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Ten years ago I published an article called “No More Crying ‘Spanish Flu,’ ” in part because with every pandemic or potential pandemic that’s exactly what public health service gurus and the media were doing. And in part because the comparison to the 1918–19 flu was always ludicrous, based not on science but primal fear. Source: Fauci Finally, Falsely, Invokes…

A large majority of Americans support states imposing face mask mandates punishable by fines or jail time, according to the latest Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. Source: Morning Consult Poll: Majority Back Mask Fines or Jail | Newsmax.com

We live in an age of viral videos that often can be deceiving. That’s certainly the case in Portland, where the hyperbolic charges of federal stormtroopers hunting down peaceful protesters first began based on videos that didn’t tell the whole story. Now that Department of Homeland Security officials have explained the operation, there’s no excuse for the continued Nazi references…

President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling the Republican National Convention events that were scheduled to take place next month in Jacksonville, Fla. – citing the rising numbers of COVID-19 in the state. Source: Trump announces Jacksonville part of GOP convention will be canceled over coronavirus concerns | Fox News

We’re glad your ministry is interested in the Bless Your Pastor movement! This campaign is designed to empower Christians and churches to show and share God’s love for their pastors and church staff. It’s easy to spark excitement for the campaign with the resources below. Source: Ministries | Bless Your Pastor

Typically, when you’re sick, hurt, or not feeling well, you go to a hospital to see a doctor. In the near future, that won’t necessarily be the case: The United States medical system has become increasingly expensive and too often dangerous to one’s health. Source: Why Hospitals May Soon Become a Thing of the Past

The mayor of Portland and the governor of Oregon might not like it, but President Trump has a winning issue with his federal law enforcement deployments. Source: Why Trump is winning the national policing argument

President Trump recently took to Twitter to demand that the country’s schools reopen in the fall. He has framed the conversation as one that pits fear-mongering Democrats opposed to in-person schooling against Republicans committed to reopening the economy. As public health professionals and parents of school-age children, we urge the country: Ignore Trump. Source: Listen to the science and reopen…

A strange thing is happening in the debate about how to reopen America’s 100,000-or-so schools in the fall. As the political debate is just heating up, the medical and scientific debate is essentially ending. You would not know it watching the news coverage in the mainstream media, and certainly not by following the hysteria and fear-mongering on social media. Source:…

If only mobs were allowed to destroy federal property without consequence. Then there wouldn’t have to be any dispute over federal agents defending a federal courthouse in Portland, Ore.; it could simply be overrun and burned to the ground with no unwelcome resistance from the government. Source: Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have it exactly wrong on feds vs. protesters in…

By: William McGurn – wsj.com – July 20, 2020 When it comes to committing American troops abroad, Donald Trump adheres to the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it. The rule, according to Bob Woodward, was invoked in 2002 by Secretary of State Colin Powell to warn George W. Bush about the consequences of invading Iraq. “You are going…