Новости за 23.04.2020

(THE BLAZE) In a move that is strongly reminiscent of the 2016 campaign, a prominent staffer for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign is declaring unequivocally that that she is not endorsing or helping the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and further is suggesting that the sexual assault allegations raised by Tara Reade…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says a "chunk of money" will be set aside in the next coronavirus stimulus bill to help expand vote-by-mail across the nation. President Trump has warned that voting by mail, bypassing voter ID laws, creates more opportunities for fraud. Pelosi, in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC's "Morning Joe," said funds…

A liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, will conduct a virtual graduation ceremony this year because of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. But not for all students. Only if they are "students of color, international students and LGBTQIA+." Campus Reform reported St. Olaf College will host three virtual graduation ceremonies for different groups of minority students.…

(LONDON GUARDIAN) The world is facing widespread famine “of biblical proportions” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the UN’s food relief agency has warned, with a short time to act before hundreds of millions starve. More than 30 countries in the developing world could experience widespread famine, and in 10 of those countries…

(CBS NEWS) Farmers around the country have been forced to dump milk and waste fresh produce as schools, restaurants and other institutions remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. In response, Supermarket chain Publix launched a new initiative Wednesday to help struggling farmers — and get the food to Americans who need it most. The…

One of the great catch-22s during the coronavirus pandemic are spouses and children stuck in abusive households. It's a wretched situation, and one states need to do more to address. Once this is over, we're going to have to deal with a legacy of sick relationships that are more difficult for those being abused and…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Jason Hopkins Daily Caller News Foundation Remittances, the money that migrant workers send back to their families in their home countries, are expected to fall globally by well over $100 billion amid the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Remittances…

(THE HILL) Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) eldest brother, Donald Reed Herring, has died from complications related to the novel coronavirus, the senator confirmed. He was 86. “My oldest brother, Don Reed, died from coronavirus on Tuesday evening,” Warren said in a tweet on Thursday morning. “He joined the Air Force at 19 and spent his…

(WORLD ISRAEL NEWS) An 86-year-old Israel man was re-hospitalized in the city of Tiberias after coming down with a second case of coronavirus, Israel news site N12 reports on Thursday. His case is serious and he has been anesthetized and intubated, according to the report. The man, who suffers from serious background illnesses, was released…

(BREITBART) -- Cuban Christians are using the need to wear sanitary masks in public to spread their faith, printing Bible verses on the front of them, the Christian aid group World Help revealed this week. Babalú Blog, a website dedicated to news of interest to the Cuban global community, highlighted the development, noting that pastors…

The late Republican Sen. John McCain denied being the source for BuzzFeed when it published the Steele dossier of "salacious and unverified" claims against then-candidate Donald Trump in early 2017. But the text McCain distributed to the FBI and others was "identical" to the text published by Buzzfeed, according to an email by FBI investigator…

A woman in Rathdrum, Idaho, is facing the possibility of a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail for having a yard sale. The Rathdrum Police Department said Christa Thompson violated the state's coronavirus shutdown order. "A garage sale/yard sale is not an essential business and should not be open for business," the…

After an address by Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, the sheriff of one of the Seattle-Tacoma metro area's three counties announced he will refuse to enforce the governor's stay-at-home order. Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney wrote on Facebook Tuesday night he believes the order violates people's constitutional rights. "I can no longer stay silent as…

  Most public colleges and universities have social-media blacklists that violate the First Amendment, according to a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. And they're being helped by Facebook. "There's no social media exception to the First Amendment," said Adam Steinbaugh, who wrote FIRE's new report. "Government actors cannot sanitize public discourse…

I know. "Agenda 21" sounds like one of those conspiratorial rabbit holes like, say, Area 51 or the Bermuda Triangle. It is not. It is as real as is the havoc it has helped wreak. As to whether that havoc was intended, I think not, but I could be wrong. After the last month or…

Last week in this space, I highlighted an object lesson in the stupidity attendant to people of color embracing the left's racialist orthodoxy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. People of color are obviously not the only group that has demonstrated markedly lower intellectual function during this crisis; many of our fellow Americans have…

The coronavirus scandal, with billionaire oligarch "pandemic expert" Bill Gates pushing horror scenarios into the media, has contributed to politicians' reaction of fear. This, combined with mass media hysteria, has, in turn, caused a once-in-a-century financial depression. The economic depression may not be due to the virus itself, but rather the panic reaction that was…

A bipartisan panel appointed by President Donald Trump to assess restoring economic normalcy issued a 17-page report on how to mount an "expeditious" return to work. While it also flags an important political issue critical to recovery, medical experts still object to a restart, absent meeting certain benchmarks. However, those benchmarks demand we return to…

By Jake MacAulay Despite what you hear from "Constitution experts" on TV, no president or governor or health department official has the authority to suspend the Constitution by ordering people not to congregate, or by closing businesses, or by falsely imprisoning people in their homes. The TV legal experts usually speak of "balancing" individual rights…