Issues & Insights

What We’re Reading Today: Say No To A ‘New Normal,’ The Tyrant Of Virginia, Play Ball … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Pandemic

Post-Lockdown: Insist On The Old Normal — The American Conservative

Georgia reports lowest number of COVID patients in a month — Fox News

Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 ‘deaths of despair’ from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says — CBS News

An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Virginia — Jeff Minick, Intellectual Takeout

Cuomo Extends Lockdown In New York — New York Post

Is California Going To Open Without Newsom’s Approval? — Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute

This can’t go on. California has to figure a way out — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle

Three Pieces Of Good News On Coronavirus — HotAir

The Real Center of the Pandemic: Saving nursing homes from Covid-19 — Chris Pope, City Journal

The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them — Erin Bromage, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Play Ball?

NHL return-to-play plans have been narrowed to two scenarios, source says — Newsday

NCAA president: Unlikely college football teams will start at same time — Associated Press

MLB plan for 2020 season to include approximately 80 games and expanded playoffs, report says — CBS Sports

NBA ‘bubble’ concept: How it would work and the questions that still remain — Deseret News

Satire

‘Those Dumb Red-Staters Going To The Beach Deserve To Die,’ Man Tweets From New York Subway Train — Babylon Bee

Weekend Indistinguishable From Weekday At This Point — The Avocado

Quiet City Streets Allow Neighborhood Residents To Hear Couples’ Blow-Out Fights — The Onion

Deep State honors essential crisis actors with chemtrail flyovers — Duffel Blog

Misc

No Surprise: Tesla May Move Out of California — Joseph Vranich, Fox & Hounds

John Podesta Told Lawmakers Payment for Steele dossier Was Split 50-50 Between DNC and Campaign — RedState

Twitter adds ‘manipulated media’ label to Jimmy Kimmel’s video of Mike Pence — Fox Business

Our Garbage Media — Steven Hayward, PowerLine

Support Independent Journalism

Issues & Insights was founded by seasoned journalists from the IBD Editorials page. Our mission is to provide timely, fact-based reporting and deeply informed analysis on the news of the day -- without fear or favor.

We’re doing this on a voluntary basis because we believe in a free press and because we aren't afraid to tell the truth, even if it means being targeted by the left.

We are 100% reader supported!!

If you like what you see, please feel free to donate.

And be sure to tell your friends!

I & I Editorial Board

The Issues and Insights Editorial Board has decades of experience in journalism, commentary and public policy.

Our Declaration of Independence From Big Tech

Support Independent Journalism

We are now 100% reader supported!!

If you like what you see, please feel free to donate.

And be sure to tell your friends!

About Issues & Insights

Issues & Insights is run by seasoned journalists who were behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning IBD Editorials page (before it was summarily shut down). Our goal then and now is to bring our decades of combined journalism experience to help readers understand the top issues of the day. I&I is a completely independent operation, beholden to none, but committed to providing cogent, rational, data-driven, fact-based commentary that the nation so desperately needs. 

Follow us on

Discover more from Issues & Insights

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading