ANDREW MCCARTHY — 'An overreach by our police officers." Yeah, I'll say. "Overreach" was the concession that the police department in Brighton, Colo., grudgingly offered regarding their arrest of Matt Mooney, a 33-year-old former state trooper. Mooney was handcuffed in front of his six-year-old daughter. His "crime"? Playing tee-ball with her on an empty field. Cops on the scene capriciously decided that this transgressed the state's social-distancing restrictions.... (more)

YOUTUBE — The answer isn't simple and the solution will likely be tailored to different communities across the country.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Biden pivots to the left to win over Bernie Sanders supporters with promises of expanding Medicare and forgiving student loan debt. Reaction on "The Five."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Members of President Trump's Cabinet who meet weekly to study the Bible now have an extra measure of empathy for the man who leads them each Wednesday morning.... (more)

NEWSMAX — An epic stage production of "JESUS," originally scheduled for national theater distribution, will now be presented as a free, special television broadcast over Easter weekend. More than one million people have experienced the live stage performance of "JESUS" at Sight & Sound's theater in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now you can view the production on TV over Easter.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Bolshevism's appeal to Western intellectuals is a mystery we still struggle to explain. Why did artists who despised patriotism show a larger loyalty to Russian chauvinism? Why did writers defend a regime that repeatedly imprisoned, tortured, and killed writers? In short, why did intelligent people who lived in free countries worship at the altar of despotic states? Few thinkers studied this enigma more carefully than the British critic Rebecca West (1892--1983).... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — In an Oval Office address Friday, President Donald Trump called on Americans to pray for God to "heal our nation," before asking a clergy member to offer an Easter blessing. "On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ," Trump began his remarks.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Streaming services, virtual Easter egg hunts, and conversations with loved ones ordinarily held across the dinner tables that instead will rely on Zoom -- these are just a few of the ways Americans will be celebrating Easter weekend in a very different manner this year.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — U.S. Attorney John Durham is compiling troubling evidence in his investigation of the origins of the Obama administrations counter-intelligence probe of the 2016 Trump campaign that goes beyond "mistakes," said Attorney General William Barr.... (more)

STEVE A. STONE — Dear Mr. President, I'm writing to discuss observations and concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic response and other events that are material to the health and well-being of our nation today. I've watched intently as you and your COVID-19 Response Team have made various announcements on the progress of the disease, response actions taken, and planned responses. I find no specific fault in what has been done thus far. The CDC members have made considerations for pandemics in general as part of previous disaster response planning, and what they've done to date appears to be a sane and rational approach. But, that doesn't mean I have no criticisms. I do.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — These are very trying times. There is an enemy out there at the microscopic level, wreaking all kinds of havoc in people's hearts and minds and lives. The economic consequences alone of the coronavirus could possibly be felt for years to come. The big problem in life, of course, is the threat of death. But the coronavirus is not going to cancel Easter -- though it may cancel our traditional celebrations of it. Easter hope defangs the threat of the coronavirus because Jesus has taken the sting out of death.... (more)

ART MOORE — For the first time in American history, the pews of thousands of church buildings across the nation will be empty on Easter Sunday. Streets have been strangely quiet this week in Jerusalem's Old City, where pilgrims at least since the fourth century have journeyed to remember the death of Jesus Christ and celebrate his resurrection during Holy Week. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre -- widely believed to be contain the sites where Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected -- is closed along with most shops along the Old City's alleyways.... (more)

NEWSMAX — An epic stage production of "JESUS," originally scheduled for national theater distribution, will now be presented as a free, special television broadcast over Easter weekend. More than one million people have experienced the live stage performance of "JESUS" at Sight & Sound's theater in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now you can view the production on TV over Easter.... (more)

CHRISTIAN POST — A Virginia pastor who became sick during a ministry trip to North Carolina in mid-March and tested positive for the new coronavirus shared the experience he had with severe and horrific symptoms of the COVID-19 disease and also with God as he cried out to Him for "a chance."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Obama administration's counter-intelligence investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign was launched "without any basis," charged Attorney General William Barr in an interview to air Thursday night.... (more)

CONRAD BLACK — The most inane of the many fatuous arguments raging over the administration's handling of the coronavirus is the debate about whether the Democrats distracted President Trump with the impeachment effort when he would otherwise have been raising the drawbridge earlier.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Bernie Sanders suspended his Democratic presidential campaign on Wednesday, effectively ensuring former Vice President Joe Biden will be the party's nominee even as the liberal Vermont senator vowed to continue to lead his "movement" into the future.... (more)

LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER — Wearing a smile, a beard and a doctor's smock, Kentucky U.S. Sen Rand Paul posted on his Twitter page Tuesday that he no longer has the coronavirus and is volunteering at a Bowling Green hospital. "I appreciate all the best wishes I have received. I have been retested and I am negative.," Paul said. "I have started volunteering at a local hospital to assist those in my community who are in need of medical help, including coronavirus patients. Together we will overcome this!"... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Pressure already is building to hold China accountable for the coronavirus pandemic. But such actors seldom act alone, and the World Health Organization also shares blame, contend Nicholas Eberstadt and Dan Blumenthal in a New York Post opinion column. The WHO "has acted as Beijing's handmaid," they contend.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas can enforce limits on the ability of women to obtain abortions as part of the state's policy requiring postponement of non-urgent medical procedures during the coronavirus pandemic.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends a veteran scholar of epidemiology. The virus could be "exterminated" within weeks if people were allowed to lead normal lives and the vulnerable were sheltered until the virus passes, said Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D., the former head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — When FDR waged World War II, he could mobilize the entire country. President Trump faces an assortment of enemies, here and abroad, in confronting the coronavirus. These include China, source of the virus; Russia, which is driving American oil producers out of business through overproduction of cheap oil; a toxic anti-American media culture; and a Democratic Party that wants to undermine Trump through investigations and make him (and the country) fail.... (more)

BONNIE CHERNIN — There is another pandemic, one that is not under the microscope. It's been going on daily while national attention has been focused on the constant news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. As more testing becomes available, we will have a better idea of where we are, but the numbers remain fluid. Amid conflicting statistics, travel bans, job losses, a volatile stock market, and unofficial curfews, another pandemic continues to kill.... (more)

LLOYD MARCUS — Some people are stunned that government using computer models to predict high coronavirus deaths has many Americans willing to gift Democrats and fake news media these leftists' lifelong dream of ending the U.S. Constitution. Panic-stricken citizens want everyone who is non-compliant to immediate dictatorial government demands thrown into jail.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — President Trump emphasized over the weekend that it's time for America to hang out the "Open For Business" sign again. "We have to get back to work. We have to open our country again," the president said repeatedly and emphatically at a coronavirus press conference at the White House.... (more)