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The Russians Are Coming!'
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Human testing of coronavirus treatment 
begins, vaccine prep progresses
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by jpost.com ~ The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is beginning tests of an antiviral drug on a passenger from the Diamond Princess cruise ship... and preparing a new coronavirus vaccine for human testing, according to Time magazine. The antiviral drug remdesivir, developed for Ebola, is being tested on a patient who was brought to the US from the cruise ship after being infected with the virus. Others diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, will also take part in the study. Remdesivir showed encouraging results among animals infected with two related coronaviruses – those causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), according to Time. 691 people were infected with the coronavirus on the Diamond Princess that was docked south of Tokyo, according to Reuters. Four passengers died after being infected. Volunteers will be randomly assigned to receive either the drug or a placebo intravenously for 10 days and have blood tests and nose and throat swabs taken every two days to track the amount of the virus in their bodies. Even if the drug only shows some efficacy in keeping blood levels of SARS-CoV-2 from growing, it could help contain the spread of the virus. Moderna Therapeutics, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has shipped the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH, which will prepare the vaccine for human testing as early as April, according to Time. The new vaccine was made just 42 days after the genetic sequence of the virus was released by Chinese researchers using a new method allowing for production of the vaccine to be scaled up quickly. The vaccine is filled with mRNA – the genetic material that comes from DNA and makes proteins – that codes for the right coronavirus proteins, which then get injected into the body. Immune cells can process that mRNA and start making the protein in the right way for other immune cells to recognize and mark for destruction. 81,005 confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection have been recorded by Johns Hopkins University, with 2,762 deaths and 30,116 recoveries as of Wednesday morning...   https://www.jpost.com/International/Human-testing-of-coronavirus-treatment-begins-vaccine-prep-progresses-618882   

COVID-19: It’s Time To Use the Word ‘Pandemic’
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by MELISSA MACKENZIE
{ spectator.org } ~ COVID-19 is a pandemic. It is, as CDC doctors and Thanos warn, inevitable. No one wants to say it including the head of the World Health Organization, but it needs to be said... The Wuhan flu, aka the coronavirus aka COVID-19 with the SARS-CoV-2 disease is worldwide. It’s time to stop acting as if everything is normal. It’s time to communicate and take action. Yesterday, the Dow dropped 1000 points. Supply chain worries are affecting almost every market. An acquaintance who works for a big German conglomerate said their supply chain is “a disaster.” Oil is off. European airlines are down 10 to 15 percent as countries close borders to Italy. Iran is overcome, and by all accounts they’ve only recently discovered that the virus is in their backyard. Nine people are dead. If one extrapolates out from other numbers, for every one dead, there are potentially hundreds infected. COVID-19 is in the United States, too, and not just from the quarantined cruise folks. By the CDC rules, only people who have traveled to China or have been in contact with someone who has been there can be tested. The tests the CDC sent out were faulty. The reason the United States has low reported rates of infection is that no one can be tested because only three labs are certified to do the tests. A couple facts that should cause skeptics to sober up: The virus can be spread by someone who is asymptomatic. That means screening for fever is not catching all sick people. (Think chickenpox.) - The virus can survive on surfaces for up to nine days. For contrast, the flu survives two days maximum. - The virus can be spread for weeks after the patient has recovered. - The patient can be reinfected after recovery. - Twenty percent of those who develop symptoms require hospitalization. - Average infection length is three weeks. For those who get sicker, recovery can take six to eight weeks. - Flu has a 0.1 to 0.2 percent mortality rate. This virus: 2-plus percent. 14.8 percent for those over 80 years old, and 8 percent if over 70. Another study shows older men with an underlying disease heart disease, diabetes, etc. are worst hit...  https://spectator.org/covid-19-its-time-to-use-the-word-pandemic/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=cf1d329e1d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_26_01_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-cf1d329e1d-104608113  
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Why Public Schools Are So Likely 
To Teach Leftist Propaganda
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By Auguste Meyrat
{ thefederalist.com } ~ School choice is finally having its moment in the national conversation, to the joy of those interested in school reform. While some states have adopted various school choice initiatives in small doses, most have not... This may change after President Donald Trump publicly brought up school choice in his recent State of the Union address, and Republican lawmakers have introduced a series of bills that would increase federal funding for vouchers. If school choice were adopted nationwide on the proposed scale, public education would change significantly, mostly for the better. Using a government-issued voucher, parents would finally have greater freedom in choosing whether to send their children to public school, private school, or a charter school. So many public schools that currently enjoy a monopoly would no longer benefit from automatic funding that comes regardless of their performance; they would have to compete with other schools for students. With public schools no longer the only option for parents who can’t afford anything else, these schools would need to maximize their performance, efficiency, and attractiveness. Above all, however, schools would need to ensure their teachers use high-quality curriculum. Currently, it can be difficult for parents to know what is in the curriculum of a typical public school. After all, there is little reason to be transparent when funding is assured. As Matt Beienburg writes in National Review, this situation has led to schools adopting questionable content that seems to promote an ideological agenda over serious learning. In particular, he mentions the nationwide adoption of the New York Times’ “1619 Project” for history class, along with Seattle’s math ethnic studies framework. Although these represent the more extreme curriculum offerings, most public schools in both red and blue states routinely use left-leaning or “woke” materials while quietly doing away with older materials that encourage American patriotism, Western civilization, and Judeo-Christian values. In English class, this means replacing “Hamlet” and “The Scarlet Letter” with “The Hate U Give,” a novel based on themes from the Black Lives Matter movement, and “Symptoms of Being Human,” a novel about a gender-fluid punk rocker who blogs about his insecurities...  https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/26/why-public-schools-are-so-likely-to-teach-leftist-propaganda/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=1387218063-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-1387218063-83771801   

Trump throws Hoekstra, Ratcliffe 
in the mix for DNI post
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By Andrew O'Reilly & Mike Emanuel
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump is now considering U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra and Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe as candidates to be the next director of National Intelligence... according to sources familiar with the process. Trump has said he has four to five candidates he is considering for the cabinet-level post, which has been headed by two acting directors since Dan Coats stepped down last August. Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Maguire served as acting DNI until he resigned earlier this month. Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, was appointed last week by Trump to serve as acting DNI. Grenell is an outspoken Trump loyalist with a large conservative following on Twitter and also the first openly gay person to serve in a cabinet-level position. The news of Trump considering Hoekstra and Ratcliffe added two more names to a growing list of candidates to fill the position. Late last week it was reported that Trump was considering Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., for the permanent director of National Intelligence job, but Collins told Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo on Friday morning that while he's humbled by the possible offer, he is focused on running for Senate and would not accept the job. "This is not a job that interests me, at this time it's not one that I would accept because I'm running a Senate race down here in Georgia," Collins said. Ratcliffe was Trump’s nominee to be DNI last summer, but withdrew from consideration. The top Democrat on Senate Intelligence, Mark Warner of Virginia, has been among those openly critical of Ratcliffe being nominated to serve as DNI. If nominated by Trump, Ratcliffe will likely face a fierce confirmation battle as Democrats argue the former mayor of the small town of Heath had been selected due to his loyalty rather than experience. Hoekstra, a former congressman from Michigan who chaired the House Intelligence Committee from 2004-2007, has already been Senate confirmed to his ambassador post, so he has been vetted and approved once by the Senate...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-throws-hoekstra-ratcliffe-in-the-mix-for-dni-post   

The Trump plan for Afghanistan is an 
investment in America's national security
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by washingtontimes.com ~ This week, the Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to reduce American involvement in  Afghanistan... The odds of success are not high. At this moment, however, the plan probably is the least-bad option. Initially, the Taliban has agreed only to limit violence for seven days beginning at the stroke of midnight last Saturday. If relative quiet ensues, direct talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government will begin. The goal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, is to reach a “political settlement to end the war in  Afghanistan, reduce United States and Allied Forces presence, and ensure that no terrorist group ever uses Afghan soil to threaten the United States or our allies.” As a next step, U.S. forces will be downsized from the current level, about 13,000, to 8,600. That figure is not enough for serious war-fighting — in 2010 President scumbag/liar-nObama deployed 100,000 troops in  Afghanistan — but U.S. commanders consider it minimally sufficient for an advise-and-assist mission, one that checks the Taliban’s grander ambitions while protecting hard-won gains (more on those in a minute). Would Mr. Trump prefer to bring all Americans home before July 4th? No doubt. Why isn’t he? I suspect his advisers have painted a picture of what could happen were he to cut and run: A historic Taliban victory and U.S. defeat; helicopters evacuating diplomats from the U.S. embassy; pro-American Afghans having their heads chopped off with videos going viral; America’s enemies around the world redoubling their efforts to hasten what would be seen as America’s imminent decline and fall. Not the results Mr. Trump wants to produce — least of all in an election year.Historians are unlikely to conclude that the conflict in Afghanistan has been pursued consistently or coherently.  Following the attacks of 2001, American forces toppled the Taliban in retaliation for its support for and protection of al Qaeda. President Bush said the mission was “to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime.” Though the first of those goals was achieved, the Taliban transformed into a resilient insurgency. Before long, Mr. Bush seemed to lose interest, turning his attention to Iraq. He toppled Saddam Hussein, but a well-conceived plan to turn combat success into political success did not follow. A bold counterinsurgency “surge” was required to get Iraq back on track...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/25/the-trump-plan-for-afghanistan-is-an-investment-in/   

There's No Rule Democrats Won't Change 
for Their Own Convenience
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By William Terrell
{ americanthinker.com } ~ I experienced deja vu watching the Democrats’ rule change to include Michael Bloomberg into their debates, despite their refusal to change those rules for other Democrats... who hadn’t met the qualifications for inclusion. For nearly twenty years I’ve watched Democrats change the rules to suit their convenience of the moment. For example, those who are old enough will remember the case of Robert Torricelli, the Democrat senator from New Jersey who withdrew from his Senate race because questions about his campaign finance practices were causing him to lose popularity and threaten that his Republican opponent might actually defeat him.  However, his withdrawal left the Democrats without a candidate in that race, which in turn endangered their bare 1 seat majority in the Senate. To further complicate matters for the Democrats, the legal deadline to put forward a new candidate had passed. Never fear. The Democrats went to the friendly New Jersey Supreme Court and got a decision that allowed them to call the venerable Frank Lautenberg out of retirement and run in Torricelli’s stead. And, of course, the seat was saved. For the second example we move to the Senate. Many readers will also remember the contretemps over George W. Bush’s nomination of Miquel Estrada to the Washington DC district court in 2001. By all accounts, Estrada was supremely qualified to sit on that bench, but he spelled trouble for the Democrats. For one, he was conservative; for two, he was Latino; and for three, he may have been a White House choice for a future Supreme Court nomination. Thus, at the behest of liberal activists, Democrats, newly in the minority in 2002, would not let Estrada’s nomination come to a vote in the full Senate a vote they would have lost. For the first time in history a nominee to a sub-Supreme Court position had been effectively filibustered. Estrada was filibustered seven times until he finally gave up and went into private practice. The Democrats had again changed the rules. And this rule change continued to advantage them in future fights over Bush’s judicial nominees. In 2005, they used it to block a number of excellent Bush nominees, including Bill Pryor, Priscilla Owen, and Janice Rogers Brown among others. Since, before the Estrada case just mentioned, filibusters had never been used to block lower court judicial nominees, Senate Republicans moved to change Senate rules to forbid the use of filibuster to block lower court nominees...
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The Russians Are Coming!'
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Thursday night, all the evening news broadcasts led with the same story — Russia is meddling in the 2020 elections to reelect Donald Trump. Here we go again.

Evidently, the House Intelligence Committee, led by Rep. swcumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, got a classified briefing about Russian interference in the 2020 election. Sure enough, someone leaked details of the briefing to The New York Times. Any guesses as to who leaked?

Curiously, the briefing took place last week, but we didn’t hear about it until Thursday when polls showed Trump’s ratings were up. What an odd coincidence.

Predictably, Democrats are claiming that this news justifies their impeachment efforts. As you no doubt recall, liar-Pelosi and scumbag/liar-Schiff repeatedly said, “We can’t wait until the election. He’s already working with Russia to steal 2020.” This is nonsense.

Let’s go back to the 2016 election. It was not stolen. Period. President scumbag/liar-nObama assured us that the elections could not be rigged, and we were later told that no votes were altered.

Russia spent $1.25 million a month on social media. In contrast, the Trump and scumbag/liar-Clinton campaigns spent over a $1 billion. But we’re supposed to believe that Russia’s “drop in the bucket” made all the difference.

And what magical thing did Russia do with that money? It ran memes like this one: “scumbag/liar-Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”

If scumbag/liar-Hillary’s 30+ years in public life hadn’t already convinced anyone that she was bad news, surely no internet ad would. To believe the minuscule Russian ads cost scumbag/liar-Hillary the election is delusional.

Here’s more proof that Russia wasn’t helping Trump: After the election, Russia sponsored anti-Trump demonstrations all over the country with the theme “Not My President.” Michael Moore and thousands of other leftists poured into a New York rally that was “sponsored” by Vladimir Putin. They were what the Soviets used to call “useful idiots.”

Unfortunately, the real Russian interference is working. Russia is trying to sow chaos and discord. It is trying to create a pre-Civil War atmosphere in America by making half the country doubt our elections and the legitimacy of our president.

Sadly, the left and its media allies are playing right into Putin’s hands.

Look at His Policies

The idea that Russia prefers America First Trump over Comrade Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, is laughable. Just compare the president’s policies to those any Democrat president would follow.

  • Trump has massively increased defense spending. Every Democrat candidate wants to cut it.

  • Trump’s major theme is that America was great, is great, and he wants to make it even greater.

  • The Democrat Party base believes America was evil, is evil, and has done nothing but oppress people all over the world.

  • Trump has successfully pressured NATO allies to boost their defense spending. Putin definitely does not want that.

  • Iran is a major Russian ally. Trump got us out of scumbag/liar-nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Trump’s sanctions are crushing Iran’s economy, and he took out Qassem Soleimani, who regularly went to Russia to meet with Putin.

  • Trump’s policies have made us the leading energy producer in the world, devastating Russia’s budget. Every Democrat wants to ban fracking and gut the American energy industry.

  • Trump gave Ukraine lethal weapons that Barack Obama never would.

No One Is Infallible

God bless the men and women who work in our intelligence agencies. They have protected us from many horrors over the decades. They have also been horribly wrong on many occasions.

As we have also seen, the previous administration appears to have weaponized parts of the intelligence community against the president and those who voted for him.

CIA Director George Tenet, a scumbag/liar-Clinton holdover, told President George W. Bush that the intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a “slam dunk.” We never found them.

Before that, the intelligence community largely missed the attack on 9/11. With all our best capabilities, we did not see the worst attack on our soil since Pearl Harbor coming our way.

The CIA consistently underestimated the Iranian nuclear program. If it wasn’t for Israeli intelligence, President Trump would not know the true extent of Iran’s cheating.

Just a few months ago, China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the communist takeover of the country. It had a huge military parade in Beijing. U.S. military experts were stunned by what they saw. One official said in response, “We’re no longer in a period of overwhelming American dominance.” How did our intelligence agencies miss that?

My point is simply this: Our intelligences agencies are vital, but they are not infallible.

I believe there are ideologues in those agencies who are being intentionally obtuse in their interpretations of the intelligence. Russia doesn’t care who is elected. Putin is simply trying to damage America with the false narrative that he is deciding our elections.

By the way, there’s not enough space here to remind you of how often over the decades Russia and other nations have managed to infiltrate our intelligence agencies, including at the highest levels.

The Left Is Helping Russia

If you were so filled with anti-American vitriol and wanted to undermine confidence in our constitutional republic, what would you do? Well, you would plant seeds of doubt about America’s basic goodness and institutions.

You would start a narrative that America was founded in 1619, when the first slaves arrived, and not 1776. You would say that America was evil from the start because of slavery.

You would tell the country that the Electoral College was created to suppress minority voters so that America could be ruled by white, rural counties.

You would spread the outrageous lie that our Constitution thought blacks were only partial human beings.

You would tell the country that the Supreme Court, which for decades has done the left’s bidding, is now an illegitimate organization controlled by the radical right, corporate interests, and two justices who harassed women.

You would get multiple states to refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement agencies trying to remove criminal illegal aliens.

You would constantly berate law enforcement and praise extremists like Colin Kaepernick.

You would tell America’s youth that free-market capitalism is inherently corrupt and Jesus was really a socialist.

In short, if you wanted to undermine the America experiment, you would do what the left is doing every day.

Speaking of 1619…

As we’ve told you, The New York Times has a special project that is being accepted into schools all over the country. It teaches that America was founded in 1619 with the introduction of slavery, and not that the end of slavery began with the beginning of America thanks to the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

When The New York Times isn’t busy demonizing our founding, what else is it doing? Well, Friday’s front page of America’s “Paper of Record” was filled with the false narrative that Russia is stealing the 2020 election.

Further in you’ll discover that the “Gray Lady,” as the Times is often called, gave over the editorial page to the Taliban.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, a Taliban leader, who has a $10 million bounty on his head and is responsible for the murder of many Americans and countless Afghanis, is being allowed by the left’s flagship newspaper to tell us what his demands are.

That’s what New Yorkers read Friday morning in the city that was attacked on 9/11 because the Taliban allowed Al Qaeda to plot the attacks in Afghanistan.

But according to the left the real threat to America is Donald Trump and Mike Pence.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68773?mailing_id=4883&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4883&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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