Month: March 2020

Did anyone really think that the Carter Page FISA warrant was a one-off? The Department of Justice’s audit of twenty-nine other FISA warrants pursued by the FBI found errors in every single application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Seventeen of them were serious errors, the Inspector General reported today: The Justice Department inspector general revealed Tuesday
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Sen. Tom Cotton speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) 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
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(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese scientist carrying vials believed to contain the MERS and SARS viruses in November 2018 — just over a year before the first reported Wuhan coronavirus case, according to an FBI tactical intelligence report obtained by Yahoo News. Advertisement “Inspection of
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White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx speaks as NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and Vice President Mike Pence listen during the daily coronavirus response briefing at the White House, March 27, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Shortly after the second plane hit the tower on 9/11, a stunned
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces the massive coronavirus economic stimulus bill, because it leaves out illegal immigrants. #FoxNews #Tucker FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting
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A member of traffic police wearing a protective suit gestures during the coronavirus outbreak at the Mexico and United States border, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 29, 2020. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/ Reuters) At crisis’s end — whenever it ends — there will be plenty of lessons for American leaders to learn from the pandemic, and
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Vice President George Bush delivers his acceptance speech at the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans. (George H. W. Bush Presidential Library) I very much appreciated Kevin Williamson’s piece today: “Pandemic: The First Great Crisis of the Post-American Era.” Many of us have been writing on this theme for a number of years now (since
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President Donald Trump takes questions as Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listen during the coronavirus task force daily briefing at the White House, March 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Yes, he can restrict travel — between states, not within states — of people reasonably expected to have COVID-19. On Saturday, President Trump
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Last February 15 marked the five year anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Christians—20 from Egypt and one from Ghana.  One human rights group summarized the incident in a statement: This week in 2015, 21 men were brutally beheaded on a Mediterranean beach in Libya, by members of ISIS. They had been captured by ISIS
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When John Sexton wrote about New York City residents failing at social distancing, I don’t think he expected it to go this far. Stopping New Yorkers from keeping the party going in the city that never sleeps is proving even harder than expected. As John pointed out, the Mayor still hasn’t closed the parks, so
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President Donald Trump looks to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, March 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Michael Brendan Dougherty recently made the very thoughtful point that, as we make our way through this pandemic, those who are most worried about the economy and those who are most
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FDNY emergency medical technicians secure a patient identified to have coronavirus into an ambulance, New York City, March 24, 2020. (Stefan Jeremiah/Reuters) Seventeen U.S. states have now confirmed more than 1,000 cases of coronavirus, with the national total over 119,000. New York remains the epicenter of the domestic outbreak, with more than 50,000 confirmed cases.
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