A man walks along Third avenue in Brooklyn N.Y., March 26, 2020. (Stephen Yang/Reuters) Uncertainty still reigns, so prepare for the worst. A lockdown would be prudent, not the end of the world. As of today, half of mankind is confined at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, although the severity of the confinement varies

Students walk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., September 20, 2018. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Carol Folt abruptly resigned as UNC-Chapel Hill’s chancellor last year after the turmoil over the statue of a Confederate soldier. She took the side of the students who sought its removal, and left voluntarily. Folt has been replaced

The USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York Harbor, March 30, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The hospital ship USNS Comfort on Monday arrived in New York Harbor, amid the growing outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus in the city. Medical personnel on the ship will treat patients not infected with coronavirus, in order

President Donald Trump takes questions as Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listen during the coronavirus task force daily briefing at the White House, March 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Yes, he can restrict travel — between states, not within states — of people reasonably expected to have COVID-19. On Saturday, President Trump

Sen. Tom Coburn speaks about his deficit-reduction plan during a media availability on Capitol Hill in 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) He heroically opposed much of what goes on in D.C. — secrecy, pork-barrel spending, and corruption. Tom Coburn, the 72-year-old physician and former Oklahoma senator who passed away Saturday, battled the prostate cancer that felled him

The worst is yet to come in the struggle against COVID-19 in America, unfortunately. And yet, it’s also not too soon to be thinking about the next phase of the national response to the virus. How will we know when it is safe to begin returning to work, school, travel, and commerce? And how should

EMTs wheel a sick patient to a waiting ambulance in New York City, March 28, 2020. (Stefan Jeremiah/Reuters) With a death toll over 700 and more than 52,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, New York is in a state of emergency. Not only is it the hardest-hit state, but the growth rate of both deaths and

President Donald Trump at the daily coronavirus response briefing at the White House, March 27, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) If President Trump is right that the fight against the coronavirus is the equivalent of a war, we need to focus first and foremost on defeating the enemy. That means, as an urgent priority, getting hospitals the

Dear Weekend Jolter, Whatsoever you do, read Jim Geraghty’s chronicle of Red China’s Coronavirus mendacity. A slice from the calendar: January 1: The Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Dr. Li Wenliang, accusing him of “spreading rumors.” Two days later, at a police station, Dr. Li signed a statement acknowledging his “misdemeanor” and promising

In the book of Genesis, Pharaoh, besieged by ominous dreams, called in the experts early. Joseph, whose reputation preceded him, explained that the seven fat cows followed by seven skinny cows emerging from the Nile in Pharaoh’s dream foreshadowed the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine coming to … Read More

In the book of Genesis, Pharaoh, besieged by ominous dreams, called in the experts early. Joseph, whose reputation preceded him, explained that the seven fat cows followed by seven skinny cows emerging from the Nile in Pharaoh’s dream foreshadowed the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine coming to … Read More

In the book of Genesis, Pharaoh, besieged by ominous dreams, called in the experts early. Joseph, whose reputation preceded him, explained that the seven fat cows followed by seven skinny cows emerging from the Nile in Pharaoh’s dream foreshadowed the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine coming to … Read More

From NBC News comes one of the most irresponsible pieces of “journalism” I’ve seen in a long while. It revolves around an interview with a 61-year-old woman from Arizona who is currently in the ICU, and who, tragically, just saw her husband die in front of her. In tone, it is cast as a public-service

President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks at a coronavirus update briefing at the White House, March 21, 2020. (Tia Dufour/White House) Their ineptitude, bias, childishness, and outright stupidity have become a genuine danger to the health of the republic. Here are

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, March 12, 2020. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr on Thursday announced charges against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and senior members of his government. The Justice Department has charged Maduro and other officials with drug trafficking, and put out a

A man crosses a nearly empty Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, March 25, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) What is before Congress is not a stimulus bill. We have often opposed stimulus bills in the past, considering it a mistake for the federal government to borrow money to expand

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley. (Noah Berger/Reuters) As noted, in a time of a deadly pandemic, Democrats and mainstream media (but I repeat myself) have been preoccupied with the alleged racist implications of calling COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus — an appellation the Left maintains may stoke xenophobia and animosity toward Asian

People wear protective face masks, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai, China March 19, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) It’s called the novel coronavirus because we’ve never seen anything like it. We should be wary of using familiar antagonisms to orient ourselves to it. I often think we

President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks at an update briefing at the White House, March 21, 2020. (Andrea Hanks/White House) The president is showing true leadership in responding to the coronavirus. The near-term future of America’s physical and financial health now

Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow speaks to reporters inside the Brady Press Briefing room at the White House, February 13, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Tuesday projected that the total economic stimulus to be enacted by the federal government will reach $6 trillion. Of the total, $4

President Donald Trump addresses the coronavirus response daily briefing with members of the administration’s coronavirus task force at the White House, March 20, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Well, that didn’t take long. In my column over the weekend, I recounted that, although President Trump had quite appropriately invoked the 1988 Stafford Act’s emergency declaration remedy, he

The U.S. Capitol dome and U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The change would ensure that the business of Congress could go on during crises such as the coronavirus pandemic. Multiple members of the House have reported positive tests or exposure to the coronavirus, the worst being 45-year-old Utah Democrat Ben McAdams, who was

Empty chairs at the deck of a local restaurant that is closed due to the outbreak of coronavirus in Hoboken, N.J., March 16, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) With all the attention focused on Washington it’s easy to forget that the economic bill for the current disaster will also fall very heavily on the states. Over at

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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