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Trump’s other coronavirus complication: His credibility gap

Third Republican Senator tests positive for coronavirus in two days

Ron Johnson the third senator to test positive for coronavirus

Wallace: ‘Lesson’ of Trump getting the coronavirus ‘is wear the damn mask’

Trump sets off multi-state Covid tracing crisis

Trump donors from around the country attended fundraiser before positive test

Court strikes down Michigan governor’s emergency powers

NBA ratings crash by 45%, lowest viewership since 1994

Trump plans to appoint conservative activist Tom Fenton to Court Oversight Agency

Trump isn’t the first president to contract a virus during a pandemic, so did Woodrow Wilson in 1918

ISIS affiliate working to establish presence in India

John Hickenlooper praises China as ‘great nation’

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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Trump exults in rocket launch as chaos unfolds around the country

SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts in space for the first time in historic US mission

As Minneapolis burns, mayor takes heat for response ...

Report: Majority of arrested Minneapolis rioters have Minnesota addresses

European trade chief mulls bid for WTO top job

Coronavirus updates: EU asks U.S. to reconsider WHO exit as India extends lockdown in ‘containment zones’

Cities brace for increasing unrest ... Spiraling out of control ...

Bill Barr: Violence appears planned by far-left groups

De Blasio, Cuomo target June 8 for first phase of New York City reopening

University of Michigan is taking steps to bring students back on campus this fall

Security officers gunned down in Oakland ...

Bernie Kerik: FBI must investigate funding of ANTIFA terrorism

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New York City could begin easing coronavirus restrictions in June

Coronavirus live updates: Mnuchin backs Tesla in push to restart production, UK details plans to reopen

Trump accuses states of reopening things too slowly ...

Report: Xi Jinping asked WHO chief Tedros to delay pandemic warning

Ex-Stone prosecutor condemns DOJ interference in Flynn case

WHO warns that coronavirus cases have jumped in countries that eased lockdowns

Outbreak White House ... Race to contain....

Report: Apple plans to move some iPhone production from China to India

Kamala emerges as early Biden VP candidate as sting of debate attack fades

Detroit’s automakers have enough cash on hand to last the year without a bailout after learning the hard way

U.S. deaths: 79,825

Germany’s Das Bild newspaper  says ‘lockdown was a huge mistake’

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Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plea for aid

Bill Gates calls coronavirus a ‘nightmare scenerio,’ but predicts lower death toll than Trump

USA records 1,497 deaths in 24 hours ...

Larry David says Bernie Sanders should drop out

Surgeon General warns this week ‘Is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment’

Coronavirus live updates: Bullard says economy’s not in ‘free fall,’

NYC subway cars remain packed ...

Trump thinking of second coronavirus task force on reopening country

Biden: ‘I will wear a mask in public’

New Yorkers salute front-line workers

Barr orders release of more federal inmates ...

Indian official: Mosque urged mob to manhandle health workers

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Hillary Clinton mocks Trump’s science cred[ability]

Coronavirus live updates: Italy deaths jump by 743 in  a day, global cases top 400,000

Entire India lockdown ...

24 million Chinese cellphone users disappear in three months of epidemic

Andrew Cuomo to Trump administration: ‘You pick the 26k people who are going to die’

House panel says remote voting during coronavirus outbreak creates challenges

Flood of unemployment claims sparks delayed checks ...

Poll: Majority of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of coronovirus

Health care workers might get coronavirus shots this fall, vaccine company CEO says

Trump wants to ‘reopen’ economy by Easter, despite the deadly threat of coronavirus

Virus lingers on surface for 17 days ...

Fed promises unlimited QE, corporate, and muni bond buying

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Sanders sends Democrat establishment into panic mode

Coronavirus live update: WHO calls Iran and Italy ‘deeply concerning,’ Goldman cuts GDP forecast

Harvey guilt of sex crimes ... Straight to jail ... Faces 5 to 29 years ...

Jussie Smollett to be indicted on 6 new charges

Harvey Weinstein found guilty in landmark #MeToo moment

Coronavirus could push mortgage rates past 4-year low

Will Obamas move to stop Bernie? Buffet boosts Bloomberg ...

Poll: Sanders, Bloomberg leapfrog Biden in New York

Global markets fall sharply as virus cases spread past Asia

Bloomberg’s $400 million bet looks headed for a Super Tuesday flop

Trump speaks to 110,000 at raucous India rally ...

Judge Judy vows to ‘fight to the death’ against Bernie Sanders

Demographics

“Demographics are the future.” Someone once said this basic truism which one would be wise to study and use as the basis for understanding our changing destiny.

China has roughly three times the population of the United States and the United States has roughly three times the population of Russia. This comparison , by itself, explains much of the jockeying in international relations. Now, fast forward to the year 2100 ... and China will have only twice the population of the U.S. and India will have many more people than China. Is this why the Orangeman is now in New Delhi?

Anyway, demographics are a fascinating study .... and, if I have peaked you’re interest, I have found a fascinating website that is chock full of compelling  demographics ... by gender ... by age ...by country ... and, by one and five year increments, 80 years into the future ... see  Population Pyramid.

If you can’t spend an afternoon running barefoot through these numbers ... and thinking about the implications ... you have no curiosity.

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Biden claims comeback despite distant second finish to Sanders

Sanders wins Nevada caucuses, takes National Democratic lead

Undocumented immigrants helped him [Sanders] win [in Nevada] ...

Bernie Sanders says U.S. is worse than Communist China in jailing people

Trump loves a big crowd, he’ll get one of his biggest in India.

Economic impact of coronavirus will be clearer in ‘three or four weeks, ‘ Mnuchin says

It’s the Socialist Democrats now ... Trump congratulates ‘crazy Bernie’

Three migrants from Yemen apprehended in human smuggling in CA

Erdogan says he will meet Putin, Merkel and Macron to discuss Syria

Coronavirus Live updates: South Korea alert level on max, Italy and Iran cases spie

Can’t [Eastwood] for Mike [Bloomberg] ...

[Susan] Rice: Acting DNI Grenell a ‘hack and a shill’

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Bernie crashes the gates, Buttigieg cuts the line

Trump’s India trip could help seal administration’s next trade deal

Blankfen rips Bernie, Wii ruin economy, doesn’t care about military ...

Trump: Up to the military to decide to discipline Vindman

Deval Patrick ends long shot presidential bid

Coronavirus update: CDC prepares for outbreak in US, Boeing sees hit to airlines

1 in 3 American workers run out of money before payday ...

Trump smashes incumbent president primary record in New Hampshire

Cuomo to offer Trump compromise on expedited border crossings

Oil jumps more than 3% at high as Street eyes deeper production cuts, new coronavirus cases slow

Big Tech gets bigger: Trump heaps praise on trillion dollar club ...

Chinese cities seize personal property to control spread of coronavirus

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Senate passes massive year budget deal

Trump’ latest broadside on China raises fear that the trade war is the ‘new status quo’

ALARM: Biden repeatedly stumbles over words and stats ... Makes at least 7 gaffs ...

Andrew Yang admits climate fanatics can’t stop China, India

Pentagon puts $10B contract on hold after Trump  swipe at Amazon

Retail stocks tank after industry set to take a ‘direct hit’ from new China tariffs

Rep. Cummings’ Baltimore home burglarized ...

Marianne Williamson dominates Google search in 49 states after debate

Night 2 of Detroit Dem debate drew 10.7 million viewers, well below June ratings

Trump says US will impose 10% tariffs on another $300 billion of Chinese goods as talks continue

Michael Moore: To crush Trump,  Michelle O needs to run ...

NATO ally Germany won’t back U.S. in Gulf to avoid war with Iran

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Kamala Harris proposes $100 billion plan for black homeownership

El-Erian: The market ‘has gotten carried away’ with its Fed rate cut predictions

7.1 mag [quake] rocks CA 125 miles N of LA

Judges reconvict Tommy Robinson for contempt of court

Biden predicts ‘there will be no NATO’ if Trump wins re-election

Fed’s seek $12.6 billion in drug money from ‘El Chapo’

MAGA on Mall ... Future belongs to the brave ...

Biden: We shouldn’t decriminalize entering the U.S. illegally

US adds 224,000 solid jobs, Fed rate cut may be less certain

Beto O’Rourke pushes student loan forgiveness for public school teachers

Explosion reported at University of Nevada, Reno dorm ...

India: Group hacks man, pregnant wife to death over inter-caste marriage

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Biden reverses abortion funding stand

If you want to know what a US tech crackdown would look like, check out what Europe did

Top US commander: Iran ‘threat imminent’ ...

House Democrats angling to give themselves a pay raise

White House pledges to barrel ahead with Mexico tariffs

India has to create more jobs. Modi may need some help from state governments

1,072,000 illegals [so far] this year ...

Ilhan Omar hit with campaign finance violations

DOJ, Commerce reject Dem subpoenas for census docs

China wants to pressure the US economy, but the finance sector is probably safe from Beijing

Venezuela now top source of asylum claims ...

Ted Cruz: Tariffs are ‘the wrong solution to the crisis’

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Labor anger over Green New Deal greets 2020 contenders in California

China releases critical document that blames America for the trade war

Amazon primed for antitrust

James Comey accuses AG Barr of ‘echoing conspiracy theories’

Trump’s tariff war leaves allies fretting about the economy

Mexican President hints at migration concessions to avoid Trump tariffs

India heatwave temperatures pass 123 degrees!

Warren: ‘America that elected’ Trump has ‘serious peoblems’

Trump backs Johnson, takes pop at Macron ahead of European trip

Beijing targets Fedex for ‘damaging rights of Chinese clients amid Huawei dispute

Mayor of Londonstan calls Trump ‘fascist’ ...

Bernie: Slash military spending and move ‘toward global community’

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Trump lashes out at former White House counsel Don McGahn

Trump tells China to ‘act now’ on trade or face a ‘far worse’ deal in his second term

Leaked letters reveal details of NRA’ chief’s alleged spending ...

North Carolina blowback intensifies on Richard Burr’s rogue subpoena

HUD immigrant plan could displace 55Kchildren

It’s ‘crazy talk’ to say that the US isn’t tough on Russia: Mike Pompeo

Amazon size becoming problem — for Amazon ...

Kirk: Trump’s greatest power is his reluctance to use power

Bernie Sanders: Biden’s reported climate plan ‘will doom future generations’

Drug makers allegedly inflated prices over1,000% and 44 states are now suing

India orders antitrust probe of Google ...

Farage’s Brexit party pulls ahead of Torres in general election poll

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Enormous Jadayupara eagle statue in India ...

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Pelosi aide sought to undercut Medicare for All

Bitcoin rallies 15% to highest level since Noverber

Whistleblower: Trump team overruled 25 security clearance denials ...

Hofstra students demand removal of Thomas Jefferson statue

Harris raised $12 million in 1st quarter of campaign

Manhattan real estate sales fall for sixth straight quarter — longest losing streak for 30 years

NASA says debris from India’s antisatellite test puts Space Station at risk ...

Kirk: Joe Biden is being eaten by his own monster ...

Senate fails to advance disaster aid package amid Puerto Rico clash

Venezuela’s top court seeks to strip Guaido’s immunity — raising fears of arrest

Polls: Black voters like Bernie just fine ...

Trump may appoint an Immigration Czar

White Nationalism (Updated)

I am a regular watcher of Smerconish on the CNN Saturday morning lineup. Because of the New Zealand mosque attacks, his survey question this AM was, ‘Does white nationalism pose a threat to liberal democracy?” The results were ... from 11,314 respondents 84% YES and 15% NO. This obviously is a self-selecting sample, so the results are biased. But the question itself does reveal something about the questioner ... namely: Are liberal democracies only run by whites?

Are there not liberal democracies run by those of other races? What about India? What about Chili? What about Ghana? What about Japan? What about Costa Rica? What about Israel.? What about South Africa? What about South Korea? What about Indonesia?

And do any of these countries have nationalistic tendencies?

Clearly nationalism of the non-white variety threaten the liberal democracies in some of these countries. And there is at least one white country which is not a liberal democracy ... namely Russia. So why would Smerconish limit his question to just white democracies?

Answer: “This is CNN!”

Afterthought: It is interesting that the New Zealand shooter most closely identifies not with Donald Trump ... but with Red China. Perhaps this is because how China puts Muslims in “re-education” camps ... and Trump doesn’t.