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At the Saturday Task Force Briefing from the White House this past weekend, Vice President Mike Pence spoke briefly.  It was the day before Palm Sunday and he was emotional as he talked about the Easter Season and our nation’s healthcare workers. “The stories are incredibly moving about what healthcare workers are doing every day.” He talked about how they’re going…

By: Elizabeth Vaughn – redstate.com – April 5, 2020 Byron Pitts, co-anchor ABC’s “Nightline,” interviewed Vice President Mike Pence on Friday night. Pitts asked Pence: Mr. Vice President, I have a final question for you. And I ask this not in a political way. But for you sir, like so many of us in our nation, you are a person…

By: Henry A. Kissinger – wsj.com – April 3, 2020 The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the urgent work of planning for a new epoch. The surreal atmosphere of the Covid-19 pandemic calls to mind how I felt as a young man in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Now, as in late 1944,…

By: Derek Hunter – townhall.com – April 5, 2020 Predicting the future is a tough racket. If people were any good at it, we’d all be multiple lottery winners. Since we aren’t, that’s a pretty good indication that we have the ability to guess what will happen, but possess no clairvoyance. That brings us to today, when the country and…

By: R. Albert Mohler Jr. & Kelly J. Shackelford – washingtonpost.com – April 3, 2020 Perhaps the question most asked of either of us lately — whether as a theologian or a religious liberty attorney — is whether religious liberty is imperiled by government officials responding responsibly to the threat of the covid-19 pandemic. We do not think so. Americans treasure not only the “free…

By: George Schroeder & Jonathan Howe – bpnews.net –  April 02, 2020 An Interim Final Rule published by the U.S. Small Business Administration provides assurance that churches and other ministries are in fact eligible to receive loans as part of a massive financial stimulus bill passed last week by Congress, and that those faith-based nonprofits will not face potential conflict with…

By: Lev Facher – statnews.com – April 2, 2020 The White House is expected to announce a new policy, based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that would urge Americans to wear cloth masks in an effort to prevent coronavirus spread, according to a federal official familiar with the policy. In a draft document obtained by STAT,…

By: David Ignatius  – washingtonpost.com – March 31, 2020 When America has recovered from the coronavirus crisis and people are back to work, Rep. Adam B. Schiff thinks Congress should consider a 9/11-style independent commission to examine why the nation was so unprepared for the pandemic. Schiff, a California Democrat, told me in an interview Monday that his staff has already started…

By: Emily Zanotti – dailywire.com – April 2, 2020 New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has reassured panicked progressives that he will be monitoring Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian organization constructing a field hospital to help treat coronavirus victims in Manhattan, for signs of “discrimination” after leftists on social media noticed that the Franklin Graham-led organization opposes gay marriage. Samaritan’s…

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – March 31, 2020 Tom Cotton was both the first and the loudest voice in Congress to sound the alarm about the looming pandemic. While others slept, Tom Cotton was warning anyone who would listen that the coronavirus was coming for America. On January 22, one day before the Chinese government began a quarantine of Wuhan to…

By: Ben Shapiro – townhall.com – April 1, 2020 “There are no libertarians in a global pandemic.” So goes the smug punchline of large-government advocates who point to the necessity of collective action in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. Without government, they say, we’d all be dead. Few libertarians would disagree. The hardcore libertarians at Reason magazine aren’t…