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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
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
Airplane flies above the Boeing Everett Factory during the coronavirus outbreak, in Everett, Washington, March 23, 2020. (David Ryder/Reuters) I am baffled by the continuation of air travel between New York City and the rest of the country. At the moment, the greater New York area is at the center of the coronavirus crisis in
She’s the Worst Many people are being called upon to deal with more than the rest of us during these plague quarantine times. Health professionals pop into mind first for most people, obviously. But what of those people who are making this isolation easier for us? The people who are delivering groceries, medicine, and, yes,
You can treat this as a sequel to the last post if you like. Will it really be safe to allow in-person voting in the midst of a second wave of coronavirus?, I asked. Fauci doesn’t answer that specific question but watch him here and you get the sense that, yes, it might be generally
(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
A man walks along Third avenue in Brooklyn N.Y., March 26, 2020. (Stephen Yang/Reuters) Uncertainty still reigns, so prepare for the worst. A lockdown would be prudent, not the end of the world. As of today, half of mankind is confined at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, although the severity of the confinement varies
As I write this column on a lovely Sonoran Desert Sunday afternoon it is four weeks to the day that I was returning home from CPAC after four fantastic days with old friends, new colleagues, and some random members of foreign parliaments. I hosted a Kruiser Kabana every night that I was there and, upon
Via Nate Silver, most of us are way out of our depth in trying to understand this stuff. I feel more out of my depth each day as I try to reconcile the increasingly hair-raising projections being made by most epidemiologists with the implications of the Oxford model of the disease, which speculates that asymptomatic
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
Students walk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., September 20, 2018. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Carol Folt abruptly resigned as UNC-Chapel Hill’s chancellor last year after the turmoil over the statue of a Confederate soldier. She took the side of the students who sought its removal, and left voluntarily. Folt has been replaced
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
On Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) leveled a serious charge against President Donald Trump. She accused him of “fiddling” while people died of the coronavirus. “As the president fiddles, people are dying,” Pelosi told CNN on Sunday. This accusation echoes the classic criticism of the Roman Emperor Nero, who is said to have “fiddled”
The coronavirus has resulted in stay-at-home restrictions in 27 states so far. Of course people are still allowed to go out to work at an essential business or to go shopping for food, but overall the amount of traffic on the roads is down dramatically. Some people seem to believe this means we’re now living
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
Former Vice President Joe Biden talks to the media as he leaves a polling station after a visit on the day of the New Hampshire presidential primary in Manchester, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Over and over, they are boxed in by their own ‘believe all women’ standard. It’s clear they never believed in
The USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York Harbor, March 30, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The hospital ship USNS Comfort on Monday arrived in New York Harbor, amid the growing outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus in the city. Medical personnel on the ship will treat patients not infected with coronavirus, in order
MyPillow shifts 75 percent of production to face masks as coronavirus crisis strains supply of personal protective equipment; Founder and CEO Mike Lindell weighs in. #FoxNews 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
In the midst of the madness–unprecedented upheaval and uncertainty for many of us–Americans, myself included, are finding ourselves taking a fresh look at what is truly important and what is not. For example, many who obsess over live sports and sporting events on TV or in person are realizing that they can, in fact, live
The Trump-deranged power couple, Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan will have to swallow their pride and ask President Trump if they want help in securing strong security measures in the United States. Will they ask for and receive special security, like Secret Service protection? The newly non-working royals, the Duke and Duchess of
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
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
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
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
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
Sen. Tom Coburn speaks about his deficit-reduction plan during a media availability on Capitol Hill in 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) He heroically opposed much of what goes on in D.C. — secrecy, pork-barrel spending, and corruption. Tom Coburn, the 72-year-old physician and former Oklahoma senator who passed away Saturday, battled the prostate cancer that felled him
On Thursday, Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden released his most recent plan to deal with the coronavirus crisis, but his most eye-popping proposal came in a follow-up tweet. The plan boils down to claims that he would do what Trump is doing with the current $2 trillion stimulus bill the House of
It’s never happened in the history of the United States but a British political journalist thinks now would be a swell time for Vice-President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. As a matter of fact, he is demanding that Pence act right now because President Trump isn’t mentally capable of leading us through the coronavirus
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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