Retailers gear up for limits on crowds

“Truth or Consequences” was a popular quiz show that ran on radio and TV for 48 years. The reality show that President Trump is hosting daily from the White House — disguised as a press briefing — might well be called “Truth Has Consequences.”

“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s” provides the biblical underpinning of federalism, the idea that diffusion of power is superior to concentration of power. Our Founding Fathers were primary advocates of this system of government in reaction to the centralization of power in London, a centralization they regarded as contributing to tyranny. Today, federalism is contributing to a pandemic.

As the threat of a worldwide Ebola epidemic loomed in 2014, the Obama administration formed an office within the White House to track threats of a pandemic and help our nation prepare for a pandemic if one did occur.

Note: The following op-ed from U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy of Greenville was published in the Washington Examiner on Friday.

Want to see the damage done by the Democrats’ week-long delay in passing the emergency relief bill? Consider the bill’s most important employment provision, the Paycheck Protection Program — a $350 billion fund to provide small businesses with “forgivable loans” so they can keep the lights on during the lockdown and avoid laying off their workers.

The polls show Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race. Looking at the last 10 surveys in the RealClearPolitics average of polls matching Trump vs. Biden, Biden is leading in every one of them — by anywhere from 3 to 10 points. Biden’s average lead, in those 10 polls, is 5.5 points.