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May 1st, 2020
Church-and-State-CoronaVirus
By: First Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org– April 29, 2020 Religious Liberty Law Firm Seeks Restraining Order Against Washington Governor’s Criminalization of Bible StudyGovernor’s policy banning religious gatherings of any size is inconsistent with CDC Guidelines and violates the Constitution Seattle, WA—First Liberty Institute and a network attorney with The North Creek Law Firm today sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) on...
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April 30th, 2020
Michael Flynn
By Margot Cleveland – thefederalist.com – April 27, 2020 The criminal case against Michael Flynn imploded Friday. First, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia provided Flynn’s legal team with documents discovered by an outside review of the Flynn prosecution — documents withheld for years. Then, Sidney Powell, the attorney who took over Flynn’s defense nearly a year ago, filed...
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April 28th, 2020
masked worker & customer at Waffle House
By: Kate Brumback & Russ Bynum –  apnews.com – April 27, 2020 With staff wearing masks, checking customers’ temperatures and using disposable paper place mats, some of the nation’s restaurants reopened for dine-in service Monday as states loosened more coronavirus restrictions. But many eateries remained closed amid safety concerns and community backlash. Restaurants in Georgia and Tennessee and Anchorage, Alaska, welcomed...
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April 28th, 2020
Coronavirus Testing sign w arrow
By: Scott Atlas – nypost.com – April 26, 2020 The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been enormous, and New York has suffered more than anywhere else in the world. Compared as a separate country, the New York area would rank, by far, as No. 1 for deaths per capita. The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area accounts for approximately 60 percent...
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April 28th, 2020
pills-on-blue-background spelling VIRUS
By: Douglas Groothuis, PhD – douglasgroothuis.com – March 20, 2020 With social media, anyone can post anything about anything. You are your own editor, publisher, and promoter. Everyone is an expert or can pose as one. Or perhaps the idea of an expert is dead. Since ethos is essential in persuasion, let me “speak as a fool” (as Apostle Paul put...
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April 27th, 2020
Woman walks past park sign w COVID19 warning
By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – April 25, 2020 There is never a good time for a pandemic, but an election year in a deeply divided country is an especially bad time. Everything is politicized. I would add that even science is politicized, but that would suggest that this was something new. Sadly, we’re inured to the politicization of science,...
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April 27th, 2020
Steinberg's America
By: Bret Stephens – nytimes.com – april 24, 2020 In 1976, the artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic. You know the one: Manhattan heavily in the foreground, the Hudson River, a brownish strip called “Jersey,” the rest of the America vaguely in the distance....
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April 24th, 2020
chinese-navy-anniversary
By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – April 23, 2020 The world was a dangerous place before — and will be after — the coronavirus pandemic. While Americans debate the proper ongoing response to the virus and argue over the infection’s origins, nature, and trajectory, they may have tuned out other, often just as scary, news. Many Americans are irate...
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April 24th, 2020
Trump hand on temple
By: Admin – americacanwetalk.org – April 23, 2020 President Trump’s criticism of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp for moving too soon to open up certain facilities “ahead of federal Phase One guidelines” is a five-alarm danger signal. It suggests that for all Trump’s street savvy and purported genius at staying ten moves ahead in a 3D chess match—he doesn’t yet see what...
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April 24th, 2020
NY Gov A. Cuomo
By: Heather Mac Donald – amgreatness.com – April 22, 2020 More than a dozen governors extended their economic shutdown orders recently into May and beyond. Those officials should have publicly addressed the following questions first: How many coronavirus deaths do you expect to avert by the shut-down extension? What will your state’s economy look like after another month of enforced stasis? How many...
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