We often ascribe a basic level of humanity to even the cruelest leaders, but People’s Republic of China leader Xi Jinping’s actions have forced us to rethink this assumption.

Although the emergence of the novel coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 was possibly not due to China’s actions, the emphasis that its authoritarian system places on hiding bad news  gave the disease a sizable head start infecting the world.

Most ominously, China’s obsession with image and Machtpolitik raises serious questions about its lack of moral limits.  It may be there are none.

A hostile foreign power openly meddles in U.S. electoral politics, working to cast discord generally and specifically to smear one of the two remaining candidates for our highest office.

If Democrats were consistent about the paranoia they fomented over the laughably small efforts of Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election, they would now demand immediate action to counter this nefarious foreign threat.

Only, this time, the adversary is China, and the declared target of their open election interference is the incumbent President Donald J. Trump – with China’s declared favorite Joe “Beijing” Biden.”

Every day you’re hearing an updated tally of the number of Americans who’ve “died” of COVID-19.  Supposedly, as of late this afternoon (4/15), we have 637,196 cases in the US and 27,866 deaths, for a mortality of 4.37%.

But if you want to understand a Chinese virus, you better start listening to a Chinese philosopher: As Confucius said, “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.”

And, it’s time everyone wised up about those daily COVID-19 fatality reports. They don’t represent the number of people it's killed. They represent the number of death certificates listing it as a cause. And those two things are most definitely NOT the same.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” ― Abraham Lincoln

The American Democrat party has moved so far left that it can truthfully be called Marxist… and Marxism is totalitarianism.  As Thomas Sowell observed long ago, “…totalitarianism recognizes no moral limits on the state.  It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants....”

As state governors like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan are discovering, citizens in her state (both chambers of the state legislature are Republican) will not accept being told what they can buy, where they can go, and if they can or cannot drive to their cabins on the lakeshore.

On the federal level, emergency measures—no matter how necessary—always pose a danger to freedom. A state’s exercise of its police power in a time of crisis can be very frightening, too. I find our current lockdowns particularly chilling.

They effectuate a sweeping deprivation of civil liberties and, in my opinion, many of the current lockdowns far exceed the uncontroverted evidence necessary to justify them.

That’s why we need a widespread  -- and loud – public outcry against them.  This is happening in Ohio and Michigan and it needs to happen wherever lockdowns are draconian.

As we move cautiously to the post-CCP virus phase, many are necessarily considering how to do so. Most obviously, how to revive the economy without jeopardizing our people or, worse, rekindling the pandemic.

Of almost equal importance is how to deal with the country that instigated the worldwide epidemic in the first place - Communist China—how to impress upon it that next time it has a viral outbreak, the regime must be honest, indeed, totally transparent about what occurred, even if that means revealing information that is embarrassing to the regime.

One way to do so: the United States should abandon the one-China policy that has been in place for decades and recognize Taiwan [aka the Republic of China – but as the Republic of Taiwan would be much better --JW).

The American mainstream media are the most dangerous enemy of America.

There can no longer be any doubt about that fact.  For nearly four years, they have worked hand in hand with the Democrat party to do whatever harm they can to this country if it will take Trump down and out.

The Left has trouble learning from its mistakes.  From moment one, every calculated smear Leftists threw at the president made him more popular, not less.  They time-released all the dirt they thought they had on him for maximum damage — the Billy Bush tape, emoluments, Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, Michael Cohen, Russia collusion, Ukraine.

And now the Chicom flu.

The Chinese Communist Party coronavirus – the CCP virus for short – is  a tragedy, especially for those directly affected, but statistically speaking, it’s a drop in the proverbial bucket. Our response, on the other hand, has been over the top.

The United States and many other countries have shut down huge parts of their economies, billions of people have been quarantined against their will, police states are running rampant, and businesses have been shuttered, all while government prints trillions to attempt to “relieve” the dire economic situation.

While Leftists seem thrilled about the coming Great Depression and the rampant police states full of governors and public officials living out their tin-pot dictator fantasies and seem perfectly happy being confined to their mom’s basements, many conservatives are now questioning the necessity of the current state of affairs.