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From Townhall: “These New Outbreaks Doom Us.” – It is one of the more prevailing messaging points currently. “These spikes are as bad as the original wave.” This is the rationale that they use...

From The Atlantic: That “will be unacceptable,” Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change, a leading racial-justice organization, told me. “It will be unacceptable to people who have waited a long time....

Kayne at a South Carolina political rally.

ABC NEWS: For decades, the 60-vote threshold has been a mechanism to facilitate compromise between the parties in the Senate, and served as one of several checks to distinguish the chamber from the House...

From GQ: So is your point of view that we need to find something to break bread over? Or at least, openly talk, because they’re not going to change their minds if we act...

From the Seattle Times: Disturbing new revelations that permanent immunity to the coronavirus may not be possible have jeopardized vaccine development and reinforced a decision by scientists at UCSF and affiliated laboratories to focus...

From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed on Friday that she has been undergoing chemotherapy since May due to a recurrence of liver cancer. Ginsburg said in a statement that the treatment is...

Must watch.

Short term renewable health plans for the win! https://t.co/5LVwmnoCRZ — Dean Clancy (@DeanClancy) July 17, 2020

Text of the White Executive Order on cutting regulations during the pandemic: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”) was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China,...

From the WH on their deregulation effort: White House Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation On October 21, 2019 the Trump Administration announced the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to extend the President’s historic regulatory...

The GOP is tone-deaf on health care.

JAMA Network on the high cost of slow the spread.

From Vox, on the Dems understanding and meeting the health care challenges of the pandemic in their own way, with their own policies with proposals they believe will aid the American people: As many...

From King5 News, Seattle.

The natural result of the media’s campaign to discredit the police and defund them.

From The Hill. Are u more pro biden or anti ye and why? I get that you’ll want to reply that you’re just tryna “get trump out” but in this hypothetical scenario where you’re...

By Susan Crabtree.

By Wierson and Hanson: Let us be clear: We are political consultants who have spent the better part of the last 20 years working to get scores of Democrats elected across America. It gives...

From the City Journal: Inpatient admissions nationwide in VA hospitals, the nation’s largest hospital system, were down 42 percent for six emergency conditions—stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, appendicitis, and pneumonia—during six...

From The Guardian: The pandemic, which continues to rage across the US, has made many traditional holiday activities either impossible or unappealing, putting millions off flying abroad, going to crowded resort hotels, group holidays or cruises....

From the Catholic News Agency: CNA Staff, Jul 9, 2020 / 10:30 am MT (CNA).- Former vice president Joe Biden pledged on Wednesday to reinstate Obama-era policies that would require the Little Sisters of...

From American Greatness: A new poll conducted by the Washington based Democracy Institute for the Sunday Express shows President Trump tied with his rival Joe Biden at 47 percent, but surpassing him in the electoral college...

.@NYCMayor Bill de Blasio tells Wolf Blitzer that he is banning all large gatherings in New York City except for Black Lives Matter protests. Wolf Blitzer follows up by asking about the U.S. Open....

From FOX NEWS.

From The Hollywood Reporter.

New FBI Evidence Strengthens possible Durham prosecution.

From FOX NEWS.

From The Express: According to the poll conducted by the Washington based thinktank the Democracy Institute, President Trump is neck and neck with his rival Joe Biden on 47 percent. However, Mr Trump would...

From KHN: The Supreme Court Wednesday settled — at least for now — a decade’s worth of litigation over the women’s health provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ruling 7-2 that employers with a...

From the Daily Caller: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he is uncertain he will attend the Republican National Convention in August, as a number of Republican senators have said they will likely...

From CNN: In a statement on Friday, the Kazakhstan health ministry acknowledged the presence of “viral pneumonias of unspecified etiology,” but denied that the outbreak was new or unknown. “In response to these reports,...

From Science Mag: By Derek Lowe 7 July 2020 I wrote here about the reports of rather short antibody persistence in recovering coronavirus patients, and what’s been coming out in the two weeks since then has only...

From the New York Post: New York’s Finest are putting in for retirement faster than the NYPD can handle — while citing a lack of respect and the loss of overtime pay, The Post...

Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he will be funding a universal basic income experiment that could affect up to 7 million people from technology

From Reuters: The decision means that for the first time much of eastern Oklahoma is legally considered reservation land. More than 1.8 million people live in the land at issue, including roughly 400,000 in...

From The Hill: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that the health risks of keeping schools closed are greater than those of opening them, amid a push by President...

Read the Canadian Public Health Official’s Letter here. Excerpt from the letter is below: The current approach to dealing with COVID-19 carries significant risks to overall population health and threatens to increase inequities across...

The Federalist: Harvard University recently announced that it will ban students from in-person classes for the entirety of the next academic year. The decision, not based on science, is typical of the decisions made by...

RealClearPolitics: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told FNC’s Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that her department is “seriously considering” withholding federal funding from school districts that do not make honest efforts to restart in-person classes this...

From KEPR TV: In an interview with Action News Jonathan Lopez says he regrets writing the letter and is very sorry. “I do apologize for what I did I do understand and accept that...

From the New York Times: Allies of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping set of joint policy recommendations on Wednesday, a significant if tentative sign of cooperation among Democrats as Mr....

By Blase, Mulligan and Badger.    

From Forbes.

From The Federalist: After announcing his candidacy for President of the United States over the July Fourth holiday, Kanye West opened up about his political beliefs in a Forbes interview, among them being that he...

AFP via Yahoo: “The law makes me dislike China even more,” 18-year-old student Sylvia Chang told AFP, walking through National Taiwan University in Taipei. “They had promised 50 years unchanged for Hong Kong but...

COVID-19 Reality Check from Dr. Atlas, here: Furthermore, Dr. Atlas emphasized the fact that the death rates are not going up, despite the increase in cases. “And that’s what really counts, are we getting...

From NBC NEWS.

From Politico: BOSTON — Rep. Richard Neal hasn’t had a tough primary challenge in 30 years. But Massachusetts’ Sept. 1 contest represents the last, best chance for the left to take down a Democratic...

Defund the police street re-painted to read DEFEND the Police.

Best News Ever!  From Reason, here: “One interesting observation was that it wasn’t just individuals with verified COVID-19 who showed T-cell immunity but also many of their exposed asymptomatic family members,” said Karolinska researcher...

From NBC: President Donald Trump’s top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the...

From NIH: At a Glance Although most people who recovered from COVID-19 had low levels of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in their blood, researchers identified potent infection-blocking antibodies. Their careful analysis of the antibodies may...

More context, here.

From the Greek Reporter: Leading epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University estimates that about 150-300 million or more people have already been infected by COVID-19 around the world, far more than the 10...

From the WSJ: The double standard in treatment was political. All these public gatherings were led by people expressing sincerely held beliefs that they felt outweighed the risk of Covid-19 transmission. Protecting such expression,...

From ABC NEWS: This year’s World UFO Day comes at a time of heightened interest in the decades-long search to solve the mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) thanks to the Navy’s recent declassification...

From CNBC: Nonfarm payrolls rose by 4.8 million in June, much better than the expected increase of 2.9 million. The unemployment rate fell to a crisis low of 11.1%, also better than the 12.4%...

From Politico.

From Reuters: Thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong on Wednesday in anger over Beijing’s national security law, as the city marked 23 years since its handover from British to Chinese rule. On the...

From CNBC: Private payrolls rose by 2.369 million in June, a bit below the 2.5 million estimate from economists surveyed by Dow Jones, according to ADP. May’s number saw a stunning revision, going from...

An interesting brief on the retail habits of Gen Z. Not Karens:  The secret to unlocking Gen Z’s loyalty is simple: ask. Gen Zers who are asked for opinions give twice as much positive feedback as...

Trump supports second round of payments to Americans that exceed the first payments of $1,200, from the Washington Times: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he supports a fresh round of government...

Medicaid expansion comes to Oklahoma via a ballot initiative.

From The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Democrats on Tuesday not to mess with the filibuster rule if they win control of the chamber in November. He said eliminating the legislative filibuster by...

The Supremes end the ban on public money for religious schools.

Dallas News: On July 1, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) went into effect, fulfilling one of President Donald Trump’s earliest promises. That promise was to throw out the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),...

Lighthizer: President Donald Trump was elected in part on his promise to change the direction of U.S. trade policy so it would put America first. He has kept that promise with new trade agreements...

Sonny Perdue talks big win of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — kick-off date today, July 1st.

From The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday said House lawmakers who wish to vote remotely due to the pandemic can do so through mid-August, extending a deadline that was set to expire Saturday. Pelosi...

From The Daily Caller: The American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidance on Thursday urging school systems across the country to have students physically present in schools at the start of the upcoming academic year...

Heads of the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic on how fear of the Coronavirus is killing people.

BBC on the new version of swine flu with pandemic potential: A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently...

General Flynn in the Western Journal: I was once told if we’re not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time. The more I’ve...

Reuters: It’s a cash cliff millions of Americans face this summer as the emergency benefits — which lifted U.S. consumer incomes by a record 10.8% in April — expire. The loss of that safety...

From the Laredo Morning Times: When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer,...

Like Coca-Cola, Starbucks taps out on hate-filled social media, from CNBC: Starbucks is the latest company to say it will pause advertising on “all social media platforms” and promises to have discussions internally and...

Does anyone care enough to do something different?

The people who believe they can stop being infected should really just stop, sooner or later, the virus will infect everyone. This, from the Houston Chronicle: It was the Thursday night before Memorial Day...

From The New York Post: Shootings across the city more than doubled last week compared to the same period last year, according to police sources. From last Monday to midnight Sunday, there were 63...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed: Then there’s this: Many cops have taken a more hands-off approach to policing following the arrests of six officers for using Tasers on two college students this month, and the arrests...

From FOX NEWS: “a lot of our elders have been bought off by the Democratic Party establishment.”  

From The Hill: Democrats are stepping up talks about reforming or abolishing the filibuster if they win back the Senate and White House in November. The renewed discussions are being spurred by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.),...

Interlandi: The coronavirus pandemic is exposing a central flaw in America’s health care system.

Poll: Nearly 40% of Voters Believe Biden Is Suffering From Dementiahttps://t.co/DF07xq7iN0 — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 29, 2020

Alex Berernson in the NY Post: Early in the epidemic, public-health experts feared the virus might kill up to 2 percent of those infected, potentially causing millions of deaths in the United States and...

From Detroit News.

From CNN Newsource via the DenverChannel7 Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that even if a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, it still may not yield herd immunity. In an interview with the Aspen Institute on...

Dr. Faucci says anti-vaccers could prevent herd immunity: from The Washington Examiner.

From The New York Times: The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voting with the court’s four-member liberal wing but not adopting its reasoning. The chief justice said...

Fact Check: True https://t.co/m6rZp13xuw — Dean Clancy (@DeanClancy) June 29, 2020

The implications are profound, if true.