AOC makes the cut.

The letter can be found here: AFP-healthcare-coalition-letter.

From The Washington Inquirer: President Trump’s spy chief is reportedly declassifying information that shows CIA Director John Brennan “suppressed” intelligence on Russia wanting Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election. Fox News chief White...

Sean Davis in The Federalist.  

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...

See the RSC statement here and their letter to House and Senate leadership, here.

WH Coronavirus Task Force Shuts Down Schools in the Fall.  

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...

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...

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.

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.  

China Asked The WHO To Help Cover Up Coronavirus, German Intelligence Concludeshttps://t.co/ilUVxPqklx — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 10, 2020

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...

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...

Devine in the NY Post.

Sidney Powell bells the Obama cat.

Sidney Powell, Flynn’s lawyer on Gorka’s Radio show.

From The Hill.

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...

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

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...

In The HIll.

Attorney General Barr is a Great American. Watch Barr here and especially here.

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...

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....

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...

From The Hill.

TIME chronicles the financial and health struggles of the 2020 pandemic.

Total catastrophic economic failure for a mortality rate that is below less than 1 percent of the population.

From NPR, here.

Fed up, citizens and business owners, open stores and shop today.

Read this excellent one-page letter and summary here.  

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...

From AFP: Germany Accelerates Return to Normality.

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...

See the results here.

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...

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,...

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...

From The Associated Press.

From CBS local, Dallas.

From Global News.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From Reuters.

Doug Badger in the Daily Signal.

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...

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...

From The Washington Examiner.

From The New York Post.

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...

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...

From The Spectator.

From The Hill.

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...

From The New York Times.

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,...

From Axios.

From CNBC.  

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...

From Bloomberg.

From MIT Technology Review.

Two more people back Tara Reades story, here.

From Breitbart.  

See Center for Disease Control Wuhan Virus Death Toll as of May 1, 2020: 37,308

https://twitter.com/foramerica/status/1256215136278392839?s=21

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...