Penny Press Nevada, USA Volume 17 Number 49 AUGUST 13, 2020 THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 2 www.pennypressnv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits Far West Radio LLC All Contents © Penny Press 2020 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Press emailed to: [email protected] No unsigned or Doug French Robert Ringer Logotype unverifiable letters will be printed. Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: Ron Knecht Byron Bergeron 775-461-1515 Rich Gast Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 17 NUMBER 49 AUGUST 13, 2020 Lowering the Barr By MARILYN SINGLETON, MD, JD It appears some congresspersons crime” territory. were treated with kid gloves by Special to the Penny Press had been to a training session where Two moments sank to a new all but a few congresspersons. they were told to call Attorney low. Referring to Attorney General Perhaps to protect a large source of The excoriation of Attorney General Barr “Sir” as an expression Barr’s kind words about the recently campaign donations, denials of bias General Barr at the congressional of contempt, not respect. Chairman departed John Lewis, Rep. Cedric were allowed to go unchallenged hearing was as low as politicians Nadler advised him that “our Richmond obnoxiously declared, despite evidence to the contrary. could go on the lack of humanity members expect sincere answers “you should [sic] really should keep Concurrently, physicians trying today and our country deserves the name of the honorable John to save their patients’ lives are being Commentary no less.” However, unfriendly Lewis out of the Department of “cancelled.” YouTube removed congresspersons continually asked Justice’s mouth.” Descending into as “misinformation” videos of questions in the form of statements the realm of subhumans, Chairman the physicians who advocated for and as Attorney General Barr began Nadler refused to grant Attorney the use of hydroxychloroquine and civility scale. The Barr hearing to respond, the congresspersons General Barr a 5 minute break for early treatment of COVID-19, was more like a Roman circus than instantly interrupted him by after hours of grilling. Refusing based on their extensive personal a search for answers to important “reclaiming their time.” To his someone a (likely bathroom) as well as international treatment national issues. If this is what credit, Attorney General Barr break is a tactic straight out of successes. Hydroxychloroquine is congress calls performing their calmly responded, “but this is a enhanced interrogation techniques an FDA-approved medication with duty under the Constitution, we are hearing. I thought I was the one for dummies. a 65 year history of safety—not in for real trouble. Finger wagging, that was supposed to be heard.” The next day, during a morning glory seeds. talking over, showboating, and Accusing someone of a crime and congressional hearing on anti- With all the garbage on Twitter, developing soundbites for their then gagging him officially crosses competitive activities, the four “Big the removal of the physicians’ reelections are not a search for into Stalin’s henchman’s “show me Tech” CEOs of Amazon, Apple, video based on the justification truth. the man and I’ll show you his Facebook, and Alphabet (Google) that it did not comport with World Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Nevada RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Inside: Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 ROBERT RINGER PAGE 7 The stories of lawlessness are over- Pelosi So Full of Crap blown. DOUG FRENCH PAGE 9 Her Botox is Brown —Eric Garcetti, Mayor, MERRILL MATTHEWS PAGE 10 Los Angeles ROBERT ROMANO PAGE 11 See Editorial Page 6 CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 4 Do Those Who Savaged Barr Want People to Live In Fear of Living? Continued from page 3 Nobel Prize for this discovery. Health Organization (WHO) recommendations seems extreme. Recall Given that other prior coronaviruses, MERS (2012) and SARS (2003) that WHO also did not recommend wearing masks, the new Holy Grail still pop up, it is likely that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID- of COVID-19 prevention. And are we to believe the same crowd who 19 will be with us for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, physicians excoriated President Trump as racist for blocking travel from China at the want safe, affordable (less than $30 per full treatment), readily available end of January while they were encouraging people to frolic in crowded COVID-19 treatments for their patients. Hydroxychloroquine—not a big Chinatown in late February? Pharma moneymaker—is effective for many patients, and physicians with Let’s look at a couple of examples of accepted medical tenets that experience simply want to educate others about another weapon in the were initially dismissed. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, fight against an ugly virus. famously was ridiculed for advocating handwashing after performing The vitriol and disregard for fact-finding on the part of congresspersons autopsies before touching living patients. In less than 6 months after and the dissembling on the part of the social media giants leaves one handwashing was instituted, post-partum (childbirth) fever mortality rates wondering: Do the people who savaged Attorney General Barr and gave dropped 90 percent, from 18.3 percent to less than 2 percent. Despite the big tech a pass want people to live in fear of living life? Do they want evidence, he was vilified and eventually was admitted against his will to people to be unemployed and dependent of the government for survival? an insane asylum where he died 2 weeks after being severely beaten. Now, Do they want children to stay home from school and regress from normal failure to wash hands is unthinkable. childhood development? Do they want the country’s economic boom to More recently, in the mid-1980s Dr. Barry Marshall was convinced remain in the rear view mirror? Would they allow people to needlessly die that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria, rather than the stress, acid, in order to gain political power? and spicy foods theory. Resistance was fierce: “Everyone was against me. But I knew I was right.” Finally, he drank a Petri dish with some thousand Dr. Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist. She is Immediate million bacteria, including cultured Helicobacter pylori and shortly Past President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons developed documented stomach ulcers. Dr. Marshall received the 2005 (AAPS). THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht and James Smack Third, the essential faults perhaps more than100 million take a short cut to the end state via Communism and failures of communism also people: 65 million in China, 30 especially harsh means. characterize all government to million in Russia, and 10 million The problem for communism is and Millennials, some degree, especially democratic elsewhere. Further abuses included similar in kind to that of lesser forms socialism, progressivism and statist massive deportations, forced of coercive collectivism, even if liberalism. emigration, forced labor camps, much worse in degree. Simply put, Progressives The starry-eyed ignorance of police-state terror, and systematic each system promises ultimately to communism’s supporters then and brutal denials of human rights, deliver good results, but in order to and Liberals and now stemmed from the false liberty and justice as part of their get there it must first break a few belief that capitalism (private social engineering. eggs. This is the essential nature This originally appeared in 2017 property and free-market systems) Ultimately, it collapsed from of all government: It promises to are based upon and promote these monstrous facts and because deliver net benefits to society, but In the 100th anniversary of predatory behavior. So, they must it couldn’t provide economic in order to develop the means to communism last month, three be responsible for poverty, misery, growth and human wellbeing deliver benefits, it must first do points stood out. exploitation and war. Communism comparable at all to what private some human damage to real people. First, polls say half of America’s and other coercive collectivism, property and market systems do. Thus, public spending will millennials would rather live under in their view, are structured for Indeed, communism produced great help the needy and deserving poor socialism or communism than equality, fairness, prosperity, peace equality only by making nearly and will provide the benefits of capitalism. and tranquility. everyone poor relative to living education, transportation systems, Second, the reality of That was the premise and the standards enjoyed under capitalism. etc. But to do so, it must first tax communism was, horrifically, promise. The reality? Even though hundreds of people. Similarly, regulations will exactly the opposite of the naïve Via famines and starvation millions suffered or perished, many protect some people by diminishing view held by today’s young and by caused by forced collectivization, American young people embrace rights of others. many people around the world in plus executions, mass murder this nonsense due to their ignorance The damage from taking the last century. and war, state communism killed of history and the stupid, evil money and rights from people dogma they’ve been taught in our is always unavoidable, but the education systems. benefits from subsidies, public The falseness of communism’s goods and protection for others promises are seen in its reality as are uncertain and contingent. So, Tips Of Our it unfolded in 1917’s Bolshevik leftists, politicians and bureaucrats revolution and others. Karl Marx dwell on the promised benefits in and Friedrich Engels promised order to obscure the uncertainty Cap and “from each according to his ability that purported benefits will actually to each according to his need.” materialize and exceed the costs and But Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said damage necessitated by their plans.