JERRY NEWCOMBE — As of this writing, tens of thousands of Americans have reportedly died from the coronavirus. Also, 30 million have abruptly lost work. Scan the headlines these days, and the bad news because of the coronavirus seems to get worse and worse:... (more)

LLOYD MARCUS — America! "I want you to get up right now and go to the window...open it and stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" That is from the 1976 movie "Network." It is the appropriate response to totalitarian governors, hellbent on keeping their constituents in lockdown bondage to further their anti-Trump agenda.... (more)

CNBC — Most new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York state are from people who were staying home and not venturing much outside, a "shocking" finding, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The preliminary data was from 100 New York hospitals involving about 1,000 patients, Cuomo said at his daily briefing.... (more)

JOHN FUND — Neil Ferguson is the British academic who created the infamous Imperial College model that warned Boris Johnson that, without an immediate lockdown, the coronavirus would cause 500,000 deaths and swamp the National Health Service.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Republican Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield announced Wednesday that the state legislature is taking Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to court over her lockdown in response to the COVID-19 panic. "We've attempted to partner with our governor, but she's rejected. We offered cooperation, but instead she chose court. This was avoidable, but today we filed a lawsuit in our state to challenge her unconstitutional actions. The law in Michigan is clear, and nobody is above it."... (more)

YAHOO NEWS — A host of celebrities and scientists including Madonna, Robert de Niro and a clutch of Nobel Prize winners have called for radical change in the world rather than "a return to normal" after the coronavirus lockdowns. Hollywood stars Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci also added their names to the open letter published in the French daily Le Monde pleading for an end to unbridled consumerism and a "radical transformation" of economies to help save the planet.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — It is time to seriously question everything we are told regarding the physical and the cultural virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his role as longtime federal immunology bureaucrat, paid $3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory for coronavirus development after the U.S. declared a moratorium on such funding. Fauci is joined at the hip with Bill Gates, paid for the scam VA study at the University of Virginia and has been on the payroll of the Clinton Foundation for years.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Dozens of court cases have erupted in recent weeks, mostly from faith-based groups, challenging state and local government restrictions in response to the Chinese coronavirus. Now, Franklin Graham, CEO of the worldwide Christian ministry Samaritan's Purse, which is providing a mobile hospital to treat patients in New York City, warns that the restrictions on constitutional rights might not be temporary.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Why were the experts so off on COVID-19?... (more)

YOUTUBE — Will Director Wray clean up the reputation of America's finest law enforcement agency?... (more)

DICK MORRIS — On April 26, New York State's Board of Elections announced the cancellation of the state's presidential primary slated for the end of June. With only former Vice President Joe Biden still in the running, the decision would seem to be inconsequential.... (more)

CONRAD BLACK — It is not too soon to examine the shifting strategic balance in the world in the light of the unfolding coronavirus crisis and its economic and political consequences. Though he gets little credit for it -- even from his supporters, who tend not to be overly sophisticated foreign policy specialists -- President Trump has carefully developed a subtle foreign policy.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Running for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan was asked for his opinion on the so-called Sino-Soviet split. "They were allies and the only argument that caused their split was an argument over how best to destroy us," he said of China and the Soviet Union. President Reagan understood Marxist dialectics, a way of writing and talking that confuses non-communists but always works out to the benefit of the communists. Such thinking is evident in media stories about the "accidental" nature of where and how the China virus came to be. You are not permitted to believe that the Communist Chinese would deliberately infect the world.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Hundreds of boats in Florida gathered near Mar-a-Lago in a parade to show support for President Donald Trump on Sunday. Florida marinas opened to the public on April 29 after closing all public recreational areas on March 22. To show appreciation, hundreds of Florida residents organized a "parade" to show their support for the president.... (more)

JOHN FUND & JOEL HAY — Spring is in the air, and it is increasingly found in the confident step of the people of Sweden. With a death rate significantly lower than that of France, Spain, the U.K., Belgium, Italy, and other European Union countries, Swedes can enjoy the spring without panic or fears of reigniting a new epidemic as they go about their day in a largely normal fashion.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A mandated face mask in public did not go over well in Ohio, forcing GOP Gov. Mike DeWine to reconsider and leave it "highly recommended." "It became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far," DeWine told ABC News' "This Week." "People were not going to accept the government telling them what to do.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Americans are venturing out more to fast food restaurants, gas stations and public places even as health experts and government officials demand extending economic lockdowns, location data show. People are back to visiting gas stations and fast food restaurants at pre-COVID-19 levels, according to location data collected by Foursquare, a local search-and-discovery app that helps users discover places near them to visit and eat. Foursquare noted the changes in how people are moving in a blog post Thursday showing that people are apparently feeling free to travel about.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday confirmed a shocking report that China withheld information on the spread of the coronavirus in that country even as it stockpiled protective equipment and ventilators for its own use.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A report from the Department of Homeland Security says the Chinese government lied to world health agencies about the spread of coronavirus in order to buy time to stock up on medical supplies to deal with the pandemic. The Homeland Security report assessed that Chinese leaders "intentionally concealed the severity" of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan in November 2019, according to the Associated Press, which obtained the report.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump has done away with the daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings, and it is likely for the best, because all of they have become is a sounding board for "liberal activists with microphones," according to Republican strategist Jeffrey Lord on Newsmax TV.... (more)

ANDREW MCCARTHY — Michael Flynn was not the objective. He was the obstacle. Once you grasp that fundamental fact, it becomes easier to understand the latest disclosures the Justice Department made in the Flynn case on Thursday. They are the most important revelations to date about the FBI's Trump--Russia investigation, code-named Crossfire Hurricane.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Democratic National Committee should move to investigate Tara Reade's claims of sexual assault against presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to the New York Times editorial board. Reade claimed on March 25 that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, an allegation the former vice president flatly denied Friday.... (more)

ART MOORE — The files unsealed this week in the Michael Flynn case showing FBI officials discussed trying to get the former national security adviser to lie are bolstering the "serious case" the Justice Department is building against FBI and DOJ officials who carried out a counter-intelligence "Russia collusion" probe of the Trump campaign in 2016.... (more)

MICHAEL BARONE — Is it time yet for reopening? Let's reframe the question. Time for what to reopen? With what precautions? In which states and counties and communities? Mandatory reopening or voluntary?... (more)

YOUTUBE — An alleged intelligence report says that China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the virus outbreak, in an "assault on international transparency." The report from Five Eyes was obtained by The Saturday Telegraph.... (more)