PG&E crew work to repair damage caused by the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., November 21, 2018. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) California electricity provider Pacific Gas & Electric Co. agreed to a plea deal that will see it plead guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter charges for its role in starting the deadliest wildfire in state history. The
Month: March 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic candidates debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Today, the New York Times writes that likely Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “has struggled to break through given the flood of news about the outbreak, and he lacks the kind of platform that is available
Airman First Class Sarah Howard, 159th Medical Group, Louisiana Air National Guard, writes triage information on a patient’s car windshield at the triage section of a drive-through community based COVID-19 coronavirus testing site at Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, La., March 20, 2020. (Senior Master Sergeant Dan Farrell/US Air National Guard) How did the
As I said in my previous column, there really is a lot of fascinating scientific detective work going on about SARS-CoV-2, the Wuhan coronavirus formerly known as “Wuhan Coronavirus 2019-nCoV” and COVID-19, the disease it causes. For me, the frustrating thing is that the really fascinating story is being ignored as everyone rushes to find
It’s stunning because it’s true, and it hints that Democrats might have miscalculated how much political cover they have in this coronavirus crisis. After three days of bipartisan negotiations, Senate Democrats suddenly decided to block the CARES Act on a procedural vote. The New York Times leaves no doubt as to which party made the
Sen. Rand Paul (Gage Skidmore) Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for coronavirus, his office announced on Sunday, making him the first U.S. senator to contract the deadly respiratory illness that continues to spread across the country. The Kentucky Republican has no symptoms but “was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his
Rand Paul Tests Positive for Coronavirus Kentucky Republican senator Rand Paul received test results on Sunday showing that he was infected by the coronavirus despite the fact that he had no symptoms. A source close to Paul says the asymptomatic senator requested the test for the virus, which can cause acute respiratory problems, because he
This is just quickie, “notes from quarantine” episode. Yeah, I know that quarantine is just my normal life, but it was still an interesting week? What are we binge-watching and/or reading while we’re on lockdown? This coming will probably be full of virtual happy hours. My colleagues and I enjoyed one last Friday and
An entire nation has just been shown that it’s possible to deliver higher education in an entirely different way: online. 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
It’s not just private businesses and schools being impacted by the social distancing rules and lockdowns taking place all over the nation. Our criminal justice system is feeling the pinch also, as courts deal with mandatory staffing reductions and the need to avoid having large groups of people gathered together in front of a judge.
A message on an electronic display inside a mostly empty 42nd Street subway station in New York City, March 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Aaron Ginn wrote a long, charts-and-statistics-filled blog post at Medium arguing that the available public health data shows that COVID-19 is less easily transmitted, less fatal, and more likely to fade away
San Francisco, Calif., March 20, 2020 (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Congressman Chip Roy (R., Texas) argued on the homepage Friday that the “government needs to make a decision about when we are going to free up the economy.” From the true premises that uncertainty is bad for the economy and that an indefinite shutdown of social life
Silver linings accompany most catastrophic events, and one major one with the coronavirus is the remarkable way Americans (and people throughout the world) have come together to fight this outbreak. Though the stock market has reflected a nation in panic, in other respects Americans, for the most part, have reacted responsibly, unselfishly, and cooperatively, and
Four U.S. senators are under fire after selling off millions of dollars-worth of stocks in the days before the coronavirus crashed the U.S. economy; analysis on ‘The Five.’ #FoxNews #TheFive 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,
And yet that’s exactly what happened in Pennsylvania. For those not familiar with the Keystone State, there are no privately owned liquor stores. All wine and liquor is sold at state-operated packaged goods stores known as Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores, operated under the auspices of the state Liquor Control Board. Beginning Tuesday night,
A woman looks at the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, April 7, 2019. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) The U.S. and Mexico have agreed to close their shared border to all non-essential travel beginning on Saturday in an effort to curb the international spread of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump announced Friday. “As we did with Canada,
TEEN CONTRACEPTION (2011): The Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Healthcare program provides “morning-after” pills and other contraceptive services to girls at 13 high schools in “high risk” zones. Though parents were informed of the program, it offers services without parental consent. 1972—Who knew that contraception had such generative power? A mere seven years after Justice Douglas’s
On the first day of the coronavirus quarantine I went for a walk through my neighborhood to the park. The weather was warm and the walk was nice. The park looked like a park in central Texas should in the spring, with wildflowers and bluebonnets in bloom and dandelions popping up like little white clouds
This strikes me as a bad idea for the country though it will probably be popular with the resistance which long ago patented the phrase “not my president” and the idea of setting up a shadow government. Joe Biden is planning a regular shadow briefing on coronavirus to start as early as Monday to show
Nurse Corazon Morales wearing a protective gear administers a test for coronavirus to a patient at a drive-through testing site in a parking lot at the University of Washington’s Northwest Outpatient Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., March 17, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Don’t listen to the media cynics who think coronavirus has turned the U.S. into
In response to The New York Times Downplays Promising COVID-19 Development Alexandra writes that journalists should not “cover a potential positive development” — viz., the possibility that anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can effectively treat COVID-19 — “from the angle of how best they can disparage the president.” What she leaves unsaid is that presidents
The Islamic world—minus Shia Iran, a point to be addressed anon—is not suffering from COVID-19 the way non-Muslim nations are because Islam naturally makes Muslims “cleaner” than infidels. Such is the contention Muslims around the world are currently making. Thus, the recent article, “Coronavirus – an Islamic Perspective,” begins as follows: Allāh has blessed us
I learned a new word (or term) this week, courtesy of Amber Athey at the Spectator. Apparently, “tradwives” is a thing now and it’s short for “traditional wives.” These are defined as women who stay home to take care of their husbands, their children and their house. Ms. Athey (who is neither a mother nor
Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on March 10, 2020 (Xie Huanchi / Xinhua via Reuters) In any just and lawful setting, actors who recklessly pursue hazardous activities would be held accountable for foreseeable harm caused to others. In the winter of 2002–2003, the deadly SARS
In response to The New York Times Downplays Promising COVID-19 Development As Alexandra notes, the New York Times rushed with unseemly relish to pour cold water on the possibility of using anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Bloomberg News, however, has to win some sort of award for a piece blaring the alarmist
Where Is Your God Now As we go through all of this END TIMES apocalypse fun, it’s good to look at things that aren’t oh-so awful. Our good friends at Walmart Inc. are helping us through the storm in a couple of ways. Walmart has long been the whipping boy of liberals, derided for both
Friday’s press briefing with President Trump and his COVID-19 Taskforce was not only informative, but it was also downright entertaining. There was even a surprise guest, at least a surprise to the viewers. One moment that set the online universe on fire was when Peter Alexander of NBC made the mistake of accusing President Trump
President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks at a coronavirus press briefing at the White House, March 20, 2020 (Shealah Craighead/White House) The extent to which law is a barrier against to future presidential muscle-flexing, for good or ill, depends not on
Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District candidate for Congress, Marie Newman, attends the Women’s March in Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 2018. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) Congressman Dan Lipinski has been ousted by a progressive challenger who attacked him for failing to support abortion rights. In Illinois last night, abortion-rights advocate Marie Newman unseated pro-life representative Dan Lipinski in the
(Alexei Novikov/Dreamstime) 2011—In Amnesty International v. Clapper, a Second Circuit panel rules that attorneys, journalists, and labor, legal, media, and human rights organizations have standing to bring an action facially challenging the constitutionality of a provision of federal law that creates new procedures for authorizing foreign electronic surveillance. The plaintiffs have standing, the panel rules, because
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