Mar 25, 2020 – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber as lawmakers negotiate on the emergency coronavirus response legislation, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Early Wednesday, a negotiating team comprised of Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,...

Mar 24, 2020 – CORRECTS TO CULVER CITY, INSTEAD OF LOS ANGELES An employee stands at the entrance to a guns shop Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Culver City, Calif. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he would like to see gun shops shut down. “We will be closing them, they are not...

Mar 24, 2020 – After declaring the county’s gun stores “nonessential” Monday, on Tuesday morning Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told Fox 11 Los Angeles “he is beginning to close gun stores immediately,” and is sending deputies to gun stores “one by one to order them shut down.” The Sheriff told me he...

Mar 23, 2020 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks outside her office on Capitol Hill, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)It’s almost as if they coordinated their remarks. Until sometime on Sunday, March 22, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was on board with the stimulus bill being...

Mar 22, 2020 – In these days of quarantine, “Stay-At-Home” orders, and cabin fever being experienced by office workers suddenly forced to work remotely, people are online, looking for ways to connect with others. Celebrities and musicians have posted videos on Twitter or YouTube in an attempt to connect and bring people together....

Mar 21, 2020 – Since California’s controversial anti-freelancer bill was signed into law in September 2019, one (not unpredictable) result has been staffing shortages in the healthcare industry, particularly in fields generally staffed by contractors or locum tenens providers: physicians assistants, nurses, nurse anesthetists, and respiratory therapists. As the Wuhan coronavirus made its...

Apr 9, 2020 – A man looks toward the skyline from Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says residents must stay inside and...

Apr 9, 2020 – FILE – In this June 18, 2018, file photo, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kennedy, who just returned from a congressional trip to Russia warned against trusting President Vladimir Putin, saying that dealing with the Russian government is like “dealing with the...

Apr 8, 2020 – A pharmacist shows a bottle of the drug hydroxychloroquine on Monday, April 6, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. President Donald Trump and his administration kept up their out-sized promotion Monday of an malaria drug not yet officially approved for fighting the new coronavirus, even though scientists say more testing is needed...

Apr 8, 2020 – As my colleague Jennifer Van Laar reported, she credits hydroxychloroquine and Trump’s touting it with saving her life.…

Apr 7, 2020 – Though he predicts that the state’s coronavirus “surge” won’t occur until May, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent (loaned) 500 ventilators back to the national stockpile, shipping them directly to heavily affected states. Newsom made the announcement Monday, and Tuesday the machines were shipped from Sacramento. CA's 500 ventilators...

Apr 7, 2020 – A mayor in suburban St. Louis, faced with an increase in gatherings violating the state’s “Stay at Home” order, asked his town’s police department on Friday to “more strictly enforce” the governor’s executive order. Brant Walker, Mayor of Alton, Illinois got a big surprise early Sunday morning when he...

Apr 7, 2020 – In Tuesday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Donald Trump announced that “we’re gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO [World Health Organization].” The President said: The WHO, that’s the World Health Organization, receives vast amounts of money from the United States, and we pay for...

Apr 7, 2020 – Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a member of Joe Biden’s coronavirus “Public Health Advisory Committee,” appeared on MSNBC Monday night and declared that “Realistically, COVID-19 will be here for the next 18 months or more,” and that “we will not be able to return to normalcy until we find a vaccine or...

Apr 7, 2020 – My colleague Jennifer Van Laar wrote on some revelations last night.…

Apr 6, 2020 – A travel nurse whose tearful Instagram video decrying a lack of PPE at the hospital in which she worked went viral wasn’t completely truthful in her video. Imaris Vera, who is based in Chicago, said she quit because nurses in the designated COVID unit to which she was assigned...

Apr 6, 2020 – Credit: Karen Whitsett, Facebook A Michigan state representative from Detroit who contracted Wuhan coronavirus says her life was saved by the drug hydroxychloroquine and that she wouldn’t have thought to ask her doctor for it had President Trump not highlighted the drug as a potential treatment. State Rep. Karen Whitsett,...

Apr 5, 2020 – Calvary church and congregants are practicing social distancing as they wait to receive communion pic.twitter.com/l0g3QXfbMP — Jennifer … Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) April 5, 2020 As an evangelical, McCoy has been a controversial figure in the community; the Dos Vientos … Credit: Jennifer Van Laar/RedState Credit: Jennifer Van Laar/RedState I saw a friend with her two daughters (infant and toddler) in…

Apr 5, 2020 – Rob McCoy, a community leader and pastor in Southern California’s Conejo Valley, faced a dilemma this week. As a pastor, he felt led to offer communion to his congregants on Palm Sunday despite an order from the Ventura County Public Health Officer ruling that churches are “nonessential” services. As a...

Apr 4, 2020 – Fox News’ White House correspondent, Kristin Fisher, has a special and personal understanding of the concern and anxiety the families of our first-line medical professionals are feeling these days. Her father, Dr. Bill Fisher, has been an emergency room physician for 45 years in Texas (in addition to his career...

Apr 4, 2020 – The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort departs Naval Air Station Norfolk Pier 8, Saturday, March 28, 2020, en route to New York City where she will support the city’s response to COVID-19. (The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort departs Naval Air Station Norfolk Pier 8, Saturday, March 28,...

Apr 2, 2020 – "We are all in this together." https://t.co/1lYJlDKoWj pic.twitter.com/6rZSODFiYW — Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) April 3, 2020…

Apr 2, 2020 – As the Great Plastic Bag Ban wars of the 2010’s raged in California, freedom lovers pointed out a number of problems with forcing customers to use reusable bags/totes instead of single use plastic bags, arguing that the single use bags were actually better for the environment and public health because...

Apr 2, 2020 – two links I posted above, what California considers “progress” are job killing laws like AB5, which my colleagues Kira Davis and Jennifer … Van Laar have been covering extensively on RedState.…

Apr 1, 2020 – New York City is at the epicenter of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic in the United States, and Mayor Bill de Blasio is constantly (at this point, after he allegedly stopped going to the gym) fearmongering and saying how much help the city needs in terms of hospital beds, medical equipment,...