CHERIE ZASLAWSKY — An unintended consequence of my years of reading Agatha Christie mysteries is that I learned how to separate the red herrings from the salient facts hiding in plain sight, which are always the key to solving the puzzle. Admittedly, the queen of the mystery novel often outsmarted me, as many times her chief detective Hercule Poirot conducted his denouement before I'd figured out who done it; nevertheless, I learned quite a bit from his exemplary method. And I'm going to attempt to use it now with respect to the unprecedented situation in America today.... (more)

YOUTUBE — At Thursday's Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump announced a three-phase plan to reopen the U.S. economy.... (more)

YOUTUBE — At least 50 percent of the workforce should continue working at home, which will contribute to social distancing on the streets and in the buildings of New York City... (more)

WESTERN JOURNAL — Actor Dennis Quaid believes a "spiritual reawakening" is happening in the United States as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Fox News host Dana Perino asked the star of hits like "The Right Stuff" (1983), "The Rookie" (2002), and more recently the Christian film "I Can Only Imagine" (2018) during a Wednesday interview on "The Daily Briefing" about his thoughts regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — While President Trump suspends U.S. funding to the World Health Organization because of its mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook is using the WHO as its authoritative source in an effort to censor discussion on its platform regarding the virus.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai appears on "Let's Talk America" with Dr. Alan Keyes to discuss the COVID-19 crisis – its nature and origins, its differing effect on individuals, the need for a truly scientific approach to the crisis informed by an understanding of "systems biology," the medical establishment's errors due to its lack of that understanding, etc.... (more)

FOX NEWS — There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.... (more)

YOUTUBE — As the world is gripped by the ongoing pandemic, many questions remain about the origin of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus--commonly known as the novel coronavirus. Join Epoch Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Philipp as he explores the known facts surrounding the CCP virus and the global pandemic it caused.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Trump presented a detailed account Monday of timely steps he has taken to stem pandemic and save lives, complete with data and film clips. Fake media closed their eyes and ears and ridiculed the inarguable account as 'campaigning,' from a lack of simple decency – underscoring the escalating hostility between the Dems' propaganda machine and the president.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — Test time, boys and girls. Hint...there is only one right answer -- if you don't get it right, you flunk! And so does America! I. Which person, foreign or American, predicted three years ago, in 2017, that President Trump would be challenged by a "surprise global disease outbreak"?... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The Washington Post has been a joke for a long time, at least since the days when it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for a story about a child heroin addict who turned out not to exist. The paper is now filled, on a daily basis, with poison pen "analysis," backed by phony "fact-checkers," criticizing almost anything President Trump says or does. Somehow, basic facts that may impact the coronavirus story, such as the federal record of failure in the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine, escape mention.... (more)

YOUTUBE — MIT's Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai says President Trump is "surrounded by sharks" who are not advising him well on the "science side" of the coronavirus outbreak.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Almost two weeks ago I offered at NRO a few synopses of various theories about why California -- which, for a variety of reasons, had seemed so ripe for a New York--style epidemic -- had nonetheless strangely been exempt at least for a while from the virus's spread. I included the pedestrian possibility of some previously acquired "herd immunity," given the state's singular exposure from November to January 31 to direct flights from China, including those from Wuhan, and initial CDC and media reports last year of an unusually early and severe assumed flu hitting the state.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Rep. Jim Jordan, R-OH, and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, discuss repopening the economy and Democrat's derailing additional funding. on 'The Ingraham Angle.'... (more)

THE BLAZE — Alex Berenson is a former reporter who worked for the New York Times from 1999 to 2010 where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina. After that stint he devoted himself to writing books full time. Last year, his project "Tell Your Children" was published, which deals with the science around cannabis and mental illness. But Berenson has again come into prominence amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, as he's been posting data analysis revealing a disturbing conclusion: The models that have dictated mass business closures -- and that have swiftly collapsed the American economy -- are deeply flawed.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Housing & Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson told "The Story" Thursday that not enough public attention is being paid to "the number of people who have recovered" from coronavirus" -- which Carson said "is going to be about 98 percent of all the people who get it."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, criticized the World Health Organization and the Chinese government on Sunday, saying that both stymied the global response to the novel coronavirus, likely allowing it to spread more dramatically across the globe.... (more)

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)