Back on Feb. 15, when the Department of Defense released its budget request, the world and the United States looked a lot different. The NBA was coming out of its All-Star game, college basketball was gearing up for March Madness, and offices and highways were packed. The World Health Organization would not declare coronavirus to […]
Small businesses will be able to access new loans starting Friday to help them stay afloat during the economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus. The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump established a $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program. “This relief will help stabilize the small business sector […]
By William L. Gensert Sometime in June 2001, while browsing the Wall Street Journal, I stumbled upon an item on an inside page all the way at the bottom. It was no more than 75 words in a box. It covered a CIA security announcement concerning an increase in internet and cell phone traffic among suspected terrorists from […]
A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the postwar global leader. Yet the U.S. was the first major nation to issue a travel ban on flights from China, with Donald Trump making that announcement on Jan. 31. […]
By Cassandra Fairbanks The Rhode Island public school teacher who tweeted an offer to pay someone with coronavirus to cough on President Donald Trump is now under investigation by the district following Gateway Pundit’s viral report. A newly uncovered tweet from one of her alternate accounts also reveals serious racism directed towards black people. As TGP previously […]
President Donald Trump said it’s difficult to know what the real number of COVID-19 cases in China is, but stressed the U.S. has a strong relationship with the country where the pandemic originated. “Their numbers seemed to be a little bit on the light side—I’m being nice when I say that—relative to what we witnessed […]
Millennials have spent their formative years reading self-help books and binge-watching lifestyle video blogs. We are students of the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, and DiSC personality tests. Our knowledge of essential oils and mindfulness techniques is second to none. Long story short, we millennials have all the tools we need to thrive while social distancing. I get […]
In times of crisis such as we face now with the coronavirus pandemic, presidents often speak movingly of the “forgotten Americans.” But they’re not always talking about the same Americans. In 1932, President Franklin D. Roosevelt defined “the forgotten man” as being “at the bottom of the economic pyramid”—down-and-out workers who, stuck between the breadline and a […]
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 […]
When President Donald Trump announced the “15 Days to Slow the Spread” initiative, it was premised on the idea that 15 days would give the country enough time to collect data and consult models to determine next steps for the country. Now that we have more data, what do we know? There have been several […]
