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I-Team uncovers new information on status of coronavirus testing in Maryland (WBAL TV)
The 11 News I-Team has uncovered new information about the status of Maryland’s plan to run 20,000 coronavirus tests per day.
This comes as county executives try to ramp up testing on their own. [Read More]
Mike Love on New Quarantine Song ‘This Too Shall Pass,’ Beach Boys’ Future (Rolling Stone)
For the Beach Boys, 2020 was supposed to be a busy year, packed with performances and meet-and-greets. “And then it came to a screeching halt,” Mike Love tells Rolling Stone. “I just look forward to the time when we can get out and do our live music again.”
While remaining isolated in Lake Tahoe, Love recently wrote “This Too Shall Pass,” a COVID-19–themed solo ditty. He enlisted frequent Beach Boys guest John Stamos to drum on the track. “He loves the Beach Boys, and has all his life,” Love says of Stamos. The singer talked about recording the song, how meditation has helped him in quarantine, and what’s next for the Beach Boys. [Read More]
Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzman (D-31, Dale City, Fauquier) has a new seat on the Prince William County Jail Board.
Guzman opposes the county’s 287(g) program and has vowed to have it abolished. As the jail board oversees the program, now she may have her chance. [Read More]
Misguided Shutdown Policy Began as High School Science Project (Townhall)
As the nation slowly emerges from the social-distancing economic shut-down enacted to slow the spread of COVID-19, it would be wise to examine how and why our governors and federal agencies made the decisions they made that resulted in over 36 million people losing their jobs and untold cases of stress, anxiety, depression, and death.
Never before in modern history has a civilization embarked upon a wide-spread quarantine of healthy individuals to protect against the spread of disease. Never. [Read More]
‘Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?’ (National Review)
I have a piece up on the homepage today about Florida’s approach to the COVID-19 crisis. If you talk to Governor DeSantis and his team, it’s impossible to conclude anything other than that they have taken this seriously from the beginning, been immersed in the data and research, and crafted a well-considered response. Which makes it all the more astonishing and unfair that the media has been portraying DeSantis as a yokel who was going to get Floridians killed with his lax approach. In fact, on an absolutely central policy question — how to deal with the nursing homes — DeSantis and his team were much more stringent than other states. [Read More]
Fully declassified Susan Rice email reveals reluctance to share ‘sensitive’ Russia information with Michael Flynn (Washington Examiner)
An email that Obama national security adviser Susan Rice sent herself detailing an early January 2017 Oval Office meeting has been fully declassified, revealing just how focused the outgoing Obama administration was on retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
A portion of Rice’s email, sent to herself on Trump’s Inauguration Day, was not visible to the public until Tuesday. It shows now-fired FBI Director James Comey stating his concerns about the incoming Trump national security adviser’s conversations with a Russian envoy and expressing reluctance to share “sensitive information” related to Russia with Flynn. [Read More]
