No Sheila. Just no. Advertisement – story continues below Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was seen out this weekend sporting a face mask as a good example to her constituents.Or maybe not. This woman is the Chair of the Congressional Coronavirus taskforce & this is how she wears her medical mask. pic.twitter.com/ZWhIiVCU4d — Ken Webster
Month: April 2020
While Wisconsin’s spring election is still on track to more-or-less conclude with in-person voting tomorrow and an additional 6 days of late-arriving absentee ballots, there may be another major plot twist or two today. First, it turns out that the special session on Governor Tony Evers’ attempt to rig…er…delay the election that was a gavel-in-gavel-out
Senator Bernie Sanders departs the Capitol following a vote on March 18, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) campaign manager and other top advisers are urging him to consider dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Campaign manager Faiz Shakir and Sanders ally Representative Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.)
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus pandemic at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden suggested on Sunday that the Democratic National Committee may need to hold a virtual presidential convention later this year, saying “we may not be able
Let Us Pray Our Way Through This We are now moving into the phase of the coronavirus apocalypse that I truly believe will be the most trying for those who aren’t used to working from home all of the time. There has been some novelty in these first few weeks — learning to use Zoom
People walk through a nearly empty Times Square during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, March 19, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) COVID-19 has thrust interdependence on America’s warring factions, undermining the idea that any one group is more essential to the nation than any other. If there’s anything to be said for pandemics, it might
On Sunday’s Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi joined left-wing activist Reverend William Barber in complaining that taxes on the wealthy aren’t higher, and dismissed the benefits to society contributed by the wealthy. He also invoked Marie Antoinette against the Trump administration over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. At 9:35 a.m. Eastern, Velshi turned
Earth Day 2020 is Wednesday April 22nd.It is the 50th Anniversary of the annual event. Earth Day founder Ira Einhorn died in prison on Friday. Einhorn was convicted of murder after killing his girlfriend and composting her. TRENDING: UPDATE: SOUZA DELETES TWITTER ACCOUNT: Obama White House Photographer Pete Souza to President Trump: “F*** you potus”
The coronavirus outbreak may be the worse pandemic the world has faced since 1918. The Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, appeared on a couple of Sunday morning shows to deliver a stern, stark message – this week is our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment. “This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week
A paramilitary policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 2013. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) The Chinese Communist Party’s Long March through the Institutions has been proceeding right under our noses, and it’s high time we applied serious and penetrating scrutiny to the Party’s practices as they relate to our own institutions. A case in
A record 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment the week of March 21 and economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve office predicted that as many as 47 million Americans might lose their jobs before the coronavirus crisis is over. Meanwhile, a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has decimated oil companies — right
President Donald Trump speaks during a news briefing on the administration’s response to the coronavirus at the White House, March 15, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) President Trump’s response, to date, resembles neither Dr. Jonas Salk nor the Grim Reaper. ‘The most incompetent and uninformed president in history has led the federal government into the worst emergency
We don’t want to read too much into a two- or three-day trend, as Cuomo himself notes in the clip, but New York’s daily death toll may be leveling off at 600 or so per day. The IHME projections had the daily death toll increasing for another five days, reaching a peak of 855 on
There has been a lot of talk about FISA reform, but what should that look like? In the latest episode of The McCarthy Report podcast, Rich and I broached that subject (as I did with more elaboration in my column this weekend). The future of the U.S. foreign counterintelligence mission is crucial. The latest hair-raising
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ABC’s chief White House correspondent and White House Correspondents Association president, Jon Karl was the latest liberal journalist to decide they wanted to make a fat stack of cash by publishing a new anti-Trump book (Front Row at the Trump Show). As such, his Sunday appearance on Good Morning America was just another chance to
In today’s episode of “the best the Democrats have to offer,” former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to forget how to say the word “coronavirus” while speaking about the pandemic. The latest Biden gaffe took place during an appearance on Sunday’s episode of ABC’s “This Week.” [embedded content] Biden was attempting to say that President
Back when we were debating the details of the coronavirus relief bill as it sailed through Congress (where as many as three people may have actually read the entire thing), one brief sticking point came with the generous nature of the federal enhancement of unemployment benefits. I wrote at the time that “a safety net
Boxes of N95 protective masks for use by medical field personnel in New Rochelle, New York, March 17, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) A federal agency reportedly shipped face masks overseas from a Miami warehouse even as a nearby Veterans Affairs hospital was rationing them due to the coronavirus outbreak. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
This week, PJ Media columnist Matt Margolis joins me on The Fringe to talk about the effects of the lockdown on our families and our mental health along with predictions on how long this is going to last, the constitutional repercussions, and what’s ahead for the election. Both New Yorkers, Matt and I bring you
Students of the Curtis Institute of Music playing ‘America the Beautiful,’ in an arrangement by, and under the direction of, Robert Kahn, April 2020 (Image via YouTube) My Impromptus column today is headed “Our old friend personal responsibility, &c.” It has a range of items, as the “&c.” implies, and it begins with — you
MSNBC allowed Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace to host their coverage of Saturday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing and, predictably, she twice interrupted to rip President Trump with like-minded guests Kimberly Atkins and Steve Schmidt. In Schmidt’s case, he blabbered that Trump was “completely over his head,” “incoherent,” “mentally….unraveling,” and “rambling.” After
Pete Souza, official White House photographer for President Barack Obama, swore at President Donald Trump on Twitter Saturday, dropping the F-bomb on Trump and calling him a “pathetic human being”. The episode is another example of the potentially violence inducing hatred expressed by senior Obama officials against President Trump in the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus crisis.
Last week I wrote about a NY Times video offering a front row seat to the coronavirus crisis as it was impacting one New York hospital. Things have become dramatically worse in New York since then. This week a local news station in Florida interviewed a New York paramedic for a segment about what it
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at an indoor training center at the USTA Billie Jean King United States Tennis Center, which will be partially converted into temporary hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, March 31, 2020. (Stefan Jeremiah/Reuters) New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said the city
Commies Gotta Commie As we discussed in last Wednesday’s Briefing, the already awful American mainstream media has managed to become even more irresponsible since the coronavirus took center stage in America’s collective stay-at-home consciousness. Every day, they find new ways to reinforce the “Enemy of People” status that they have been earning every day in
(Pixabay) What it’s like to move into your parents’ basement — as a functionally employed adult. I have spent most of the past three weeks underground. Fortunately, that is not because I am a sick man (at least not from the coronavirus), or a spiteful man (well, most of the time), or an unattractive man
Four hyper-partisan Democrat senators are demanding an investigation into the revised description of the Strategic National Stockpile. A firestorm was set off after Thursday’s coronavirus task force’s White House briefing with reporters when Trump senior adviser (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner used the word “our” when describing the stockpile. Kushner was made available by the White
MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell, a self-made former crack addict, is going to transform 75 percent of his manufacturing capacity to make 10,000 cotton face masks per day by the end of the week, ramping up production to 50,000 a day in a month. That sounds like a patriotic act to me, especially given that Lindell
Liberals are unhappy right now that Donald Trump’s getting all the free air time for coronavirus press briefings, while Joe Biden can’t really campaign. This doesn’t mean Biden isn’t getting sappy, unchallenging interviews. That’s certainly going to be true when the interviewer is NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, who often treated the Obamas like they were the