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

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

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

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

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

(Image via Wikipedia) In recent days I’ve seen multiple articles warning of dire hospital conditions, anonymous reports of shortages without naming the hospitals, rumors online about panicked nurses, and other “sky-is-falling” Chicken Little-ism over the Chinese-made Coronapocalypse. One of the claims comes from Hillary Clinton herself, citing a CBS News article and claiming nurses are

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unveiled the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which would be the third major piece of legislation to help Americans amid the coronavirus crisis. The Heritage Foundation analyzed this byzantine labyrinth of proposals and raised important alarms about many provisions while acknowledging the bill’s many positive reforms. American businesses are

Deutsche Welle reports that researchers at Iran’s own Sharif Institute of Technology in Tehran have come up with a best-case and a worst-case scenario on Iran’s coronavirus crisis. In the best-case scenario—“in which the government quarantines all high-risk areas, people strictly obey quarantine rules, and access to sufficient medical supplies is guaranteed—the country would reach

It’s a fait accompli. Former Vice President Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee. Sure, Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR) still has a slight mathematical possibility of winning enough delegates to unseat the frontrunner, but it’s effectively a done deal. CNN is shutting down its Democratic primary podcast, the Forecast Fest, because the battle’s over, and

You will not believe what is happening out there on the roads to the tireless truckers who are keeping America running during coronapocalypse: no bathrooms, food shut down, and idiot governors closing rest areas where they sleep. Are they trying to turn us into a Third-World country? Because this is how you’d do it. Tune

The Check Is in the Mail  Another day, another round of bad, coronavirus-related economic news. On the same day that the nation’s last large theater chain decided to shutter things for a while, America’s Big Three automakers announced that they would be doing the same. That’s a lot of people out of work in just

The fact that former Vice President Joe Biden, now on his third try for the presidency, remains the last “moderate” standing says more about his now-vanquished rivals than about Biden. The same media that post running tabs on President Donald Trump’s “lies” ignore, downplay, or otherwise dismiss Biden’s gaffes, memory lapses, and frequent incoherence. He’s

For the last three years, we have repeatedly heard from the left how President Trump is going to take away all our rights, and create a dictatorial, authoritarian regime. Even before he was inaugurated, riots began around the country protesting him and the destruction he would cause… a great irony given that these demonstrations were

If the NFL Has a Season… It is with indescribable joy that I am beginning this hump-day edition of the Morning Brief writing about something other than COVID-19, which, by the way, I spent part of Tuesday thinking I had. One trip out in public and I was imagining all kinds of things. I’ve been

“We don’t have any…!” Fill in the blank. People are stocking up on things, fearing that we will be stuck in our homes, under quarantine, without essential supplies. Some hoard toilet paper. A popular internet video features someone driving up to what appears to be a drug dealer but is really someone selling toilet paper.

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that “civilization as we know it” is at risk in the 2020 election. She is right, but the threat to western civilization comes from her own side, not from President Donald Trump. “My view is that civilization as we know it is at stake,” Pelosi said. “It’s about

Oh, That’s the Real World Are we all in this virtual quarantine bunker forever? No. Are we all in it for a while? Most definitely yes. We are now in Week Two of the New Reality and I think America is, for the most part, reacting well. I know that may seem a little off given what

As of this writing, 6,400 people all over the world have died from the coronavirus. In the United States, 68 people have died. Some perspective: Chinese deaths (3,217) account for half of the worldwide total. If you add Italy (1,441) and Iran (724), two countries where many Chinese were allowed in until recently, that totals

Earth Will Be Closed Until Further Notice It seems like just a few days ago that I was writing about the world’s coronavirus shutdown madness. Oh wait, it was. The weekend made Thursday and Friday look like calm, measured response days by comparison. We here at PJ Media are lucky, we are all still working

Sky Masterson’s Law says: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” Occam’s razor says that given multiple hypotheses, the simplest one is preferable. Occam’s razor is like Sky Masterson’s law: it doesn’t say the simplest explanation is always better, it just says

In 2016, I was in the greenroom for a Fox News segment, where I met a charismatic actor named Antonio Sabato Jr. I had never heard of him. Born in Italy, he became, he told me, a “proud American citizen.” He called himself a “Christian conservative” and said that he recently came out in favor

If the Democrat Party and its complicit media arms think the coronavirus is their latest best bet to contribute to President Trump’s downfall, to paraphrase Judas Priest, they’ve got another thing coming. First it was the doddering Mueller, hemming, hawing, and stammering through a hearing that irretrievably collapsed the collusion hoax. Then we had the

The regime in Tehran is in lots of trouble these days. As U.S. sanctions tighten, at least a quarter of Iran’s oil rigs are now out of action, “dealing a potentially long-term blow to its oil industry.” The coronavirus “has now spread to every province in the country and people are fearful that the true

I confess I was initially appalled by the name “Twitter” and vowed never to subscribe to a medium that called itself something so ridiculous. Nor could I understand how any self-respecting person would agree to “tweet” like a canary bird, originally in 140 — now in 280 — reductive characters, sometimes culminating in a catena

A trip to the emergency room is a scary, harrowing experience. But for too many Americans, even worse pain and suffering begin after the trip to the hospital is over and the healing has begun – when surprise medical bills come in the mail. Surprise medical bills are charges slapped on insured patients when they

Democrats aren’t just politicizing the coronavirus to blame Trump — they’re using it to push their pet projects. Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR) said, “When I talk about health care being a human right … the coronavirus crisis makes that abundantly clear as to why it should be.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said of the outbreak,

I Hate You, Coronavirus The coronavirus finally broke me a little bit on Thursday. I am forever grateful that I have you, my dear readers, to talk me off of the ledge from all of this madness. A few days ago I wrote that I might just turn this into a beer blog if the

The left’s reaction to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s rude exchange with a union worker in Michigan is a case study on liberal hypocrisy and propaganda. You’d have to be living in a cave not to recognize that something is way off with Biden. He’s always been strange, but he’s getting noticeably worse. His rhetorical

Let’s Make This Happen Super Tuesday Part II obviously didn’t go well for Bernie Sanders, who just a few weeks ago looked like a bit of a juggernaut. It was the second week in a row that Grandpa Stalin got his clock cleaned by Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep, making it clear that the Democrats

The NBA took an unprecedented step on Wednesday night of suspending its season after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for coronavirus. Prior to the start of the Utah Jazz-Oklahoma City Thunder game at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, players and officials abruptly walked off the court, leaving stunned fans to wonder what was