MenuGood SamaritansSecularists don’t want them performing charitable deeds unless they pass ideological tests.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe secularist prejudices of the Left remain on open display during the coronavirus crisis. They continue to produce bizarre policies: closed churches, banned funerals and weddings, even as abortion mills keep grinding and jails spring prisoners.Protecting the First Amendment, we’re told, is above the “pay grade” of governors — the same line, by the way, Barack Obama once used after he was asked about the humanity of unborn children.One...…MenuGood SamaritansSecularists don’t want them performing charitable deeds unless they pass ideological tests.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe secularist prejudices of the Left remain on open display during the coronavirus crisis. They continue to produce bizarre policies: closed churches, banned funerals and weddings, even as abortion mills keep grinding and jails spring prisoners.Protecting the First Amendment, we’re told, is above the “pay grade” of governors — the same line, by the way, Barack Obama once used after he was asked about the humanity of unborn children.One...WW…

MenuAn Appeal to North Carolina’s GovernorRoy Cooper can lift the tragic quarantine that is devastating his state.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressn urgent appeal to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper:For every COVID-19 case in North Carolina (4,500 estimated), 125 people have lost their jobs (500,000 unemployed across the state). You created this tragedy.Your executive orders have quarantined healthy individuals for the first time in American history. Small businesses can no longer operate, and their employees are jobless. This may be a solution for your medical advisers, but...…MenuAn Appeal to North Carolina’s GovernorRoy Cooper can lift the tragic quarantine that is devastating his state.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressn urgent appeal to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper:For every COVID-19 case in North Carolina (4,500 estimated), 125 people have lost their jobs (500,000 unemployed across the state). You created this tragedy.Your executive orders have quarantined healthy individuals for the first time in American history. Small businesses can no longer operate, and their employees are jobless. This may be a solution for your medical advisers, but...WW…

MenuThe COVID Skeptics Were RightThe cure was worse than the disease.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshen Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter, said that people will look back on the coronavirus lockdown as a “colossal mistake,” many scoffed. But with each passing day, as the failures of government at every level become clearer, Berenson and other COVID skeptics look increasingly perceptive. The governmental cure was worse than the disease.“What I think is that people took a very, very aggressive action a month ago without necessarily thinking through what the...…MenuThe COVID Skeptics Were RightThe cure was worse than the disease.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshen Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter, said that people will look back on the coronavirus lockdown as a “colossal mistake,” many scoffed. But with each passing day, as the failures of government at every level become clearer, Berenson and other COVID skeptics look increasingly perceptive. The governmental cure was worse than the disease.“What I think is that people took a very, very aggressive action a month ago without necessarily thinking through what the...WW…

MenuThe Suspect French Lab in WuhanChina got the P4 it wanted from France. The world got a pandemic.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshestnuts are in blossom, but there are no holiday tables under the trees this spring as Paris with the coronavirus. For the past seven weeks, its citizens have been confined to their homes, sans sidewalk cafes, sans restaurants, sans museums and everything else that makes the city a delight. The economy is on the ropes, with unemployment soaring and a drop of 6 percent in GDP in the first quarter. Among the tens of billions of euros the...…MenuThe Suspect French Lab in WuhanChina got the P4 it wanted from France. The world got a pandemic.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshestnuts are in blossom, but there are no holiday tables under the trees this spring as Paris with the coronavirus. For the past seven weeks, its citizens have been confined to their homes, sans sidewalk cafes, sans restaurants, sans museums and everything else that makes the city a delight. The economy is on the ropes, with unemployment soaring and a drop of 6 percent in GDP in the first quarter. Among the tens of billions of euros the...WW…

MenuBiden Wastes His CrisisAs Trump holds his Base, hiding Biden isn’t working.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressespite Rahm Emanuel’s infamous admonition to “never let a crisis go to waste,” Biden is doing just that. Coronavirus is an unprecedented crisis, simultaneously straining Trump’s presidency on the health and economic fronts. Biden should be pulling away under such circumstances. But he is not, and that is ominous for Democrats.A school of thought exists that Biden’s non-campaigning strategy is separating him from a sinking Trump. That school is called “wishful...…MenuBiden Wastes His CrisisAs Trump holds his Base, hiding Biden isn’t working.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressespite Rahm Emanuel’s infamous admonition to “never let a crisis go to waste,” Biden is doing just that. Coronavirus is an unprecedented crisis, simultaneously straining Trump’s presidency on the health and economic fronts. Biden should be pulling away under such circumstances. But he is not, and that is ominous for Democrats.A school of thought exists that Biden’s non-campaigning strategy is separating him from a sinking Trump. That school is called “wishful...WW…

MenuOur Costliest HysteriaHow could we let this happen?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressever in its 231-year history has our entire country been shut down. You would think that COVID-19 must be the greatest threat we’ve ever faced. You would think that there must be overwhelming justification for such unprecedented action.Of course, if you thought that you would be mistaken.The whole country has been abruptly derailed with absolutely no debate and with no clear end in sight. Doubters and skeptics have been shamed into silence. Expressing any doubt shows you are a cold,...…MenuOur Costliest HysteriaHow could we let this happen?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressever in its 231-year history has our entire country been shut down. You would think that COVID-19 must be the greatest threat we’ve ever faced. You would think that there must be overwhelming justification for such unprecedented action.Of course, if you thought that you would be mistaken.The whole country has been abruptly derailed with absolutely no debate and with no clear end in sight. Doubters and skeptics have been shamed into silence. Expressing any doubt shows you are a cold,...WW…

MenuEconomic Crisis and Public Health: Lessons from the 1930sNeed we be reminded of them?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe 1930s were a public health disaster.It is true that in that troubled decade, death from infectious disease was far less than it had been in the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Infectious disease wasn’t the main vector along which that disaster rolled out, despite the unnumbered people who succumbed to typhus and other such ghastly cohorts of war.The worldwide economic collapse of the Thirties had its primary effect in providing the moist and fertile...…MenuEconomic Crisis and Public Health: Lessons from the 1930sNeed we be reminded of them?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe 1930s were a public health disaster.It is true that in that troubled decade, death from infectious disease was far less than it had been in the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Infectious disease wasn’t the main vector along which that disaster rolled out, despite the unnumbered people who succumbed to typhus and other such ghastly cohorts of war.The worldwide economic collapse of the Thirties had its primary effect in providing the moist and fertile...WW…

MenuSaint Andrew of AlbanyHow does Cuomo avoid blame for New York’s catastrophe?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressvery day, cable-news channels provide live coverage of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s briefings about his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. What has happened in New York is not merely the worst COVID-19 outbreak in America, but possibly the worst in the entire world. Such are the biases of our news media, however, that no one ever suggests Cuomo is responsible for the deadly toll of this disease in his state. Instead, the Democratic governor is treated...…MenuSaint Andrew of AlbanyHow does Cuomo avoid blame for New York’s catastrophe?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressvery day, cable-news channels provide live coverage of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s briefings about his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. What has happened in New York is not merely the worst COVID-19 outbreak in America, but possibly the worst in the entire world. Such are the biases of our news media, however, that no one ever suggests Cuomo is responsible for the deadly toll of this disease in his state. Instead, the Democratic governor is treated...WW…

MenuWhat’s at Risk in Redivided America?For Republicans, our nation’s future. For Democrats, being called Canadian.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressoday’s great political divide is not over the ballooning federal debt or health care or any of the things that we used to argue about. Rather, it’s about when and how we should reopen the economy as the fear of the coronavirus pandemic lessens. Conservatives incline to a swift return to the way things were, while liberals worry that doing so would undo the work that’s been done to stop the spread of the virus. We’ve sorted...…MenuWhat’s at Risk in Redivided America?For Republicans, our nation’s future. For Democrats, being called Canadian.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressoday’s great political divide is not over the ballooning federal debt or health care or any of the things that we used to argue about. Rather, it’s about when and how we should reopen the economy as the fear of the coronavirus pandemic lessens. Conservatives incline to a swift return to the way things were, while liberals worry that doing so would undo the work that’s been done to stop the spread of the virus. We’ve sorted...WW…

MenuComey’s StalinistsJail time is all they should have to look forward to.Editor's PicksSign Up to receiveHot OffThe Pressriday’s news brought the welcome report that U.S. Attorney John Durham, investigating possibly illegal misconduct by the FBI and CIA against the Trump campaign, is focusing on the FBI’s illegal acts in prosecuting President Trump’s first national security advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn. According to reports by the Washington Examiner and Fox News, Durham is looking closely at newly revealed documents in the Flynn case.As I on September 2, there was a conspiracy between the...…MenuComey’s StalinistsJail time is all they should have to look forward to.Editor's PicksSign Up to receiveHot OffThe Pressriday’s news brought the welcome report that U.S. Attorney John Durham, investigating possibly illegal misconduct by the FBI and CIA against the Trump campaign, is focusing on the FBI’s illegal acts in prosecuting President Trump’s first national security advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn. According to reports by the Washington Examiner and Fox News, Durham is looking closely at newly revealed documents in the Flynn case.As I on September 2, there was a conspiracy between the...WW…