Category: Web Briefing

By Avik Roy.

From The Washington Times.

From The New York Times: In the six most important battleground states, voters’ professed indifference to race was even stronger. Nine in 10 registered voters in those states said race should not be a...

From The New York Times: A federal judge has upheld a Trump administration policy that requires hospitals and health insurers to publish their negotiated prices for health services, numbers that are typically kept secret....

See Dr. Blase’s paper here.

From FOX NEWS.

From Just the News.

From The Washington Times: In this modern Bonfire of Inanities, ignorance reigns supreme. Which is one of the big problems with mob “justice,” a painful lesson we history students here in America learned a...

From CNBC: The number of active mortgage forbearance plans rose by 79,000 in the past week, erasing roughly half of the improvement seen since the peak of May 22. Increases happened every day for...

From Axios: The debate over reparations for slavery has moved from the political realm to the corporate one. At least two big British companies — insurer Lloyd’s of London and brewer Greene King —...

From HuffPo: The Trump administration filed a brief Thursday night calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — which allows millions of Americans to get health insurance coverage —...

Associated Press: In 2019, a little under 40% of the total U.S. population was either nonwhite or Hispanic. Non-Hispanic whites are expected to be a minority of the U.S. population in about 25 years....

From New Discourses.

From The Hill: Nearly 1.5 million U.S. workers filed new applications for unemployment benefits in the third week of June despite easing coronavirus-related restrictions, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. In...

From Just the News.

From CNN and The Washington Examiner.

Keohan in Benefits Pro.

From The New York Times: Dr. Sabin gave his three strains of attenuated virus to a married pair of virologists in the Soviet Union, Dr. Mikhail Chumakov, the founder of a polio research institute...

From The Hill.

From the Miami Herald: Officials said Miami-Dade had a staggering positivity rate on Monday of 25.9%. That means one out of four tested are positive for the coronavirus, which is why enforcement is essential....

By Jonathan Turley: The spectrum of action from universities seems to range from deafening silence to cringing compliance in the face of such destruction.  What is being lost is more than public art.  We...

John Kass in The Chicago Tribune. The toddler was killed in Chicago’s street gang wars, one of more than 100 people shot over the weekend in the city, with 12 of those shot younger...

Tucker on UFOs.

From CNBC.

From The Federalist.

AFP via Yahoo News: Washington (AFP) – The US Senate intelligence committee is aiming to regulate a Pentagon UFO program so that the public is better informed of its activities and the country’s intelligence...

From GIZMODO.

From the Chicago Tribune.  

Italian asymptomatic/symptomatic study of COVID-19: Findings: “73.9% of all infected individuals aged less than 60 years did not develop symptoms (95% confidence interval: 71.8-75.9%). The risk of symptoms increased with age. 6.6% of infected...

From Hot Air: It’s extremely on-brand for America 2020 that wokesters would get bored with “Black Lives Matter” just as the idea’s gaining acceptance and proceed immediately to “Crucify White Jesus.”

From Newsweek: Former MLB star Curt Schilling has compared the incident involving NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace to the case that saw actor Jussie Smollett admit he had staged a racial attack. On Tuesday, the FBI...

From The Spectator: So now they have come for Teddy Roosevelt. The large bronze statue of TR on horseback, flanked by a black man and an American Indian, will be removed from the spot...

From The New York Post: Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling. Health officials announced last week residents must...

Morgan in the Daily Mail: somehow, unbelievably, Trump’s opponents are once again doing everything in their power to wrestle another defeat from the jaws of seemingly inevitable victory. If you were scripting an escape...

The pioneer, Rothman.

From The Hill: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) signaled on Tuesday that Democrats are prepared to block a GOP police reform bill. Schumer, speaking from the Senate floor, sent his strongest warning yet that the...

From American Thinker: The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) has recently formally endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign which has been recognized by a variety of leading Jewish groups as serving as...

The Daily Wire: The apparent vandalism of the fountain comes as rioters have destroyed monuments across the nation in recent days, including statues of three former U.S. Presidents: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas...

From The Sun, UK: King – a civil rights activist, podcast host and writer – has said he believes certain statues of Jesus should be torn down, too. “Yes, I think the statues of the white European...

From CNBC.

Trump backs more stimulus checks.

Minneapolis violence spikes in aftermath of 185 buildings being burned to the ground. From The Star Tribune.

New York Mag: But all the way up through the beginning of the protests, and even after, America’s jury-rigged, Rube Goldberg health-messaging apparatus (epidemiologists, local public-health officials, civic-minded journalists, improvising and coordinating guidance in...

WRAL: “We can say that 10 to 20 times the number of people who have an identified case have antibodies to the infection,” he said. A person develops the antibody to coronavirus one to...

From The Federalist: We’re told the second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful...

From the WSJ Editorial Board: “In the presence of strong groupthink and bandwagon effects, modelers may consciously fit their predictions to what is the dominant thinking and expectations—or they may be forced to do...

From The Seattle Times: Late Saturday, the department released security video from cameras overlooking Cal Anderson Park that recorded a rapid volley of gunfire, and then people running. The roughly six-block area has been...

From The New York Post: SEATTLE — On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars. Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station....

From The Jersusalem Post: New videos of the “ninja” weapon have been released showing three recovered versions of it. The weapons that were recovered have letters and numbers on them and say AGM R9X....

From BBC: An X-Ray map of the Universe  

From The San Francisco Chronicle: TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Trump’s rally as a prank. After @TeamTrump tweeted asking...

From The Houston Chronicle: The discovery of antibodies that block the most infectious elements of the coronavirus is helping Bay Area scientists unlock the many mysteries of human immunity, and could be crucial in...

Trump is not trusted by voters on race relations and coronavirus, making him a severe underdog.

Dems concerned about the state of the Colorado Senate race, from Politico: Colorado is a must-win state for Democrats as they attempt to seize control of the chamber in this fall’s elections. Democrats hope...

Via Reuters.

Simplecast.

Via The Federalist.

From the NY Post: On the fourth anniversary of his death, Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says that his father would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement “racist” and the protesters “devils.”...

From The Washington Examiner: Nearly three-fourths of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department said in a poll that they are considering leaving the force amid a police reform bill recently passed by the D.C. Council. The proposal...

From the BBC.

Michael E. Hammond in American Thinker.

From MarketWatch.

Found in Barrons, here.

New owners would explain the great changes in the site.

Gallup and West Health Survey did the poll, as reported by the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence says the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic is “a cause for celebration,”...

From The Hill.

From CNBC: The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday in a set of cases over his effort to end the Obama-era immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or...

From Reuters, three years ago.

From FOX BUSINESS.

From The Washington TImes.

https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1273390098495631362?s=20

From The Wall Street Journal: The number of accounts that enrolled in deferment, forbearance or some other type of relief since March 1 and remain in such a state rose to 106 million at...

Conrad Black: The disease appears to be effectively boxed into the upper fifth of the population above the age of approximately 65. For those beneath that age, including almost the entire workforce, the risk...

From Politico.

https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1272598327817715712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1272598327817715712&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2Fvideo%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Fstreet_preacher_blasts_democrats_outside_seattles_chaz_they_hate_black_people.html

Van Jones via CNN.

Yanghee Lee in Project Syndicate: SEOUL – Hong Kong is on a knife’s edge. Once one of Asia’s freest and most open cities, it now faces the specter of a new China-imposed security law...

From The Diplomat.

The Hill: “America is grappling with a cyber insurgency and our financial sector is the number one target,” Tom Kellermann, a former member of a presidential cybersecurity commission during the Obama administration, told a...

From Hacker News: According to the researchers, successful exploitation of both flaws requires no or very little interaction from targeted chat participants and can be executed just by sending specially crafted messages through the...

By Lowry in the New York Post.

They don’t see how bizarre this is — which is a little scary.

Just the News top ten FAILs on the pandemic.

Politico thinks Defund the Police is now mainstream, how quaint.

Price sensitivity in health care? From the NYT: And, just as the Great Recession led people to seek less hospital care, the current downturn is likely to have a significant impact, said Sara Collins, an...

From Just the News: A recently declassified annex to the Obama administration’s intelligence report on Russian election interference took great pains to make clear it did not use Christopher Steele’s deeply flawed dossier to...

Extending Lockdowns after Encouraging Demonstrations: In the middle of May, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser extended her lockdown order through to the June 8. Two days prior to her own lockdown order was to be...

From Politico.

Senator Tim Scott, on Face the Nation:

Seniors electoral power: The most important bit of information in the ad is her age; she is 82 years old, and strategists and experts agree she and her peers may be the most important...

Kaba in the New York Times: Enough. We can’t reform the police. The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and the police. There is not a single...

Study Finds the Pandemic Makes People want to Move: Wars and diseases may be the most dramatic triggers for seeking a new place to live, but they’re not the only ones. Prokopenko says even...

The odds of all the loans defaulting at the same time are about the same as a “black swan” event. How about three of them, you know, at the same time? Welcome to 2020:...

Damon Linker, in The Week: We’ve living through a revolutionary moment in American journalism right now. It’s been building slowly over the past few years. A conservative or centrist pundit pens a controversial column...

From the Washington Examiner: Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik claimed Sunday on Fox News that hundreds of NYPD officers are leaving the force out of frustration with the department’s treatment of the city’s law enforcement. “The...

You can find it here.

Solid and rational, but I don’t agree with the whole list, from GQ, here.

Really, from Meet the Press.