Category Archives: Current Affairs

Latest Fearmongering: DOJ Wants To Suspend All Sorts Of Constitutional Rights

The Coronavirus fearmongering has obviously been flying around for weeks. We keep getting all the “Trump’s shutting down the nation for (X) long!!!!!!!”. No one ever actually has a named source, but, they keep having to knock this down, like People with too much time on their hands were spreading unfounded rumors, looking for their […]

Whining Whiners Who Whine: Washington Post Wonders Where Trump’s Wartime Response Is

I don’t know about you, but, I’m sick and tired of the uber-partisan Credentialed Media with their never helpful, over the top, doomsaying, negative let’s bash Trump coverage, which is rarely ever helpful, and continues to drive people into fear, when we should be pushing optimism to get over this. Real people’s lives are affected, […]

Some Ask Whether America Is Over-reacting To Wuhan Virus

It’s a rather taboo question, isn’t it? But, it’s not quite what you think Some Ask a Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus? As an America desperate to stem the coronavirus outbreak put in place sweeping restrictions last week on every facet of public life, the University of Wyoming economist Linda Thunstrom asked what […]

NY Times: Wuhan Virus Is Worse Than 9/11 Or Something

There once was a time when the people in charge of media outlets would sit back and say “is this really a good idea?” Sure, they weren’t always perfect, but, in these days, reading the Credentialed Media is more like reading the Democratic Underground, Daily Kos, or Media Matters. Here we have Unhinged Frank Bruni […]

Washington Post Suddenly Discovers This Thing Called Federalism In Differing Wuhan Virus Responses

Why, yes, this is the way it is supposed to work. Different areas require different responses. Heck, different parts of different states require different responses. What’s needed for small parts of New York, such as NYC, Long Island, Buffalo, Albany, are quite different than the rest of mildly suburban/rural NY. Across U.S., a vast disparity […]

ZOMG, They Might Shut The Whole Country Down For Two Weeks!!!!!!!!!! Or Something

I was wondering where this rumor came from. A bunch of fellow employees were yapping about it, scaremongering that Los Federales were about to invoke a two week mandatory quarantine of all citizens. Which would be statutory and Constitutionally problematic, if not downright illegal and un-Constitutional. Like quite a few of the ones invoked by […]

Americans Returning From Overseas Whine About Having To Wait For Coronavirus Screening

They should be grateful they aren’t being quarantined for a week or two, and that the tests don’t require testing in, let’s say, the back nether-regions US citizens returning from overseas say they are waiting hours for coronavirus screening at airports As Americans are being urged to keep their distance from one another, travelers returning […]

Republicans Oppose Parts Of Democrat “Coronavirus” Bill, Which Includes Abortion Funding

Never let a good crisis go to waste, right? Republicans oppose Pelosi’s coronavirus legislation, flagging ‘major’ problems The White House and congressional Republicans have poured cold water on the House Democrats’ coronavirus legislation to provide economic relief to Americans, signaling there won’t be immediate broad bipartisan support for the pending bill unless it undergoes changes. […]

Good Grief: Stores Have To Limit Toilet Paper Purchases From Panic Buying

Down here in the South, and, let’s face it, many other places, if a winter storm is predicted people run to the store and buy milk, bread, water, and eggs. Same thing for a potential tropical storm. One time I saw the cookie aisle wiped out. Oh, and don’t forget to get the beer. The […]

As Coronavirus Fears Rise, How Many Will Blow Off Quarantine?

It really doesn’t take many, does it, to spread it around? Jazz Shaw notes how some people were jerks during the Ebola crisis in 2016, even though they knew they were in contact with people with Ebola, because they worked in Africa. And this wonderful person New Hampshire’s first coronavirus patient, a hospital employee, went […]

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