INSIDERS: Feinstein Questioned By Law Enforcement Over Husband’s Stock Activity.
I used to half-joke that Nancy Pelosi kept two cell phones on her during the runup to passing ObamaCare. One for dealing with Barack Obama and Harry Reid, and the other just for her broker.
It wasn’t very funny then, and it’s less funny now.
IS CORONAVIRUS THE NAME OF A NEW COCKTAIL? CO man dies from astounding 0.55 blood alcohol level, coronavirus listed as cause of death.
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR WEEKS: Coronavirus Lockdowns Require Compensation Just Like Eminent Domain, Lawmaker Says.
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THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: ‘Calls to violence’: Michigan Gov. Whitmer says armed protests could lengthen stay-at-home order.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Unmasking the Unmaskers (Including Slow Joe). “Hey remember how Joe Biden swore up and down he wasn’t behind the Michael Flynn unmasking scandal? Well, guess what?”
REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN BIG TECH AND BIG GOVERNMENT: Apple Policy Exec Cynthia Hogan Departs Company.
Apple’s vice president for public policy and government affairs, Cynthia Hogan, has resigned from the company, reports Axios. Hogan will be leaving Apple next month after recently being selected as one of the members of Joe Biden’s vice presidential selection committee.
Hogan joined Apple back in April 2016 to head its Washington D.C. office under Apple’s environmental, policy, and social initiatives chief Lisa Jackson.
Prior to joining Apple, Hogan was a top lobbyist for the National Football League, and before that, she served as Joe Biden’s counsel when he was Vice President of the United States under President Barack Obama.
Hogan’s now-former boss at Apple, Lisa Jackson, was Obama’s EPA chief.
DECOUPLING: Journalism Org Cuts Ties With Huawei. “National Association of Black Journalists abruptly cancels event sponsored by Chinese tech giant.”
BUT THE NARRATIVE: 38% rise in bleach poisoning predates Trump’s suggestion, data shows.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Richard Grenell Is the Superhero America Needs Right Now. “All the while Hillary Clinton was burping up box chardonnay and warning people that the Republicans were going to dismiss the results of the election the Democrats were working on a way to do just that.”
OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: The Limits of Anthony Fauci’s Expertise. “The government disease doctor acknowledges he isn’t studying shutdown trade-offs.”
Does Dr. Fauci still regard life under lockdown as merely “inconvenient”? Of course economics is not his field, but presumably as a U.S. citizen he has noticed the gargantuan impact of the government response to the virus.
Yet there he was again yesterday on television encouraging more of the same as he remotely addressed a Senate hearing. “Dr. Anthony Fauci warns senators of ‘suffering and death’ if states reopen too early,” says a CNBC headline.
“Fauci warns that ‘consequences could be really serious’ if states move too quickly to reopen,” announces the Washington Post.
It’s important to understand that Dr. Fauci is only focused on one set of consequences, and it’s not clear he’s analyzing them correctly. Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), who is also a medical doctor, challenged Dr. Fauci’s views specifically on the risks posed by Covid-19, as well as the disease expert’s central role in the federal response.
Dr. Paul noted that for young people, the virus has caused very low mortality, that many Covid-19 forecasts have proven to be wrong and that places like Sweden that have avoided strict lockdowns are doing better than many shuttered areas.
RELATED, FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: The economic devastation wrought by the pandemic could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself.
You know what else kills? Poverty and despair.
JON CALDARA: Earning a living is the new civil disobedience.
The American Dream is created via an elusive mixture of insanely hard work, intelligence and colossal personal risk. Jennifer and her husband took on that challenge to start their dream. They mortgaged their home, emptied their savings and pulled money from their retirement funds to create Water’s Edge Winery and Bistro located at 2102 E Arapahoe Road in Centennial.
After five grueling years their business was a success, employing many people, allowing those folks to pay their own rents and the taxes to support others without work.
When her restaurant was shut down Jennifer re-organized to provide pick-up food service. She found that while people were waiting for their meal orders to be cooked, they wanted to have a glass of wine. The place is a winery after all.
Who would have guessed this would become the beginning of a law-breaking demonstration of resistance? Forget the Tea Party of 1773. This is the Wine Party of 2020.
Rread the whole thing.
NOT IF IT REFLECTS BADLY ON DEMOCRATS IT ISN’T: Some States Forced Nursing Homes To Accept Coronavirus Patients. Many Died As A Result. This Is A Massive Scandal.
REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE… VERY SOON AND FROM VERY FAR AWAY: Raytheon Is Developing A Ramjet Artillery Round For The Army’s New Super Howitzers.
WELL, THE COMMUNISTS ARE TO BLAME: Most Americans Blame China for Spread of Coronavirus After 83K Dead, Millions Jobless.
Just to be clear, Americans blame the mainland People’s Republic of China and not the well-run Republic of China on Taiwan.
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GUESS WHO’S ON THERE? JOE BIDEN. List of Obama Officials Who Sought To ‘Unmask’ Flynn Released.
But what did the Vice President forget, and when did he forget it?
GASLIGHTING: Media Lies: Democrat Governors Doing Great Jobs Despite Higher Wuhan Death Rates. “What’s a Republican governor have to do to earn respect from the mainstream media? I’m asking because saving a lot of lives without totally trashing their state’s economy doesn’t seem to do the trick. Meanwhile, certain Democrat governors are portrayed as quietly competent heroes while having the worst infection and death rates in the nation.”
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Meet the ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Celebrities. “These stars mock lockdown protesters suffering the most due to the crisis.”
Fun fact: “It’s worth noting that Colbert’s annual salary, according to Business Insider, is $15 million.”
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