Steve Sailer does the reveal.

Despite its vast wealth, San Francisco has notoriously awful public schools with low test scores. But don’t worry, the school board has a plan to fix the badness of its schools: the rectification of names.

Has any current athlete or coach died from the coronavirus?

CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION DAY 217 UPDATE: The Smell Of Victory Is In The Air

Why I reject the Great Barrington Declaration

‘Long Covid’ may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say

Pfizer Plans To Apply For FDA’s Emergency-Use Approval During Third Week Of November, CEO Says

The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Report: Red-Leaning States Less Prepared for COVID Resurgence

Italy Reports Record 10,000 COVID-19 Cases; Global Death Toll Tops 1.1 Million: Live Updates

How deadly is COVID-19?  Asking the questions Americans won’t do.

WHO Study Finds Remdesivir Didn’t Help COVID-19 Patients

Venezuelan Miracle Covid-19 Cure: “Ozone Rectal Therapy”  You first.

PINKERTON: Will Coronavirus Disappear If Trump Loses?

A New Approach to Covid-19

Gilead Disputes WHO Data Confirming COVID-19 Drug Remdesivir Is A “Flop”

Will the French forgive Macron for canceling dinner?

Why the Dutch can’t stop bending the COVID rules

10 Counties With Most COVID-19 Deaths Account for 22% of Fatalities but 11% of Population

Fauci Tells Americans To “Bite The Bullet And Sacrifice” Thanksgiving  Why don’t we make Fauci bite a bullet and sacrifice him? I’ll pull the trigger.

Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?  If the government has anything to say about it, it will.

WHO: Healthy Young People May Have to Wait Until 2022 for COVID Vaccine

Government Officials and Federal Judges Both Need to Be Reminded That There’s No ‘Pandemic Exception’ to the Constitution

Here’s How Hospitals Have Managed During The Coronavirus Pandemic

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It’s nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try….

I’ll bet that’s the way they do it in Somalia. Cultural appropriation?

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The reason people who work in Massachusetts live in New Hamprshire to begin with is that nobody in their right mind wants to live in Taxachusetts.

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Emails from a former Hunter Biden business associate serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Hunter and his colleagues used their access to the Obama administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors – including securing a private, off-the-books meeting with the former Vice President.

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Many federal district court judges have an expansive view of their authority—which far too often ignores Supreme Court precedent.

Judge William Conley, a federal district court judge who was appointed by President Barack Obama, certainly seems to have an expansive view of his, as made evident by some election-related orders he gave that clearly surpass the appropriate power of a district court judge.

Fortunately for the voters of Wisconsin and their interests in the integrity of the election process, some members of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were having none of it, and stayed all of Conley’s election-related orders on Oct. 8.

New Evidence of Link Between Blood Type & COVID-19 Susceptibility

Risk of Dying From COVID-19 Double, Triple With These Pre-Existing Conditions

Las Vegas’ Largest Casino Cuts Hours As COVID Keeps Customers At Bay 

France Starts New Curfews as Cases Soar  Guess they don’t listen to the CDC.

US Army Wants To Make COVID Social Distancing ‘Permanent’ Even After Pandemic Ends

China Had COVID-Like Patients Months Before Official Timeline

Here’s Where Sweden Stands After Refusing To Require Strict Coronavirus Lockdowns

Head Of Oxford University Vaccine Team Says Face Masks, Social Distancing Will Continue Until Next Summer

WHO Europe Director Says Governments Should Stop Enforcing Lockdowns

Gun Sales Soar Amid Pandemic, Social Unrest, Election Fears

Dr. Fauci: Families Should Rethink Large Thanksgiving Dinners

London Latest To Revive COVID-19 Restrictions As Record Numbers Reported Across Europe: Live Updates  The point being whitewashed is that these are cases, not deaths or even hospitalizations. If the number of cases of the common cold increased dramatically, would the government lock down the economy?

“Temporary” Layoffs Turning Into Permanent Job Losses

Oxford Scientists Say They Created Test That Detects COVID In Under 5 Minutes  Guess how long it will take to get to you — three months? Six months? A year?

Lockdowns Should Be ‘Very, Very Last Resort,’ WHO Says  We must Listen To The Science, unless The Science disagrees with The Narrative, in which case forgetaboutit.

COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks

Don’t worry. Your dentist probably won’t catch COVID-19

Here’s How Coronavirus Actually Stacks Up Against The Flu

Why can’t we talk about the Great Barrington Declaration?

COVID’s second wave is hitting the Czech Republic hard

Europe, US Reel as Virus Infections Surge at Record Pace

A Journal of the Plague Year

The True Cost Of Coronavirus Lockdowns

COVID Is Not A “Categorically Different Danger”

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The left has won the COVID issue and probably the next election as a result. I am old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi et al took the counsel of Dr. Fauci and told us that the viral disease the Washington Post had once called the “Chinese flu” in a headline was really no threat. It was all merely a racist, divisive, anti-Chinese stunt by Trump to pretend that the “Wuhan flu” was serious. Well into the apparent upswing of the pandemic Mayor DeBlasio urged maximum attendance at plays and restaurants.

Of course, none of that really happened. These politicians were always at war with COVID, it was Trump who did nothing. CNN says so.

The Third Wave of the Pandemic Is Here (New York Magazine)

Mitch McConnell laughs at criticism over Congress Covid relief failure (The Guardian)

Rush Limbaugh Touts the New York Times: A COVID Optimism Outbreak!

Rickards: We Destroyed The World’s Greatest Economy For No Reason

Hawaii “Has Committed Suicide” – Local Rages “Hardly Anyone Is Sick, But We’re All Broke”

“Facts Do Not Matter” To The Covidian Cult

Swedish Health Chief Said Country Avoided Lockdown To Prevent “Pandemic Fatigue”

Governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to restrict internet freedom

COVID-19 cases are on the rise yet again (Popular ‘Science’)

CDC Warns Small Household Gatherings Fueling COVID-19 Spread

Unhinged Lunatics at MSNBC: GOP ‘Clowns’ Part of ‘Macho Death Cult’

Bill Gates Warns “World Won’t Return To Normal” Until “Second Generation” Of COVID-19 Super-Vaccines Arrives

Obesity and Covid-19  Think of it as evolution in action.

COVID has killed the EU’s crowning achievement

Pennsylvania County Says 29K Wrong Ballots Were Mailed Out

How the Michigan Supreme Court Whacked Whitmer for COVID-19 Overreach

Judge Blocks Wisconsin Governor’s Order Forcing Businesses To Limit Capacity To 25%

Here’s Why A Vaccine Won’t End Coronavirus Hysteria

Coronavirus in one state (113)

New York Gov. Cuomo Sends Warning Letter To Areas That Won’t Enforce Social Distancing, Threatens To Withhold Funds

Nearly 29,000 Pennsylvania Voters Reportedly Receive The Wrong Mail-In Ballots

Elizabeth Warren Lashes Out At Disney For 28,000 Layoffs That Happened As A Result Of Gov’t-Mandated Shutdowns

Why must we ‘live with’ coronavirus?

The Flu Is More Likely To Kill You Than COVID-19 If You’re 17 Or Younger, Statistics Show

The World’s Biggest Seller Of Halloween Costumes Cannot Find Workers Due To COVID-19  Pretty scary.

France To Issue Curfews In Paris, 8 Other Cities As Coronavirus Surges

‘Mass Murder’!: CNN Guest on Possible Trump Embrace of Herd Immunity

‘Prisoners In Our Own Home’: Seniors Hold Coronavirus Protest Outside Nursing Home

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The pandemic has created a butchering capacity shortage in the U.S. It’s illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals and sell them directly to consumers, but a new state law offers relief.

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A cow sold to restaurants or retailers has to be processed at a USDA-certified facility.

Why would it be illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals? Does that make any sense at all?

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The Centers for Disease Control recently announced the projects funded by more than $7.8 million dollars to “Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries.” This is after the National Institutes of Health funded more than $11 million in firearms-related research from 2014 to 2017.

I guess owning a firearm constitutes having a disease to the healthcare bureaucrats.

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When Democrats call, who answers?

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Democrats lie! Whoda thunkit?

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What good is a second amendment or any law if the government will not abide by them? A government that will only interpret law against its opponents and forgive them against their friends. This is not the America I thought I live in. I have to thank COVID for that. As cynical as I ever was about my government and its legal system this, the pandemic is proving that I was a babe-in-the-woods optimist at heart. Did any of you foresee or even think possible the never-ending lockdown and the politics afterward?

What use is a Second Amendment to defend yourself and your home only to have your government keep coming after you until you fall? Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple that defended their home over the summer from a large group of marching demonstrators, should be protected but that does not seem to be so. Maybe they will stay out of jail but this thing is going to cost them dearly.

On the other hand, if you loot and riot in a city for 120-plus days and finally got yourself arrested, if you are on the Left it’s just a resume builder. Especially if you are a Democrat politician. Louisville’s Democrat mayor has been bending over backward to help these “protestors” and is handing out settlements like they are candy.

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You knew it had to happen: wearing face masks in restaurants is ridiculous, since you have to take them off to eat or drink. So as a practical matter, we wear them for 15 seconds each way as we walk to our tables. A sensible person would say that the whole farce of wearing masks in restaurants should be abandoned. But that person doesn’t live in California:

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Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified information to the effect that U.S. intelligence agencies “obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” Ratcliffe also indicated at that time that CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama and others on the intelligence. Today Ratcliffe declassified documents relating to last week’s communication, including handwritten notes by John Brennan.

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The federal government has several programs aimed at making affordable housing available to low-income families, and people have found numerous ways to scam those programs.

Jonathan Turley.

In his long-awaited testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony proved as casual as his appearance in an open shirt from his home office. Comey was hammered with embarrassing findings of errors under his watch in the handling of the Russian investigation, including the reliance on information that FBI agents warned might be Russian disinformation supplied by a Russian agent. After years of investigation, the FBI was unable to show that a single Trump official conspired or colluded with the Russians. Instead, investigations found extensive errors, irregular and criminal conduct, and statements of intense bias by key FBI figures. Yet, Comey proceeded to give what amounted to a series of shrugs in either denying any recollection of such information or deflecting responsibility to others.

Comey was asked about an intelligence report suggesting that Hillary Clinton personally approved an effort “to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” The report was reportedly sufficiently serious to be included in a briefing of President Barack Obama. However, when asked about his knowledge, Comey again shrugged and said it “didn’t ring a bell.” That’s it.

Jonathan Turley is a Professor of Law at George Washington University.

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This won’t ever come to anything, but it allows him to give a bunch of his favored cronies high-paying jobs at taxpayer expense. They will sadly conclude that there is no practical way to distribute such reparations ‘equitably’, but they’ll still have healthy paychecks in the meantime.

Steve Sailer indulges in a little history.

Who can forget the slaves signing their sad spirituals while they picked the cotton of the vast plantations of Burbank and North Hollywood?

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Betcha they’re all Democrats.

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A conservative lawmaker took his frustration over Ohio’s coronavirus public health orders to a new level Monday by demanding that criminal charges be filed against fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.

Rep. John Becker, a Republican from Cincinnati, says DeWine has exceeded his authority under state law and the Ohio and U.S. constitutions in issuing orders restricting Ohioans movements and activities. He made his demand in Clermont Municipal Court under a provision of state law allowing private citizen affidavits.

A reviewing prosecutor dismissed the request for charges almost immediately, and a DeWine spokesman called the move “absurd.”

Becker filed to have the prosecutor charge DeWine with 10 different crimes, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, complicity, terrorism, inducing panic and interfering with civil rights.

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It’s nice to read a feel-good story like the one about an Arkansas man who found a massive 9-carat diamond in a public state park in Arkansas. Thirty-three year old Kevin Kinard found the 9.07 carat whopper in the Crater of Diamonds State Park on Labor Day. It is the second-largest ever found at the park, the biggest being a 16.37-carat stone found in 1975, which was also the biggest diamond ever uncovered in the U.S. Mr. Kinard gets to hang on to his big find, since visitors who find diamonds or other minerals at the site are allowed to keep them.

The stone has not yet been appraised, but whatever the massive diamond turns out to be worth, does Mr. Kinard really have to worry about looking over his shoulder for the IRS? Yes, that’s the not so feel-good part of the story. According to the IRS, money or valuables you find are taxed, even if you just happen upon something by pure luck, and even if you don’t sell it to turn it into cash.

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In the video below, filmed in Hollywood, a Prius driver is stopped by a mob of Antifa/BLM criminals. They try to haul him out of his car, but he gets away. They pursue him in multiple vehicles, and a pickup cuts him off. Again the criminals try to assault him, and again he saves his life by driving away. The video ends with the victim being arrested and handcuffed by the police.

Their tax dollars at work. Will they learn anything from this? Sadly, I doubt it.

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The Department of Justice has disclosed additional evidence of the FBI’s efforts to undermine the Trump presidential campaign and presidency. Attorney Sidney Powell includes it in her memorandum filed yesterday in support of the “agreed dismissal” of the case against General Flynn. Powell characterizes the FBI misconduct involved in these efforts as “Stalinist tactics.” The FBI’s briefing to President Obama on January 5, 2017, figures in the mix. I have embedded Powell’s memo at the bottom of this post.

From inside the FBI a knowledgeable agent cries out regarding his colleagues: “…why do we do this to ourselves. What is wrong with these people[?]” It turns out that the famous “insurance policy” against Trump’s possible election required…insurance. Five days after the Oval Office briefing, “they all went out and purchased professional liability insurance.”

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Prediction: None one of them will spend any significant time in jail.

Just more ‘catch and release’, which is why this stuff keeps happening.

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As a very smart person pointed out, if Democrats could pack it when they win, then Republicans can re-pack it when they win; do they really want to go down that road?

The Other McCain calls out Fredo’s brother.

Before he became infamous for killing Grandma, the Democratic governor of New York signed into law an “affirmative consent” policy (a/k/a “Yes Means Yes”) that applies only to university campuses. Anyone familiar with human nature could predict that this law would produce disastrous consequences, because (a) college girls get drunk, (b) drunk girls do embarrassing things, and (b) the next morning they regret the stuff they did when they were drunk. This scenario accounts for perhaps 90% of all campus “sexual assault” accusations and, even if we can’t hold guys blameless in such incidents, the difficulty is determining guilt in a “he-said/she-said” situation where both participants are usually drunker than the proverbial skunk.

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This spring, public officials at all levels were thrown into a public-health crisis that made the first SARS, H1N1, Ebola, MERS, and Zika look like small potatoes. It is understandable that mistakes would be made, but officials assured us that their decisions were data-driven and that they were following science (or “SCIENCE!” as Gavin Newsom insists).

When cities and states enacted lockdowns, mostly in March and April, the U.S. had about a million diagnosed cases, concentrated in cities, particularly in the Northeast. Lots of counties in the rest of the country had few or no cases. Enacting a full lockdown in those places — shutting down all nonessential businesses, telling people to stay home, placing restrictions on interstate travel — was an excessive step that burned through a limited supply of public patience. Eight weeks of lockdowns limited the stress on hospitals and bought time, but at extreme economic cost, and that time was largely not put to good use. We would have been better off if restrictions were enacted on a local basis, depending on the prevalence of cases — although our assessment of how many cases were in an area was impeded by the limited number of tests and the difficulty of getting fast results. Some corners of the public will be highly resistant to any attempt to reinstate those restrictions, because they no longer have faith that they’re necessary.

We don’t mind ‘following the science’ so long as it is not JUNK SCIENCE, which a lot of the underlayment of these job-destroying restrictions is turning out to be.

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Sort of a universal metaphor for government by Democrats.

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Time to leave.

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Time to leave.

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Politicians need to have ‘Think It Through: Unintended Consequences’ tattooed on their foreheads.

Not for themselves, because the available evidence suggests that they are functionally illiterate, but as a warning to those with whom they come in contact, sort of a Trigger Warning.

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Whence the story that Robert Mueller’s maleficent miscreants wiped their government phones? Judicial Watch strikes again, as the organization explains in this press release.

The press release announces that Judicial Watch received 87 pages of records from the Department of Justice that show senior members of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them. The Department of Justice has posted the documents online here. Politico’s story doesn’t mention Judicial Watch, but let’s give credit where credit is due.

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The average cost of building a single unit of housing for the homeless in Los Angeles has risen to $531,000, according to an audit from the city controller, who recommends that L.A. rehab motels and open dormitory-style buildings to save money and get people off the streets quickly.

Controller Ron Galperin, in a report due Wednesday, also cited two projects whose costs soared to nearly $750,0000 per unit and assailed delays that he said have driven city-funded homeless construction expenses up from initial projections of $350,000 a unit.

Nearly four years after voters approved Proposition HHH, only three projects have opened, construction has not started on three-quarters of the planned units, and many projects may “never come to fruition,” said Galperin, adding that the delays began before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Because God forbid anything should happen in California without being regulated.

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Like almost all narco submarines this vessel was not actually a true submarine. Instead it is more of a ‘semi-submersible’ or what is called a low profile vessel (LPV). This means that it runs as low in the water as possible which makes it very hard to detect. Just how low can be seen in the Coast Guard video, note how the waves wash over the front of the boat.

These vessels are most active in the Eastern Pacific, coming up from Colombia. This is why San Diego based Coast Guard cutters seem to get the lion’s share of them. They are built in secret ‘artisan’ boat yards hidden in the myriad of jungle estuaries which lead to the sea. Narco submarines can also be found in the Caribbean and, increasingly, in the Atlantic.

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Yeah, that Postal Service is sure a poster child for government efficiency. They ought to have no problem delivering mail-in ballots on time and correctly.

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It’s been a little over a month since former president Barack Obama blessed the increasingly popular notion of doing away with the Senate filibuster. “If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American,” he told the congregants at John Lewis’s funeral, “then that’s what we should do.”

And just as Obama had no compunction about using this alleged relic of Jim Crow — as a senator he took to the floor more than once to defend the practice as a vital tool in preserving constitutional checks and balances and genuine debate — Democrats have no problem using it whenever it suits them.

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It’s their way or the highway.

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Six months into the pandemic, some traditions will still not be upset by a virus. As approximately half of K-12 schools are only offering online instruction, parents will still know little, if anything, of what their children are being taught in school except by accident—or unless they ask.

Recent fallout from such asymmetric information comes from Wylie, Texas, where a cartoon associating police with the KKK went from classroom to living room to the press room and on to the governor.

At Cooper Junior High, eighth-grade students were assigned to write about a political cartoon that depicts slave owners, then KKK members, and then police in corresponding panels. Furious parents, who only learned of the assignment because their children told them, contacted the school and wrote angry statements on social media.

Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott said the teacher responsible for the assignment should be fired.

The solution is to avoid sending your kids to a government school.

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On Tuesday morning, NPR Public Editor (or ombudsman) Kelly McBride admitted the taxpayer-funded network had overreached on two recent pieces I highlighted here at NewsBusters. We asked readers to contact McBride, so hopefully that convinced her to issue a verdicts admitting errors and overreach.

In a column, I noted it was bizarre for NPR to claim Trump stated “without evidence” that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he fell down on a Kenosha street, and a man approached him with a handgun.

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A group of parents filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the public school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, discriminates against Asian American students in the admission process for gifted and talented programs.

The group of mostly Asian American parents, organized as the Association for Education Fairness, are asking a federal court in Maryland to find that changes to the admissions process violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause and to prohibit continued enforcement of the changes.

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Progress, of a sort. I would have thought that state police would have the authority to arrest and prosecute rioters and looters, but whatever.

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The federal government has filled the national stockpile with enough ventilators, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The agency told The Hill that it will end some of its remaining contracts for ventilators because it has met its quota for the stockpile.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration awarded $3 billion in emergency contracts to obtain more ventilators as the coronavirus outbreak surged across the country.

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Janice Dean reports on the weather for Fox News. She lost both of her in-laws to the Wuhan coronavirus. Both contracted the disease at long-term care facilities, but her mother in-law died at a hospital.

New York apparently does not include cases like the mother-in-law’s in totaling up the nursing home death count. Thus, New York is under counting the number of deaths that arose at such facilities.

Dean has long wanted to testify about New York state’s disastrous response to the coronavirus in nursing homes. However, she was removed from the witness list for a hearing by the legislature on this subject.

The Antiplanner goes to work.

Writing in the September Trains magazine, which isn’t available on line, transit advocate Malcolm Kenton argues that rail transit agencies can thrive in a pandemic and post-pandemic world by shifting strategies. But he doesn’t mean shifting business strategies to attract more riders; he means shifting propaganda strategies to attract more tax dollars.

The primary customer of rail systems aren’t riders but politicians.

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Paul and his wife Kelley were leaving the White House Thursday night after the president spoke, accepting the Republican nomination to close out the Republican National Convention, when a crowd descended upon them and quickly grew in size.

Paul explained that even as they left the White House for his hotel — which was just across the street — the Secret Service had directed them to take a bus to the Trump hotel in order to avoid protesters who had been chasing people down

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A series of errors by contractors and consultants on the California bullet train venture caused support cables to fail on a massive bridge, triggering an order to stop work that further delayed a project already years behind schedule,the Los Angeles Times has learned.

The bridge is longer than two football fields and is needed to shuttle vehicles over the future bullet train right of way and existing BNSF freight tracks in Madera County.

Authorities have yet to finalize a plan to repair the bridge. Late last year, crews installed temporary steel supports to prevent it from collapsing.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The Times under a public records request show the steel supports snapped as a result of neglect, work damage, miscommunications and possible design problems.

High-speed rail, the Future of America.

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A former State Department official told the Senate Intelligence Committee he destroyed records in January 2017 at the request of former British spy Christopher Steele, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Jonathan Winer, who served as special envoy to Libya through early 2017, was Steele’s contact at the State Department. He arranged a meeting for Steele in October 2016 with another State Department official at Foggy Bottom to share findings from a dossier of research he had compiled on Donald Trump.

“SCORECARDS! GETCHER SCORECARDS HERE! You can’t tell your Deep State operatives without a scorecard!”