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Willie Lewis Brown Jr., San Francisco’s mayor from 1996 to 2004, says that he has a solution for San Francisco’s struggling restaurants: Require diners to take a COVID-19 test within 72 hours before they sit down to eat. Implementing a rule like this “would do a lot to bring people back,” Brown says, adding that the program would make dining out “risk-free.” Brown argues that restaurants across the city could bring in more diners if they would “advertise that your store, your restaurant or your public space is available only to people who had a negative test in the past...

We are only just beginning to see what the economic fallout from coronavirus will be. And Wall Street economists are now throwing out some brutal forecasts for what economic data in the quarters ahead might hold. “We now guesstimate that second quarter GDP will drop at a 10% annualized rate, after a 2% fall in Q1,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, in a note to clients on Monday night. The gnarliest figures in Shepherdson’s forecast come from where he sees consumer spending heading during the next few months.

Through a series of supposedly random but arguably deliberate chain of events, America is poised to jettison 220 years of a free market system called capitalism, in favor of the tried and failed system of socialism. This writer, and others, are now starting to question how we reached this point.

My hometown newspaper today included one of those letters to the editor re "Bush administration has no 'moral values' because it's killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians in an unncecessary war!" I'm working on a rebuttal letter and wonder whether anyone has run down the facts behind the claim of 100,000 civilian deaths because of U.S action. Does anyone know where this figure came from and whether or not it has been debunked (or authenticated)? My sense is that the figure is high for propaganda purposes.

Although it is really funny to watch, most of us are getting a bit weary constantly hearing about Dan Rather and his Democratic Party/Kerry campaign-fueled accusations in memogate. This time, the deception of CBS was easily identified and publicly exposed. Unfortunately, that is not always true with the liberal propaganda generally spewed by "Old Media." Quite often, they get away with it. CBS and Dan Rather now want us to believe they were "misled." No they weren't. Terry McAuliffe at DNC and the Kerry campaign had those memos first. CBS admits that their news producer, Mary Mapes, has been searching...