Paper chase

Horsing around

Troubling Trend

Feb. 15—Bill Whitfield/Evansville, Ind.

I was glad to see Emily Belz’s article on the rise of American anti-Semitism. Too many Christians refuse to speak against it despite the central role of Jews in the redemptive plan of God. The church in America needs to address this issue.

—Ginny Teague on Facebook

It’s telling that the more “progressive” New York gets, the worse this problem gets.

“I haven’t touched my face in weeks. I miss it.”

President Donald Trump on changes he’s making during the coronavirus outbreak.

Regretted

106%

The U.S. federal debt as a percentage of GDP in 2019. It is the highest percentage since the federal debt was 119 percent of GDP in 1946, when the country was beginning to demobilize from fighting World War II. Fifty years ago, in 1969, the federal debt was 35 percent of GDP, and in 1989 it was 50 percent of GDP. By 2009, the debt had reached 83 percent of GDP, and it surpassed 100 percent of GDP for the first time since 1947 in 2014. In most years, federal revenues increased as the debt was building, but not by enough to catch up with federal spending.

“They put us in a petri dish to get infected.”

Dr. Arnold Hopland, a passenger on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined for two weeks. The number of passengers and crew who caught the coronavirus on the ship has surpassed 700, about 1 in 5 people aboard, making the ship the largest known outbreak site outside of China.