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This Week's Cover Topic

Coronavirus is the ‘Chinese virus’
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 12:13am
At issue this week...    China  by Ben Shapiro This week, President Donald Trump came under fire for his use of the phrase “Chinese virus” to describe the coronavirus, the source of the new pandemic that has led to a global economic shutdown as well as lockdowns of citizens in every major Western country. That media have somehow found time to hone in on the one issue that matters least — the labeling of a Chinese virus as such — in the...

This Week's Focus Topic

Mr. President, follow the South Korean model
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 12:15am
This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Coronavirus Closures Great job, President Trump. You’ve done the impossible. You’ve turned perhaps the worst crisis in USA history and one of darkest periods Americans have ever suffered into a show of leadership and a jump in approval. THE LATEST ABC News/IPSOS poll shows a dramatic turnaround. At 55% to 43%, Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s handling of this crisis. The numbers were nearly completely...

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Leslie’s trivia bits - test your knowledge
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:07am
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: March 27, 2020 Just 250 or so people live on the Pacific atoll Pingelap, and about 10% of them are completely colorblind. This isn’t ordinary colorblindness, though. It’s the result of a rare hereditary...
The old political game
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:06am
POLITICS: March 30, 2020 Politics being politics, and politicians being politicians, Americans have figured out how, along with sore throats and violent coughing, the coronavirus causes finger-pointing, loud talking and endless credit-claiming....
Atlas is shrugging
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:05am
SPENDING: March 31, 2020 “Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution. ... The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” — Ayn Rand CONGRESS has...
A crisis is a terrible thing to manufacture
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:04am
TRUMP PRESIDENCY: March 30, 2020 On Jan. 20, the United States confirmed its first case of the coronavirus. The nation’s political and media elite obsessed over Mitch McConnell’s just-announced resolution governing the impeachment trial...
This is not sustainable
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:03am
REOPENING: March 23, 2020 Countries have experienced economic depressions before, but not usually as a matter of choice. THE NATIONWIDE coronavirus shutdowns over the past two weeks have ground parts of the country to a halt. We have probably...
The cipher as presidential candidate
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:01am
JOE BIDEN: March 26, 2020 What William McKinley was to the front-porch campaign, Joe Biden is to the basement campaign. SIDELINED and confined to his house by the dictates of coronavirus social distancing, the former vice president has been...
Even on COVID-19, left and right are divided
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:00am
THE LEFT: March 31, 2020 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...
Is the pandemic killing Biden’s bid?
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:59pm
JOE BIDEN: March 31, 2020 “This is the question that is going to dominate the election: How did you perform in the great crisis?” SO SAYS GOP Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma in today’s New York Times. GOP National Committeeman...
Conspiracy or not and murderous accusations
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:58pm
DEAR MARK: March 27, 2020 DEAR MARK:  Am I a conspiracy nut again?  In the 2018-2019 flu season 16,500,000 Americans went to health care providers with the flu and 34,000 died of the flu (better than the previous year that had 61 million...
The dark hole of debt
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:57pm
SPENDING: March 30, 2020 It is not cognitive dissonance — the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously — to favor the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed by President...
Whatever became of Dan Quayle?
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:56pm
DAN QUAYLE: March 25, 2020 He was the 44th vice president of the United States in the George H.W. Bush administration, but for the last 20 years, Dan Quayle has stayed mostly away from the unfriendly glare of political life. I CALLED him to get...
Trump’s strategic foresight is being put to the test
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:55pm
TRUMP PRESIDENCY: March 25, 2020 The ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in crisis came down to what they called pronoia — the Greek word for “strategic foresight.” SOME statesman, such as Pericles and Themistocles, had...
Why are Republicans and Democrats so divided over the coronavirus?
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:55pm
DEMOCRATS: March 29, 2020 Obviously, we are a very badly divided nation: so divided we agree on virtually nothing; so divided we can’t even talk to one another anymore; so divided one side doesn’t believe in anything the other side says...
Creativity and compassion continue to combat coronavirus
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:54pm
GENEROSITY: March 26, 2020 It’s easy to feel depressed and scared these days. News about the impact and death toll of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, is constant. Government responses have been chaotic, ranging from near-indifference to...
Democrats blackmail a nation in crisis
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 11:53pm
DEMOCRATS: March 25, 2020   I quoted Maj. Gen. George S. Patton in my column last week: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” I’M REPEATING it because it is so relevant to the...
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