By: Grady Means – thehill.com – May 5, 2020 The coronavirus has led to the greatest economic catastrophe in our lifetimes. Record losses in the market, record bankruptcies, record unemployment and, soon, record insolvency of local governments. This social and economic firestorm will lead to massive shifts in political alignment. The question is, which way will politics shift this year…
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By: Brad Polumbo – washingtonexaminer.com – May 05, 2020 First, we ran out of toilet paper, and now, we’re running out of… hamburgers? As the coronavirus crisis and ensuing societal lockdown hit roughly the two-month mark, we’re starting to have serious problems with the meat supply chain due to meatpacking plant shutdowns and preexisting regulatory dysfunction. Now, the New York Times reports that…
By: Gary Bauer – ouramericanvalues.org – April 28, 2020 As many of you know, I am proud to be one of three people appointed by President Trump to serve on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. One of the Commission’s responsibilities every year is to examine the condition of religious liberty around the world and to report on countries that are engaged…
By: Joel B. Pollak – breitbart.com – May 4, 2020 The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary was awarded Monday to Nikole Hannah-Jones for an essay in the New York Times that falsely claimed the American Revolution was fought primarily to protect slavery. The essay, titled “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them…
By: Brett Samuels – thehill.com – May 4, 2020 The Trump administration is projecting that the United States could see up to 3,000 deaths per day from the coronavirus by June 1, a person familiar with internal documents confirmed to The Hill on Monday. Data and modeling from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the federal…
By: – dailycaller.com – May 4, 2020 Text for this article is not available at this time. To see this article and subscribe to others like it, click read more. Source: Sweden Is Reaping The Benefits After Defying Conventional Coronavirus Wisdom | The Daily Caller
By: Scott Slayton – ChristianHeadlines.com – April 27, 2020 Christian author and teacher Josh McDowell recently shared his concerns that the COVID-19 lockdowns are going to fan the flames on two major issues already facing American culture: pornography addiction and loneliness. According to CBN News, McDowell expounds on these issues in a document on his website called “What Comes Next?” McDowell, author of…
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 1, 2020 Many states are starting to lift their shutdown orders, but some governors are still insisting they need more testing to do so. The Trump Administration on Monday responded by laying out all of the country’s testing capacity. But no amount of testing by itself will stop the virus from spreading. States…
By: Ed Yong – theatlantic.com – April 29, 2020 On March 27, as the U.S. topped 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House press-briefing room and was asked what he’d say about the pandemic to a child. Amid a meandering answer, Trump remarked, “You can call it a germ, you can call it a…
By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2020 From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been obvious that the fates of public health and the economy were tied together. Weeks before formalized “lockdown” policies began appearing, as news about the danger of the coronavirus spread, economic activity dramatically slowed. And it obviously won’t speed up again until the…
By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – April 30, 2020 When Bernie burst onto the scene (again) for the 2020 presidential race, fans in favor of socialism were stoked. Bern was gonna get in there and change things up. Who needs to be able to own their own business? Let the Nazis’ favorite economic system take hold! But alas, it was not…