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It is unlikely that you will person- Kurt Williamsen we are in a supposed bona fide emergency, ally know someone who has succumbed and there aren’t emergency broadcasts, to the virus. However, you will undoubt- Web Editor only dictates handed down by governors. edly know someone or even many people John T. Larabell Despite the lack of emergency broad- whose lives will be harmed by govern- Foreign Correspondent casts, there is a test happening — of the ment response. Of federal politicians, Alex Newman socialist indoctrination American students only Congressman Thomas Massie of have been subjected to for generations. Kentucky has taken a strong public stand Contributors Government schools have progressively against the onslaught. Bob Adelmann • Dennis Behreandt moved toward social-justice teachings and While it is comical to see our vaunted Steve Byas • Raven Clabough away from the blessings of liberty since press corps reporting the coronavirus Selwyn Duke • Brian Farmer the 1960s, and our current dilemma with hype from their basements, the forced Christian Gomez • Larry Greenley COVID-19 is being used as a test ground shutdowns and four to 10 trillion dollars Gregory A. Hession, J.D. to see how much socialism the current in added debt will devastate the economy. Ed Hiserodt • William P. Hoar population is willing to put up with and Twenty-five percent of shuttered business- R. Cort Kirkwood • Patrick Krey, J.D. for how long. es may never reopen. Warren Mass • John F. McManus I believe that the forces of evil are try- As Joseph Pulitzer said, “Our Republic James Murphy • Dr. Duke Pesta Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ing to change the psyche of America to ob- and its press will rise or fall together.” AMES PICKARD C. Mitchell Shaw • Michael Tennant tain the socialist brass ring, the final undo- J M. S Rebecca Terrell • Fr. James Thornton ing of the Constitution. Governor Cuomo Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey Laurence M. Vance • Joe Wolverton II, J.D. has said that America will be permanently changed. Others shadow his movements. Creative Director Between the hyper-sensationalism by all Parents Beware Joseph W. Kelly media, including Fox News, to the over- Parents should beware of sending their Senior Graphic Designer the-top closing down of the economy by all kids off to a higher education if this is an Katie Bradley levels of government, the people are ille- example of it! According to a report by gitimately being driven to hysteria, and that Campus Reform, an African-American Research fear allows the changing of our country. All politics course at Syracuse University re- Bonnie M. Gillis levels of government have failed to uphold quires that students read leftist filmmaker Chief Strategy Officer liberty. Even parks and beaches have been Michael Moore’s book Stupid White Men, Bill Hahn closed. Though President Trump has insti- a dose of leftist indoctrination. tuted measured responses to the virus, he As the title suggests, the book includes Advertising/Circulation Manager has been overshadowed by Johnny-come- controversial statements about race. In Julie DuFrane lately unprepared statewide responses. one chapter, which is not-too-subtly titled A typical socialist ploy involves not “Kill Whitey,” Moore asks if all white being able to prove a negative, and we people suffer from a shared low-grade see that ploy being used now to build fear. mental illness. We’re told that we have to accept social- Moore’s book is nowhere close to an ist controls to save our lives.