Attorney General Barr: Portland insurrection by Antifa on federal courthouse ‘an assault on the Government of the United States’:
dailytorch.com/2020/07/attorney-general-barr-portland-insurrection-by-antifa-on-federal-courthouse-an-assault-on-the-government-of-the-united-states/

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The 2016 Republican Convention was an epic that fired up a lot of people. This year, COVID-19 fears mean the convention is not going to be so epic. Plus a once-dominant NFL brand becomes a generic name. ALG President Rick Manning offer his two cents.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on prescription drugs. However, ALG President Rick Manning says he does not think the ideas will work out too well. Manning wants a more free market approach.

Another 930,000 leave unemployment in a week as Trump economy continues rapid recovery—but will the virus get in the way?
http://dailytorch.com/2020/07/another-930000-leave-unemployment-in-a-week-as-trump-economy-continues-rapid-recovery-but-will-the-virus-get-in-the-way/

Another net 930,000 Americans left continued unemployment claims the week of July 11, according to the latest unadjusted data from the U.S. Department of Labor as momentum continues to bring millions of Americans back into the labor force. The states with the biggest returns to the labor force were California, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 217,000, 223,000 and 141,000 leaving unemployment claims the week of July 11, respectively. Michigan and Georgia also contributed to the drop in unemployment, falling 99,000 and 97,000 respectively. Since the week ending May 9, unadjusted continuing unemployment claims have dropped from 22.8 million to 16.4 million the week ending July 11, an overall drop of 6.4 million. In the meantime, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimates about 117,000 new COVID-19 cases a day at the moment, still down 53 percent from it late March peak of 253,000 new cases a day. IHME puts daily deaths are at about 851 today, down 63 percent from its April 17 peak of 2,301. Will the temporary spike in cases after bottoming in June be enough to slow down the economy again?

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Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has been accused of re-opening Texas too soon. But a recent spike in COVID-19 in South Texas has other factors that probably lead to it. Hear from a small business owner on what he has seen.

Trump, Carson restore local control over zoning, end Obama-Biden war on suburbs—for now:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/07/trump-carson-restore-local-control-over-zoning-end-obama-biden-war-on-suburbs-for-now/

President Donald Trump and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson have finally ended the Obama-Biden era regulation Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing from 2015 that conditioned receipt of $3 billion of annual community development block grants on rezoning neighborhoods along racial and income guidelines. Now, under the new rule, called Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice, finalized on July 23, local control of zoning has been restored. It states, “It must be local governments, not HUD, that exercise control of administering local housing policies, including zoning and development policies that are unique to a particular community.” This is a victory for federalism, and restores local control over zoning — the way it should be. So for now the battle is won, but longer term, the war to abolish the suburbs will not end, especially if former Vice President Joe Biden gets elected. If he wins, he’ll bring the regulation right back. From Biden’s campaign website, “Biden will implement the Obama-Biden Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule requiring communities receiving certain federal funding to proactively examine housing patterns and identify and address policies that have a discriminatory effect.” The question the American people have to ask this year is if they want local responsibility to govern their own communities — or want to abolish local government in favor of faceless bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. to run your local town or city council’s most important decisions. How do you think they will choose?
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Debt up $3.3 trillion since beginning of the year as Sen. Rand Paul worries Phase Four will spend ‘another $1 trillion we don’t have’:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/07/debt-up-3-3-trillion-since-beginning-of-the-year-as-sen-rand-paul-worries-phase-four-will-spend-another-1-trillion-we-dont-have/

The national debt has skyrocketed by $3.3 trillion since the beginning of 2020 amid record spending by Congress in response to the China-originated COVID-19 pandemic, which forced states to shut down their economies as businesses large and small, critical industries, state and local governments and the American people were given massive financial assistance. But after three phases of legislation to address the economy-killing measures to save as many lives as possible, Congress is not through yet, with planned phase four legislation that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he is “alarmed” will spend “another $1 trillion we don’t have.” Will COVID-19 break the bank?
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Hear from an Apex, North Carolina business owner on what it’s been like since the outbreak of COVID-19. She is seeing customers return but fears taxes will go up to pay for the pandemic and profits will go down!

President Trump’s case for excluding illegal aliens from the Census is stronger than you think:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/07/president-trumps-case-for-excluding-illegal-aliens-from-the-census-is-stronger-than-you-think/

President Donald Trump has issued an executive memorandum to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to discount illegal aliens who are subject to legal removal from the U.S. Census. Here, the President is invoking the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2 of the Constitution, which states, “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed.” From the President’s memorandum: “The Constitution does not specifically define which persons must be included in the apportionment base. Although the Constitution requires the ‘persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed,’ to be enumerated in the census, that requirement has never been understood to include in the apportionment base every individual physically present within a State’s boundaries at the time of the census. Instead, the term ‘persons in each State’ has been interpreted to mean that only the ‘inhabitants’ of each State should be included.” So, who are the inhabitants of each state? The President’s memorandum says “aliens who are only temporarily in the United States, such as for business or tourism, and certain foreign diplomatic personnel are ‘persons’ who have been excluded from the apportionment base in past censuses.” Which, raises the question, if tourists — whose travel visas have certain expiration dates — can and have been excluded from the Census, then why not illegal immigrants who are subject to removal upon discovery by federal authorities?
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The Steele dossier paid for by Clinton, DNC was not Russian disinformation, it was British disinformation—from Steele:
dailytorch.com/2020/07/the-steele-dossier-paid-for-by-clinton-dnc-was-not-russian-disinformation-it-was-british-disinformation-from-steele/

The intelligence in the dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele, paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, was not from a well-placed source in the Russian government, but a paid-for employee of Steele’s firm, Orbis, who disputed the findings of the dossier when they were published on Jan. 10, 2017 by Buzzfeed. This, from the bombshell now declassified Jan. 24, 2017 interview by the FBI of the sub-source that was only undertaken two weeks after the false allegations against President Donald Trump and his campaign — that they were Russian agents who had helped Moscow hack the DNC and put its emails onto Wikileaks — became public. In it, the sub-source told the FBI that the allegations were “rumor and speculation,” that his contacts were “too far removed” from the matter to know anything substantial and that he “did not recall any discussion or mention of Wikileaks” with his contacts, contradicting Steele’s allegations of a “well-developed conspiracy” between Trump and Russia. And “he was nervous about the Russians finding out about” his efforts to corroborate Steele’s reporting, meaning they didn’t know about it. The Steele dossier was not Russian disinformation, it was British disinformation — from Steele. What do you think?

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