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CDC analysis shows coronavirus poses serious risk for younger people

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“We’re talking to young people about doing their part and being good millennials because they could be asymptomatic spreaders, That’s true, but it’s also true that some high number of them will also get sick enough to be hospitalized, and many of them may have lasting consequences.”

(Reid Wilson – The Hill)  Early data analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that younger Americans are at substantial risk of experiencing serious medical problems from the coronavirus sweeping the globe. Continue reading →

Baltimore mayor asks residents to stop shooting each other so coronavirus patients can have hospital beds

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“Young declared a citywide emergency and urged people to stay inside. Baltimore had five positive cases of the coronavirus as of Wednesday.”

(Madison Dibble – Washington Examiner)  Baltimore Mayor Jack Young pleaded with his city to stop filling hospital beds with gunshot wound victims.

A mass shooting in a park on Tuesday left seven Baltimore residents hospitalized. In a statement about the shooting, Young said hospitals don’t have room to tolerate gunshot victims as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the United States. Continue reading →

Social distancing for coronavirus will save lives – look at these numbers

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“The scariest part of coronavirus is how fast it spreads to other people. This rate is affected by a multitude of factors but the most important ones are incubation period and contact rate. Coronavirus can have an incubation period of up to 14 days, meaning that you can have it and spread it to others while having no idea that you have it. That makes the “I feel fine, why can’t I go out?” argument null and void.”

(Liberty Vittert – Fox News)  As I hunker down for the long haul at home with my Newfoundland dog Henry, I can’t help but feel real frustration and, fine, outright anger, at the many individuals who are choosing to ignore the social distancing advisories. Continue reading →

Giant Faith-Healer Gathering Canceled Due to Coronavirus

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“So far we have, Bethel’s affiliated pastor, Shawn Bolz, declared a prophecy that God had ended the virus. Perhaps Bethel didn’t get the memo. Rodney Howard Browne promised to bind coronavirus from the United States (again, it’s growing), Jim Bakker claimed his venereal disease ointment also heals coronavirus, and Rick Wiles claimed Christians are immune altogether….” 

(Pulpit & Pen)  Well, this sounds like satire, but it’s not. The world’s largest gathering of notable faith healers are canceling the grand opening of a faith-healing center because of coronavirus. Continue reading →

Oregon Orders All Restaurants And Bars To Restrict Access, And Bans Groups Larger Than 25

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“The partial shutdown of bars and restaurants will hit businesses that employ tens of thousands of Oregonians, many of them low wage workers. Eating and drinking establishments provide roughly 160,000 jobs in the state, according to ballpark figures from the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. Those businesses spent some $285 million in wages every month.”

(Lauren Dake &  Dirk VanderHart – OPB)  Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she is banning seated dining at the state’s bars and restaurants and prohibiting gatherings of more than 25 people, in the latest set of drastic actions meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Continue reading →

How to tell if it’s allergies or coronavirus

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“People get confused with the name of the virus. When you hear them say coronavirus, that’s speaking in a general sense, that’s called the family coronavirus,” she said. “There’s a lot of subsets underneath that family, including the common cold, which also can be caused by a coronavirus.”

{Matt London – Fox News) As spring arrives in the United States amid the coronavirus outbreak, some people may be having a difficult time discerning between the symptoms of seasonal allergies and the highly infectious COVID-19. Continue reading →

‘You’re Not Helpless, America’: U.S. Surgeon General Tells Americans How To Deal With Coronavirus

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“But we need your help. Social distancing and mitigation, they’re not to protect the 30-year-old or the 20-year-old from getting coronavirus. They’re to protect your nana, they’re to protect your granddaddy, they’re to protect the people who you love in your lives. And we need your help.”

(Joseph Curl – Daily Wire)  Dr. Jerome Adams is America’s doctor.

Adams is the U.S. Surgeon General — and, by all accounts, a very, very smart guy.

During a White House press conference on Saturday, the doctor delivered some useful and practical advice to Americans worried about the coronavirus (COVID-19). Continue reading →

Ravi Zacharias reveals he has rare form of cancer, asks for prayer

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See the full text of Zacharias’s update.

(Disrn)  World-renowned Christian apologist and bestselling author Ravi Zacharias revealed on Thursday evening that he has been diagnosed with “a very rare cancer called Sarcoma” and has asked for prayer for relief from “horrific” pain.

Zacharias said that as he was recovering from a recent back surgery he has been experiencing terrible pain at night which has kept him from sleeping…. Continue reading →

A Harrowing Look at Child Sex Trafficking Boosted by Porn Sites

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“The porn company claims it was visited 42 billion times last year, receiving 115 million visits daily while facilitating 1,200 searches per second. With such a large viewership, there is no doubt that other boys and girls are also at risk.”

(Hannah Harrison – CNS News)  For years, there has been a lack of awareness of the true horrors within the sex industry.

For the first time in a long time, people are beginning to see that everything isn’t exactly as it seems…. Continue reading →

Church Engagement Down about Half Since 2000, Barna Group Reports

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This shift also contributed to the growth of the atheist/agnostic/none segment, which has nearly doubled in size during this same amount of time (2003: 11 percent vs. 2018: 21 percent).”

(Christian Headlines)  The Barna Group, a research agency focusing on Christianity, has found that just one in four Americans can be considered “practicing Christians,” a significantly smaller percentage (25 percent) of the U.S. population than in 2000 when “45 percent of all those sampled qualified as practicing Christians.” Continue reading →

Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Judge and Legal Scholar Claims the FBI Has Lost Its Luster and Job Description

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“Newly released documents obtained by Fox News reveal that then-FBI Director James Comey’s draft statement on the Hillary Clinton email probe was edited numerous times before his public announcement, in ways that seemed to water down the bureau’s findings considerably.”

(Jim Kouri – News With Views)  Two of the nation’s leading criminal justice scholars believe that the once heralded federal law enforcement agency — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — appears to have lost its lustrous image and its upper-echelon officials have contributed to the agency’s extreme politicalization. Continue reading →

GOP lawmakers say Obama DHS whistleblower Philip Haney was ‘murdered’

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“We had a mutual pact. It said: Either one of us ended up committing suicide, then the other is going to make sure that the truth wins out.”

(LifeZette)Two Republican lawmakers have spoken out to sound the alarm about the death of Philip Haney, a former whistleblower of Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security who they say was murdered.

Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) each gave speeches on the House floor to refute claims that Haney committed suicide. Continue reading →

Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation Files Ethics Complaint Against Chuck Schumer

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“I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” — Sen. Chuck Schumer

(Joel B. Pollack – Breitbart)  Landmark Legal Foundation, the conservative public interest law firm chaired by radio host and author Mark Levin, filed an ethics complaint Friday against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his recent threatening statement against Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Continue reading →

Disney-Pixar Film ‘Onward’ Centers on Necromancy, Features Line Where Cyclops Subtly Reveals She’s Lesbian

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“In addition to the theme of using sorcery to meet a deceased father, a number of outlets have noted that “Onward” features a character who subtly reveals her homosexuality.”

(Heather Clark – Christian News)  The new Disney-Pixar animated film “Onward,” which has main themes centering on wizardry and a magic “visitation spell” to temporarily conjure a father up from the dead, also features a line where a cyclops police officer — voiced by a homosexual screenwriter — subtly reveals to viewers that she is a lesbian. Continue reading →

Ted Cruz Weighs In On Left-Wing Responses To Schumer’s Threat Against Justices

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Cruz pointed out another left-leaning response, this time from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who admitted after initially downplaying Schumer’s comments that they were completely “out of line.”

(James Barrett – Daily Wire)  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) threat directed at Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh at an abortion activist rally Wednesday sparked a firestorm, with public figures from all ends of the political spectrum weighing in, including left-leaning lawyers, leftist media personalities, and liberal entities…. Continue reading →

‘Proud Jew’ Bernie Sanders Calls Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar ‘One of the Greatest People I Know’

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“In a recent debate, Sanders said he would consider moving the U.S. Embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. He also said that he would consider diverting military aid away from Israel and directing it to the Palestinians.”

(Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz – BreakingIsraelNews)  Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and frontrunner for the Democrat candidacy to run for president in 2020, spoke at a campaign rally in Springfield, Virginia on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath. Patch reported that thousands of Sanders supporters attended the rally. Continue reading →

Abortion doctor admits sold baby parts often came from babies born alive

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In her presentation, Goldberg suggested using large doses of misoprostol so a second-trimester induced abortion procedure could be completed in one day. According to Smith, large doses of that drug would trigger “tumultuous labor” and suggested the baby is often delivered so quickly, it needs no “assistance from the abortion doctor, no instrumentation,” or in another words appears to “fall out” of the mother and is born alive. Smith also testified that “very few people in abortion, outside of Planned Parenthood, do that.”

(Washington Examiner – Nichole Russell) Published September, 2019 — In an unprecedented hearing in California this week featuring Planned Parenthood executives and the undercover videos made by the Center for Medical Progress, abortion doctors revealed uncomfortable truths about the industry…. Continue reading →

‘Why Do I Still Hate Myself?’ Scottish Woman Realizes Gender ‘Transition’ Didn’t Take Away Her Problems

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“[W]hen the novelty of that wore off, I thought, ‘Why do I still hate myself? Why do I still have all these issues?’” Watson recalled. “And at that point, it was like, ‘Am I going to keep going? Am I going to get the hysterectomy, am I going to get the phalloplasty, and I’m still going to feel this way, or am I going to have to address the other problems that I have?’”

A woman in Scotland recently told the BBC that obtaining hormones and surgery to physically appear as a man did not eliminate her problems, and when she began advising mental health professionals of her regret, they offered little help. Continue reading →

Hong Kong pets face coronavirus quarantine after dog tests positive

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“There is no evidence domestic animals such as dogs and cats can catch the virus or transmit it to humans but the department said all pets of infected people should be quarantined and tested for the virus for 14 days.”

(AFP)  All pets of people in Hong Kong infected with the coronavirus will be quarantined, with one dog already in isolation, the city’s authorities said Friday.

The move is the first reported case anywhere in the world of a government quarantining pets over the outbreak and was prompted by a positive test in the pet of an infected patient. Continue reading →

The News You Won’t Believe

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“Even more incredible, even more bizarre, was an announcement by the state of New York that from now on, as part of some incomprehensible species of “justice reform,” accused criminals are to be given a list of names of the witnesses against them. Bail is a thing of the past: arrest ‘em and release ‘em. But don’t forget to give ‘em that list of witnesses.”

(Lee Duigon – News With Views)  The nooze has developed a habit of hitting you with stories that you don’t want to believe, and maybe can’t believe. But you check it out and it turns out to be true: heaven help us.

Here are a couple of flagrant examples that appeared last week. Continue reading →

The Left Prays for Coronavirus Black Swan Event to Take Out Trump, But it Won’t Happen. Here’s Why.

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“The “aggressive containment strategy” by the U.S. “has been working and responsible for the low level of cases that we have so far,” according to the career CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat, who spoke at the White House news conference on COVID-19. But she also urged schools, institutions, and universities to “dust off pandemic emergency plans” to be prepared. She reminded reporters assembled that the last time the U.S. had a concern like this was with the H1N1 influenza.”

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media)  It’s hard to tell if the superheated response by the Left (the media) to the coronavirus outbreak from China is due to there being a slow news cycle (which is hard to believe), a legitimate news story with U.S. ramifications, or as something to tattoo Donald Trump with a ‘Hurricane Katrina’ moment. Continue reading →

Catholic Church Ordains ‘Non-Binary Transgender’ Woman as ‘Priestess’

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“I never dared to think that it would be possible to manage in a movement, the RCWP, and with the support of a community, Mary Magdalene, which completely affirms my identity. I am very excited about future opportunities to be a pastor at the intersection of faith, sexuality, and gender.”

(Jeff Maples – Reformation Charlotte)  It’s difficult to make much sense of what actually just happened here and it’s also unclear just by looking as to whether this “non-binary transgender” person is actually a male or a female, but at least one report says she was born as a woman…. Continue reading →

Marvel Movie ‘The Eternals’ to Include Homosexual Superhero, Same-Sex Kiss

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The film is scheduled to open in theaters in November and will be distributed by Walt Disney Studios.

(Heather Clark – Christian News)  The upcoming film “The Eternals”, based on the fictional characters depicted in Marvel Comics books, will include a homosexual superhero and his “spouse,” who will kiss on screen, the actor who plays his partner has revealed.

“I just shot a Marvel film with the first openly gay superhero: ‘The Eternals.’ I’m married to the gay superhero Phastos, played by Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry, and we represent a gay family and have a child,” actor Haaz Sleiman told NewNowNext. Continue reading →

Mayor Pete Wants to Crackdown on Religious Groups That Refuse to Hire LGBTQ Staff

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“As shocking as the Gospel of Mayor Pete may be, it’s not the first time a Democrat running for the White House has suggested that churches should be punished for following the teachings of the Holy Bible.”

(Todd Starnes – Townhall)  If Mayor Pete Buttigieg had his way your local Christian school would be forced to make a choice: hire transgender teachers, gender-fluid principals and pansexual coaches or lose federal funding. Continue reading →