We’ve been at war for nearly two decades stemming from 9/11; an event that costed the lives of 2,977 people. According to the Insurance Information Institute, the economic loss was $83 billion, with an additional $40 billion in insurance loss, totaling $123 billion. At the time of this writing, the Coronavirus deaths in the United…
Mary Margaret Olohan The U.S. Navy fired the captain of a nuclear aircraft who begged Navy officials for help for over 100 sailors on his ship who have coronavirus. Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of his duties after writing a letter begging officials to send help to the aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt, so his…
Initial claims for unemployment insurance soared to 6.65 million for the week ending March 28, exceeding last week’s shocking 3.3 million, and dwarfing the previous high of 695,000 in October 1982. During the Great Recession in 2008-09, total job losses were 8.8 million over 25 months versus a total of 9.96 million initial claims…
Japan’s Vice Prime Minister Tarō Asō offered a tough rebuke of the WHO (World Health Organization) and called them the CHO (China Health Organization). Watch the video below: Tarō has had long-standing sympathy for Taiwan and their desire to remain sovereign from China. These harsh words came following an interview with ‘CHO’ Official Bruce Aylward…
Now, I know it’s April Fools Day, but this one is actually no joke. In the wake of the current crisis, many media companies have had to change their tunes and find alternative means of providing their content. On the sports networks, countless NASCAR fans are tuning in to their favorite racers playing iRacing on…
Americans can’t wait for the restrictions on their movements and interactions—widely known as social distancing—to end. That’s completely understandable. The coronavirus crisis has widely disrupted modern life. But as we learned Sunday, the Trump administration’s common-sense “stop the spread” increased mitigation strategy is with us for a while—at least till the end of April. Based on the challenges…
Until last week, only three European countries had still not closed their schools as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Then followed Britain’s sharp reverse-course and lockdown policy where Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally gave in to pressure, leaving only Iceland and Sweden with a strongly diverging policy. Iceland, a miniature country that could probably test its entire population in an afternoon…
What happens when Atlas stops holding up the world? In Ayn Rand’s famous (and if I may add brilliant) novel Atlas Shrugged, the producers of the world eventually get fed up with government’s continuous strangling harassment and quit. Spoiler alert: The world doesn’t fare well without the producers who keep society moving…working…innovating…building. Now, imagine a…
Mary Margaret Olohan Hundreds of church goers attended religious services in both Louisiana and Florida over the weekend, despite government coronavirus restrictions. About 500 people attended a church service at Life Tabernacle church in Louisiana, just outside of Baton Rouge. The people gathered to worship after New Orleans police broke up a Saturday “funeral repast” attended by…
Howard County, Indiana is taking a step beyond the closing of non-essential like we’ve seen in many parts of the country. They have issued a proclamation banning the sale of non-essential items, even in essential stores that remain open. That includes books. Yes, books. According to NBC Affiliate WTHR in Indiana, non-essential items which have…