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Matt Vespa – townhall.com – March 17, 2020 The markets are crashing. The NHL season is over. Professional tennis has been postponed. Professional golf—The Masters—has been postponed. The NBA season is over. The MLB season is delayed indefinitely. Globally, this virus has infected over 180,000 people, with a little over 7,500 deaths. In the U.S., there have been 4,800 reported…

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – March 17, 2020 Its bad behavior in the wake of COVID-19 will leave it in its weakest global position in memory. And the U.S. will emerge stronger. Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also…

By: Mark Fleming – baytownsun.com – February 9, 2020 With the 2020 Census right around the corner, the Texas Legislature in gearing up for the next round of redistricting that will need to take place in early 2021.  State Rep. Phil King, chairman of the House Redistricting Committee, came to Baytown Friday night to talk about the process and hear local…

By: Staff – whitehouse.gov – March 16, 2020 This afternoon, President Trump and the White House Coronavirus Task Force issued new guidelines to help protect Americans during the global Coronavirus outbreak. The new recommendations are simple to follow but will have a resounding impact on public health. While the President leads a nationwide response, bringing together government resources and private-sector ingenuity,…

By: Roger D. Klein – NYPost.com – March 7, 2020 Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the coronavirus may have spread undetected for weeks in Washington state, where the first two virus-related deaths in the US occurred. According to the Post, genetic-sequencing studies of samples from two Seattle-area patients — one from a person who had traveled to China…

By: Jonathan Easley – thehill.com – March 15, 2020 Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) debated each other in a studio with no audience in Washington, D.C., on Sunday night amid a global panic over the spread of the coronavirus. Here are five takeaways from the debate. The coronavirus changed the debate The pandemic sweeping the globe…

By: Tobias Hoonhout – nationalreview.com – March 13, 2020 Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Democrats for reportedly trying to ensure federal funding for abortion as part of the coronavirus economic stimulus plan. “While schools are closing and hospitals are gearing up, Speaker Pelosi is waging unnecessary culture wars. Speaker Pelosi should be…

By: Harry Stevens – washingtonpost.com – March 14, 2020 After the first case of covid-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, was announced in the United States, reports of further infections trickled in slowly. Two months later, that trickle has turned into a steady current. 01,0002,000 cases in the U.S.Jan. 22Feb. 1Feb. 15March 1March 13March 132,179cases2,179cases Hover…

By: Charles Fain Lehman – freebeacon.com – March 12, 2020 As the nation braces for the effects of the Wuhan coronavirus, congressional Democrats and left-leaning groups have seized on the moment of crisis to push for the enactment of longstanding policy goals. Legislation introduced by House and Senate Democrats has snuck in universal, employer-funded sick leave alongside temporary emergency measures, potentially…

By: Amanda Prestigiacomo – dailywire.com – March 12, 2020 On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate and open socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warned that the coronavirus death toll could surpass the number of Americans that were killed in World War II, which was more than 400,000 people. “In terms of potential deaths, and in terms of the economic impact on our country,…

By: Jim Banks – dailysignal.com – March 12, 2020 Is the coronavirus China’s Chernobyl? It could be—but only if we hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for their early missteps that allowed the virus to spread unchecked for weeks. Chernobyl is the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Many consider it a pivotal cause of the…