Новости за 31.03.2020

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Rapid advances in healthcare technology and drug development promise to limit the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Pharmaceutical companies announced big breakthroughs for developing vaccines and anti-viral drugs in recent days, and manufacturers are creating sterilization machines to extend the lifespan of respirator masks, helping beleaguered doctors and nurses. Johnson &…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing President Trump of not adequately responding to the arrival of the coronavirus in the United States. "This is the same person that fiddled around with a sham impeachment* that wasted valuable time," Blackburn, a Republican, tweeted. "You’re not fooling anyone, Nancy." Over…

Dear Mayor de Blasio, As a religious leader born and raised in New York, I'm appealing to you to reconsider your threats to the synagogues and churches of your city. Your words, sir, were reckless and could actually provoke people of faith to defy you. What on earth prompted you to say what you said?…

(FOX NEWS) -- Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Mayor Dean Trantalis joined "Bill Hemmer Reports" Monday to explain why he does not want a cruise ship carrying passengers believed to be infected with the coronavirus to dock at the nearby Port Everglades Cruiseport. "It's unfair for these sick people, over 100 of them, to be dumped on…

If there is one thing on which you'd think left and right could agree, it would be the proper response to the present coronavirus. After all, COVID-19 doesn't distinguish between left and right: Conservatives and liberals are just as likely to contract and even die from it. Yet, it's amazing how consistently left and right…

(VICE) -- Whole Foods employees are planning to strike on Tuesday to protest the lack of protections offered to workers during the coronavirus pandemic—the first national collective action led by workers at the company since it was founded in 1980. On March 31, Whole Foods employees will call in sick to demand paid leave for…

A top official with the World Health Organization has ignited a political controversy over whether Taiwan is being ignored in order to pander to China. Taiwan, off the coast of China, is the island to which Chinese nationalists fled after losing the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong and the Communist Party in 1949. Relations…

(COLLEGE FIX) -- News reports covering Liberty University’s decision to reopen declare doom and gloom for the Lynchburg, Virginia, school. “He’s Going to Do Whatever He Wants,” blared a Politico headline from Sunday, which adds: “Jerry Falwell Jr.’s decision to reopen Liberty University’s campus amid the coronavirus pandemic has sparked anger and confusion—even among those…

There's little doubt that many in the establishment media are trying to turn the coronavirus pandemic into their own windfall against President Donald Trump, and it's becoming apparent some have resorted to using fake news to do it. Case in point: a CBS News broadcast Wednesday about the shortfall of ventilators in the state of…

  A federal court is cracking down on phone scams such as the one that threatens people with prison if they don't immediately reconcile a debt the IRS. Callers also impersonate employees of the Social Security Administration and companies such as Microsoft and Apple to extract money from the unsuspecting. "Many of the robocalls were…

"This is the question that is going to dominate the election: How did you perform in the great crisis?" So says GOP Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma in today's New York Times. GOP National Committeeman Henry Barbour of Mississippi calls the crisis "a defining moment. … The more (Trump) reassures Americans, gives them the facts…

Radio legend Rush Limbaugh returned to his microphone on Monday, informing his audience about the severe reaction he had to his chemotherapy treatment for advanced lung cancer. "I had a dire, dire, dire reaction, side effect reaction to the type of chemo I was on," Limbaugh said. "The bottom line is I couldn't walk for…