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Republicans Wake Up to an Electoral Bloodbath

'Lawyer Up': Democrats Declare War on Trump Administration

2026 Midterms Results: Democrats Win the House and Senate

https://www.wdrb.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-brett-kavanaugh-attend-federal-judge-s-swearing-in/article_1611593e-657c-11ea-abbf-7b4a682a00e0.html

Federal Court Prohibits Louisville Mayor from Banning Easter Sunday Drive-in Church Service

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2020 20 Comments

The Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, has threatened to fine anyone who attends a drive-in Easter Sunday church service, even though attendees would remain in their cars in the parking lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfDwc2G2_8

China’s desperate attempt to erase its connection to the Wuhan coronavirus is not going well

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 11, 2020 42 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers have been following the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus since January 10th, when I noted that a severe, new pneumonia was being reported from Wuhan, China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPY3Sszv34

Netanyahu-Modi Diplomacy: India Ships Hydroxychloroquine to Israel

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 11, 2020 13 Comments

Lifting a blanket export ban, India has shipped a huge consignment of coronavirus treatment drugs to Israel. New Delhi delivered a five-tonne cargo of medicines including chloroquine, the antiviral drug currently being used in the treatment of Wuhan coronavirus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXLdEdVinI

Poll: Majority of Democrats Want to Replace Biden With Andrew Cuomo

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 11, 2020 34 Comments

After seeing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on television dealing with the Coronavirus crisis in his state, some Democrats are having second thoughts about presumptive nominee Joe Biden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYlOU6ROoY

Wuhan Virus Watch: Surgeon General Attacked By The Perpetually Offended

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 11, 2020 66 Comments

Good Friday's Coronavirus Task Force briefing created a fair amount of controversy, and none of it involved the virus.

Iranian Refugee Warns America That Universities are Becoming Radicalized

Africana Studies Department at Oberlin College Offers Courses on Marxism

Northwestern Food Fest Cancels Event After Pro-Israel Group Registers

Member of Largest Teachers Union Says They Abandoned Education in Pursuit of Political Power

Columbia to Host Discussion of American Genocide, Colonialism, and Racial Oppression

LGBT Student Group at Florida State U. Requests $58K for Drag Shows

Accounting and Finance Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 11, 2020 11 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx8oJCzRJUk

Likely Dem Strategy: “If Biden is serious about winning he needs to accuse Trump of willingness to kill people”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2020 39 Comments

Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post was hired almost a decade ago as a conservative blogger to offset the overwhelmingly liberal opinion pages, but she's never been an actual conservative. She has as much to do with the conservative movement as Elizabeth Warren has to do with the Cherokee Nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib09PFOKZ2I

Michigan’s Attorney General Makes Coronavirus A Race Issue

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 10, 2020 49 Comments

You know what this global pandemic was missing? A heaping dose of race baiting.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1248558394497282049

Israel to Syrian General visiting Hezbollah positions in Syria: “We see you. Consider this a warning.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2020 33 Comments

If I were Syrian General Luau Ali Ahmad Assad, I'd be worried. The Israel Defense Forces just sent him a warning over allowing Iranian proxy Hezbollah to establish bases in Syria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYFdk6rQSI

Government Gone Wild: Wuhan Coronavirus has Led to Massive Overreach

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 10, 2020 46 Comments

You give the government an inch they will go 500 miles. Then they'll go 500 more. The Wuhan coronavirus is just the latest example that proves this point. Your resident libertarian is here to showcase a few instances of government overreach in the name of the common good.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ag-william-barr-on-the-russia-investigation-theres-something-far-more-troubling-here

Barr: Russia-Collusion Investigation Into Trump’s Campaign ‘One of the Greatest Travesties in American History’

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 10, 2020 36 Comments

Attorney General William Barr described the investigation into possible Russia-Trump collusion as "one of the greatest travesties in American history." Barr also said U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe into the origins of the investigation has revealed some "troubling signs."

James Carville Claims Republicans ‘Will Kill People to Stay in Power, Literally’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 10, 2020 56 Comments

Democratic strategist and former Bill Clinton adviser James Carville appeared on MSNBC this week and stated plainly that Republicans "will kill people to stay in power." Carville was referring to the decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to not postpone the state's primary, which happened on Tuesday.

https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-study-investigates-californias-possible-herd-immunity-to-covid-19/32073873#

Wuhan Virus Watch: Stanford Medicine Investigating Possible California Herd Immunity to COVID-19

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 10, 2020 29 Comments

Stanford Medicine began an investigation to discover herd immunity to the Wuhan coronavirus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc4l3Bj54Gc&t=316s

Trump To Block Iran’s $5 Billion IMF Loan Request

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 10, 2020 13 Comments

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to block Iran's bid for a $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), news reports say. The international funding organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., is currently considering an Iranian request for "emergency funding," citing the outbreak of Wuhan Coronavirus in the country.

Investigation: How Anti-Israel Activists Are Hijacking The Coronavirus Crisis And Turning It Against Israel

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 09, 2020 5 Comments

We have written a lot about how anti-Israel activists routinely hijack causes, events, and crises unrelated to Israel, using "intersectional" theory to turn those issues against the Jewish state. That phenomenon is playing out again with the coronavirus pandemic, providing the 'usual suspects' with yet another issue to exploit.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1246798640980557824

Pentagon rejects ABC News claim of November 2019 report warning of Wuhan coronavirus pandemic

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2020 27 Comments

It's amazing how much mainstream media political coverage of the Wuhan caronavirus pandemic resembles Russia-collusion reporting. With Russia-collusion reporting, there were serial media bombshells of collusion based on anonymous sources how were "familiar" with a document or heard something from someone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-oIV81WVzM

Democrat Senators Push for Local Journalism Bailout as Part of Coronavirus Relief

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 09, 2020 41 Comments

The country is at a standstill. Ad revenue is drying up. Local media outlets, already struggling, are suffering as a result. Nineteen Democrat Senators are pushing for a bailout of "local journalism and media" in any upcoming Coronavirus relief legislation.