What is the plan to safely reopen schools if the vaccine doesn’t work?
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/what-is-the-plan-to-safely-reopen-schools-if-the-vaccine-doesnt-work/

If the coronavirus vaccine doesn’t work, what is the plan to educate the 56.6 million children in elementary, middle and high schools? After all, there has never been an effective vaccine against coronavirus. This month, normally, those children would be returning to school. Instead, many of them have not been there since March. And now millions of other parents have no idea when many of those schools will ever reopen. Most states are deciding to leave it up to individual districts to decide whether it is safe to reopen. In a district by district sample compiled by Education Week in 382 districts covering 13 million students enrolled: 107 districts covering 2 million students were fully reopen, 64 districts covering 2.1 million were using a hybrid or partially reopen model and 175 districts covering 8 million students were closed and only using distance learning. In that sample, 61 percent of students are using remote learning. If representative of the nation, the net effect is that most students are not returning to school in the U.S.—at least not yet. Presumably, everyone’s waiting for the vaccine. Federal officials have suggested we’ll have something by the end of the year. Yet nobody wants to ask the question, because it’s uncomfortable: What if the vaccine doesn’t work? President Donald Trump wants to condition federal funds for safely reopening with protective equipment on schools actually reopening, while Joe Biden would give the money with no strings attached. What do you think should be done to safely reopen schools?
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1.56 million Americans come off unemployment continued claims in two weeks as rapid recovery Trump predicted continues:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/1-56-million-americans-come-off-unemployment-continued-claims-in-two-weeks-as-rapid-recovery-trump-predicted-continues/

A combined, unadjusted 1.56 million Americans came off of unemployment continued insurance claims the weeks of August 1 and August 8, according to the latest data by the Department of Labor as the U.S. economy continues a rapid recovery almost nobody but President Donald Trump was predicting. Since the week ending May 9, unadjusted continuing unemployment claims have dropped from 22.8 million to now 14.26 million, a decrease of 8.5 million. The biggest state gains the week of August 8 were in California, with more than 118,000 coming off of continued claims, 114,000 in Michigan, 103,000 in Nevada, 96,000 in Texas and almost 81,000 in Florida. Overall, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey, a record 10.1 million jobs have been added back to the economy in just three months after labor markets bottomed in April. Almost nobody but President Donald Trump predicted this could happen. Turns out, President Trump was exactly right. And as millions more Americans return to work, he will have a strong case to make this fall politically that his leadership was instrumental in making this rapid recovery possible. How about that?
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A former police officer offers her opinion on the major convention speech by Democratic nominee Joe Biden. She says it brings up a lot of absurd ideas. We must also note that Biden gave us all a new, memorable gaffe.

If Joe Biden wins, get ready for President Kamala Harris—and the Green New Deal, defund the police and worse:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/if-joe-biden-wins-get-ready-for-president-kamala-harris-and-the-green-new-deal-defund-the-police-and-worse/

Should Joe Biden win the election in November against President Donald Trump, and something happens to him, then Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will become the President of the United States. Usually, running mates are something of an afterthought for many voters, an assurance that if something happens to the President, that the Vice President is reasonably qualified to take over. But in the case of Kamala Harris, there is legitimate concern that Joe Biden is in such poor health that he would not finish his first term of office. An Aug.6-Aug.9 poll by Rasmussen Reports found that a whopping 59 percent of likely voters believe that Biden is unlikely to finish a four-year term in office. That includes 73 percent of Republicans, 49 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of unaffiliated voters. At 77 years old (he turns 78 on Nov. 20), Biden would be the oldest person ever elected to be President — and clearly voters have noticed. Which means we have to give Kamala Harris heightened consideration as his running mate. That includes Harris locking arms with U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in support of legislation to implement the Green New Deal, ban petroleum, coal and natural gas in an utterly insane bid to get to zero net carbon emissions by 2030. Then there is Harris’ push for Medicare for All she pushed in her own bid for the Democratic nomination. Biden for his part says he supports “a public health insurance option like Medicare.” It’s all socialized medicine to the American people. And finally, the American people should know that Harris supported cutting $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) budget and taking the police force below 10,000 for the first time in more than a decade. What would America look like in ten years if Kamala Harris became President? A Soviet-style ten-year plan. A “green” economy dead in the water that cannot create jobs to sustain the American people. Top-heavy socialized medicine. And local communities in flames because police were not allowed to do their jobs. Kamala Harris is a radical. And if Joe Biden wins in November, she just might become President. What do you think?

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Does Joe Biden think he can win the election from his basement? DNC ratings disappoint as Democratic voters appear disengaged.
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/does-joe-biden-think-he-can-win-the-election-from-his-basement-dnc-ratings-disappoint-as-democratic-voters-appear-disengaged/

The first-night Democratic National Convention ratings were down almost 28 percent from their levels in 2016 in what can only be called a massive disappointment for former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in their bid to oust the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The ratings for CBS, NBC and ABC were down a combined 42 percent to 6.7 million from the 11.6 million who watched four years ago, according to the Hollywood Reporter. On cable news channels MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, the numbers were similarly down 16 percent to about 11.98 million viewers from the 14 million viewers of four years ago. That’s a combined 18.7 million this year, compared to 25.7 million four years ago. In a June 21-July 16 YouGov survey, 68 percent of supporters of President Trump said they were enthusiastic about voting for him, compared to just 40 percent of Biden supporters who say the same thing. Now that could be beginning to manifest itself in terms of raw numbers, and it raises a question for Democrats and Biden — who continues to run his campaign virtually from his home in Wilmington, Del.: Does Biden think he can win the election from his basement?
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Luke Donat served his country in the 1990s and 2000s. He is proud of what he served. His ideas counter what the Democrats are saying in a convention that looks more like an internet awards show. Hear what he is saying about the current administration.

Pelosi’s claim that Trump’s 2018 Postal Service reforms were intended to ‘sabotage the election’ in 2020 amid Covid is a conspiracy theory:
dailytorch.com/2020/08/pelosis-claim-that-trumps-2018-postal-service-reforms-were-intended-to-sabotage-the-election-in-2020-amid-covid-is-a-conspiracy-theory/

To hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tell it, President Donald Trump’s efforts to reform the Postal Service — which began with an April 2018 executive order appointing a task force to bring USPS into solvency almost two years before there was any COVID-19 pandemic — were intended to undermine increased requests for mail-in and absentee ballots in 2020 in response to the pandemic. In an Aug. 16 dear colleague letter, Pelosi alleged, “Alarmingly, across the nation, we see the devastating effects of the President’s campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters… [with] sweeping new operational changes that degrade postal service, delay the mail, and… threaten to deny the ability of eligible Americans to cast their votes through the mail in the upcoming elections in a timely fashion.” It’s a conspiracy theory. For it to be true, Trump and the Postal Service had to know in 2018 there would be a global pandemic in 2020 and that states would extend deadlines associated with mail-in and absentee ballots which would preclude timely delivery by the Postal Service. In reality the Postal Service is warning states that voters should request ballots at least 15 days before Election Day, or Oct.19, that election officials should use first-class mail and not third-class mail to send blank ballots and allow one week for delivery to voters, and that voters should mail in their ballots no later than Oct. 27, a week before the election on Nov. 3, in order to be counted in time. And that it first class mail takes 2-5 days to deliver and receives higher priority than third-class or marketing mail, which can take 3-10 days to deliver. The truth is, Pelosi wants $25 billion for the Postal Service including $3.3 billion for mail-in voting and she’s holding up President Trump’s request for more relief for small business forgivable loans and checks to the American people, who have been hard hit by the pandemic and its economic fallout. What do you make of Pelosi’s postal hysteria?
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ALG President Rick Manning explains a controversial new ad campaign on cable TV where his group says the president’s executive orders on healthcare lead to socialized medicine. Manning also explains there is a market-based alternative path to take.

U.S. intelligence agencies need to stop interfering in presidential elections:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/u-s-intelligence-agencies-need-to-stop-interfering-in-presidential-elections/

On Aug. 7, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) issued an assessment stating, “We assess that China prefers that President Trump — whom Beijing sees as unpredictable — does not win reelection.” The assessment was reminiscent of the Jan. 2017 assessment issued by DNI prior to President Trump’s inauguration finding Russia had sought to help him defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We assess Putin, his advisers, and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump over Secretary Clinton.” The 2017 statement for DNI was designed to knee-cap President Trump on his way into office, and to legitimize the FBI’s ongoing counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign and then the White House on false allegations that Trump and his campaign were Russian agents. It was a pretext to take down President Trump. At a time when the American people are already losing confidence in our nation’s security institutions, presidential administrations issuing more assessments about foreign adversaries preferring the incumbent party’s opponents does two things: 1) it politicizes intelligence agencies; and 2) it delegitimizes other intelligence gathering designed to avert real and present threats to national security. Given, then, the history involved with DNI’s prior assessment, the intelligence community should recognize that issuing an ill-advised statement that China wants President Trump to lose in November might similarly affect the presidential race — and stop interfering in presidential politics and elections. What do you think?
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ALG President Rick Manning explains his decision to do a cable TV ad campaign against the president’s proposal to tie Medicare prescription drug prices to a those dictated by foreign socialist governments. Hear why he says it is a step toward socialized medicine.