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How Capitalism Is Helping US Defeat COVID-19
In times of crisis, Americans don’t look just to the government to save the day. In certain intellectual circles in the United States it’s become fashionable to decry free markets, laying every economic woe of any American at the feet of “late stage capitalism,” the buzzword used to decry any business practice that seems designed… -
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Asymptomatic Cases Complicate the Containment of Coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2, the biological pathogen that causes the COVID-19 disease, is a vicious virus. While much remains to be learned, the new coronavirus seems to be more infectious than the annual flu and possibly more deadly. The unbelievable daily growth in the global confirmed case count speaks for itself. Indeed, confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the… -
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Don’t Expect Perfection in Government’s COVID-19 Treatment Statements
Scientists are working furiously to find a drug to treat the COVID-19 coronavirus. (See here, here, and here.) Currently, there’s no medical consensus as to what drug (if any) is best for patients. The result is that senior government officials, including governors, have started to get involved in the matter. They are acting under tremendous… -
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For Mike Lindell, the Battle Against COVID-19 Is No Pillow Fight
Michael Lindell, the inventor and CEO of MyPillow, stood outside the White House on Monday as a guest during the daily coronavirus task force briefing, at which he announced that his company had begun mass production of face masks. The Chaska, Minnesota-based pillow giant has retooled 75% of its production toward making face masks to… -
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Trump’s Defense Budget Request Leans Toward the Far Future
Back on Feb. 15, when the Department of Defense released its budget request, the world and the United States looked a lot different. The NBA was coming out of its All-Star game, college basketball was gearing up for March Madness, and offices and highways were packed. The World Health Organization would not declare the coronavirus… -
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FBI’s Failure to Be ‘Scrupulously Accurate’ With FISA Information Undermines Public Trust and the Process
According to a report this week from the Department of Justice’s inspector general, the FBI failed to be “scrupulously accurate” with information presented to a secret federal court to seek national security-related warrants pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But a closer read of the report on the FBI’s relationship with the Foreign Intelligence… -
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CDC Now Recommending Face Masks, Trump Says
President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t be wearing a face mask to slow the spread of the new coronavirus even as he announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now suggesting Americans do so. “I’m feeling good. I don’t know. Somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great… -
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COVID-19 Rocks Hospitality Industry as Economy Sheds 701,000 Jobs
The start of the devastation from the Chinese virus is clearly reflected in the new monthly jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that the economy axed 701,000 jobs in March. The unemployment rate jumped from a near historic low of 3.5% to 4.4%. This report brings an end to the… -
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Kowtowing to China on Taiwan and the Coronavirus
China, where the new coronavirus first emerged, has reacted with the Chinese Communist Party’s trademark mix of obfuscation and truculence throughout the COVID-19 crisis. This week, this potent cocktail was again in evidence in the city of Hong Kong. Beijing promised that Hong Kong, an international port and British creation that was a crown colony… -
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Mike Lindell, Not the Media, Is the Hero
MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell, a self-made former crack addict, is going to transform 75% 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 is… -
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March Jobs Report: 701,000 Jobs Lost, Unemployment Jumps to 4.4%
The U.S. economy lost 701,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, according to Department of Labor data released Friday. Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 701,000 in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, reflecting the “effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and efforts to contain it.” March’s unemployment rate… -
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Decreasing US-China Trade Is Worrisome
It’s sometimes said that China is the world’s manufacturer, but the U.S. is the world’s consumer. When there’s less trade happening between these two giants, it’s not good for either one. Neither are the tariffs on that trade. It’s been a little over two months since China began shutting down its domestic economic activity (restricting travel,… -
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Investigating China’s Coronavirus Propaganda Wildfire
China is waging a propaganda war against the coronavirus on several fronts. In well-documented efforts, China has sought to deflect attention from its early suppression of information about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and to claim that, among all nations, China has halted the scourge. But China’s communist government also is pushing an… -
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, What Daily Life Is Like in Italy Now
Italy has been hit hard by coronavirus deaths, with over 13,000 total coronavirus fatalities to date. "The worst part's been witnessing all these elderly people just fade away and die by the hundreds every day," says Aura Latorre, a Venezuelan immigrant who now resides in southern Italy. She shares on the podcast what it’s like to… -
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Small Business Loans to Expand for COVID-19 Relief
Small businesses will be able to access new loans starting Friday to help them stay afloat during the economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus. The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump established a $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program. “This relief will help stabilize the small business sector… -
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Citing ‘Pandering’ to China, Sen. Rick Scott Wants WHO Documents on Coronavirus
The World Health Organization should have a reckoning for parroting China’s misinformation about the coronavirus, taking a hit to its budget if it doesn’t reform, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Thursday in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Everything coming out of China has been wrong, and the WHO has said they [the Chinese] have… -
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In California, a Sign the Coronavirus Crisis Won’t ‘Go to Waste’
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That was what Rahm Emanuel, a former mayor of Chicago who also served as chief of staff for President Barack Obama, said about the 2007-2008 financial crash, viewing that moment as an opportunity to pass legislation that likely otherwise would not be seriously considered. “[W]hat… -
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Fauci: Trump Took Coronavirus Seriously ‘From the Beginning’
Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview released Thursday that President Donald Trump took the coronavirus threat seriously “from the beginning” of the pandemic. “I think he always understood the seriousness of it. Right now, as the numbers are becoming crystal clear, he himself is articulating an awareness of that seriousness,” Fauci said in an interview on… -
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Coronavirus Shows Our Need for God
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The immortal words of Charles Dickens have never rung truer than now, during the age of COVID-19 and the global pandemic. Horror and hope are intermingled daily, reminding all of us about the limits of our power, and the trust and faith that… -
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‘Subservience to Beijing’: Marco Rubio Says WHO Needs to Be ‘Held to Account’
The leaders of the World Health Organization need to be “held to account” for their “subservience to Beijing” during the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in an op-ed Wednesday. WHO, an arm of the United Nations, has provided cover for Chinese authorities as they attempt to shirk responsibility for the global coronavirus pandemic….