By: Sam Dorman – foxnews.com – March 19, 2020 Twitter declined Thursday to flag an ad criticizing President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic as Democrat groups continue to press the issue ahead of the November election. The Trump campaign alleges that the ad replayed Trump saying the coronavirus was Democrats’ latest “hoax” without supplying the proper context. Twitter reportedly refused the campaign’s request to...

By: Sam Dorman – foxnews.com – March 19, 2020 Twitter declined Thursday to flag an ad criticizing President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic as Democrat groups continue to press the issue ahead of the November election. The Trump campaign alleges that the ad replayed Trump saying the coronavirus was Democrats’ latest “hoax” without supplying the proper context. Twitter reportedly refused the campaign’s request to...

By: Larry O’Connor – townhall.com – March 17, 2020 “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” It’s an oft-repeated quote from Democratic politician Rahm Emanuel. It was November of 2008 when Barack Obama had just won the presidential election in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. People often forget the second part of the former Obama Chief of...

By Allie Morris & James Barragán – dallasnews.com – March 19, 2020 Gov. Greg Abbott is temporarily closing schools, restaurant dining areas, gyms and bars statewide in his most sweeping action yet to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. The order is effective early Saturday morning and continues until April 3, he said Thursday. “All jurisdictions must work to contain the...

By: Christopher Cadelago – politico.com – March 17, 2020 “Workers need to continue to get a paycheck even when their businesses are shut down,” he said, calling it unacceptable that people would lose their homes or have utilities shut off. The coronavirus has upended the race, forced the candidates to isolate themselves from voters. Biden and Sanders are now regularly...

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: 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...