COVID-19 is firmly established in the United States, and Wednesday night's announcement of extremely limited travel restrictions between Europe and the United States - it doesn't apply to Americans whatsoever, nor to the United Kingdom and Ireland - was akin to announcing a bold new plan to bolt the barn doors now that the horses are out.
President Donald Trump suspended all travel to and from Europe for 30 days, Twitter told employees to work from home, the Pentagon stopped travel for 60 days, and the NBA formally suspended its season after one player tested positive for the virus. The coronavirus has officially entered panic zone.
Americans want paid family leave. But they're not ready to say "and hang the cost"; they want paid family leave that's accessible and affordable. The program proposed in S.463, the Family Act, would be neither.
If only there were a vaccine for it. And the same goes for the coronavirus, as well. Like the dreaded disease, socialism threatens to infect the Democratic Party, thanks to the persistence of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in his pursuit of the presidency. Owing to the success of former Vice President Joe Biden in Tuesday's mini-match, though, the danger has eased that a plague of utopian promises would spread rapidly enough to carry off the nation. Only Americans with compromised patriotism should be disappointed.
It is not possible to produce an in-vitro diagnostic test for a disease not known to exist. The disease now known as COVID-19 traces to a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019. Following rapid spread of the disease, the World Health Organization declared a public emergency the following month.
If you were planning to cast a presidential vote this November in order to restore dignity to the White House, or install a statesmanlike temperament in the Oval Office, you might wish to reconsider your interest in Joe Biden.
The handling of the coronavirus in China is eerily reminiscent of Russia's handling of the Chernobyl disaster. Instead of being open and seeking the world's assistance, Communist China attempted to withhold valuable information that could have been used to prevent the spread of the virus, even influencing other countries not to impose travel bans, which could have resulted in better containment.
I've enjoyed many of director Sidney Lumet's films over the years, so I looked forward to reading Maura Spiegel's "Sidney Lumet: A Life" (St. Martin's).
New legislation with the catchy title of the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act (DASKA) has made its way through the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, edging ever closer to floor vote.
Perhaps nothing has been more responsible for the cratering presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described "democratic socialist," than his clumsy attempt last month to defend Cuba's socialist regime.
The issue of whether government in America can quarantine persons against their will, ostensibly for their own health and that of others with whom they may come in contact, requires a dual analysis -- one of the powers of the federal government and the other of the powers of the states.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a vengeful enemy. It knows we have killed off or rendered impotent most of its fellow viruses. Its cousin, the flu, has not since 1918 translated its annual tactical wins into a strategic pandemic victory.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, what actions can the U.S. government take now to slow the spread of the disease to give us more time to prepare for the worst?
If President Trump literally did any one of the multiple things former Vice President Joe Biden was guilty of in that basic 90-second clip, it would be treated as the end of the world by the left and their media friends.
Shortly after a peace agreement was signed between the United States and the Taliban that was supposed to lead to negotiations with the Afghan government, ISIS launched a horrific attack designed to remind everyone that the radical foreign jihadist movement is still alive in Afghanistan. How does an insurgent group such as the Taliban fight a counterinsurgency campaign?
Former Vice President Joe Biden recently announced he was a candidate "for the United States Senate." He called the state of Vermont "a neat town." "Make sure you have a record player on at night," he advised an audience and "Poor kids are just as talented as white kids."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unleashed a rant of logically challenged proportions against "people" -- yes, "people" -- for failing to properly support Chinese restaurants during this health crisis called coronavirus. Leave it to Ocasio-Cortez to find a new way to slide in the left's fave conversation ender, the race card.
Joe Biden, in a widely reported, widely seen confrontation with a construction in Michigan, cursed, argued and behaved like an ill-mannered, entitled elitist -- and when reminded that "you're working for me, man," said this: "I'm not working for you." That's the seeds of socialism, right there.
It's one thing to notice the media focusing on limited, panic-inducing headlines and narratives. We see them do that every day during this Trump era, as the left relies on panic and victimhood to control people. Controlling most of the legacy media is a necessary part of being able to implement that strategy.
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