[ad_1] KYIV, Ukraine—About 200 Ukrainian farm workers boarded a chartered aircraft Thursday bound for Finland. The flight was one of the few to leave Ukraine that day—as part of a national lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the country’s airspace has been shut down to nearly all air travel for several weeks. In
Month: April 2020
[ad_1] John Allison sees similarities between the response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, when he was the CEO of BB&T Corp., a leading holding company. “The financial crisis was brought about largely from government policies and regulation, and a number of large companies that took real economic risk,” Allison says
[ad_1] A billboard informing about the importance of social distancing on a facade in Stockholm, Sweden, April 29, 2020. (TT News Agency/ Fredrik Sandberg via Reuters) Sweden’s more lax approach to social-distancing has generated a lot of interest. The government has banned events with more than fifty people and shut down universities and secondary schools.
[ad_1] The liberal media have shown an aversion to covering Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. But when it came to Vice President Mike Pence not wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic Tuesday, the same liberal networks decided it was a scandal worthy of their attention, giving it
[ad_1] General Mike Flynn The DOJ on Wednesday informed the Court it has produced more documents to General Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell. Unsealed FBI notes reveal the intent of the FBI’s 1/24/17 interview of Flynn: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”
[ad_1] Phyllis Schlafly addresses the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., in 2007. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters) Boot messes up history in service of a dubious argument. After the president’s lamentable “disinfectant” remarks, Max Boot began “searching for the origins of our current madness.” His search into the depths of American malaise culminated in
[ad_1] The Fox News Channel has long reigned supreme in the cable news battle and often cable overall, but in April with Americans clammoring for sensible, sober updates on the coronavirus pandemic, viewers gave FNC its highest-rated primetime audience in history and second highest total daily ratings since April 2003 (for the early days of the
[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference following a Senate vote on the coronavirus relief bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 26, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected a Republican proposal to provide businesses with protection from lawsuits should they choose to reopen during the coronavirus
[ad_1] Rep. Justin Amash speaks at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Chantilly, Va., September 19, 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Representative Justin Amash, a Republican-turned-independent, announced on Twitter today he is forming an exploratory committee to seek the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president. The Libertarian Party’s nominating convention is still slated to meet in 21
[ad_1] American prosperity always has relied on the fact that we are the most productive people in human history. Unfortunately, some short-term Band-Aids for the widespread economic distress caused by the coronavirus lockdowns may have substantial negative effects that make it harder for Americans to get back on their feet. While much of what is
[ad_1] How many Americans died because the liberal media lied about hydroxychloroquine? The media has been on a jihad against the drug since President Trump first announced its amazing ability to treat coronavirus patients. BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS: Liberal Media Would Rather See Americans Die than Report Honestly on Hydroxychloroquine Last week the liberal media
[ad_1] A postscript to my column on state bankruptcy: Vox, April 29: And while pension funds are indeed a chronic challenge in some states, that’s not what’s going on right now. What’s happening right now is we’re in a pandemic. “Trying to blame the current need for federal assistance on things like public pensions seems
[ad_1] Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, in a slew of tweets, expressed his thoughts about how America has attempted to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, saying on Twitter: “FREE AMERICA NOW.” Musk, who has been named to several of Trump’s advisory boards — even leaving some — appeared to be echoing what President Donald Trump
[ad_1] Appearing on NBC’s Today show Wednesday morning, liberal flimmaker Ken Burns brushed aside the concept of “individual freedom” as he hailed the “central role” of government during a time of crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. He hoped the national emergency would usher in “fundamental change” and that “we don’t then just go back to
[ad_1] A woman wears a stars-and-stripes bandana for a face mask in Washington, D.C., April 2, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Old habits and old dreams die hard, even after coronavirus. When a mysterious bat virus comes out of your nation’s largest geopolitical rival and sends you pacing up and down a driveway or in a small
[ad_1] The spirit of resilience, leadership, and community is woven into the fabric of American society, and it’s often displayed when we’re going through, or responding to, a national tragedy. It’s been no different with respect to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has brought many new challenges to
[ad_1] A lab technician inspects a filled vial of investigational coronavirus treatment drug remdesivir at a Gilead Sciences facility in La Verne, Calif., March 11, 2020. (Gilead Sciences Inc/Reuters) The Food and Drug Administration is moving to quickly authorize the use of Gilead’s experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir as an emergency treatment for coronavirus, following news
[ad_1] Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (L) speaks as Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott watches at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters) Former British spy Christopher Steele recently testified that he was contacted by Clinton-ally Strobe Talbott in Summer 2016 regarding his investigation into presidential candidate Donald Trump,
[ad_1] Laura Haque puts a scrunchie in the hair of her daughter Hannah, 5, while eating at Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar on the day restaurants and theaters were allowed to reopen as part of the phased reopening from the coronavirus restrictions, Smyrna, Ga., April 27, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Parts of the country are starting to
[ad_1] YouTube’s fact-checking panels will now be launched in America after being tested in India. YouTube’s chief product officer Neal Mohan, was quoted in The Verge’s April 28 coverage explaining that “When users are searching on YouTube around a specific claim, we want to give an opportunity for those fact checks to show up right
[ad_1] A woman walks a dog as the coronavirus outbreak continues in Milan, Italy, April 4, 2020. (Daniele Mascolo/Reuters) Over on the home page, Ashoka Mody, formerly of the IMF, and now at Princeton, turns his attention to the storm gathering over the eurozone, a ramshackle construction that is still standing largely thanks to the
[ad_1] President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he may withhold federal bailout funds from states with cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Trump was asked at a White House event with business leaders about the idea of another round of stimulus money for U.S. taxpayers. The president said he liked the concept
[ad_1] A security guard walks in front of an image of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2016. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, Sam Long and Alexander Synkov argue that by keeping interest rates low the Federal Reserve has been transferring money from middle-class savers to affluent stockholders. This
[ad_1] Atlanta Braves third baseman Josh Donaldson (20) can’t make the catch on a hit by Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper in the fourth inning at SunTrust Park in Atlanta, Ga., September 17, 2019. (Jason Getz/USA TODAY Sports) Major League Baseball has yet to formally announce a plan for how it intends to play
[ad_1] Scientists at Oxford University say their tests for a potential COVID-19 vaccine has so far proven effective on rhesus macaque monkeys, which were inoculated at a lab in Montana in May and stayed healthy for a full month despite repeated exposure to the virus, the New York Times reports. While the findings don’t mean
[ad_1] Never heard of the ‘Roadless Rule’? It’s about to be lifted, unleashing a whole lot of greed on this pristine Alaskan sanctuary. As I write this, I am looking from my window out to Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In a time of social distancing and sheltering in place, it
[ad_1] St. Mary’s in New Haven, Conn. (Kathryn Jean Lopez) I posted on Facebook earlier today a link to a little email interview I did last year around this day with Sister Suzanne Noffke, O.P. She was a scholar of Saint Catherine of Siena, having translated volumes-worth of her letters and prayers. (April 29 is
[ad_1] A popular video featuring California emergency doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi was taken down by YouTube for “violating YouTube’s terms of service.” Based on their own research, the hour-long conference asked, “Does this make sense? Are we following the science?” Towards the end of the video, Erickson said, “Do we need to still
[ad_1] An employee from a disinfection service company sanitizes a subway car depot amid coronavirus fears in Seoul, South Korea, March 11, 2020. (Heo Ran/Reuters) This morning brings really encouraging news from South Korea, suggesting that those “reinfections” or “re-activations” that doctors in that country had previously reported “came because fragments of the virus remained
[ad_1] As reported previously Switzerland removed restrictions on grandparents from hugging their young grandchildren after studies found that young grandchildren do not transmit the disease and are at less risk for serious health issues due to the coronavirus. A new study from Australia found that children are unlikely to transmit Covid-19 between each other or
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