Benefits vs. Costs and COVID-19

Walter E. Williams
April 23rd, 2020 3:39 PM
One of the first lessons in an economics class is everything has a cost. That's in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians talk about free stuff. In our personal lives, decision-making involves weighing costs against benefits. Businessmen make the same calculation if they want to stay in business. It's an entirely different story for politicians running the government…
 

Media Are Still Peddling One of the Great Myths of the Depression

Lawrence W. Reed
April 18th, 2020 10:30 AM
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once cautioned newcomers to learn from those who held the same positions before. “Try to make original mistakes rather than needlessly repeating theirs,” he said. Harry Kazianis should have taken Rumsfeld’s advice before writing this annoying paragraph on April 2: "The rapidly worsening pandemic is shaping up as the defining challenge of the Trump…
 
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Acosta, Blitzer TRASH Americans Weary of Lockdowns, Cover for Lefties

Curtis Houck
April 18th, 2020 1:55 AM

Liberal media elites sure don’t seem to have a problem with life-crippling stay-at-home orders stretching through 2020 into 2021 and 2022, do they? On Friday’s Situation Room, CNN host Wolf Blitzer and chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta griped about how President Trump would not only acknowledge the mental toll that they’ve taken on the American people, but not denouncing those voicing…

 
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CBS Insists Trump, GOP More Interested Saving Economy Than Lives

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 16th, 2020 9:25 PM
Devoid of any responsibility for the wellbeing and livelihoods of the American populous, CBS Evening News spent two consecutive nights chiding President Trump’s urging for parts of the country to eventually reopen, and get the millions of unemployed and hurting Americans back to work. According to them, the Republican Party was more interested in saving the economy than saving lives.
 

What Does Reopening Look Like?

Ben Shapiro
April 16th, 2020 3:18 PM
As our national lockdown drags on, Americans seem less and less inclined to move swiftly toward societal reopening. Perhaps that's due to the consistent media focus on the risks of reopening. Perhaps that's also due to the psychological comfort of the status quo: When we've been made to feel safe in our home, it's difficult to leave it. Or perhaps we, as a society, have so fundamentally altered…
 
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Sick: NBC Pits Michigan Unemployed Against New York ER Nurse

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 15th, 2020 9:03 PM

Americans across the country were hurting and desperate to support their families as the coronavirus crisis had caused many states to shut down their economies to stop the spread. With protests breaking out in state capitals, NBC Nightly News made it clear the media elite didn’t care. Anchor Lester Holt even started the show by claiming the “drumbeat to reopen the economy is landing with a…

 

Politico Spews Virus-Induced ‘Econ Meltdown’ Gives Dems New Hope in TX

Business
Joseph Vazquez
April 15th, 2020 6:30 AM
Liberal outlet Politico exploited the coronavirus-induced "economic meltdown" and translated it into a political tool to be used by Democrats against Republicans to win races in Texas. In an absurd story headlined, “Economic meltdown gives Democrats new hope in Texas,” Politico bleated that “The twin economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic and a collapsing oil market has upended the political…
 
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‘You’re a Fake’; CBS's Reid Acts Like Acosta, Melts Down in Trump Duel

Curtis Houck
April 13th, 2020 10:47 PM
Monday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing was a barn burner. Between the video showing the liberal media downplaying the virus, clips of Democrats praising President Trump, and reporters losing it, it had everything. But most notable was CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid getting in a shouting match with Trump that seemed to imply she was blaming him for the deaths of over 20,000…
 

Eric Bolling NUKES Sally Kohn for Crackpot Economy Tweet

Business
Joseph Vazquez
April 10th, 2020 11:26 AM
Far-left commentator Sally Kohn somehow thinks state governments ordering nonessential businesses to close means they aren’t forcing businesses to lay off their workforces. Really. Sinclair’s Eric Bolling wrecked her on Twitter for it. Kohn bleated on Twitter that “I'm really tired of reading how business owners are ‘forced’ to layoff [sic] workers. No one made them do that. They *chose* to do…
 

The 3 Big Questions Nobody Is Answering

Ben Shapiro
April 9th, 2020 4:17 PM
This week, according to members of the federal government, and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. The excitement was muted -- after all, trends can easily reverse -- but real. Americans have abided by recommendations and orders. They've left their jobs to stay at home; they've practiced social distancing; in many places, they'…
 
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MSNBC Hypes Attack on 'Right-Wing Clone' of Trump, Tucker Carlson

Mark Finkelstein
April 8th, 2020 9:55 AM
On his Fox News show of April 7th, Tucker Carlson noted that experts, including Dr. Zeke Emanuel [of the far-left Center for American Progress], are saying society cannot return to normal for at least 18 months. Carlson pointed out how wrong those same experts have been when it came to projecting hospitalization rates, needed numbers of ventilators, etc. On Morning Joe of April 8th, Emanuel…
 
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Tucker: Mika's Claim Trump Has Financial Stake in New Drug Is 'Crazy'

Mark Finkelstein
April 7th, 2020 10:13 AM
On his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson calls Mika Brzezinski's accusation that President Trump has a financial stake in hydroxychloroquine "the most reckless claim" he'd ever heard during a pandemic. Tucker went on to label Mika's claim "paranoid, and crazy, and stupid," adding, "to say something like that on your stupid television show is totally wrong." 
 

AP Fact Checkers Trash Trump for PREDICTING Suicide Increase

Tim Graham
April 4th, 2020 5:05 PM
One of the most disturbing tactics of “fact checkers” is claiming they can fact-check the future. Predictions are not facts. To declare a prediction is "Wrong" is political, not factual. AP's "Fact Check" team decried Trump "making a baseless claim of surging suicides if the U.S. economy remains mostly shut." They said "There's no evidence." That's because it's in the future! But experts disagree…
 

Managing a Disaster

Walter E. Williams
April 2nd, 2020 2:23 PM
I'm not sure whether COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in the U.S. qualifies as a true disaster. Putting the disease in perspective, we might look at current influenza illnesses. According to Centers for Disease Control estimates, between Oct. 1, 2019, and March 14, 2020, there have been 390,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations as a result of the flu, 38,000,000 to 54,000,000 flu illnesses…