Новости за 27.03.2020

This week's dumb national debate has been about when to reopen our economy. To date, our strategy on the coronavirus has been to shut down pretty much everything and stay home. President Donald Trump said he hopes to reopen our economy by Easter. Those who oppose anything the president says are therefore adamantly opposed to…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By Richard Bernstein Real Clear Investigations China’s announcement this month of nearly a week of no new infections in Wuhan, the hard-hit city where the coronavirus pandemic originated, was both hope-inspiring -- and hard to believe. Medical professionals said the draconian set of policies…

The $2.2 trillion coronavirus Senate relief package unanimously passed by Republicans and Democrats includes $350 million in funding to assist migrants and refugees. Passed Wednesday night, it calls for "an additional amount for 'Migration and Refugee Assistance,' $350,000,000, to remain available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus," the Washington Examiner reported.…

The late Republican senator Everett Dirksen had a colorful way of describing the lavish spending habits of federal lawmakers. "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money," the Illinois senator is believed to have said, according to legend. Now, with the record $2.2 trillion emergency-relief package set to pass –…

"Please, Lord, help me get one more. Help me get one more." This was the prayer of World War II Army medic Pfc. Desmond Doss as he risked his life time and time again to rescue 75 wounded men on the bloody battlefield of Hacksaw Ridge. Anyone who has seen the inspiring movie about Pfc.…

To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq. When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of the pandemic, Russia reciprocated. Moscow announced it would cancel its war games along NATO's border. Nations seem to be recognizing and responding to the grim new geostrategic reality of March…

If I followed all my doctor's instructions to the letter, life would be excruciating. It would be tantamount to having Michael Bloomberg make my life choices, which is to say my life wouldn't be worth living. Human beings have never been as risk-averse as experts want them to be. We instinctively calculate the costs and…

Before the pandemic (coronavirus) and the plague (of locusts) came the protesters. From the affluent locales – Chile, France, Britain, Hong Kong, Catalonia – to the impoverished ones – Algeria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lebanon and more; the world was on fire (to borrow from Amy Chua's brilliant book). The reasons cited…

As the old joke goes, every government building in Washington, D.C., has a carved eagle at its front door – except one. The Internal Revenue Service has a carved vulture. The Democratic Party is changing its national symbol from the jackass to the vulture, a rapacious large bird that feeds on the dead and dying,…

Ever since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, Democrats and their media allies have worked feverishly (pun intended) to pin the blame for the latter-day plague on President Donald Trump. Some of their rationales have been downright outlandish, but, as the stakes have risen, the left has only doubled down on its two-faced rhetoric. Why…