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By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – April 12, 2020 Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the notion that the new coronavirus spread from a research lab in Wuhan, China has gained more mainstream backing in academia, the media, and at least one  government. “There is a credible alternative view … based on the nature of the virus,” a senior British government…

By John Fund – nationalreview.com – April 12, 2020 Some local officials have come after religious organizations with unseemly zeal. For Christians, Easter is a time to celebrate resurrection. But it’s been hard for some Americans to do that because their local officials are bent on suppressing their observance of the holiday. Consider members of the King James Bible Baptist Church of…

By: Nick Arama – redstate.com – April 19, 2020 Some folks in Kentucky were determined to go to Easter services today, despite the order of the Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear against public gatherings during the pandemic. The Governor had threatened to record license plate numbers and then order a 14-day quarantine for anyone in attendance. But that didn’t stop folks…

By: Kayla Brantley – dailymail.co.uk – April 11, 2020 Surgeon General Jerome Adams has been met with outrage by the black community for using phrases like ‘abuela’, ‘big momma’ and ‘poppop’, while pleading for minorities to not drink or smoke and follow the government’s guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus . ‘We need you to do this if not for…

By: Washington Free Beacon Editors – freebeacon.com – April 10, 2020 Temporarily consigned to their homes, liberal commentators and politicians have fallen back on a favorite time-wasting activity: America bashing. Rachel Maddow eagerly tracks America’s lead in infections. The Center for American Progress blithely accepts the claims of dictatorships in order to diss the president. When the United States acknowledged more COVID-19…

By: George Gilder – wsj.com – April 12, 202 The conceit that everyone must bow to ‘science’ is not only undemocratic but dangerous in its own right. The U.S. economy has been cratered less by the coronavirus than by the response to it—driven by the undemocratic idea that “science” should rule, even when much of the science and the data behind…

By: John Stossel – townhall.com – April 8, 2020 Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history: more than $2 trillion. For once, both Republicans and Democrats agreed. The Senate voted 96-0. The House didn’t even bother with a formal vote. At the White House, a reporter asked the president, pointing out that the…

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – April 8, 2020 When masks would have helped us fight coronavirus early, our supposed betters misled us. When the stakes are highest, the truth counts the most. Or maybe when things get really serious, that’s when the people really can’t be trusted with the truth. It’s pretty clear which of these two ideas is the…

By: Zeke Miller, Deb Reichmann, & Mike Stobbe – apnews.com – April 9, 2020 In a first, small step toward reopening the country, the Trump administration issued new guidelines Wednesday to make it easier for essential workers who have been exposed to COVID-19 to get back to work if they do not have symptoms of the coronavirus. Dr. Robert Redfield,…

By: Matt Walsh – dailywire.com – April 6, 2020 On Saturday, police in Kansas City “intervened” to shut down a parade of elementary school teachers. The staff of John Fiske Elementary School decided to organize the parade as a way to boost the morale of their students and encourage them in their new distance learning adventure. All of the teachers and administrators…

By: Adam Rogers – wired.com – April 6, 2020 On any digital dashboard tracking the spread of Covid-19, on any graphic comparing country-by-country case curves or death tolls, they were the champs. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea—leaders there saw what was headed their way from China in the early days of the new coronavirus, before it became a pandemic….