Today’s headlines tell a disturbing story of gross incompetence and indifference to human life. Reuters reports, U.S. has potential of becoming coronavirus epicenter, says WHO: The United States has the potential to become the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic due to a “very large acceleration” in infections there, the World Health Organization said on … Read more
Yassamin Ansari epitomizes the American Dream. A first-generation American and Arizonan who is the child of Iranian Immigrants, Ms. Ansari has been devoted to serving others since she tutored Somali refugee children as an elementary and middle school student. A graduate of Stanford and the University of Cambridge with degrees in International Relations, … Read more
Above: “Bring out your dead” plague scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). Covid-19, the novel coronavirus is a new virus. There is no human immunity to it. There is no demonstrably successful treatment for it. There are no antibiotics or a vaccine for it. Some people will suffer only “mild” symptoms (a … Read more
Republicans and Democrats, after a weekend of suspense and last-minute deal-making by Speaker Russell Bowers and Democratic Leader Charlene Fernandez, banded together and on a 59 to 1 vote passed the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2021 budget with an additional $50 million for people needing assistance to get through the Coronavirus Crisis. According … Read more
I’ll begin where I ended this morning: “”Moscow Mitch” McConnell’s singular focus on partisan Republican politics is the last thing this country, or the world, needs right now. We need to get this right.” Yet this is exactly what is happening. Republicans are not serious about an economic stimulus package. The sham stimulus package they … Read more