Category: Web Briefing

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.

From MSN: “They don’t care about my business,” said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., which has operated since 1987 at 2843 26th Av. in south Minneapolis. “They didn’t protect our people....

By the former Lt. Gov. of New York: Three months ago, America was told to trust public health experts. Never again. Most of them have revealed themselves to be left-wing ideologues cloaked in the...

From The Political Insider: Susan Rice, the former National Security Advisor under Barack Obama, offered a unique conspiracy theory to the ongoing George Floyd riots – the Russians are meddling in them. Rice made...

By Steve Forbes, in Forbes: Can you imagine the United States having a health care system that delivers better outcomes than those we get today at a cost that is 75% less? That number is not a...

Arthur Bloom in the American Conservative: The most effective kind of propaganda is by omission. Walter Duranty didn’t cook up accounts from smiling Ukrainian farmers, he simply said there was no evidence for a...

The most heart-felt, credible, middle finger I’ve read in a long, long time: This is the hardest thing I have written. I grew up in a law enforcement family. My father worked his way...

Another first by UAE.

Anne Marie Knotta Town Hall talk to faculty and staff at Olin Business School, on May 13, 2020.  This video has since been updated with more recent information.

Copland in the Washington Examiner: At the center of the impasse is the trial lawyer lobby. Over the years, the plaintiffs’ bar has cultivated its support in Washington and state capitals alike. Unlike ordinary...

Bloomberg via MSN: (Bloomberg) — Joe Biden’s lead among women over President Donald Trump is now even larger than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016, according to a weekend poll. Biden leads Trump by 21 percentage...

From Politico: In the last week alone, two prospects who were initially not considered among the top tier contenders have suddenly burst into contention: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Florida Rep. Val Demings....

Crabtree in RealClearPolitics: Before D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser changed the name of a street near the White House to Black Lives Matter Plaza in a direct repudiation of President Trump, Joe Biden was already...

From The New York Post: Mayor Bill de Blasio has caved to calls to pull funding from the NYPD. Hizzoner announced on Sunday that the city would reallocate an unspecified chunk of the department’s...

From The Hollywood Reporter.

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record. The...

From the City-Journal.

Robin Wright: In the early nineteen-hundreds, the American writer O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” in a series of short stories, most famously in one about the fictional country of Anchuria. It was based...

From CNBC: Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Others might not develop symptoms until days after they were...

From WAVE3 News: FRANKFORT, Ky. (WAVE) – Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the state will begin working toward correcting inequalities in health care coverage across the state. During his daily updates in Frankfort...

From the City Journal.

The Dawning of a Real American Cultural Civil War is here.

From CNN: As protesters gather daily near the White House and the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the American public is souring on President Donald Trump. A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds Trump’s approval rating down 7 points in...

From Spiked: Nonetheless, small incidents like this still outraged politicians and public-health experts. Writing in PennLive, four experts, including the well-known bioethicist Arthur Caplan, argued that those protesters were freeloading on the sacrifices made by people...

Former NYC Police Commissioner: “You have some in the hospital. But there were over 300, 300 injuries. And the thing that scares me, judge, I’m hearing close to 600 cops have either put in...

From Just the News.

Yesterday, in the heart of Washington, D.C. with the White House in the background.

The Atlantic: ….Americans, meanwhile, never stayed at home to the degree that most Europeans have, according to mobility data from Apple and Google. Our version of the spring lockdown looked more like Sweden’s looser approach than like the...

China is actively attempting to sabotage U.S. Covid-19 vaccine development: US-China #Covid_19 row: "We have got to get this vaccine done. Unfortunately we have evidence that communist China is trying to sabotage us or...

From MN FOX9 NEWS: MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council announced their support for de-funding the Minneapolis Police Department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model at a rally...

From New Discourses: Once this vulnerability has been successfully manufactured in the mark (or identified and inflamed, if already present), cult doctrine is given as a potential resolution to the emotional distress. “Christ died...

From a recent WSJ/NBC Poll: WASHINGTON—Voters by a 2-to-1 margin are more troubled by the actions of police in the killing of George Floyd than by violence at some protests, and an overwhelming majority, 80%,...

From a recent WSJ/NBC Poll: Roughly two-thirds of voters said they always wear a mask when they leave the house, compared with 21% who sometimes wear one and 15% who said they rarely or...

From Reuters.

From Breitbart.

From the Associated Press: With many businesses reopening, the government surprisingly announced Friday that contrary to expectations of further layoffs, the economy added 2.5 million jobs in May, and the unemployment rate fell from...

From Bloomberg via MSN: “We’d probably lose even more money,” Raynal concluded along with his business partner, Stephane Lezla. “I don’t think there would be anything left for us to be able to reopen.”...

Merrill Matthews in The Hill: So in February, you were silly if you wore a mask, and by April you were a fool not to. As Biden said of President Trump the day after Memorial...

From TIME: “Such so-called asymptomatic spread is unique for a respiratory virus; most cause symptoms and disease once they infect their hosts. SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is, however, particularly wily because it...

From the Spectator: It is completely understandable for African Americans to be outraged at yet another death of a black man by overly aggressive police officers. That outrage, when channeled into legitimate protests and...

Racial justice rallies go WIDESCREEN across the United States.

Axios 30 second out-take of the HBO interview with Rep. Val Deming.

General Powell backs Biden: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Sunday endorsed Democratic former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, becoming the first...

From Politico: Harris has tried to channel the raw pain of the country: “Her wounds are exposed,” she said last week of the figurative sores of racial division that spread each time an African...

Klobuchar’s VP Hopes Plummet on George Floyd fallout: U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s chances of joining Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s ticket seem to be fading. Just weeks ago, Klobuchar was widely viewed as among the top...

From The Hill: This moment requires renewed and revitalized leadership across the country AND at the ballot box. On June 23rd, New York will be holding primary elections. Tomorrow I will be rolling out...

From The Jerusalem Post: A former head of the British intelligence agency MI6 has said that he believes the COVID-19 virus was created in a lab and spread accidentally. Speaking to The Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast, Sir...

From STAT: The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the...

The root and branch of what went wrong with Center for Disease Control.

From HHS: “One sad sidebar to the riots occurring in our cities is that over 16% (70) of the COVID-19 community-based testing sites stood up over the past few months have closed due to...

Per, the liberal Guardian from the UK: Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies The World Health...

From the Charlotte Observer: President Donald Trump said he is moving the Republican National Convention from Charlotte, hours after N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper said he couldn’t guarantee that the August event would be at full capacity...

From CNBC: The Trump administration is banning Chinese passenger airlines from flying to the U.S. starting later this month, a move that comes as Beijing prohibits U.S. airlines to resume flights there. The order,...

Boris Johnson will allow Hong Kong citizens to settle in the U.K., for those who want to avoid the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian rule.

From MSN: In the last week, the economic woes stemming from the coronavirus pandemic were further exacerbated when a number of small businesses throughout the nation sustained damages due to the nationwide protests fueled by the...

From The Washington Times: Our highest respect to the family of David Dorn, a Great Police Captain from St. Louis, who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night. We honor our...

From CNBC: Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend the funeral next week of George Floyd, the black man who died at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, a lawyer for Floyd’s...

From The New York Post: Rep. Max Rose, New York Democrat, said the mayhem in New York City Monday evening showed that Mayor Bill de Blasio has lost control of the situation “once and...

From The New York Times: Navy fighter pilots reported close encounters with unidentified aerial vehicles, including several dangerously close, in eight incidents between June 27, 2013, and Feb. 13, 2019, according to documents recently...

From Scientific American: Horgan: One admirer of your book UFOs describes you as an “agnostic” on whether UFOs are actually piloted by aliens. When I met you at Esalen, you struck me as a believer, not an...

From Detroit Free Press.

Turner in Forbes: Instead, lockdowns have become an end in themselves, where officials and the media focused on those who may sit on a beach, open a gym, or go without a facemask in nursery school. Officials...

From The Hill: To stop COVID-19 dead in its tracks, many governors, mayors and superintendents are threatening to keep schools closed this fall, failing to consider the greater harm that comes from refusing to...

From KaiserHealthNews: You may find yourself in a high-priced health plan you can no longer afford because of a temporary pay cut, unable to get the medical care you might have planned and budgeted...

From The Daily Caller: A black firefighter who invested his life savings into opening up a sports bar in Minneapolis was reduced to tears after looters destroyed his life’s work. Korboi Balla originally planned...

From EdinburghLive, UK: The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday. “In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo,...

From The Hill: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is calling the attack on the labor group’s Washington, D.C. headquarters during a night of protests over the death of George Floyd on Sunday evening “senseless” and “disgraceful.” The building, on...

….good practice.” As you saw last night, they were very cool & very professional. Never let it get out of hand. Thank you! On the bad side, the D.C. Mayor, @MurielBowser, who is always...

While he hides behind his fence afraid/alone, I stand w/ people peacefully exercising their First Amendment Right after the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & hundreds of years of institutional racism There are no vicious dogs...

From The Washington Examiner: PITTSBURGH — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said a federal investigation is underway into the Brighton Rehab and Wellness Center in Beaver County as he was in western...

We have liftoff. History is made as @NASA_Astronauts launch from @NASAKennedy for the first time in nine years on the @SpaceX Crew Dragon: pic.twitter.com/alX1t1JBAt — NASA (@NASA) May 30, 2020

From the NY Post.

Van Jones on the Lynching of Floyd.  

Jimmy Kimmel on the Floyd killing in Minnesota.

From the Daily Signal: For roughly a minute, Floyd shouts that he can’t breathe and that the officer is hurting him. Then, Floyd is suddenly silent. His body goes limp. He clearly has lost...

And it does not bode well for President Trump and the GOP, from the NYT: Writing in 1997 in “The Fourth Turning,” Mr. Howe and Mr. Strauss warned that after the 2020 crisis, the...

From The Wall Street Journal: Armed with positive antibody tests for Covid-19 and a history of related symptoms, some Americans think they had the disease as early as fall 2019. Last November, New Jersey...

From Cell.com.

From Éiriú Eolas: Could nearly half the population not already infected with SARS-CoV-2 be immune to it from having already contracted other forms of coronavirus in recent years? That is one implication of a...

From Bloomberg Opinion: (Bloomberg Opinion) — Relatively early in the Covid-19 pandemic, in March, I made the case against closing schools and later warned that doing so, even though it may be necessary, will cause many...

From Reuters: COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Sending children back to schools and day care centres in Denmark, the first country in Europe to do so, did not lead to an increase in coronavirus infections, according...

From Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance: One farm in Tennessee distributed Covid-19 tests to all of its workers after an employee came down with the virus. It turned out that every single one of its...

Wall Street is nervous about what Trump will say or do next on CHINA! See, USA Today, here.

So, there is that.

From The National Review.

From the Associated Press: Only about half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed, a number that’s surprisingly low considering the effort going...

From the Washington Inquirer: The COVID-19 virus death rate is highest among residents of long-term care facilities. Using extrapolated data, the report from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity concludes that 43% of deaths from...

When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers

The Strategic Flaw that Maven Can’t Fix: Job-based health care suffers from a collective action problem. Employers offer insurance to their workers as part of their compensation packages. Firms want to attract good employees,...