PRI Review News Roundup

February 24th, Facebook blocked a post linked to Steven Mosher’s article featured in the New York Post addressing China’s role in the coronavirus epidemic. The reason? “False Information.” The fact is that every single data point used by Mosher to point to the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the source of the China Coronavirus is true. Fact: China has a bioweapons program run out of two labs, the more advanced of which is the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Fact: Chinese agents have stolen dangerous coronaviruses out of North American labs and taken them to WIV.

At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future.

philosopher Eric Voegelin has identified the powerful temptation to deny reality, an ideological tendency that has grown more prevalent in the past century. That denial was introduced by Karl Marx, who demanded that man not waste time understanding reality; “the point is,” he said, “is to change it” – more bluntly, to destroy it, in order to construct from the ruins a future world occupied by “Truly Socialist Man.”

But on his last  Sunday in office, President Trump’s administration continued to prioritize LIFE by declaring January 22, “National Sanctity of Human Life Day.”

CNN has just breathlessly announced that it has uncovered a “vast trove of leaked documents show[ing] China underreported COVID-19 numbers” and deliberately covered up the seriousness of the epidemic. The only trouble with CNN’s blockbuster is that it is almost a year old.

Is demography destiny? Eric Sammons has done a lot of digging into the numbers, and he finds that the situation of the Catholic Church “is far worse than even the most pessimistic projections.”

Archbishop Viganò and Coach Lou Holtz Defend President Trump for his trip to St. John Paul II National Shrine after recent criticism from Archbishop of D.C.

Michael Moore’s new documentary reveals green energy isn’t sustainable and depends on oil, coal, and nuclear power just to get off the ground.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam chose to observe Good Friday by signing into law a radical expansion of abortion on demand, gutting hard-won protections for unborn children and the health and safety of their mothers. The new law not only repeals key informed consent provisions, but for the first time, it permits non-physicians (such as nurse practitioners) to carry out abortions. Religious leaders called Mr. Northam’s choice of timing a “particular affront to all who profess the Gospel of life.”

It’s been ten years since the Great Recession ended. Yet, despite robust economic growth and low employment over the past two years, births in the United States have continued to plummet.