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On Tuesday, Texas may have created the anti-lockdown movement’s first martyr when a Dallas judge sentenced hairstylist Shelley Luther to a week in prison for the crime of trying to provide for her own and her employee’s families. Texas is home to 28,995,881 people. It’s had 32,879 diagnosed Wuhan virus cases (that is, 0.11% of the population got diagnosed) and 890 virus deaths (0.003% of the population). Most of the cases are linked to nursing homes or people with co-morbidities. Even in nursing homes, though, things needn't be so dire. One doctor’s experiment shows that early intervention with the hydroxychloroquine...

Tuesday’s jailing of a hair salon owner in Texas for defying a coronavirus shutdown order just doesn’t cut it, U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw wrote Tuesday. In fact, the punishment dished out to Dallas business owner Shelley Luther was another example of public officials overstepping their authority during the crisis, the congressman wrote on Twitter.“These punishments are NOT just,” Crenshaw wrote. “They are not reasonable. Small-minded ‘leaders’ across the country have become drunk with power. This must end.”GOVERNMENT GONE TOO FAR? STATES REBUKED FOR CORONAVIRUS LCOKDOWN MEASURES

I’m trying to imagine how the media would react if a Republican did this in relation to one of their allies being accused. We can ascertain fairly confidently that it wouldn’t be positive, but Nancy Pelosi is a Democrat so she can get away with this. The House Majority Leader proclaimed today that the sexual assault case against Joe Biden is “closed” and chastised the MSNBC anchor for asking her about it. Daily Caller ✔ @DailyCaller Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that the Tara Reade sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden is a "closed issue" and that she "believes him when...

A Trump administration health official said in a whistleblower complaint Tuesday that top officials within the Department of Health and Human Services “pressured” him for years to award contracts based on “political connections and cronyism.” Dr. Rick Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) — the government’s top vaccine procurer — was removed from his role on April 20 and reassigned to a narrower role at the National Institutes of Health. Bright, who ran BARDA since 2016, initially said his removal stemmed from “clashes with political leadership” over his resistance to the promotion of anti-malarial...

A sharp escalation in tit-for-tat retributions between China and the United States marks a deeply uncertain moment in relations between the two countries, already under strain from a longstanding trade dispute and a fierce debate over international use of Chinese technology. Both countries have scrambled over the last week to shape the international narrative surrounding both the inception and response to the COVID-19 virus. Trump began resolutely referring to the disease as the “Chinese virus,” brushing aside concerns about whether the phrase is racist and will incite unnecessary anger inside China. Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of...

Thousands of lives could be saved with the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the China coronavirus. One of the most recognized experts in the study of communicable diseases worldwide is Dr. Didier Raoult:Dr. Raoult is very hopeful regarding the treatment of the China coronavirus by using hydroxychloroquine.TRENDING: Armed Texas SWAT Team Raids Daddy Zane's Bar in West Odessa After Breaking State Orders and Reopening -- 8 Arrested! Dr. Raoult continues to speak out on his tremendous results using HCQ on coronavirus patients. Two major preprints have been published.Zhong Nanshan, hero of the 2003 SARS outbreak in China and his team:...

Kim Jong Un disappeared from public view over the past few weeks because of concerns about the coronavirus – not for any heart-related surgery – South Korea’s intelligence agency is claiming. The disclosure comes after members of South Korea’s parliament were briefed by the country’s National Intelligence Service on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Kim made his first public appearance in nearly three weeks last Friday at a fertilizer factory near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. “The NIS assesses that at least he did not get any heart-related procedure or surgery,” Kim Byung-kee, a member of the South Korean parliament’s...

The World Health Organization is being accused of ignoring its own guidelines put in place after the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s, which call for the organization to investigate reports of potential new coronavirus cases from the start to prevent any chance of a pandemic. Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who have been vocal critics of the WHO's handling for weeks, say that the Chinese Communist Party also ignored rules requiring governments to report any information of a new SARS-like virus to the WHO within 24 hours. In 2005 following the SARS outbreak, the WHO had updated...

If it acts, the Free World has the opportunity to condemn another communist dictatorship to Karl Marx's dustbin of history and avoid a war with a totalitarian superpower circa 2035. The Chinese Communist Party knows the COVID-19/Wuhan virus pandemic has exposed its imperial war to conquer the world, so it is frantically engaged in psychological and political damage control. Why? The strategic exposure (a cruel pun) of Beijing's goal occurs at least 10 years too early. If the CCP and Emperor/President/Dictator Xi Jinping just had another decade of gross domestic product growth; of military modernization; of intellectual property theft; of...

Yesterday brought the terrible news that New York had increased its Coronavirus death toll by more than 1,600 lives lost, based on new data out of nursing homes.  That spike -- coupled with disturbing reports about the current, more contagious strain of Coronavirus perhaps infecting people who'd recovered from a previous strain, as well as unpleasant revisions of a closely-watched model -- set off a fresh round of pessimism and fear among many Americans.  There's no sugarcoating this sort of tragedy: The coronavirus crisis at New York’s nursing homes is even worse than previously thought. Monday night, the state Department...

FBI Director Christopher Wray is facing mounting criticism from Republicans in Washington in the wake of new information coming out of former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn’s criminal case that called into question the bureau’s intentions in their investigation, which took place under previous FBI leadership. Unsealed documents included handwritten notes from former FBI official Bill Priestap that showed there was debate over whether the goal of their interview of Flynn should be to catch him in a lie. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Mike Johnson, R-La., questioned why this information was first getting out now and had not...

While many are starting the transition back to offices and whatnot, there are still those of us setting up shop at home. As we enter yet another week of this unusual arrangement, I’m sure a great number have come to point of the vultures in Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” where we’ve run out ideas about how to spend our time. Now, maybe your life is busy enough as it is and you don’t need any suggestions to fill the hours, but I think there are enough who are a little sick of all this “freedom.” Perhaps you’re a hobby sort...

The coronavirus that has exploded into a pandemic has almost certainly been circulating for several months longer than public health experts first suspected, masked by asymptomatic cases or illnesses incorrectly diagnosed. Scientists believe the first known case of a patient contracting the coronavirus happened in mid-November, in a 55-year-old resident of China's Hubei province. That was six weeks before the World Health Organization's (WHO) surveillance network picked up reports of a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, the province's largest city. There are increasing signs that the virus had begun its global spread long before it was identified. French...

Hillsdale College Releases Free Symposium on ‘The Coronavirus and Public Policy’ If you haven’t heard of Hillsdale College, the institution was founded in 1844 by men and women who were grateful to God for the blessings of freedom and believed that education is the best way to keep that freedom.As part of their education mission, Hillsdale has released a free five-part symposium looking at the coronavirus and the public policies made in response to it. The series features Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ala., author and journalist Alex Berenson, investigative journalist Mark Hemingway, and economist Brian Wesbury.In the first video, “China and...

A coronavirus researcher, who was reportedly "on the verge of very significant findings," has been shot dead in his home during a mysterious apparent murder-suicide.37-year-old Dr. Bing Liu, a well-respected University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researcher, was executed while alone at his home in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday afternoon, police say.

If you’re a healthcare worker who went to New York to volunteer to help fight the coronavirus outbreak there, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says you owe New York state income taxes. Even if you were not working for any pay in New York, but you were still being paid in your home state. Pay that enabled you to volunteer and put your own health in danger to help New York. That’s classic taxation without representation. Americans have a history of not liking this. Health care workers that came to New York to help fight the coronavirus pandemic at its epicenter will...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had the right to ban church assemblies in the interest of public health during the coronavirus outbreak, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Newsom’s stay-at-home order did not violate the constitutional rights to free assembly and religion when the Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi was ordered to cease holding services, Judge John Mendez ruled in Sacramento. Pastor Jonathan Duncan had continued to assemble his congregation after the governor banned public gatherings in March despite warnings it was in violation of state and local orders. The church of fewer than 50 members said it was obeying federal...

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China's ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that the country's government would not allow the international community to investigate the source of the novel coronavirus until after a "final victory" against the disease. Chen Xu told reporters during an online briefing that addressing the pandemic remained Beijing's first priority, according to Agence France Presse. He added that the second priority was countering "absurd and ridiculous" politicization of the outbreak from the U.S., which has continually criticized the government's lack of transparency during the outbreak's early stages. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that China denied repeated requests to...

I recently shared commentary about re-opening New York. You can listen here at public radio WAMC or read the commentary below. New York State has flattened the curve of new coronavirus infections. Entering the final week of April, the daily totals of new hospitalizations and deaths have significantly declined. Shutdowns of “non-essential” economic activity and social distancing are having the desired effect by reducing the spread of the virus, though those same shutdowns are wreaking havoc on both private and public sector finances. The unprecedented shutdown is also creating enormous challenges for families facing unemployment and loss of income, as...