MINNESOTANS stand up for freedom. Even President Trump attended ....

LIBERATE MINNESOTA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020

.... by tweet.

Now go read the post (and enjoy the videos).

HMMM: 36% at Boston Homeless shelter test positive for COVID-19, vast majority without symptoms.

I had a post on this very topic last week, wondering why the the homeless appeared to be relatively unaffected by the coronavirus. Here's some evidence that my thesis then may in fact be correct.

My suggestion remains: perhaps our esteemed HealthScare Professionals should look amongst them for a cure.

COMPETITION THRIVES -- even in a lockdown.

MAYBE - JUST MAYBE -- virtue-signaling during the time of the coronavirus pandemic is not a good idea. Unless you're uber-woke, rich, and can afford to lose that nice sinecure.

POWERLINE: Good COVID-19 news. Just as I predicted on April 13.

YES, IT IS TIME to punch back.

ALABAMA MAYOR gets the coronavirus crisis right. I may not fully agree with what he's done, but he certainly did it the right way.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for April 17, 2020:

As of late last night the Coronavirus Dashboard has gone silent. No updates since about 10 pm last night, and no reason given.

If it starts up again, I'll resume updates, but I'm not going to waste my time looking around elsewhere when I'm getting more and more suspicious that the government/mainstream media-supplied data is cooked.

HMMM: Yes to free trade; no to industrial policy. There's much food for thought here, so much so that I'm ambivilant about drawing any conclusions.

One (partial) conclusion though that I think is safe: no country can ever allow itself to rely solely on any another country for sustenance; each must retain a minimum 'stockpile' (if you wish to call it that) of resources and capabilities to sustain itself in time of need.

WE SHALL SEE: Is insanity more dangerous than the coronavirus?

Yes, probably, but by now you should recognize that it's from America's News of Record.

WHY I'M proud to be a former Virginian.

ABSOLUTELY, YES: Jail time for parents who ripped down neighbor's Trump flag?

Virtue signaling should be a hate crime. A felony hate crime.

IS THIS A CORONAVIRUS DEATH? If we're honest, yes. But it should be on the opposite side of the ledger.

INSTAPUNDIT: Sink 'em all. It's time to make a statement to the world that the U.S. ain't gonna put up with shit any more.

NANCY PELOSI struggles through coronapocalypse with her fancy designer ice cream.

HEH. KANYE WEST SPEAKS: I will not be told which old white guy I'm voting for.

TO SUMMARIZE -- CALIFORNIA IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED FOR BUSINESS: Creepy conditions California must meet before reopening the economy.

If it were just San Francisco and Los Angeles, I would have no objection.

THE ANSWER IS 'YES': Are we witnessing a targeted hit against Trump voters?

IS 'ALL' ACCEPTABLE? Fellow traveler? Useful idiot? Stooge?

On the bright side, the ones to vote against in the future are self-identifying....

THE PUSHBACK BEGINS: We the people may reopen the country ourselves.

NEW YORK DEATH COUNT SPIKES after government alters methodology. I had seen this earlier (April 15th) but forgot to post it then. O'Conner gets it:

"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." It may have been Stalin and it may have been Napoleon. It may have been Boss Tweed. Regardless of the original source, this truism describes government corruption and manipulation to perfection.

Even in the face of a global pandemic and an unprecedented government-ordered economic shutdown, politicians are using their power to corrupt vital needed data regarding the Chinese coronavirus and its deadly toll on Americans.

He's right.