If the NFL Has a Season… It is with indescribable joy that I am beginning this hump-day edition of the Morning Brief writing about something other than COVID-19, which, by the way, I spent part of Tuesday thinking I had. One trip out in public and I was imagining all kinds of things. I’ve been

“We don’t have any…!” Fill in the blank. People are stocking up on things, fearing that we will be stuck in our homes, under quarantine, without essential supplies. Some hoard toilet paper. A popular internet video features someone driving up to what appears to be a drug dealer but is really someone selling toilet paper.

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that “civilization as we know it” is at risk in the 2020 election. She is right, but the threat to western civilization comes from her own side, not from President Donald Trump. “My view is that civilization as we know it is at stake,” Pelosi said. “It’s about

Oh, That’s the Real World Are we all in this virtual quarantine bunker forever? No. Are we all in it for a while? Most definitely yes. We are now in Week Two of the New Reality and I think America is, for the most part, reacting well. I know that may seem a little off given what

As of this writing, 6,400 people all over the world have died from the coronavirus. In the United States, 68 people have died. Some perspective: Chinese deaths (3,217) account for half of the worldwide total. If you add Italy (1,441) and Iran (724), two countries where many Chinese were allowed in until recently, that totals

Earth Will Be Closed Until Further Notice It seems like just a few days ago that I was writing about the world’s coronavirus shutdown madness. Oh wait, it was. The weekend made Thursday and Friday look like calm, measured response days by comparison. We here at PJ Media are lucky, we are all still working

Sky Masterson’s Law says: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” Occam’s razor says that given multiple hypotheses, the simplest one is preferable. Occam’s razor is like Sky Masterson’s law: it doesn’t say the simplest explanation is always better, it just says

In 2016, I was in the greenroom for a Fox News segment, where I met a charismatic actor named Antonio Sabato Jr. I had never heard of him. Born in Italy, he became, he told me, a “proud American citizen.” He called himself a “Christian conservative” and said that he recently came out in favor

If the Democrat Party and its complicit media arms think the coronavirus is their latest best bet to contribute to President Trump’s downfall, to paraphrase Judas Priest, they’ve got another thing coming. First it was the doddering Mueller, hemming, hawing, and stammering through a hearing that irretrievably collapsed the collusion hoax. Then we had the

The regime in Tehran is in lots of trouble these days. As U.S. sanctions tighten, at least a quarter of Iran’s oil rigs are now out of action, “dealing a potentially long-term blow to its oil industry.” The coronavirus “has now spread to every province in the country and people are fearful that the true

I confess I was initially appalled by the name “Twitter” and vowed never to subscribe to a medium that called itself something so ridiculous. Nor could I understand how any self-respecting person would agree to “tweet” like a canary bird, originally in 140 — now in 280 — reductive characters, sometimes culminating in a catena

A trip to the emergency room is a scary, harrowing experience. But for too many Americans, even worse pain and suffering begin after the trip to the hospital is over and the healing has begun – when surprise medical bills come in the mail. Surprise medical bills are charges slapped on insured patients when they

Democrats aren’t just politicizing the coronavirus to blame Trump — they’re using it to push their pet projects. Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR) said, “When I talk about health care being a human right … the coronavirus crisis makes that abundantly clear as to why it should be.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said of the outbreak,

I Hate You, Coronavirus The coronavirus finally broke me a little bit on Thursday. I am forever grateful that I have you, my dear readers, to talk me off of the ledge from all of this madness. A few days ago I wrote that I might just turn this into a beer blog if the

The left’s reaction to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s rude exchange with a union worker in Michigan is a case study on liberal hypocrisy and propaganda. You’d have to be living in a cave not to recognize that something is way off with Biden. He’s always been strange, but he’s getting noticeably worse. His rhetorical

Let’s Make This Happen Super Tuesday Part II obviously didn’t go well for Bernie Sanders, who just a few weeks ago looked like a bit of a juggernaut. It was the second week in a row that Grandpa Stalin got his clock cleaned by Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep, making it clear that the Democrats

The NBA took an unprecedented step on Wednesday night of suspending its season after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for coronavirus. Prior to the start of the Utah Jazz-Oklahoma City Thunder game at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, players and officials abruptly walked off the court, leaving stunned fans to wonder what was

Ladies and Gentlemen, We Regret to Inform You… The news has become so one-note the past couple of days that I am tempted to spend a day just drinking and writing about beer. The slightest bit of encouragement from you, dear Morning Briefing readers, could flip this to a beer blog in a heartbeat. Actually,

On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR) said he still didn’t regret praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, even though his remarks may have galvanized Democrats to unite behind Joe Biden in an effort to prevent a Sanders nomination. Bernie has continued to insist that the Soviet-aligned dictator notorious for using firing squads to silence dissent nevertheless

Arrogant Sen. Chuck Schumer crossed the line in threatening United States Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. His words were shocking, even for him. I don’t usually get too exercised about political rhetoric, realizing that impassioned politicians regularly engage in hyperbole. But Schumer’s remarks were inexcusable by any standard. At an abortion rights

Enough With the Nonsense Already Elizabeth Warren’s exit from the 2020 Democratic clown car was seemingly only moments old before a torrent of hot takes about her failure began lighting up the internet. This was to be expected, of course, as the rules of identity politics clearly state that any Democrat who properly fills any

Everyone is, of course, concerned with what the mortality rate for COVID-19 is. You could, in fact, call it a life-or-death concern, and it’s become a big news story again today (as with this USA Today story). So, which is correct? The WHO value of 3.4 percent for COVID-19 mortality, or Trump’s “hunch”? Honestly, both.

On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Lost Her Own State) finally threw in the towel on her horrendous presidential campaign. Contrary to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s suggestions, Warren’s loss had nothing to do with misogyny in the Democratic Party — although it is deliciously ironic to hear Pelosi say such a thing. No, the Massachusetts senator

LANGUAGE WARNING  We did our first show together in April of 1988 and have been best friends ever since. We have been all over the world together entertaining U.S. troops. I love this woman with all my heart and I hope that you enjoy listening to this nearly as much as I enjoyed recording it.

GREETINGS FROM QUARANTINE  Things certainly got interesting on Saturday afternoon for those of us who had attended CPAC the week before. My phone started blowing up a little after 3 PM MST with the news that we’d had a coronavirus Patient Zero at the conference. During that frenzy of texts and calls that followed for

PITTSBURGH — Five years ago, the sad goodbye to an icon began when Macy’s decided to close its flagship location in downtown Pittsburgh. The void, alas, still remains. For most of that building’s storied 110-plus-year-old life, until Macy’s took it 15 years ago, it was Kaufmann’s department store: a place where parents, whether they were

Bear With Me Here… Perhaps this idea has been floated out there by someone else already, but I haven’t seen it. This will come as no surprise to most of you, but I don’t read a lot of other writers’ stuff. Yes, I’m arrogant. I’m also fun, which is why we are all here every

Is the sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women an Islamic State idea or merely an Islamic idea? First, lest there is any doubt that ISIS members were not only convinced that it was their Islamic right to sexually enslave “infidels,” but that doing so was pious, consider this account from 2015: “In the moments before he