“IT’S ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 5, 2020) — On July 1, a Connecticut-based non-profit filed a lawsuit naming Secretary of the State Denise Merrill (D) as defendant as a result of her announced intent in early May to send absentee-voter applications to every registered voter for the state’s primary elections on August […]
“NEW NORMAL” VS. “OLD NORMAL” by Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2020 (Jul. 3, 2020) — On Thursday, July 9, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is hosting its Clean Energy Transitions Summit, an on-line event that IEA executive director Dr. Fatih Birol calls “the most important global event on energy and climate issues of […]
ADMINISTRATION OPTIMISTIC; REPORTERS NOT by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 2, 2020) — During a press conference on Thursday morning beginning just after 9:35 a.m. EDT, President Trump touted the record-setting 4.8 million jobs gained last month reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The prediction had been a gain of 3 million jobs […]
DON’T WASTE A CRISIS. REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY MERITS SERIOUS CONSIDERATION FOR THE LONG TERM. by Dvorah A. Richman, ©2020 (Jul. 1, 2020) — The press has obsessively focused on supposed government shortfalls regarding COVID-19 testing. However, virtually no attention has been given to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) vigorous and unprecedented efforts to ease regulatory […]
WE ARE BEING SUMMARILY DESTROYED by Sher Zieve, ©2020 (Jun. 30, 2020) — The original COVID-19 attempt to lock down the US citizenry and destroy the Trump economy by shutting down businesses and our work force did not quite go as Democrats had planned. As soon as the country began ever-so-slowly reopening, the economy—which President […]
“WHAT DOES AND DOESN’T WORK” by Contributor (Jun. 30, 2020) — The lockdown in response to the COVID-19 virus was unprecedented and based on computer models that predicted that up to two million Americans would die of the virus if we didn’t. Now that we have better data on the real mortality rate, we know […]
PROGRESS OR NOT? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 30, 2020) — At approximately 9:45 a.m. EDT, the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor & Pensions) Committee opened a hearing with four federal health officials for an “update” on “Progress Toward Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School” following the arrival of COVID-19 in the U.S. […]
“YOU CAN’T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER” by OPOVV, ©2020 (Jun. 30, 2020) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. That’s right, because with us today is the best-selling author of psychiatric textbooks, Professor Zorkophsky. Welcome to the show, Professor.” “Glad you […]
ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND “CELEBRATION” SHUTTERED DUE TO COVID-19 by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 29, 2020) — On Monday Gene Cassidy, CEO of the annual Eastern States Exposition, or”Big E,” announced that this year’s fair is canceled. The event, one of the largest of its kind in North America, spans 17 days between mid-September and early October […]
“WE MUST HAVE THE SAME RESOLVE” by Cheryl Lacey, ©2020 (Jun. 29, 2020) — Like him or not, President Trump has not wavered from his commitment: America First. His determination to build a wall to keep illegal aliens out was scorned by many. Today, COVID-19 has people around the world living behind designated walls – […]
“WE ARE EXCHANGING INFORMATION ABOUT THAT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 27, 2020) — On Thursday Japan’s defense minister, Taro Kono, said at a Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan symposium that his country notes “movement” within communist North Korea which he tenuously described as “strange.” The English-speaking session included substantial questions from reporters after Kono thanked […]
“A LEADING CANDIDATE FOR CANCELLATION” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Jun. 26, 2020) — Friends of the Earth (FOE) and other environmental groups have ramped up their opposition to subsidies for the fossil fuel industry during our recovery from COVID-19. In their June 24 news release, FOE attacked the SAVE Jobs Act […]
“WE LOST, BUT WE DON’T KNOW IT YET” by OPOVV, ©2020 (Jun. 11, 2020) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. George Floyd’s death could have been a teaching moment, as in ‘Thou shall not steal,’ but the focus was on […]
“WE’RE A POSITIVE FORCE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 5, 2020) — On the news of lower unemployment and an increase of 2.5 million working Americans, President Trump held an hour-long press conference late Friday morning touching on a wide range of issues and ideas. The reversal in rising unemployment marked a change in the economic […]
A “SCORCHED-EARTH STRATEGY” by Mike Latham, ©2020 (Jun. 5, 2020) — The threat of being labeled a “racist” (or any number of slanderous labels) by the Democrats and their enablers is standard fare nowadays. In fact, that is all they have to offer us voters: labels, hate-filled rhetoric, threats of violence, supporting hooded goons who […]
DO THE RISKS OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS? by Jeff Crouere, ©2020 (May 30, 2020) — In the fight against the spread of Covid-19, a big dividing line in our country today is whether to wear a face mask or not. It also seems to have political connotations. For example, for Memorial Day remembrances, former Vice President […]
“BASHED BY PEKING” May 24, 2020 Dear Editor, What will US President Donald Trump (and America) now do for America’s staunchest military ally and one of the world’s great democracies: Australia? We Australians are so very severely under attack by China financially (trying to cripple our economy by hobbling our exports to China); politically (interfering […]
INDIGENOUS OR IMPORTED? by Sharon Rondeau (May 20, 2020) — Multiple sources have recently reported that China’s northeast Jilin Province, where more than 100 million people reside, has been placed under “lockdown” conditions resulting from a new outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. On May 13, the South China Morning Post reported that the […]
“ARE WE STILL IN AMERICA?” by Cherie Zaslawsky, ©2020, RenewAmerica (May 19, 2020) — Shortly after World War II ended, Americans were in shock as the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. But they also took comfort from the fact that nothing like that could ever happen here. Or could it? The plethora of new […]
IS A COVID-19 VACCINATION ON THE HORIZON? by Sharon Rondeau (May 15, 2020) — At 12:40 p.m. EDT, President Trump addressed the nation from the Rose Garden on an accelerated timeline to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The endeavor will be a public-private partnership, Trump said, a method his administration employed to […]