Good morning! Here is your news briefing for Monday March 16, 2020.
THE DAILY SIGNAL
Mar 16, 2020
Good morning from Washington. Kay C. James looks at what Americans must do to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Hearing from liberals that the coronavirus response is another indicator we need single-payer health care? Bob Moffit explains why that’s not a wise move. Plus: Jonathan Butcher on the flaws of the 1619 Project, Rachel Greszler and Adam Michel on how Congress can help retirees dealing with a fluctuating stock market, and Rachel del Guidice on a legal case worth watching.
For progressives, the coronavirus crisis looks like a golden opportunity to outlaw Americans’ private health insurance and create a single-payer system of national health insurance for every legal or illegal resident.
The federal government, state and local governments, nongovernmental organizations and American industry are working together to stop the spread of the virus.
Nicholas Meriwether, a professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, says he was “illegally disciplined” by his employer because he chose not to adhere to a male student’s insistence on being referred to with female titles and pronouns.
Pollster John Zogby and his son, Jeremy, have chosen to take advantage of their generational perspective gap. With their podcast, “The Zogby Report,” they discuss the news through the lens of a baby boomer and a millennial.
The 1619 Project was based on the idea that slavery was “one primary reason the colonists fought the American Revolution,” but the New York Times is now hedging on that assertion.
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THE EPOCH TIMES
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Good morning,
Amid the global outbreak of COVID-19, Chinese officials are pushing the false theory that the coronavirus originated in the United States.
“There’s been a repeated, relentless campaign against the United States and it’s been malicious, irresponsible, false, of course, and dangerous,” China expert Gordon Chang told The Epoch Times.
An effort on March 12 by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authority for 45 days to allow time for further negotiations on reforms was blocked by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.). Read more
Many shelves lay empty at grocery stores across the nation as buyers stocked up in preparation to hunker down amid the coronavirus outbreak. Several major grocery chains cut hours, and many stores rationed some essentials to abate restocking woes. Read more
The National Education Association, the largest labor union in the country, on March 14 endorsed Joe Biden to be the Democratic Party nominee for president. Read more
The novel coronavirus pandemic has hastened U.S. companies’ efforts to “decouple” their supply chains and operations from China. Read more
Millions of Americans depend on drugs that are made in part or wholly in China because U.S. manufacturers moved their supply chains and much of their manufacturing facilities to that country, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship was told on March 12. Read more
The top infectious disease expert in the United States on March 15 said that it may take several months before life returns to normal in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
In US, Unity Can Help Defeat Wuhan Virus
By Michael Walsh
After the horrors of the American Civil War, and in the aftermath of a bitterly contested election that pitted Abraham Lincoln against George McClellan, one of his former generals (running on a “peace” platform), Lincoln attempted to bind the nation’s war wounds… Read more
China Goes on Propaganda Offensive
By James Gorrie
Now that the world is awash in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party is doing what it does best: put the blame anywhere and everywhere else but where it belongs. Read more
China’s Impending Water Crisis
By César Chelala
(February 19, 2014)
As a lot of attention is being paid to the negative consequences of environmental pollution in China, another crisis is the brewing of equally dangerous consequences for people’s health and for the country’s development: water scarcity. Read more
In this episode of American Thought Leaders, we’ll sit down with Carter Page, former foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He was surveilled by the FBI under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance warrant as part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign.
And Biden says he will have a female VP (Fox News). Biden also declared he’d stop fracking and drilling on federal land (Daily Caller). From Jim Geraghty: Heading into tonight, the majority of Democrats appeared set on nominating Joe Biden. Nothing that happened tonight changed the current trajectory (National Review).
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Twitter Reactions to Sunday’s Debate
From Byron York: Apparently Biden’s position is that, if he is president, a person who enters the US illegally will never face deportation, no matter his criminal record in any foreign country, unless he is convicted of a felony committed in the US (Twitter). From Rich Lowry: Biden wins the debate going away, because the only question was if he’d avoid a catastrophic stumble and turn in a plausible performance, and he definitely did (Twitter). From Frank Luntz: Bernie Sanders had the better #DemDebate performance tonight, but @JoeBiden won the debate by committing to a woman VP. The Democratic primary is over (Twitter). From Mollie Hemingway: Biden says he’ll pick a female VP. Bernie hitting Biden for once supporting Hyde Amendment, which protects American taxpayers from having to pay for abortions. Biden joined Bernie in supporting forced taxpayer funding for abortions (Twitter). From Katie Pavlich: One thing missing from Biden or Sanders response to Wuhan coronavirus: the private sector. Walgreens, CVS, Quest, etc. all stepped up this week to partner with the Trump administration (Twitter). In the middle of the debate, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted this at Biden: Don’t say you support a fracking ban when you don’t. Don’t say you didn’t write the bankruptcy bill when you were one of it’s biggest champions. Don’t say you supported ending Hyde a long time ago when you were just pressured into it last year. This is basic. The truth matters (Twitter).
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Cities, States Take Drastic Measures to Combat Coronavirus
In New York City, restaurants can only serve to go orders (Twitter). The hard-hit state of Washington closes all restaurants and bars (New York Post). Los Angeles is closing bars and other venues (ABC News). From Seth Mandel: Disruptions—possibly massive, if this goes the way ppl expect—to workers already living tenuously in expensive cities. Places without corporate backing (not that corporate backing is bad!) will close and take ppl’s savings with them. Please, please help these folks if you can (Twitter). From the L.A. Times’ Matt Pearce: I imagine all the closures and cancellations give people a sense of ominousness. But it’s really an amazing act of social solidarity: We’re sacrificing so we can give nurses, doctors and hospitals a fighting chance. Start from there and hopefully we can figure out the rest (Twitter).
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CDC: Ban Gatherings of 50 People or More for Next 8 Weeks
Including weddings (WSJ). Dr. Antony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wants to see a 14-day national shutdown (Washington Times). The death toll in Italy continues to skyrocket (National Review). How the mentality of Italians caused problems when combatting coronavirus, while that of South Korea helped (WSJ). A look at how hospitals could be put to the test if this gets much worse (HuffPost). Why coronavirus can’t be compared to the flu (National Review).
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Federal Reserve Slashes Rates to Near Zero
From the story: The plan to ease the economic downturn caused by the virus includes lowering interest rates to near zero and implementing a $700 billion quantitative easing program (ABC News). And Senator Mitch McConnell said the Senate will work toward “swiftly” voting on the massive relief package that cleared the House over the weekend (Washington Times).
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Amazon and eBay Stop Sales of Hand Sanitizer from Those Cranking Up Prices
The story looks at one guy who bought out everything on the shelves of stores and is now stuck with a garage full of stuff.
Republicans Finding Ways to Gain Conservatives at Judicial Level
The story notes “Eligible appeals court judges (appointees of Republican presidents, to be specific) are being asked to switch to senior status, a form of semi-retirement that allows them to continue hearing cases but opens their seat for a new nominee. This could create as many as 28 vacancies on the appeals courts.”
Picking a difficult weekend to open – the worst in 21 years – “I Still Believe” finished second (Washington Examiner). Believe had an impressive $9.5 million (Box Office Mojo).
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