People wear protective face masks, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai, China March 19, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) It’s called the novel coronavirus because we’ve never seen anything like it. We should be wary of using familiar antagonisms to orient ourselves to it. I often think we
Month: March 2020
Ever since she burst onto the scene a little over a year ago (seems like a lifetime, I know), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was immediately minted as The Next Big Thing in the Democratic party. At first, the overblown attention she was getting from the mainstream media seemed almost like a joke, especially since AOC said
This would be fantastic news if true, although I’m having trouble squaring the observed reality here and in the UK with the thesis. Remember this study, from Britain’s Imperial College? That’s the one that convinced Boris Johnson to abandon his plan to ask older people to stay home while letting younger, healthier people essentially go
(File photo: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters) Our first crisis is making sure our hospitals don’t get overwhelmed. Our next crisis is keeping the most vulnerable elderly and immunocompromised away from the coronavirus. Our next crisis is restarting the economy from its widespread halt. But after that, there are plenty of follow-on problems that will need
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media while visiting the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which will be partially converted into a hospital for patients affected by coronavirus, March 23, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) It’s not out of the question if Biden keeps looking out of touch and irrelevant. Democrats are publicly
President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks at an update briefing at the White House, March 21, 2020. (Andrea Hanks/White House) The president is showing true leadership in responding to the coronavirus. The near-term future of America’s physical and financial health now
I had just gotten off of the phone with my local ACE Hardware here in Tucson to see when they were going to get restocked with the ammo I need, when I read that Los Angeles County was shutting down gun stores. That got me thinking and I decided to share those thoughts with you.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that DeWine feels he has to humor Trump by framing his argument here as a case of him agreeing with the president when he’s actually disagreeing with him strongly. Trump’s position is that an economic freeze of one or two months might exact a steeper human cost
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes a statement about coronavirus economic-relief legislation on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Pool/via Reuters) The speaker of the House offers a thoroughly unserious proposal to address a deadly serious crisis. The coronavirus-relief package proposed by House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) is 1,432 pages long. Many of those pages
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the Democratic primary debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) presidential campaign on Tuesday announced that Sanders would participate in an April debate with former vice president Joe Biden, if it is held. The Democratic National Committee had planned to hold a debate
Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow speaks to reporters inside the Brady Press Briefing room at the White House, February 13, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Tuesday projected that the total economic stimulus to be enacted by the federal government will reach $6 trillion. Of the total, $4
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Don’t Hold Back, Now We are going to have a slightly different vibe here at the Morning Briefing, more of a Greatest Hits list of Twitter videos from yesterday’s Senate doings. After being the worst people on Earth on Sunday, Senate Democrats doubled-down on Monday and decided to be the worst people in history and
I wrote three posts yesterday about the insanity of going back to work soon but a Twitter pal, watching this clip, cut to the heart of it in one line: “Every cult eventually becomes a death cult.” Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their
President Donald Trump gives a news conference on the coronavirus outbreak at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 26, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A majority of Americans approve of President Trump’s handling the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent polls from CBS News and Monmouth University. The CBS News/YouGov survey released Tuesday found that 53 percent
President Donald Trump addresses the coronavirus response daily briefing with members of the administration’s coronavirus task force at the White House, March 20, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Well, that didn’t take long. In my column over the weekend, I recounted that, although President Trump had quite appropriately invoked the 1988 Stafford Act’s emergency declaration remedy, he
‘Men in America,’ Part 4: ‘Toxic masculinity’? Obama administration sought new ways to close a gender gap that no longer exists. One idea was “breaking down gender stereotypes in toys.” Educators at all levels took this seriously. #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well
As more and more state and local governments issue orders for businesses to close and residents to shelter in place, economic activity — outside of toilet paper hoarding — has ground to a halt. A bipartisan bill with wide support, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, has made its way through Congress.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has resisted doing a statewide lockdown so far. He keeps Texans updated on the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the state daily and seems to be making decisions on a day by day basis. His main message is that the urban areas of the state are under pressure to keep
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) questions David Marcus, head of Facebook’s Calibra, during testimony before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Monday afternoon slammed Democrats for delaying a vote on a massive coronavirus-relief package, accusing them of holding up
The U.S. Capitol dome and U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The change would ensure that the business of Congress could go on during crises such as the coronavirus pandemic. Multiple members of the House have reported positive tests or exposure to the coronavirus, the worst being 45-year-old Utah Democrat Ben McAdams, who was
What offends the folks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? Jesse Watters investigates on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’
Can Congress get any worse? Americans are facing unprecedented uncertainty over our jobs, our homes our futures and our way of life and Washington just keeps finding ways to make the bad days worse. Our so-called elites may be misjudging the anxiety and anger that are building across the country. This is not a time
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It’s obvious but bears stating anyway: The only reason Pelosi thinks she can get away with trying to get a Democratic policy wishlist passed at a moment of dire economic emergency is because she trusts that the media will run interference for her and her party. And she’s right. As I write this at 6
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis talks to the media during a news conference as Hurricane Dorian approaches at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., August 29, 2019. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Monday announced a mandatory self-quarantine on all travelers arriving by plane from the New York City area, due to
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A former field organizer for Mike Bloomberg’s Democratic presidential campaign filed a class-action lawsuit against the campaign on Monday, claiming Bloomberg lured her and thousands of other employees into jobs they were falsely told
Empty chairs at the deck of a local restaurant that is closed due to the outbreak of coronavirus in Hoboken, N.J., March 16, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) With all the attention focused on Washington it’s easy to forget that the economic bill for the current disaster will also fall very heavily on the states. Over at
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere As Week One of the Grand American Quarantine Experiment was winding down when the weekend approached, the number of calls that I began receiving from friends who are not used to isolation picked up the pace considerably. The effort that people were making to check in on one another gave me
Can we all agree now that members of Congress should be allowed to vote remotely? If not, why? He expects to be back in the Senate after his quarantine period ends and will continue to work for the people of Kentucky at this difficult time. Ten days ago, our D.C. office began operating remotely, hence
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