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Feminists’ ‘Equal Pay Day’ Compares Apples and Oranges
Both men and women are gravely affected by the surge in unemployment due to measures aimed at containing the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States. Pitting men and women against each other with simplistic statistics about a gender wage gap needlessly adds to the real pain. Tuesday, March 31, is a fairly… -
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1 Million Americans Tested for Coronavirus; Rate Now 100,000 Per Day
A total of 1 million tests for the coronavirus now have been administered, President Donald Trump announced Monday evening during a Rose Garden press conference. On a table outside the White House, Trump demonstrated two COVID-19 tests that can be completed within five to 15 minutes. “Today we reached a historic milestone in our war… -
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Here’s an Old Doctor’s Advice as We Battle COVID-19
As a physician, I have observed the nature of many epidemics since the early 1960s, when I entered medical school. As a child, I witnessed my parents’ fear of dreadful diseases such as polio and scarlet fever. The sheer horror of those diseases—especially the polio virus, which condemned children to an immobile life and death… -
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Why Must Abortions Continue During a Pandemic?
With COVID-19 spreading through the United States, state and federal officials took extra precautions and shut down nonessential services to preserve medical equipment necessary to combat the disease. In some states, this shutdown includes abortion clinics, since they use personal protective equipment needed by health workers confronting the new coronavirus. As of this writing, government… -
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Trench Warfare in the Time of Coronavirus
KYIV, Ukraine—Last week Ukraine announced plans to extend until April 24 a nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region has not let up in intensity, raising concerns among some Ukrainian experts and officials about how the pandemic might impact the country’s front-line combat forces. “I… -
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Mark Meadows to Start as White House Chief of Staff
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., was expected to resign Monday from the House and begin serving Tuesday as White House chief of staff. A Trump administration official confirmed to The Daily Signal that Meadows resignation will go into effect Monday evening and his first day at the White House is on Tuesday. President Donald Trump announced… -
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De Blasio, NYC Officials Downplayed COVID-19 Threat After Trump Restricted Travel to China. Here Are 5 Examples.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his top health official were telling citizens to take the subway and attend parades months after President Donald Trump restricted travel to coronavirus-plagued China. De Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot took turns telling citizens in February and March that the virus was not… -
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Predicts How Many Will Die From Coronavirus in America
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top expert on infectious diseases, predicted Sunday that the United States will end up with “millions” of cases of the coronavirus and up to 200,000 deaths by the time the pandemic ends, though he cautioned that any projection of mortality statistics could “easily” end up being wrong. “Looking at what… -
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North Macedonia’s Accession to NATO an Important Milestone
North Macedonia is set to officially become the 30th member of NATO this week with the deposit of its “instrument of accession” at the U.S. Department of State. On March 17, the Spanish Senate ratified North Macedonia’s accession protocol, becoming the 29th and final NATO member state to do so. The U.S. Senate by a… -
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An American in China Tells What Life Has Been Like Since COVID-19 Struck
It is challenging to know the reality of how the coronavirus has and will affect China. COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has claimed a reported 3,298 lives in China as of Friday afternoon and infected over 81,000. Although America and the rest of the world now face rampant outbreaks, China already has… -
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Trump Predicts Coronavirus Deaths to Peak in 2 Weeks, Extends Distancing Guidelines to End of April
President Donald Trump announced fatalities from coronavirus are likely to reach the highest point in two weeks, then begin to decline. He also said he’s extending the guidelines to slow the spread–that were set to lapse on Monday–to the end of April. “The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit… -
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15 Religious Leaders Share How to Hope During the Pandemic
The coronavirus has drastically changed our world. But the uniqueness of this situation is that we are all facing the same thing together, while being apart. The physical distance we are experiencing can be a great challenge. Schools, business, and churches have closed their doors for an indefinite period of time. But faith leaders from… -
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Sen. Tom Coburn Stood Tall for Taxpayers
Former Sen. Tom Coburn was a hero among fiscal conservatives and endless source of inspiration and courage. The Oklahoma Republican embodied financial stewardship, always showing great respect for the hard-earned tax dollars of working Americans. Coburn, who died late Friday at 72, helped the American people better understand the size and scope of Washington’s spending… -
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COVID-19 Underscores Need to Preserve Economic Freedom in a Crisis
The Heritage Foundation’s newly released 2020 Index of Economic Freedom provides plenty of evidence of the value of economic freedom. People in freer societies live longer, have much higher levels of income and overall prosperity, and enjoy better health care, cleaner environments, and greater educational opportunities than those societies that are less free. Not all… -
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Trump Compels GM to Build More Ventilators for Coronavirus Response
President Donald Trump is applying the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to manufacture more ventilators to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. “Ventilators are a big deal,” the president said at the Friday press briefing. “This invocation of the DPA should indicate to all that we will not hesitate to use the full authority… -
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COVID-19 Shut Down the SAT and ACT, but Not the Classic Learning Test
COVID-19 has disrupted student life across the nation, closing schools and leading to major questions about what’s in store for high school juniors and seniors as they take their next steps toward college. The virus canceled many college placement exams that had been slated over the next few months. The ACT has postponed its April… -
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Iran’s Coronavirus Propaganda Scapegoats America
The embrace of coronavirus conspiracy theories by Iran’s Islamist regime in recent days has exposed the cynicism and desperation of a beleaguered dictatorship focused on retaining power while sacrificing the health of its own people. The Iranian regime has accused the United States of being behind the coronavirus outbreak, to shift blame for the questionable… -
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Little of Pelosi’s Wish List Made It Into COVID-19 Relief Bill. That’s a Relief in Itself.
On Friday, the House passed the massive $2 trillion-plus coronavirus relief package that the Senate had passed on Wednesday. There’s a lot in those 880 pages, and much of it is problematic: The bill is neither targeted and temporary, nor directed exclusively at the coronavirus—as scholars at The Heritage Foundation and its president, Kay C…. -
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It’s Fine to Talk About How This Crisis Ends
If I followed all my doctor’s instructions to the letter, life would be excruciating. It would be tantamount to having Michael Bloomberg make my life choices, which is to say my life wouldn’t be worth living. Human beings have never been as risk-averse as experts want them to be. We instinctively calculate the costs and… -
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Time to Step Up: The Coronavirus Opportunity for Our Country
This week’s dumb national debate has been about when to reopen our economy. To date, our strategy on the coronavirus has been to shut down pretty much everything and stay home. President Donald Trump said he hopes to reopen our economy by Easter. Those who oppose anything the president says are therefore adamantly opposed to…