Category: Web Briefing
WSJ Editorial on Obama’s Take on Flynn
From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: The Editorial Board Barack Obama is a lawyer, so it was stunning to read that he ventured into the Michael Flynn case in a way that misstated...
75% of House Republican Caucus Opposes Bailouts for Poorly Managed State and Local Governments
See the RSC statement here and their letter to House and Senate leadership, here.
You’ll Still Be Homeschooling Your Kids This Fall, Dr. Fauci Says
WH Coronavirus Task Force Shuts Down Schools in the Fall.
Economic devastation from coronavirus could eventually kill more than virus, report says
From FOX NEWS via MSN: The United Nations has predicted that the economic fallout from the worldwide coronavirus outbreak may end up killing more people than the actual disease itself, a report said Monday. The...
Trump, Biden, and the Wuhan Virus Coup
From American Greatness: Consider the last several weeks a test run for the Biden regency, a preview of what America might look like if, and when, rule by the “managers” becomes a permanent, irreversible...
Tesla’s Musk says ready for arrest as he reopens California plant against local order
Musk opens his Tesla factory in defiance of a stay closed order — his automotive manufacturing plant is likely the only auto plant in California, and they want it closed.
Swiss health authorities: People over 65 can resume their normal activities
The Local in Switzerland: Switzerland’s population of seniors, who have been advised to stay indoors to prevent coronavirus-related health complications, are now being told they can come out of confinement.
BND (German Intelligence): China Asked WHO to Cover Up Wuhan Virus
China Asked The WHO To Help Cover Up Coronavirus, German Intelligence Concludeshttps://t.co/ilUVxPqklx — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 10, 2020
Newly declassified evidence undercuts former DNI Clapper’s testimony to Congress
From Just the News: Newly declassified evidence undermines James Clapper’s testimony to Congress, raising questions about whether the former Director of National Intelligence misled lawmakers about briefing former President Obama on former Trump National...
Mnuchin warns of ‘permanent economic damage’ unless US reopens
From the NY Post: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned of “permanent economic damage” unless the United States begins reopening businesses during the coronavirus pandemic — but cautioned that it must be done in a...
Sidney Powell: Buzzfeed and CNN Story on the Clinton Campaign Paid for Dossier was Teed Up in the Oval Office
Sidney Powell, Flynn’s lawyer on Gorka’s Radio show.
Politico: The Pandemic and Personal Responsibility
From Politico: THE PANDEMIC OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY — First, President Donald Trump handed the decision for when to reopen the economy to America’s governors. Now, as local leaders begin to lift shutdown restrictions, they’re passing...
Senator Cruz Sports Leopard Cape as His Hair is Cut at Salon A la Mode — at the Dallas Salon Whose Owner was Jailed
Cruz gets hair cut by Dallas salon owner who was detained for repeatedly defying stay-at-home orders https://t.co/KP9lUVbKHi — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) May 8, 2020
Katie Miller, Pence spokeswoman and wife of Top Trump Aide Stephen Miller, Tests Positive for Coronavirus
From Politico: Miller’s positive diagnosis for Covid-19 puts the potential threat of the infection squarely into the president’s inner circle. Miller serves as the vice president’s top spokesperson, traveling with him frequently and attending...
AG Barr: The Flynn Investigation was Not a Legitimate Counter-Intelligence Probe
Attorney General Barr is a Great American. Watch Barr here and especially here.
Under Oath Obama Official Admits She Lied, She Had No Evidence of Collusion
More fakery in the quest to suborn our national counter-intelligence apparatus to become an investigative arm of the Democratic Party, under a Democratic President, using a fake charge of suspicion of being a Russian...
Percent of Deaths of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes, by State
40 percent of U.S. COVID-19 deaths have occurred in nursing homes. The share of deaths occurring in nursing homes is highest in Minnesota, at 84 percent, using the latest data as of May 7, 2020....
Democratic Senators propose $2,000 monthly Payments to most Americans
From Politico: A trio of Democratic senators are pitching a big idea: pay most American families thousands of dollars each month until the coronavirus’s economic crisis subsides. On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie...
No Income. Major Medical Bills. What Life Is Like for Millions of Americans Facing Financial Ruin Because of the Pandemic
TIME chronicles the financial and health struggles of the 2020 pandemic.
U.S. weekly jobless claims total 3.169 million, bringing seven-week tally to 33.5 million
Total catastrophic economic failure for a mortality rate that is below less than 1 percent of the population.
PA Business Open a Day Early in Defiance of Governor’s Orders
Fed up, citizens and business owners, open stores and shop today.
Summary of Briefing of COVID-19 Deaths in Pennsylvania, Delivered by the PA Sec. of Health to State House Members
Read this excellent one-page letter and summary here.
Blase: A New Recipe for Waste in Medicaid — Dem plan to pay All Costs for the States this Year
Blase in the WSJ: The left’s new priority is to convince Congress to send hundreds of billions of additional dollars to states to help them weather the coronavirus storm. A leading Democratic proposal would...
Nein! Germany Rejects More ‘slow the spread’ and Accelerates Return to Normal
From AFP: Germany Accelerates Return to Normality.
How to End the Guess-If-I’m-Infected Strategy, and Keep the Vulnerable Much Safer
Or, Why All Schools, Colleges, and Universities should Open as Soon as Possible and Students Stay in School to Complete the Work they Missed The law of the survival of the fittest is simple:...
Shapiro: The ‘Controlled Avalanche’ Strategy
From the Jewish World Daily: The question of assumptions is key to our policymaking. That’s because if we assume the worst — no therapeutics that seriously knock down the infection fatality rate, no vaccines...
Inside the secret DHS lab testing how long coronavirus can survive on shopping carts and in sunlight
From NBC NEWS: Their work is guided by a “master question list” intended to quickly summarize what is known about the virus, what additional information is needed, and which other research entities across the...
Gov. Cuomo: Two-thirds of Hospitalized Now with Covid-19 Were Self-Quarantined at Home
It begs the question, obviously, does ‘slow the spread,’ and self-quarantining work? Apparently not. From CNBC: Most new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York state are from people who were staying home and not venturing much outside,...
US private payrolls drop by 20.2 million in April, the worst job loss in the history
From CNBC: Private payrolls hemorrhaged more than 20 million jobs in April as companies sliced workers amid a coronavirus-induced shutdown that took most of the U.S. economy offline, according to a report Wednesday from...
Dem Pandemic Bill Packed with Cash for Cities, States and the U.S. Post Office
From The Associated Press.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Calls For ‘Immediate Release’ Of Jailed Dallas Salon Owner
From CBS local, Dallas.
Swiss Public Health Agency: Wuhan Virus likely Arrived in November
From The Local in Switzerland: It’s likely that there were individual cases of coronavirus in Sweden as early as November 2019, according to the Public Health Agency, but the country is not currently working...
Scientific Caution or More World Health Organization Chinese Sourced Disinformation?
When the World Health Organization announced there were no evidence antibodies conferred immunity, it was a bizarre and suspect announcement. It had the immediate effect of fanning the flames of fear among the worried...
First Case in France was in December 2019, from a Patient Who Had Not been to China
From Science Alert: In France, a cluster of cases was discovered in late January. But a new study published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents has suggested the virus was already in the country a...
Vox: Why the Covid-19 Economy is Hitting the Millennials the Hardest
From VOX: based on data from a poll of 4,917 adults (taken from April 7 to 12, with a 2.1 percentage point margin of error) shows those between ages 18 and 29 have been...
Sen. Tom Cotton on coronavirus origins: All the evidence points to one of two labs in Wuhan
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joins Martha MacCallum on ‘The Story.’
ELITE SUPER SHOCK: Antibody blocks infection by the SARS-CoV-2 in cells, scientists discover
From Science Daily: Researchers report that they have identified a fully human monoclonal antibody that prevents the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus from infecting cultured cells. The discovery is an initial step towards developing a fully...
DHS: China Suppressed Wuhan Virus News to Buy Time to Hoard and Buy PPE Before Others Realized
Washington Examiner Editorial: A Department of Homeland Security analysis has concluded that China hid the early spread of the coronavirus so it could hoard medical equipment, keeping it from other countries that would have bought it...
Trump: U.S. Report on Origins of Wuhan Virus will be Conclusive
From Bloomberg: U.S. President Donald Trump promised a “conclusive” report on the Chinese origins of the coronavirus outbreak, showing relations between the world’s biggest economies are set to remain rocky at least until the next election...
Lowry: Lock-downers Are Moving the Goal Posts
Pro-Lockdowners Are Moving the Goal Posts, Lowry writes: Besides which, people are capable of making their own decisions. They decided to stay at home before the state formally told them to. According to a...
Targeted Lockdowns Are Better: A new study finds they save more lives and do less economic damage
I wonder how Dr. Brix and Dr. Fauci feel about these conclusions? From The Wall Street Journal: Americans are paying a fearsome price for the government’s strict lockdowns of American life and commerce, and...
Patients are canceling or postponing surgeries…the healthcare industry is collapsing
From The Financial Times via Yahoo: The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the American health care system, pushing hospitals and providers to their limits amid the worst medical crisis in a century. And...
Airlines New Reality? Higher fares, longer waits, no booze and bring your own food
NBC News: Higher ticket prices, temperature checks before boarding, and no inflight alcohol: Airline travel in the post-coronavirus era will look very different from the low-cost “getaway” trips of the past — and you...
New York Fed Paper Finds Pandemic a Century Ago Fueled Nazi Rise
Read the paper here. Read the news story about the paper from The Wall Street Journal, here. Some quotes from the WSJ: The paper, written by bank economist Kristian Blickle, examined how the German political system...
Hertz Prepares to File Bankruptcy If Monday Deadline Is Missed
From Yahoo Finance: (Bloomberg) — Hertz Global Holdings Inc. is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday night if the company fails to rework its debt and can’t get lenders to extend...
CNN: GE is cutting up to 13,000 aviation jobs
From CNN via MSN: General Electric is cutting as many as 13,000 jobs in its jet engine business after the coronavirus pandemic brought devastation to the aerospace industry. GE Aviation on Monday announced plans...
Gingrich in Newsweek: Come November, Biden will Implode
Newt Gingrich in Newsweek: Why am I so certain Biden will melt? First, Biden has always been a terrible candidate, and he is getting worse. When the people shift from the COVID-19 disaster, the...
Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
Chinese internal report predicts Tiananmen-like global backlash: BEIJING (Reuters) – An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations...
The Hill: Abortion Battle could Kill COBRA Push
From The Hill: Congressional Republicans are also open to creating a new sign-up period to allow uninsured people to enroll for coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, despite the always-fraught politics of...
Slate: Biden Has a Real Latino Problem
By Leon Krauze in Slate: A recent Latino Decisions poll reveals a clear enthusiasm gap among Latinos for both Biden and the 2020 election itself, with only 49 percent of registered voters currently committed to choosing...
Coronavirus layoffs hurting low-income workers the most, study finds — “Great Depression Numbers”
From FOX Business News: The higher layoff rate among hourly employees was likely driven by the impact of the virus on service industries like restaurants, bars and hotels. The vast majority of workers in...
Mysterious coronavirus condition ‘happy hypoxia’ baffles doctors
More Wuhan virus strange: And yet these so-called “happy hypoxics” have been observed scrolling on their phones, chatting with their health care providers and describing themselves as generally comfortable, Science Magazine reported. “There is a...
Spanish Authorities Seize Four Tons of Cocaine on a Ship off the Coast of Spain, Shipment Tied to Venezuelan President Maduro
From The New York Post: Four tons of cocaine worth more than $165 million seized off of the Spanish coast last week has been linked to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, US authorities said. Spanish,...
A coronavirus antibody test that is more than 99% accurate is now cleared for emergency use in the US
From Business Insider: US regulators authorized Sunday emergency use of a coronavirus antibody test that is more than 99% accurate, addressing concerns about high false-positive rates that have plagued some of the first tests. The...
This man assembled his own covid antibody tests for himself and his friends
From MIT Technology Review.
CDC’s Wuhan Virus Death Toll as of May 1, 2020: 37,308
See Center for Disease Control Wuhan Virus Death Toll as of May 1, 2020: 37,308
Five Eyes: Virus Release was Accidential
New York Post: At the same time, a senior intelligence source told Fox News that while most intelligence agencies believe COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab, “it was thought to have been released accidentally.”...
Ferrari Leads the Way with Anti-body Testing to get Back-to-Work
Ferrari Leads the Way: MARANELLO, Italy—Ferrari NV’s normally bustling factory and headquarters here stood mostly deserted earlier this week, except for the line of employees waiting to have their blood drawn and tested for...
Democrats Are Reaping The ‘Whirlwind’ Kavanaugh Warned About
The Federalist: It was a terrifying mob, the worst kind of feeding frenzy many Americans had ever witnessed. Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee accepted each claim, no matter how outlandish. After Swetnick’s obviously...
Sullivan: By Biden’s Own Standards, He Is Guilty As Charged
From the NY Intelligencer: The objective truth, Biden argued, is what matters. I agree with him. But this was emphatically not the standard Biden favored when judging men in college. If Biden were a...
How Wuhan Virus Shutdowns Are Killing America’s Health Care System
From The Federalist: The “elective” surgeries we can no longer perform are not “optional.” They are important surgeries that need to be done. “Elective” only implies a surgery can be timed conveniently for the...
Vox: Bates Theorem and Why Wuhan Virus Infection Rates in a Local Area that Exceed 10% Are More Accurate
In a nutshell, Bates Theorem shows that areas like New York City with antibody testing that shows 24% of the population has Wuhan virus antibodies are 95% accurate test results, while areas with a...
AOC Will Vote for Biden, But Doesn’t Know If She’ll Endorse Him
From Vice: New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she will vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, but she stopped short of endorsing him in an interview with Shane Smith for VICE TV’s “Shelter...
When will the WH Task Force Acknowledge the Lower Mortality Rate of the Virus?
UPMC doctor argues COVID-19 not as deadly as feared, says its hospitals will shift back to normal: From Pennlive: A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with...
Osterholm: Pandemic to last as long as two years — won’t be controlled until about two-thirds of the world’s population is immune
From Gulf News: The coronavirus pandemic is likely to last as long as two years and won’t be controlled until about two-thirds of the world’s population is immune, a group of experts said in...
The Very High Cost to Abused Children of ‘Slow the Spread’
From The Washington Post via MSN: The calls came from police or child protective services, sometimes 10 to 15 a week, most of them about sexual abuse. The children would sit across from her...
Elon Musk mobilizes a small army of tech elites behind reopening society
By the Washington Post via the San Francisco Gate: “Time to free us for the sake of progress,” wrote investor Adam Draper, managing director of the firm Boost VC, in a post retweeted by...
medRxiv: COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California Indicates 54,000 Infected
From medRxiv: These prevalence point estimates imply that 54,000 (95CI 25,000 to 91,000 using weighted prevalence; 23,000 with 95CI 14,000-35,000 using unweighted prevalence) people were infected in Santa Clara County by early April, many...
Cuomo: 17.1 percent of FDNY/EMT members and 10.5 percent of NYPD have antibodies
From NBC New York: Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed the preliminary results of FDNY/EMS and NYPD members who were screened for coronavirus antibodies and tested positive. The preliminary antibody study showed that 17.1 percent of...
Seattle Times: U.S. officials craft retaliatory actions against China
From The Seattle Times: In private, Trump and aides have discussed stripping China of its “sovereign immunity,” aiming to enable the U.S. government or victims to sue China for damages. George Sorial, who served...
New Flynn Documents Show FBI Goal Was To ‘Get Him Fired’
Sean Davis in The Federalist: New documents filed under seal last week by the Department of Justice provide the clearest evidence yet that the investigation and subsequent prosecution of former White House National Security...
‘People need to pay for this’: Nikki Haley sounds off on ‘shameful’ treatment of Michael Flynn
From The Washington Inquirer: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reacted to unsealed documents related to the investigation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, calling it “shameful.” “There is so much to...
Rose McGowan: The Scales Fell from My Eyes — the Dems and Media are Just like the GOP
I’m really sad, and I’m really tired. I normally share thoughts, but tonight it’s emotion. pic.twitter.com/mhtaoW6dTd — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) April 29, 2020
Hassett: U.S. Unemployment could hit 20% by June
CNN via MSN: The White House is telling Americans to brace for a period of Great Depression-level unemployment this summer. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to President Donald Trump, warned Tuesday that the jobless rate in the...
WTF: Washington D.C. Mayor may Extend Shutdown Until August
DC May Not Reopen for Another 3 Months, Officials Say