Top Democrat Stephanie Murphy, who last month proposed legislation to reward China for their mishandling of the Corornavirus pandemic, is now demanding that President Donald J. Trump and his administration be investigated for their handling of the pandemic. POLL: Leading “Moderate” Democrat Underwater After Impeachment Vote Curiously enough, Murphy, in her own press release and
Month: April 2020
This is pure guesswork, not a leak of a secret official document or something similarly authoritative. They’re passing along informed Internet chatter about the number of urns that may be flowing into Wuhan right now, a topic about which I’ve written previously. Increased activity at crematoriums is a sure sign of local catastrophe, as New
The crest for the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, D.C. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The latest inspector-general report is another black eye for the FBI, but the FISA court is the elephant in the room. Imagine the game gets underway. The first pitch is a little
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This Is Delicious Happy Friday from the end of Week Three of Coronapocalypse Quarantine. My favorite beer place is still delivering here in the Sonoran Desert, so all is quite well in the Kruiser Bunker. I do hope that the faithful readers of the Morning Briefing are weathering this storm. We’ve decided to keep it
U.S. Army Specialist Daulton Radler inspects his glove fit and is shown the proper procedures for donning personal protective equipment while awaiting to forward deploy to the coronavirus testing site in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. April 2, 2020. (Master Sergeant George Roach/Pennsylvania National Guard/Handout via Reuters) Media figures on both sides of the aisle failed to
With the grave coronavirus pandemic worsening this week, the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings have been far more sobering and less combative than past episodes. Sunday and Monday featured fireworks, but it wasn’t until Friday’s that tensions resurfaced as President Trump squared off in two exchanges with CNN’s Jim Acosta and CBS’s Weijia Jiang
According to the far left Washington Post Dr. Anthony Fauci this week told a group of experts that, “You can’t really rely upon models.” The The Washington Post reported this on Friday: Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told others there are too many variables at play in
Mexico’s Grupo Modelo will temporarily suspend operations on brewing Corona beer and other brands exported to 180 countries on Sunday. This decision comes on the heels of the Mexican government declaring its business as “non-essential” in the fight against the coronavirus. The company planned for this and was already in the process of slowing production
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) talks to reporters following a classified national security briefing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 8, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) He never said China intentionally released the coronavirus, and his suggestion that the disease originated in a Wuhan laboratory looks increasingly plausible. One of the biggest issues people have with
True story: A friend of mine was in the military and fell in love with a local national. Military doctors and the base command have to approve when a troop marries a local, so the bride-to-be had to undergo a medical examination via a military doctor on the base. That doctor took X-rays, blood tests
Hobby Lobby store in Stowe, Ohio (Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0) The company is defying shelter-in-place orders in various states, and Dahlia Lithwick of Slate says it’s no surprise: The Supreme Court already gave it the message that it’s above the law. Its owners objected to providing insurance coverage to their employees for certain contraceptives on the
It was a bit surprising when a group of six counties in the Bay Area announced a “shelter in place” order back on March 16. Santa Clara county in particular was the first to do so in the nation. Today the San Francisco Chronicle describes the small study of just a couple hundred people that
Rich, the United States is the world’s No. 3 exporter of pharmaceuticals, behind Germany and Switzerland. It seems to me that shortages in our emergency supplies of critical drugs are a planning problem, not a trade problem. I am not sure what “We are going to need to make more of our own stuff” would
The Wall Street Journal reported that 1.2 Million N95 masks were flown from China to Massachusetts on Thursday. What was particularly noteworthy was the fact that the plane used to transport this precious cargo was owned by none other than the 6-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots. The deal with China was negotiated by the
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, told CNN on Thursday he doesn’t understand why every state hasn’t issued stay-at-home orders as novel coronavirus cases continue to surge across the US. Advertisement – story continues below More than 30 states and the District of Columbia have ordered their residents to stay at home.
China shut the barn door too late on Wuhan and we shut the barn door too late on China. But how could it have been otherwise? Trump banned travel from China by foreign nationals on January 31, a point he’s returned to repeatedly lately as proof that he was taking the crisis seriously. Not true
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2017. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The great-power competition has begun in earnest. What started as a catastrophe for China is shaping up to be a moment of strategic opportunity, a rare turning point in the flow of history. Suddenly, the
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, weighs in on the Biden vs. Cuomo shift in the Democrat party. #FoxNews #Hannity 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
Though some deny it, many harbor a strong hostility toward Christians in our society, especially those who obediently wear their faith on their sleeves. You know what they find worse than an outspoken evangelical Christian? An outspoken evangelical Christian who’s also an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump. Talk about a perfect storm of contemptibility!
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to the media before a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to wrap up work on coronavirus economic aid legislation in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) President Trump sent a scathing letter to Senator Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) after the Senate minority leader criticized the
In an on-air response to an article attacking him and the network, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson flipped the tables on The New York Times Thursday night when he called out the liberal paper for “screwing up coronavirus stories from day one.” And rubbed their nose in the ridiculous China and virus articles they
He dissed his daughters on national TV! Advertisement – story continues below In his daily press briefing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took time out to lecture his daughters about their late rent checks! It’s a pandemic and this guy wants his cash! TRENDING: UN Wants a 10% Global Tax to Pay for New “Shared
Well, it’s not every day that a former Obama staffer honestly assesses the state of the upcoming November election, much less Obama’s former campaign manager, yet, here we are. President Trump is “very dangerous” to Joe Biden’s bid for president because of his loyal supporters, according to David Plouffe. Plouffe, speaking on the “Fox News
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
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of unbelievable events I never thought I would see in America. Not the pandemic, because most people expect that diseases will come and go even on a larger scale than normal. But the absolute willingness of my fellow Americans to be ordered about by their state governments
Doug Hassebroek shops with a protective mask in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 25, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) The White House is expected to announce a new recommendation that all Americans wear cloth masks to help prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, Stat News reported on Thursday. The recommendation is not yet final and subject to change, however
Or so she says now. With $2.2 trillion in massive relief funds in play, the US needs a robust oversight mechanism for the distribution and efficacy of this historic rescue package. The question will be whether that is what Nancy Pelosi and James Clyburn have in mind — or whether they will turn it into
A man walks past an advertisement for the Democratic National Convention at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C September 2, 2012. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) The Democratic National Committee will push back its presidential primary one month to August 17, despite claiming last week that the Milwaukee convention would held as planned. Joe Solmonese, CEO
Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as President Donald Trump addresses members of his cabinet during a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 16, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Trump reelection campaign on Tuesday sent a letter to former attorney general Jeff Sessions warning him not to portray the president as an ally in