdowns. Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver...

Governors across the nation have issued stay-at-home orders. Many have extended them once or twice. Some have even gone so far as to threaten to slap residents with fines. But what these governors are counting on is local police departments and sheriffs to enforce their orders. Sheriffs from around the country are standing up and refusing to enforce the orders because they believe them to be unconstitutional. Two Arizona Sheriffs – Doug Schuster of Mohave County and Mark Lamb of Pinal County – said they will not enforce Gov. Doug Ducey's (R) stay-at-home order. Both Schuster and Lamb agreed to...