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FPI / March 25, 2020 “Panic mixed with shameless pandering is a recipe for a bigger crisis than the coronavirus itself,” Conservative Review senior editor Daniel Horowitz wrote. “Politicians and the media are telling the public to be prudent and not to panic, but everything they are saying and implementing is sowing panic, and they […]

FPI / March 25, 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he would prescribe Chloroquine to coronavirus patients. In an interview on AM 990 in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Fauci spoke with Townhall columnist and morning host Chris Stigall about the hope in the hydroxychloroquine drug that has […]

FPI / March 25, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach on Tuesday announced that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be postponed for about one year due to the coronavirus crisis. The opening ceremony had been planned for July 24 in Tokyo. “[T]he IOC president and the […]

FPI / March 25, 2020 By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — It’s almost become a sad cliche to say that America is shutting down over the Coronavirus pandemic. Uncertainty and fear stalk the land, but the enemy remains invisible. The growing global effects of COVID-19 from China to Western Europe, and now North America, […]

FPI / March 25, 2020 By Donald Kirk NORFOLK, Virginia — America’s mightiest warships, including the carrier John C. Stennis, line up grey and forbidding here at the world’s largest naval base at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. A few gate-keepers, security people, stand guard on the piers, but otherwise almost no one is […]

FPI / March 24, 2020 “A bipartisan stimulus measure had been negotiated over several days in the Senate and was headed towards a key procedural vote when it was stopped dead Sunday at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s urging and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s obeisance,” James Robbins wrote for USA Today. “Every time the country […]

FPI / March 24, 2020 In its massive propaganda campaign aimed at deflecting responsibility for the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is finding a compliant ally in the U.S. corporate media, analysts say. “China’s state-run propaganda outlets are using coronavirus coverage by U.S. media and Democratic politicians to push the regime narrative that […]

FPI / March 24, 2020 There is a shortage in the Strategic National Stockpile of one of the most needed supplies amid the coronavirus outbreak — N95 respirator masks — in large part because the Obama administration failed to replenish the supply following the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, reports say. Current Health and Human Services […]

FPI / March 24, 2020 Bookies have never been accused of a lack of creativity, and they are proving that as the coronavirus outbreak has all but shut down sports in the United States. Bets can’t be placed on who will pull off the biggest upset in the NCAA basketball tournament, how many three-pointers Steph […]

FPI / March 24, 2020 Democrats’ attempts to slip parts of the Green New Deal and other unrelated projects into the coronavirus stimulus bill “will never be approved by me,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. After several days of negotiating, Republican and Democratic senators were close to approving a $2 trillion package that would […]

FPI / March 24, 2020 Health officials in Japan said the country has done “quite well” in getting the coronavirus outbreak under control. The state of emergency has been lifted on Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture that was hit hardest by the outbreak. A panel guiding Japan’s coronavirus response recommended late on Thursday that schools in […]

FPI / March 23, 2020 In rejecting U.S. assistance to fight the coronavirus outbreak, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday reinforced Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda that the virus originated in the United States. “I do not know how real this accusation is but when it exists, who in their right mind would […]

FPI / March 23, 2020 Democratic senators on Sunday blocked a coronavirus stimulus package in which negotiators had given the Democrats essentially everything they wanted, observers said. But the Democrats proclaimed it a corporate giveaway and stopped it in its tracks. “The bill was not just loans to corporations. It also had relief checks for […]

FPI / March 23, 2020 A gun rights group is suing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, saying he has essentially “suspended the Second Amendment” during the coronavirus outbreak. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) reported it has filed a federal lawsuit against Murphy and State Police Superintendent Patrick J. Callahan. The foundation asserted that Murphy’s executive […]

FPI / March 23, 2020 Commentary by Paul Crespo The Chinese Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is causing death and disruption throughout the U.S., and worldwide, and is expected to worsen before it gets better. We must do everything we can to contain this pandemic and save lives now. However, while we fight this current battle, the […]