Great news, Michiganders — it might be safe to plant seeds in your garden again! What has apparently convinced Gretchen Whitmer to make “adjustments” to her capricious stay-at-home orders, which were so arbitrary that several sheriffs refused to enforce them? It might have been the protesters that have made their displeasure known, but I’m betting
Month: April 2020
Job seekers at a job fair in Uniondale, N.Y., in 2014 (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The results are predictable. “Bitter Taste For Coffee Shop Owner, As New $600 Jobless Benefit Drove Her To Close,” reads the headline at NPR. “Restaurants’ bailout problem: Unemployment pays more,” reads the headline at Politico. Not only were the consequences predictable, they
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang takes a question from a journalist in Beijing, China, March 18, 2020. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday criticized a lawsuit by the state of Missouri that seeks damages from China over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “This so-called lawsuit is very absurd and has no factual
How did CBS Evening News celebrate Earth Day? By sharing the ugly sentiment that humans were not needed. That’s exactly what reporter John Blackstone suggested in his Wednesday report touting how the deadly Chinese coronavirus, which had killed more than 47,000 Americans and left 22 million unemployed, was keeping the country stuck inside. “Tonight, we mark
2020 Democrat front runner Joe Biden forgot how many granddaughters he has while he was holding a picture of them. “And this is a picture of all my girls, including my wife Jill and my daughter, my 3 granddaughters, or actually 4 granddaughters and my grandson,” Biden said during an appearance on CBS’s “The Late
Fox News contributor Dan Bongino reacts to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling stay-at-home protests ‘unfortunate.’ Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres must be a student of Rahm Emanuel’s school of political advice – never let a crisis go to waste. In this case, it’s the Secretary-General’s address to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. He will try to make the case that climate change is more of a threat to the
Artist Kong Ning, following the coronavirus outbreak, prepares for a portrait in a wearable art piece she made to mark Earth Day, Beijing, China, April 22, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Don’t cheer the pandemic for giving the earth a ‘rest.’ For most Americans, it’s just another day of anxiety-producing quarantine as the unemployment rates continue
Despite the stalling tactics of certain Democrat governors, the U.S. is gradually moving toward restoring business as usual and rebooting the economy after a much-overrated “pandemic.” Canada, however, remains in lockdown, printing money it does not have to offset the closing down of industry and commerce, and sinking ever deeper into the economic doldrums. The
A man passes out flags during a demonstration protesting the state’s extended stay-at-home order at the Capitol building in Lansing, Mich., April 15, 2020. (Seth Herald/Reuters) The Michigan anti-lockdown protest was a sea of American flags. It feels like 2009 redux, with spontaneous anti-government protests, once again, getting smeared. Of course, the proximate cause of
Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, December 17, 2019. (Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters) A spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi confirmed that the House Speaker would not withdraw her nomination of Representative Donna Shalala (D., Fla.) to serve on an oversight commission
Former Secret Service agent says John Brennan is responsible for Americans’ loss of faith in the intelligence community. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most watched television news channel
In other words, Phase 4 of the coronavirus relief bill won’t be Barack Obama’s stimulus. Mitch McConnell called into Fox News to emphasize that the federal government has an obligation to help state and local governments with their COVID-19 efforts, not “rescuing them from bad decisions they’ve made in the past.” Rather than bloc-grant aid
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Flint, Michigan, March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) As Ramesh noted, a recent Pew Research poll asked registered Democratic voters and Democrat-leaning independents whether they were bothered by the fact that the Democratic Party’s likely nominee was a white man in
A bipartisan group of politicians is pushing a bill to prevent “online sexual exploitation of children,” but some civil liberty and tech experts have warned that it could jeopardize American privacy. There is fierce debate over the bill. The EARN IT Act, or “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020,” was
A pharmacy worker shows pills of hydroxychloroquine used to treat the coronavirus at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle Hospital in Liege, Belgium, April 22, 2020. (Yves Herman/Reuters) A doctor who was removed from his role overseeing a federal agency tasked with helping develop the coronavirus vaccine said that he was forced out
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin a clinical trial on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The trial will begin immediately in more than a dozen sites across the U.S. and will include about 440 patients. “We recognize the importance of answering
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at the Javits Center, which will be partially converted into a temporary hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, March 27, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo pushed back on claims that state lockdowns were creating more harm than the COVID-19 pandemic, saying “how can
When we last met in this space, I was trying to move beyond the coronavirus here and now, but I need to get back to it for a minute. It’s important. Congress is going to pass another coronavirus relief plan likely called ‘Phase 4’ or ‘CARES Act 2.0’. One problem with this bill-to-be is that it
A woman wearing a protective face mask rides a scooter across a nearly empty Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan, April 21, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Up until yesterday, the outlook for the coronavirus outbreak in the United States was starting to look better. By most measuring sticks — new cases and deaths per day nationally, state-level
Undecided moderate Democrats in New Hampshire appear not to be breaking for former Vice President Joe Biden, says Fox News contributor Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. #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
Will we have to do this all over again at Christmas? Allahpundit mentioned this last night in a roundup but it’s worth a closer look, at least for the economic implications. Dr. Robert Redfield warned that we could wind up facing tough decisions this winter, not so much because the coronavirus would get worse but
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, February 11, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday placed blame on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for delaying the passage of the small business relief bill, the fourth emergency coronavirus measure making its way through Congress. “Mitch McConnell likes to say
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple recently issued the 13th article in a series on the partisan liberal media promoting the Hillary Clinton-funded “dossier” assembled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele from his Russian contacts. Newly declassified notes from the report of Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz reveal Steele’s “findings” – promoted all over D.C.
People wearing protective face masks wait in line outside NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health Morrisania neighborhood health center, one of New York City’s new walk-in COVID-19 testing centers, in Bronx, New York, April 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Massive purchase guarantees can ramp up production and create mask abundance. In the throes of an economic and
President Trump has been talking about the threat posed to America by China for years. He campaigned on it in 2016, and has been responsible for the toughest trade rules on China in living memory. Meanwhile, Joe Biden said China posed no threat to the United States repeatedly over the last year. And now the
Laura Ingrham discusses the media salivating over possible GOP defections, left suffering from wishful thinking. #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 also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and
This reminds me of the progressive poll last fall showing that 98 percent of Latinos, when asked how they label themselves racially or ethnically, chose something other than the trendily woke-ish “Latinx.” “Latinx” isn’t a term normal people use. It’s a term used by political activists, the sort of people who lay awake at night
Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano poses in New York City, October 18, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) In an article last week on the 2020 Democratic veepstakes, I mentioned the possibility that Joe Biden might consider someone like Nevada senator Catherine Cortez-Masto if he were more interested in getting a boost in the Southwest than
(Leah Millis/Reuters) Memo to Democrats: Want to remove him? That’s what elections are for. As the Democrats demand a lengthy enough general work stoppage to create such economic devastation that they may have a chance to get their somnambulant candidate to the White House, we should not forget some of their other derring-do in the
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