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FPI / April 22, 2020 The corporate media’s constant “gloom and doom” reporting on the coronavirus crisis has become “panic porn,” comedian Bill Maher said. “If this insanity happens, again, news sources have to rein it in. Everyone knows corona is no walk in the park because you literally can’t walk in the park. But […]

FPI / April 22, 2020 Taking a different approach to the coronavirus crisis than its Scandinavian neighbors, Sweden has left its schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants open throughout the pandemic. The government is relying on citizens to act responsibly and follow social distancing guidelines. Most limitations announced by Swedish authorities are no more than […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 A weekend host on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) accused President Donald Trump of encouraging “armed insurrection” via his tweets calling for liberating states from what protesters say are oppressive coronavirus stay-at-home orders. NPR Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon made the accusation twice during his three-hour show on April […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 In a series raids on April 18, Hong Kong police arrested 15 pro-democracy activists in what reports said was the biggest crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement since the outbreak of mass protests last year. Among those detained on charges of illegal assembly were Democratic Party founder Martin Lee, publishing […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 A New York Times columnist blamed Fox News host Sean Hannity for the death of a man who may have contracted the coronavirus while on a cruise to Spain. The April 18 NY Times article by Ginia Bellafante linked Hannity’s using the term “hoax” over the media’s coverage of the […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 The record clearly shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) has failed the world on the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. Chinese health officials knew the virus was spreading between humans by mid-January. But, on Jan. 14, the WHO stated that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 Yes, President Donald Trump’s name will be printed on coronavirus relief checks. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said it was his idea to do so. “The president could have been authorized to sign the checks. That would have slowed things down. We didn’t want to do that. We did put the […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 Demonstrations against state governments’ coronavirus lockdowns have erupted in recent days in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Washington. In Pennsylvania, the state legislature passed a bill that would order much of the state re-opened much sooner that Gov. Tom Wolf had called for. […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday issued a series of executive orders aimed at re-opening the state amid the coronavirus crisis. “Because of the efforts by everyone to slow the spread, we’re now beginning to see glimmers that the worst of COVID-19 may soon be behind us,” Abbott said, noting […]

FPI / April 21, 2020 By John McNabb, April 20, 2020 I flew my last sortie just over 50 years ago on April 3, 1970. Or at least I thought it was my last combat sortie in Southeast Asia! Uncle Sam had already gotten his money out of me as I flew virtually every day […]

FPI / April 20, 2020 The United States can force China to pay reparations for the damages it inflicted on the world via its negligence in handling the Wuhan coronavirus, a U.S. congressman said. The United Nations International Court of Justice can be used to hold China financially accountable, Rep. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, told […]

FPI / April 20, 2020 During his Saturday briefing on the coronavirus outbreak, President Donald Trump offered some remarks on the corporate media’s coverage of the crisis. “The media has been, some very honest but some very dishonest.” The Democratic National Committee (DNC) promptly took action. The DNC’s war room in a press release pulled […]

FPI / April 20, 2020 President Donald Trump called on Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia to “liberate” amid coronavirus lockdown orders that are getting “carried away.” Trump called out Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who on Friday signed several gun control measures into law, including reinstating the state’s “one-handgun-a-month” rule and legislation that expands gun-purchase background […]

FPI / April 20, 2020 The ongoing mystery surrounding the editorial integrity of The Drudge Report made news over the weekend after a twitter exchange between President Donald Trump and the famously reclusive Matt Drudge. DrudgeReport triggered the exchange with an April 14 headline that the coronavirus had not yet hit its peak in the […]

FPI / April 20, 2020 The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has projected that debt held by the public due to the coronavirus crisis “will exceed the size of the economy by the end of Fiscal Year 2020 and eclipse the prior record set after World War II by 2023.” The budget-focused think tank’s […]