Paid sick leave, stay at home with sick child, reimburse hospitals for uninsured virus sufferers…stuff other countries do and we are now looking at.

Continue reading “An view point on the push for universal healthcare…for Coronavirus only.” →

https://fortune.com/2020/03/11/stock-market-under-trump-economy-2020-s-and-p-500-dow-jones-nasdaq/?showAdminBar=true

The article is a day old. The new difference is even closer to January 2017.
Continue reading “This is an eye opener for even the most conservative retirement accounts” →

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/trump-pitched-0percent-payroll-tax-rate-for-the-rest-of-this-year-white-house-officials-say.html

A trillion dollar deficit, and the White House is thinking about eliminating SS and Medicare payroll taxes and adding in oil industry subsidies.
Continue reading “Not being an economist, I still have to wonder: does this make sense” →

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/coronavirus-is-exposing-trumps-unsuitability-to-handle-a-crisis

Must be a liberal rag. Can Newsmax be far behind? Time for a few more Medal of Freedom presentations.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/nj-couple-stuck-on-quarantined-cruise-ship-after-21-cases-of-coronavirus-diagnosed.html

Still today these poor people are on a giant petri dish of a virulent disease while waiting for evacuation.
Continue reading “Update: What is the problem with getting these people off the cruise ship?” →

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-08/coronavirus-nears-fatal-tipping-point-when-lungs-are-inflamed?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews

Being 72 myself, I am obviously concerned. But one thing for sure, it is not the common cold.
Continue reading “FYI: This article is first I have seen, and understand, about how Coronavirus actually affects individuals” →

https://archives.cjr.org/essay/unamerican_1.php

Columbia Journalism Review is well respected and often takes no prisoners. I believe it jumped all over the Pilot a ways back for what it called shoddy work on an investigative reporting series.
Continue reading “There have been discussions about how the press has treated Trump. Here’s a trip down memory lane.” →

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/mazars-lawsuit/607540/

Plaintiff is making up law out of whole cloth to effect a ruling that destroys congressional oversight of a president. Will SCOTUS cooperate or rule constitutionally? News in June.
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No link. I just got an email from Virginia 2021. Details I am sure will come.