5 Extraordinary Measures We Should Take to Help Health Workers Fight COVID-19

As a professor of nursing who runs an international nurse consulting company, I have a unique perspective on the startling global pandemic of COVID-19. The disease is severely affecting the men and women of the health professions who are on the front lines battling the new coronavirus, which causes the disease.  Medical professionals are struggling […]

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Trump Predicts Coronavirus Deaths to Peak in 2 Weeks, Extends Distancing Guidelines to End of April

President Donald Trump announced fatalities from coronavirus are likely to reach the highest point in two weeks, then begin to decline. He also said he’s extending the guidelines to slow the spread–that were set to lapse on Monday–to the end of April. “The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit […]

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Sen. Tom Coburn Stood Tall for Taxpayers

Former Sen. Tom Coburn was a hero among fiscal conservatives and endless source of inspiration and courage. The Oklahoma Republican embodied financial stewardship, always showing great respect for the hard-earned tax dollars of working Americans. Coburn, who died late Friday at 72, helped the American people better understand the size and scope of Washington’s spending […]

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COVID-19 Underscores Need to Preserve Economic Freedom in a Crisis

The Heritage Foundation’s newly released 2020 Index of Economic Freedom provides plenty of evidence of the value of economic freedom. People in freer societies live longer, have much higher levels of income and overall prosperity, and enjoy better health care, cleaner environments, and greater educational opportunities than those societies that are less free. Not all […]

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Trump Compels GM to Build More Ventilators for Coronavirus Response

President Donald Trump is applying the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to manufacture more ventilators to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. “Ventilators are a big deal,” the president said at the Friday press briefing. “This invocation of the DPA should indicate to all that we will not hesitate to use the full authority […]

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