{"id":16373,"date":"2020-03-01T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16373"},"modified":"2020-03-01T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:03:13","slug":"news20200301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/03\/01\/news20200301\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the Week (March 1st, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">News of the Week for Mar. 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-77\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/news-of-the-week\/image\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"News of the Week\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg 229w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 200px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Election2020\">Election 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#2ndAmendment\">Gun Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Hide_the_Decline\">Hide the Decline<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Obamacare\">Obamacare<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#War__Terror\">War &amp; Terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#National\">National News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Economy__Taxes\">Economy &amp; Taxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#International\">International News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Opinion\">Opinion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Election2020\"><\/a>Election 2020<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/02\/sanders-60-minutes-style.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders, 60 Minutes style<\/a><br \/>\nThose of us of a certain age recognize Bernie Sanders as a throwback to a type with which we became painfully familiar. He is an old-fashioned Communist or Communist fellow traveler or Communist dupe. It was hard to tell them apart, but they had this in common, among other things: in the Cold War, they fought on the other side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Bernie Sanders is your enemy&#8217;: Venezuala socialism victims sound the alarm<\/a><br \/>\nAs Sanders surges in the polls and is now the clear Democratic frontrunner, many on the left are sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n<p style\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CJhRMEW-5ws\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2020\/02\/swedens-social-democrats-find-bernie-sanders-too-far-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sweden&#8217;s Social Democrats Find Bernie Sanders Too Far Left<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;It was a mixture of very young people and old Marxists, who think they were right all along. There were no ordinary people there, simply.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bernies-problem-isnt-his-three-houses-its-his-two-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie&#8217;s Problem Isn&#8217;t His Three Houses, It&#8217;s His Two Standards<\/a><br \/>\nMBD is partially right; Sanders&#8217; behavior is more accurately &#8220;wealth for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babalublog.com\/2020\/02\/23\/video-of-the-day-nicaraguas-murderous-socialist-dictator-endorses-bernie-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicaragua&#8217;s murderous socialist dictator endorses Bernie Sanders<\/a><br \/>\nSocialist Bernie Sanders has gained a new endorsement for his presidential run. His old friend Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua&#8217;s murderous socialist dictator who Bernie has enthusiastically supported and advised, has officially expressed his support for a Sanders presidency. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/what-if-the-establishment-democrats-played-hardball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What If the Establishment Democrats Played Hardball?<\/a><br \/>\nAfter Nevada, Bernie Sanders appears likely become the Democratic nominee, and that those who see him as an extraordinarily risky nominee will not be able to unite behind an alternative. The Establishment Democrats appear set to suffer a defeat on par with the GOP Establishment&#8217;s inability to derail Donald Trump in the 2016 primary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bernie-sanders-is-a-moral-monster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders Is a Moral Monster<\/a><br \/>\nBernie Sanders complains that some criticism of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is \u201cunfair.\u201d The Castro government lined up political dissidents and shot them. It tortured them. It weaponized the medical profession to torture and deform its critics. Its campaign of murder was extraordinary, its systematic suppression complete. Senator Sanders is utterly dedicated to the role of useful idiot, an unquestioning conveyer of Castro propaganda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/artificial-intelligence\/embedded-ai\/ai-deception-when-your-ai-learns-to-lie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Private Bloomberg Poll Shows a Sanders Nomination Would be a Kiss of Death for Vulnerable House Dems<\/a><br \/>\nA poll paid for by Michael Bloomberg is making the rounds on Capitol Hill &#8212; much to the delight of Republicans and chagrin of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/john-s-2\/2020\/02\/25\/cuban-americans-drop-knowledge-bernie-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban Americans Share Some Personal Knowledge Of Castro&#8217;s Cuba With Bernie Sanders <\/a><br \/>\nSince Bernie Sanders decided to look at the bright side of the Cuban revolution a few Cuban Americans have come forward to offer their personal perspectives as people who actually lived under Castro&#8217;s regime. Shockingly, their memories of Cuban communism are not, primarily, positive tales of expanded literacy. Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago described her family&#8217;s experience after Castro took over<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/feb\/25\/florida-democrats-sue-keep-bernie-sanders-primary-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Democrats sue to keep Bernie off ballot<\/a><br \/>\nTwo Florida Democrats have filed a lawsuit to keep Sen. Bernie Sanders off the state&#8217;s presidential-primary ballot because he&#8217;s not a member of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/02\/27\/upshot\/democrats-may-need-to-break-out-of-the-whole-foods-bubble.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To Beat Trump, Democrats May Need to Break Out of the &#8220;Whole Foods&#8221; Bubble<\/a><br \/>\nElection results in places near Whole Foods, Lululemon, Urban Outfitters and Apple<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/the-village-people-to-fans-enraged-at-trump-using-their-music-everyone-is-entitled-to-do-the-ymca-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Village People to Fans Enraged at Trump Using Their Music: &#8216;Everyone is Entitled to Do the YMCA Dance&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nEvery now and then we see a &#8220;Musician Condemns Republican for Using Music at Rally&#8221; story. It&#8217;s the same thing every time: Some GOP politician will use a popular song to entertain a crowd, legally and above board, and the musician who originally performed the song will panic that anybody might think they like the Republicans. The musician blasts out an angry tweet and\/or press release, all the &#8220;news&#8221; outlets cover it without noting that the Republican used the song legally, and the musician signals his or her virtue to avoid getting #cancelled. Almost always, the musician hasn&#8217;t had a hit in years and should be glad for the publicity. It&#8217;s all very boring by this point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2020\/02\/27\/bernie-the-red-part-iii-democratic-socialism-in-bernies-own-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democratic Socialism In Bernie&#8217;s Own Words<\/a><br \/>\nPart III in a series asking just what Bernie the Red means when he says he wants to bring &#8220;Democratic Socialism&#8221; to America?  In this part, Bernie the Red tells us what he wants us in his own words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/2020-election-marquette-poll-wisconsin-trump-46-percent-sanders-48-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marquette Poll of Wisconsin: Trump 46 Percent, Sanders 48 Percent<\/a><br \/>\nLast week, a poll conducted by Quinnipiac showed President Trump opening up a lead in the potentially decisive 2020 battleground state of Wisconsin: Trump led Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders by 7 points each in their respective head-to-head matchups. But a new poll released today by Marquette Law School shows Trump trailing Sanders by two points (46 percent to 48 percent) and tied with Biden (46 percent to 46 percent).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/so-you-want-to-be-like-denmark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">So You Want to Be Like Denmark?<\/a><br \/>\nDemocratic party presidential hopefuls, such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, argue that they can create an American welfare state without raising taxes on the middle class. Bernie, in fact, likes to point to Denmark as his model, even though the country runs on a market economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/i6uH9#selection-397.0-507.19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hoo Boy: NRSC Ad Blasts Doug Collins As &#8230; Anti-Trump?<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a fan of his but this needs to be called out. Mannnnnnnnnn, is it cynical. It&#8217;s like attacking Matt Gaetz for being &#8220;anti-Trump,&#8221; except that that argument might actually be more persuasive than the one here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/03\/bernies-wealthy-bros.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie&#8217;s Wealthy Bros<\/a><br \/>\nAt Front Page, Daniel Greenfield analyzes the source, by zip code, of donations to the Bernie Sanders campaign<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/01\/joe-biden-sweeps-south-carolina-in-his-first-2020-primary-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden Sweeps South Carolina In His First 2020 Primary Win  <\/a><br \/>\nFollowing his notable underperformances in the early primary and caucus states, Joe Biden swept the South Carolina Democratic primary Saturday. With 100 percent of the votes counted, the former vice president finished in first place with 48.4 percent of the vote, a comfortable lead over the rest of the field and a much-needed win leading up to Super Tuesday, when 14 states and one territory will cast their primary votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/02\/29\/billionaire-tom-steyer-drops-out-of-presidential-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billionaire Tom Steyer Drops Out Of Presidential Race  <\/a><br \/>\nTom Steyer announced he is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race Saturday night after South Carolina primary results indicated the billionaire would be leaving the state with zero delegates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2020\/03\/pete-buttigieg-dropping-out-of-presidential-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg dropping out of presidential race<\/a><br \/>\nTrump: &#8220;Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play \u2013 NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2020\/03\/warren-goes-stopbernie-lashes-out-after-sc-vows-convention-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warren Goes #StopBernie \u2013 Lashes Out After SC, Vows Convention Fight<\/a><br \/>\nBernie supporters turn fury on Warren in response, call her fraud, backstabber, snake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/election\/bidens-south-carolina-victory-increased-the-odds-of-a-brokered-convention-says-fivethirtyeight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Biden&#8217;s South Carolina Victory Increases the Odds of a Brokered Convention<\/a><br \/>\nIf you thought that Biden&#8217;s stunning victory in South Carolina on Saturday has thrust him into frontrunner status again, and will propel him to the nomination, you were wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/taylormillard\/2020\/03\/01\/biden-campaign-attempts-center-lane-vote-consolidation-sc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden Campaign Attempts &#8220;Center Lane&#8221; Vote Consolidation After SC<\/a><br \/>\nFormer Vice President Joe Biden campaign is attempting to consolidate the so-called &#8220;center lane&#8221; vote following his win in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/bernie-sanders-socialist-vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Time-Warp Socialist<\/a><br \/>\nBernie Sanderss vision has been refuted by reality\u2014and history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"2ndAmendment\"><\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/25\/11-year-old-girl-brings-ar-15-to-idaho-hearing-on-gun-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11-year-old girl brings AR-15 to Idaho hearing on gun legislation<\/a><br \/>\nAn 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/election\/pete-buttigieg-brings-9-year-old-boy-on-stage-to-announce-hes-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg Brings 9-Year-Old Boy on Stage to Announce He&#8217;s Gay<\/a><br \/>\nIn what must be one of the most troubling political rallies hosted by Mayor Pete up to this point, the former South Bend mayor turned Democrat presidential candidate invited a 9-year-old boy to come on stage to announce to the entire world that he&#8217;s gay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Hide_the_Decline\"><\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Environment &amp;<br \/>\n&#8220;Green Energy&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/missliberty.com\/climate-my-ass-the-green-war-on-freedom-indiegogo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate My Ass: The Green War on Freedom <\/a><br \/>\nWriter and columnist James Delingpole and director Martin Durkin are teaming up to make a new documentary, Climate My Ass: The Green War on Freedom, and they&#8217;re currently in the fundraising stage. Per the film&#8217;s Indiegogo site: &#8220;The climate bandwagon has rolled on quite long enough. The &#8216;scientists&#8217; and &#8216;science&#8217; behind this nonsense have been exposed time and time again, but like some zombie &#8216;global warming&#8217; refuses to lie down and die. What keeps it going is the political-bureaucratic, publicly funded monster, called the &#8216;Climate Consensus&#8217;. This is the monster which we aim to slay once and for all.&#8221; Donations to help produce Climate My Ass may be made here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/john-s-2\/2020\/02\/27\/canadian-protesters-light-tracks-fire-extend-rail-blockade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Protesters Set Fires On Tracks To Extend Rail Blockade<\/a><br \/>\nLast Friday, Prime Minister Trudeau abruptly reversed himself and demanded that the blockades of rail lines, which have sprung up in various places this month, be cleared. Monday, police in Ontario cleared out one of the larger protest camps, arresting 10 people and clearing the way for trains to resume service. But the protesters weren&#8217;t done. Later that night they began throwing burning tires onto the tracks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Obamacare\"><\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-military-turns-to-u-s-university-to-conduct-covert-research-11582466400?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Military Turns to U.S. University to Conduct Covert Research<\/a><br \/>\nCase of Chinese researcher at Boston University renews fears Beijing is targeting American academia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/training-doctors-how-to-assist-suicides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Training Doctors How to Assist Suicides<\/a><br \/>\nIn California, a death doctor named Lonnie Shavelson is trying to start an assisted suicide specialty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/how-congress-can-and-cant-lower-drug-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Congress Can (And Can&#8217;t) Lower Drug Prices <\/a><br \/>\nPresident Trump&#8217;s February 4 State of the Union address to Congress provided more hope than ever before that the American people will finally get relief from high prescription drug prices. The president promised to sign any bill advancing this mission that arrives on his desk. Given that both Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader McConnell have pledged to take on the high cost of drugs, Trump&#8217;s bill-signing promise is an encouraging sign change could come soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/heapol\/article\/33\/6\/755\/5035051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban infant mortality and longevity: health care or repression?<\/a><br \/>\nCuban healthcare statistics are flawed.  The health achievements are in part the result of repressive methods.  The health achievements are in part the result of policies that are unrelated to health care provision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a name=\"War__Terror\"><\/a>War &amp; Terror<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/02\/unconstitutional-pro-union-gag-law-challenged.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China&#8217;s Relationship to Its History Is the Key to Understanding Its Behavior Today<\/a><br \/>\nThe collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the decades of pain and humiliation that followed for the Middle Kingdom continue to shape Xi Jinping&#8217;s governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/possibilities-us-indo-alliance-yuge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The possibilities of a US-Indo alliance are YUGE<\/a><br \/>\nIt is in Trump and Modi&#8217;s shared interest to break some China<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2020\/02\/27\/chinese-destroyer-lases-u-s-navy-p-8a-plane-operating-near-guam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Destroyer Lases U.S. Navy P-8A Plane Operating Near Guam<\/a><br \/>\nA Chinese destroyer lased a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft that was operating over international waters about 380 miles west of Guam, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2020\/02\/29\/go-time-us-signs-peace-treaty-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go Time: US Signs Peace Treaty With The Taliban<\/a><br \/>\nSo it looks like we&#8217;re actually going to do this thing\u2026 maybe. After months of negotiations that proceeded in fits and starts, we&#8217;ve signed a peace deal with the Taliban aimed at getting us out of that country sometime next year. But there are some caveats included in the agreement that could see the whole thing blow up in our faces before we ever make it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-military-turns-to-u-s-university-to-conduct-covert-research-11582466400?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Military Turns to U.S. University to Conduct Covert Research<\/a><br \/>\nCase of Chinese researcher at Boston University renews fears Beijing is targeting American academia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"National\"><\/a>National<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/02\/21\/transgender-kids-father-shows-son-identifying-as-an-egg-omelette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transgender Kids? Father Shows Son Identifying as an &#8220;Egg Omelette&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nEx-NBA star claimed son told him he was transgender aged 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/hypocrite-aoc-says-charter-schools-for-mine-but-not-for-thine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hypocrite: AOC Says Charter Schools for Mine But Not for Thine<\/a><br \/>\nNew York City&#8217;s Democratic Socialist Party wants to eliminate charter schools, but that didn&#8217;t stop party member Congresscritter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from boasting about getting her goddaughter into one. The New York Post&#8217;s Jon Levine uncovered a 2017 Facebook video of the then-larval congresswoman boasting, &#8220;My goddaughter, I got her into a charter school like maybe a block or two down,&#8221; while walking along Hunts Point Avenue in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/02\/harvey-weinstein-guilty-rape-trial-new-york-appeal-assured-1202862551\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Weinstein Guilty In Rape Trial; Appeal Assured<\/a><br \/>\nHarvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and criminal sexual acts,  bringing his seven-week New York trial with a conviction in the central criminal case of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/judge-wishes-she-could-rule-elephant-a-person\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a &#8220;Person&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nHaving failed to have a court declare chimpanzees to be persons entitled to habeas corpus protection, the Nonhuman Rights Project next tried the same thing with an elephant named Happy, that \u2014 not who \u2014 is held in her own pen at the Bronx Zoo due to behavioral conflicts with other elephants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/ed-morrissey\/2020\/02\/24\/lesbian-activist-im-coming-insane-progressive-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lesbian Activist: I&#8217;m Coming Out \u2014 Of The &#8220;Insane Progressive Left&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nMeet Arielle Scarcella, a blue-checked Twitter and YouTube activist for lesbian issues, which normally would put her square in the middle of the modern progressive Left. Or at least that might have been true a few years ago, but Scarcella declared this weekend that she&#8217;s had enough of the insanity on her side of the political spectrum. &#8220;The LGBT community has become a safe haven for the mentally unstable,&#8221; Scarcella declares in a short manifesto that fair-use excerpts quite can&#8217;t capture<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/supreme-court-strikes-down-orwellian-government-attempt-to-redefine-the-catholic-church-in-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supreme Court Strikes Down Orwellian Government Attempt to Redefine the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico<\/a><br \/>\nOn Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a horrifying Orwellian court ruling that told the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico that it could not define itself as an organization. Puerto Rico&#8217;s Supreme Court had ruled that individual Catholic churches and schools do not exist as independent legal entities, holding them jointly liable for claims against the &#8220;Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church in Puerto Rico.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/02\/unconstitutional-pro-union-gag-law-challenged.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unconstitutional pro-union gag law challenged<\/a><br \/>\nCalifornia law prohibits public officials from making statements that might &#8220;deter or discourage&#8221; public employees or applicants from membership in a public employee union. The law was passed in 2017 in anticipation of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling that compulsory public employee union dues are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2020\/02\/25\/cambridge-based-modernas-coronavirus-vaccine-shipped-to-nih-for-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge-based Moderna sends possible coronavirus vaccine for testing<\/a><br \/>\nVaccine mRNA-1273 sample shipped to National Institutes of Health<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/ap\/national\/key-california-reservoir-to-be-drained-due-to-earthquake-risk\/article_24654552-0272-5057-80bf-033b1d3f7099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Key California reservoir to be drained due to earthquake risk<\/a><br \/>\nIn a dramatic decision that could significantly impact Silicon Valley&#8217;s water supply, federal dam regulators have ordered Anderson Reservoir, the largest reservoir in Santa Clara County, to be completely drained starting Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/sasse-debunks-democratic-and-media-lies-about-his-born-alive-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sasse Debunks Democratic and Media Lies about His Born-Alive Bill<\/a><br \/>\nOn the Senate floor this afternoon, Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) set the record straight about his legislation, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which the Senate will vote on later today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article240601601.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Gender neutral&#8221; plan for toys would get rid of boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; aisles in California stores<\/a><br \/>\nCalifornia department stores that sell children\u2019s products such as toys and clothes would be prohibited from segregating them by gender, under a bill now being considered by lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idaho students demand Starbucks offer &#8216;free&#8217; vegan milk that &#8216;doesn&#8217;t support animal abuse&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nStudents from the University of Idaho staged a sit-in at a local Starbucks over the coffee chain&#8217;s upcharge for vegan milk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/california-monitor-8400-people-coronavirus-fb785e1c-8f38-4225-988b-11344fb7859e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California health officials confirm 33 cases of novel coronavirus<\/a><br \/>\nCalifornia health officials confirmed that 33 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, adding the risk to the public remains low.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/02\/27\/federal-government-cant-fix-public-schools-betsy-devos-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Government Can&#8217;t Fix Public Schools, Betsy DeVos Says<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I want to tell everyone today you are either for children or against children when it comes to educational freedom and choice in education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/mike-pompeo-mocks-predecessor-john-kerry-about-being-secretary-of-state-im-not-in-it-for-the-fancy-dinners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Pompeo Mocks Predecessor John Kerry About Being Secretary of State, &#8220;I&#8217;m Not in It for the Fancy Dinners&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to the attendees of CPAC Friday afternoon. He reported that he had just come from the Oval Office with President Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCLA BANS all single-use plastics<\/a><br \/>\nUCLA has announced a policy development that would completely ban single-use plastics, and replace them with compostables and other alternatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/college-fix-reporting-inspires-wyoming-legislature-to-ban-universitys-abortion-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Following College Fix report, Wyoming legislature bans abortion coverage in university health plan<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Our state should not be subsidizing abortion&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/post\/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-age-96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Renowned Mathematician And Physicist Freeman Dyson Has Died At Age 96<\/a><br \/>\nFreeman Dyson, renowned scientist and scholar, has died at 96, according to his daughter Mia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/02\/28\/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-43\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a><br \/>\nRails-to-trails, unfair competition, and nonactionable puffery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/section-2\/mandatory-gender-neutral-toy-and-childrens-clothing-sections-proposed-in-new-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mandatory Gender-Neutral Toy and Children&#8217;s Clothing Sections Proposed in New Bill<\/a><br \/>\nAB 2826 would force large stores with 500 or more employees to separate sections based on gender<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Economy__Taxes\"><\/a>Economy &#038; Taxes<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/63qDB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Considers Basic Guaranteed Income For All Bill<\/a><br \/>\nHere they go again. California lawmakers are preparing to consider a new bill that would provide a monthly cash payment to the vast majority of people over the age of 18, regardless of their wealth, employment status or anything else. This &#8220;universal basic income&#8221; concept is very popular among the socialists, but it&#8217;s been problematic in the few places where it&#8217;s been attempted on smaller scales. Now some people want to apply it to almost all of the nearly 40 million people in our nation&#8217;s most populous state. What could possibly go wrong? <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alantonelson.wordpress.com\/2020\/02\/24\/whats-left-of-our-economy-what-washington-doesnt-know-about-u-s-china-drug-dependence-can-literally-kill-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(What&#8217;s Left of) Our Economy: What Washington Doesn&#8217;t Know About U.S. China Drug Dependence Can Literally Kill Us<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s bad enough, as widely reported, that as the coronavirus has begun spreading rapidly beyond China, the United States finds itself reliant on the People&#8217;s Republic for a wide variety of medicines and, just as important, for the chemical building blocks of those medicines. It&#8217;s at least as bad, and much less widely reported, that the U.S. government still doesn&#8217;t know the exact extent of this dependence, and still uses an inspection system for checking the safety of these Chinese inputs that looks as leaky as the proverbial sieve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"International\"><\/a>International<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/23\/world\/americas\/venezuela-economy-polar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venezuela&#8217;s Socialists Embrace Business, Making Partner of a &#8220;Parasite&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nDecades of socialist-style control devastated the economy. Now, capitalism is back, helping keep the country afloat \u2014 and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in power. One deal was the cornerstone of that transformation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/202002241078394908-car-rams-into-crowd-in-kassel-germany-injuries-reported\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Car Rams Into Crowd in Germany, Injuries Reported<\/a><br \/>\nEarlier this month, at least nine people were killed and several others injured in shooting attacks on shisha bars in the western German town of Hanau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/china-apocalypse-buddhist-prophecy-locusts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The China Apocalypse<\/a><br \/>\nLast night, I received an update from the American doctor who has been writing in about the coronavirus situation. His wife is from China, and is plugged in to Chinese media and social media. What he wrote last night is extremely frightening. I post it here with the obvious caveat that I can\u2019t confirm any of this, and that you should take it as a comment, not as gospel truth. I know who this doctor is, and have been corresponding with him. I brought another physician, in another part of the country, into our conversation, and this second physician tells me he definitely believes the Doctor is onto something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-city-shuts-down-as-south-korea-raises-highest-coronavirus-alert-11582465932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The City Has Been Annihilated&#8221;: South Korea&#8217;s Coronavirus Epicenter Is a Virtual Ghost Town<\/a><br \/>\nThe country&#8217;s cases rise 25-fold in five days, as Seoul declares a &#8220;red alert,&#8221; allowing it to block domestic travel among other measures<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/nicaraguas-last-newspaper-dared-to-criticize-the-government-then-it-lost-its-ink-and-paper\/ar-BB10iga7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicaragua&#8217;s last newspaper dared to criticize the government. Then it lost its ink and paper<\/a><br \/>\nThe board of directors of Nicaragua\u2019s oldest newspaper sat down in January to discuss the future. It looked bleak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/safrica-sterilised-pregnant-hiv-patients-without-consent-2927935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S.Africa &#8216;Sterilised Pregnant HIV Patients Without Consent&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nA South African inquiry into the forced sterilisation of dozens of HIV-positive pregnant women said Monday that their rights had been breached, and called for government action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-house-of-lords-debates-gender-neutral-toilets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The House of Lords Debates &#8220;Gender Neutral&#8221; Toilets<\/a><br \/>\nThe British House of Lords held a debate this week on &#8220;Changing and Toilet Facilities in Public Buildings.&#8221; Should they be gender-neutral?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2020\/02\/27\/national\/hokkaido-coronavirus-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All schools in Japan told to close until April over virus outbreak<\/a><br \/>\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday asked all elementary, junior high and high schools nationwide to close from Monday through the students\u2019 spring break, which typically ends in early April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/oxford-may-drop-epics-from-classics-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford may drop epics from classics curriculum<\/a><br \/>\nClassics faculty at Oxford University have proposed that two ancient epics from its introductory class be dropped in order to &#8220;reduce attainment gaps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/claudiarosett\/jimmy-lais-warning-about-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Lai&#8217;s Warning About China<\/a><br \/>\nSurely China&#8217;s Communist Party henchmen have enough on their hands, as they hustle to disappear outspoken bloggers, kick out Wall Street Journal reporters, and repurpose parts of the CCP&#8217;s vast machinery of surveillance and coercion to police President Xi Jinping&#8217;s &#8220;People&#8217;s War&#8221; on the deadly new coronavirus &#8212; which achieved ruinous breakout in Wuhan early last month, while China&#8217;s authorities were busy detaining and silencing the honest local doctors who tried to sound a warning. But when it comes to ramping up repression, there&#8217;s always time for more. On Friday, China&#8217;s satrap administration in Hong Kong arrested one of the city&#8217;s longtime leading advocates of democracy, 71-year-old newspaper owner Jimmy Lai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/spengler\/coronavirus-is-a-bigger-risk-to-the-rest-of-the-world-than-it-is-to-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus Is a Bigger Risk to the Rest of the World Now Than It Is to China<\/a><br \/>\nNew cases of coronavirus in China were running at 5,000 a day only a couple of weeks ago. The count of new cases is down to fewer than 100 a day, if you believe China&#8217;s numbers. I don&#8217;t, but the World Health Organization&#8217;s declaration this week that the epidemic had peaked in China probably is accurate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/taylormillard\/2020\/03\/01\/jewish-professional-wrestler-wins-wwe-title-saudia-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Professional Wrestler Wins WWE Title&#8230;In Saudia Arabia<\/a><br \/>\nWorld Wrestling Entertainment held their latest show in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, their fifth under a ten year deal with the Kingdom. It was your typical WWE show featuring pyro, championship matches, tag team wrestling, and a match for a Saudi-specific prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Opinion\"><\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/02\/24\/if-i-were-a-kid-today-doctors-would-be-pushing-me-to-be-trans-instead-of-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If I Were A Kid Today, Doctors Would Be Pushing Me To Be Trans Instead Of Gay  <\/a><br \/>\nWhen I watch the advocacy surrounding transgender transition in children, all I can see is an organized effort to &#8220;correct&#8221; something that should never have been viewed as wrong in the first place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/american-business-must-rethink-its-relation-to-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Business Must Rethink Its Relation to Politics<\/a><br \/>\nAmerican business needs to get off the path to slow-motion suicide, and to defend the free-enterprise system. Disabusing a few misguided companies of their &#8220;woke capitalist&#8221; fantasies won&#8217;t be enough. For decades, even staid and conventional businesses have accommodated leftist pressure groups who would gladly do them in. What&#8217;s needed is a return to the strategy of the 1970s and 1980s, when American business actively pushed back against &#8217;60s radicalism and helped to usher in the era of Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/what-english-america-did-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What &#8216;English America&#8217; did right<\/a><br \/>\nWhy is the movement of population in the Americas almost wholly one-way? I pondered the question this week as I traveled from Florida to Guatemala and back. No Mexican politician has ever had to suggest building a wall to keep the gringos out. Around 160,000 Mexicans settle legally in the United States each year (it is, by definition, impossible to count the illegal ones), yet hardly any Americans make the reverse journey. Why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/why-chinese-communism-could-be-the-final-casualty-of-the-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Chinese Communism Could Be the Final Casualty of the Coronavirus<\/a><br \/>\nHandling a medical crisis of this nature will never be easy, but the authoritarian and deceptive response of the Chinese government to the COVID-19 virus threatens the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s hold on power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/artificial-intelligence\/embedded-ai\/ai-deception-when-your-ai-learns-to-lie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to Lie<\/a><br \/>\nWe need to understand the kinds of deception an AI agent may learn on its own before we can start proposing technological defenses<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/02\/26\/too-often-black-history-month-sidelines-african-american-triumphs-for-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Too Often Black History Month Sidelines African-American Triumphs For Politics  <\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to restore real black history: recognition of achievement and overcoming obstacles as citizens integral to this great nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bernie-sanders-the-most-useful-idiot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders, the Most Useful Idiot<\/a><br \/>\nBernie Sanders is, to put it gently, either terminally obtuse, mentally unbalanced, or dangerously dishonest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/coronavirus-trump-presidency-could-be-defined-by-his-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They&#8217;re Still Not Getting It<\/a><br \/>\nNot that I expect the White House to read me, but I hope someone talks some sense into Trump&#8217;s ear.   The Washington Post report that the Trump administration is talking about a &#8220;targeted tax cut&#8221; as a response to this week&#8217;s news means they are still treating coronavirus primarily as a problem for financial markets and Trump&#8217;s reelection. Treating it that way is more likely to make it into a market and reelection disaster, not to mention a public-health crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/majoritarian-domination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Majoritarian Domination&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nDavid Brooks&#8217;s account of Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign cuts deep, because it is true, and obviously true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/richardfernandez\/the-virus-that-challenged-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It&#8217;s Not Coronavirus We Should Worry About, It&#8217;s What Might Come After It<\/a><br \/>\nThe coronavirus crisis is testing political systems all over the world. In China it is challenging Xi Jin Ping because he &#8220;owns&#8221; the system, Melinda Liu writes in Foreign Policy. &#8220;The party has something to do with everything in China, especially under Xi Jinping\u2014and suddenly, for Xi, that has become a double-edged sword. As president, party head, and top military commander, Xi has consolidated his authority, centralized decision-making, abolished presidential term limits, and promoted his loyalists. People expect Xi, China\u2019s &#8216;chairman of everything,&#8217; to fix everything when it goes wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/02\/the-end-of-boys-and-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The end of boys and girls, &#038;c.<\/a><br \/>\nOn today&#8217;s &#8220;re-gendering&#8221;; Bernie and Cuba; Albania&#8217;s &#8220;Crow&#8221;; and more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/multimedia.scmp.com\/infographics\/news\/china\/article\/3052721\/wuhan-killer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Disease X, the epidemic-in-waiting, erupted in China<\/a><br \/>\nHealth experts warned it would be &#8216;threatening to the world and socially disrupting&#8217;. Then the new coronavirus arrived<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/regiehammblog.wordpress.com\/2020\/02\/27\/birth-of-a-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BIRTH OF A VIRUS <\/a><br \/>\nAs I watched my neighbor put her dog\u2019s poop in a single-use plastic baggy, I thought about split pants in China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"News of the Week\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Here is the 'News of the Week' compilation of the News for Mar. 1st, 2020.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; News of the Week for Mar. 1st, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-16373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16374,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions\/16374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}