How can you possibly have a public policy for dealing with COVID if your data is eight weeks old? However, that understates the problem last week when the CDC reported 1,099 deaths. The World Health Organization estimated American deaths at 4,869. The Washington Post had a range between 4,900 and 6,300, and The New York times reported 5,379 for the week. Now, how can you possibly shape policy when you have a variance of 600 percent among the different estimates?
Today, I signed this letter with other free market economic leaders and business leaders arguing that health care price transparency should be included in the next COVID relief package. It is being sent to the President Trump and other White House officials, Majority Leader McConnell and Leader McCarthy, as well as other leaders in the Republican Party.
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Joe Biden is certainly a gaffe machine. He has even said so himself. It seems miraculous that a candidate as unskilled at communication could make it this far, and yet here he is. It is clear that the Democrats have become accustomed to explaining away the various and sundry blunders and boo-boos as Biden bungles his way across the campaign trail. It must get tiring.
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This week, however, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK is banning Huawei’s equipment from its network. British telecom operators must stop buying 5G equipment from Huawei by the end of the year and need to remove all of Huawei’s existing gear from the network by 2027. What explains the sharp reversal? To start, President Trump and his administration deserve credit.
The opening statement I made to a House Committee hearing on the question of remote voting in Congress. This is an important issue, and I wanted to make sure as many Americans were aware of it as possible.
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5 Stories to Watch Next Week: Amid COVID-19 surge across US, states consider next steps; European leaders meeting to discuss COVID-19 rescue plan; US considers sweeping travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members; FBI investigates large-scale Twitter hack; and Biden to address nation’s largest Muslim American PAC.
On July 8, we asked, “Do you think President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech was unifying or divisive?” A total of 1,296 of our readers responded.
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What Newt’s Reading: Never Trumpers Are Democrats in Republican Clothing; AOC’s Dishonest, Callous Answer to NYC’s Surging Street Violence; Jessica Whitaker, Mother of One, Shot Dead After Saying ‘All Lives Matter’; White House Partners With Apple, IBM to Encourage Americans to Think Outside 4-Year Degrees; and Florida Department of Health Says Some Labs Have Not Reported Negative COVID-19 Results.
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China will likely defeat the US in a future war, if one erupts. That’s a difficult fact to accept for many Americans, but it’s the truth. America has a more powerful military now, to be sure. But mounting evidence points to a coming Chinese victory — unless Washington takes bold, aggressive steps today to maintain its dwindling edge. The foundation of these steps is to increase the Pentagon’s budget.
Senator Chuck Schumer’s announcement that he supports getting a vote on Senator Sanders’s amendment to take 10% out of the defense budget brings us to a full circle. “Defund the military” now joins “defund the police” as the key to the modern Democratic Party’s understanding of reality: Weaken America at home by cutting police and weakening America overseas by cutting the military.
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What Newt’s Reading: Biden Promises to Continue the Democratic Party’s Crusade Against Catholics; Absentee Ballots Didn’t Get Counted Because of Late Delivery, Misdelivery, and Bad Postmarks, Post Office Says; The Fragility of the Woke; AOC & Dems Launch Absurd Boycott of Goya Foods After CEO Joins Trump Pro-Hispanic Initiative; and Police Wrestle With Surge in Crime in US Cities Amid Defunding Efforts.
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A major choice in this year’s election will be between defunding or defending police. Most Americans are worried by the rise in crime and dramatic increase in violence in some of our nation’s cities after Democrat leaders withdrew their police forces in the face of radical, violent leftwing protests. Most Americans believe the vacuum created by defunding the police is going to be filled with predators and dangerous criminals — not with social workers and do-gooders.
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