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Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine. Continue reading “Rhode Island Police to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge”
Political Insider – by Rusty Weiss
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) voiced her displeasure that the coronavirus stimulus bill does not include cash payments to some illegal aliens. Continue reading “AOC Enraged That Coronavirus Stimulus Doesn’t Hand Over Cash to Illegals”
CHICAGO (CBS) — Visibly frustrated with reports of gatherings throughout Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivered a stern warning to those who continue to get together during the COVID-19 pandemic: We will shut it down and you may be arrested. Continue reading “Beck, Lightfoot On Stay At Home Order: Citations To Be Issued, Parks Could Be Shut Down”
Direct payments to Americans are a key component of the historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief deal announced Wednesday.
The one-time payments are designed to help cover expenses for people experiencing financial setbacks due to the pandemic and the government’s efforts to prevent its spread. Continue reading “Questions and answers on coronavirus relief checks”
Tactical Shit News – by Thomas K
According to Firearm Chronicles
After hours of pushback from residents, gun stores, Second Amendment organizations, and even the county attorney, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva reversed course early Wednesday morning and now says his office is suspending attempts to force firearm retailers to lock their doors. Continue reading “LA Sheriff Backtracks On Gun Store Closure After Outcry”
Hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic are engaged in a heated private debate over a calculation few have encountered in their lifetimes — how to weigh the “save at all costs” approach to resuscitating a dying patient against the real danger of exposing doctors and nurses to the contagion of coronavirus. Continue reading “Hospitals consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients”
The Mind Unleashed – by John Vibes
Italian mayors have started to become extremely hostile in their public addresses, as many citizens are refusing to comply with the social distancing orders that have been put into place. Continue reading “Italian Mayor Threatens to Send ‘Police With Flamethrowers’ to Graduation Parties”
Last week’s initial claims print, which surged to 281K from a recent baseline of about 220K, while bad was nowhere near the apocalyptic prints some strategists had predicted in light of the massive closures of restaurants, retailers, lodgings, and virtually all other service establishments which have shuttered for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading “2.5 Million Initial Jobless Claims Tomorrow?”
A Wegmans customer faces charges of terroristic threats and harassment after coughing on a worker at the grocery store chain’s Manalapan location and claiming he had the coronavirus, Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday. Continue reading “‘Knucklehead’ who coughed on Wegmans worker charged with terroristic threats, N.J. Gov. says”
A 26-year-old man who filmed himself licking toiletries in Walmart while taunting, ‘who’s scared of coronavirus,’ has been arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat. Continue reading “Man, 26, who filmed himself licking toiletries in Walmart charged with making terrorist threat”
DENVER — Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on Monday issued a “stay-at-home” executive order amid the coronavirus outbreak, ordering all city residents to stay inside their homes except for essential reasons.
The order — which carries up to a $999 civil penalty, per violation — begins 5 p.m. Tuesday and will run through April 10. Hancock can extend the order, if needed. Continue reading “Denver mayor issues stay-at-home order amid coronavirus outbreak”
Many American graduates will lose their jobs in the coronavirus meltdown unless they pressure C-suite executives to shrink the million-plus H-1B visa workers on the payrolls, say lawyers, political activists, and Americans who have lost jobs in prior mass layoffs.
American graduates “must act now to ensure the huge pending layoffs are imposed on Indian H-1Bs instead of on Americans,” said Marie Larson, a co-founder of the American Workers Coalition. Continue reading “U.S. Graduates Expect Mass Layoffs as Companies Keep Hiring H-1B Visa Workers”
Gateway Pundit – by Cassandra Fairbanks
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied an emergency request that would have blocked the governor’s order to close all gun retailers in the state in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Gun Store Closures, All Shops Ordered Closed on Monday”
Gateway Pundit – by Christina Laila
President Trump lead another Coronavirus task force briefing from the White House on Monday evening.
The President was joined by Vice President Mike Pence, US Attorney General Bill Barr and others. Continue reading “AG Barr Puts Hoarders On Notice: “If You Are Sitting On A Warehouse With Surgical Masks, You Will Be Hearing A Knock On Your Door””
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal on Monday warned that those who violate recent orders issued by Gov. Phil Murphy (D) barring nonapproved social gatherings and shutting down nonessential retail businesses could face “criminal consequences.”
The executive orders signed by Murphy over the weekend bar people in the state from throwing unauthorized social events. The orders also require nonessential retail businesses to “close storefront and/or brick-and-mortar premises” and state that “all recreational and entertainment businesses must close to the public.” Continue reading “New Jersey attorney general says those who break ‘stay at home’ order could face jail time, fines up to $1,000”
Do we really think “it can’t happen here” in America? Could we quarantine the constitution? Are we doing it already?
Panics from pandemics unleash unchecked governmental power. The very premise of popular films like V for Vendetta reveal this: a group uses a virus to seize power and create a totalitarian society. Anyone could witness this from far-off lands, watching the news about China locking people up in their own homes and then removing them screaming from those homes whenever the state wanted. World War I and the Great Depression birthed virulent forms of governments with leaders like Hitler, Mao, Mussolini and Stalin. Continue reading “I am an American constitutional lawyer – and I see our government using Covid-19 to take away our fundamental rights”