Enough: Citizens, businesses nationwide rising up against lockdown governors

Enough: Citizens, businesses nationwide rising up against lockdown governors

by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2020 Former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson, one of the early coronavirus lockdown contrarians, tweeted on Monday: “No other way to say this: The lockdown governors are losing their minds.” Berenson pointed to Washington state, where Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee planned to unleash an army of more than 1,300 […]

Report: LA County doesn’t test freed inmates for COVID-19

Report: LA County doesn’t test freed inmates for COVID-19

by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2020 A large number of inmates who are being released from Los Angeles County jail over concerns of the coronavirus spreading are never tested for the virus before being freed, a report said. California has released thousands of prisoners over concerns that COVID-19 will overwhelm jails and prisons. Last week, […]

Judge blocks North Carolina governor’s church shutdown order

Judge blocks North Carolina governor’s church shutdown order

by WorldTribune Staff, May 17, 2020 A federal judge on Saturday blocked Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s coronavirus lockdown order which essentially prohibited most churches from holding indoor services. Judge James C. Dever III made the ruling days after two Baptist churches, a minister and a Christian revival group filed a federal lawsuit seeking […]

Maskdemic? Police report huge increase in robberies

Maskdemic? Police report huge increase in robberies

by WorldTribune Staff, May 17, 2020 Get used to wearing a mask. Get used to getting robbed. Is this part of the new normal? Santa Ana, California police have reported a 50 percent increase in robberies since government mandated lockdown orders began. Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna lamented the new normal: “It’s the norm. […]

War on hydroxychloroquine: Texas doctor describes ‘alarming’ barriers to treating patients

War on hydroxychloroquine: Texas doctor describes ‘alarming’ barriers to treating patients

by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2020 Despite overwhelming positive results in treating coronavirus patients, a Texas doctor said the state’s pharmacy board is putting up “alarming” barriers which make it extremely difficult to prescribe hydroxychloroquine. In an interview on the Thursday broadcast of Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle”, Dr. Ivette Lozano said the board asked […]

Columnist: Coronavirus lockdowns meet constitutional limits

Columnist: Coronavirus lockdowns meet constitutional limits

by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2020 As state supreme courts step in to halt the lockdown orders of politicians who seemingly believe the U.S. Constitution can be ignored in states of emergency such as the coronavirus, Democrats will be paying a heavy price at the ballot box in November, a columnist said. “Using their respective […]

Fresno County Sheriff too busy arresting freed criminals to enforce lockdown orders

Fresno County Sheriff too busy arresting freed criminals to enforce lockdown orders

by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2020 The sheriff of Fresno County, California said she is not able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus lockdown order because her department has its “hands full” re-arresting criminals freed under the “zero-dollar bail” policy enacted by the state last month. Sheriff Margaret Mims made the revelation in an interview […]

Michigan governor: State police ‘monitoring all conversations’ of lockdown protesters

Michigan governor: State police ‘monitoring all conversations’ of lockdown protesters

by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2020 As Michigan residents planned a Thursday demonstration against what they see as her oppressive coronavirus lockdown orders, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said state police were “monitoring all of the conversations” of those who planned to attend the protest at the state capitol in Lansing. Asked by reporters on Wednesday if […]

Georgia’s virus toll drops despite doomsday predictions

Georgia’s virus toll drops despite doomsday predictions

by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2020 Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last month became one of the first in the nation to relax coronavirus stay-at-home orders and move toward reopening the state’s economy. He was immediately lambasted by the media. Patricia Murphy, a so-called political columnist and correspondent based in Atlanta, responded to Kemp’s move by […]

Growing number of sheriffs refusing to enforce governors’ coronavirus orders

Growing number of sheriffs refusing to enforce governors’ coronavirus orders

by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2020 Sheriffs nationwide are refusing to enforce coronavirus lockdown orders. Virginia: Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins said that he and other law enforcement were contacted to help enforce Gov. Ralph Northam’s closures in the area that reaches into northern Virginia’s Prince William County, which is home to many federal workers, […]