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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Sal DiCiccio is a member of the city council in Phoenix, Arizona. He is speaking out about a lot of money that was to be spent on COVID-19 that seems to be going to other places. Hear what his staff says the mayor, Kate Gallego, is doing with this funding. Also, learn what tole the media is playing in this story.

Joe Biden could well be picking more than one or two Supreme Court justices if he is elected. There are, in fact, four seats that could change. ALG President Rick Manning looks at what that would mean for our laws and rights.

Are the state-led pandemic shutdowns a trial run for the Green New Deal? Consider it a warning.
http://dailytorch.com/2020/07/are-the-state-led-pandemic-shutdowns-a-trial-run-for-the-green-new-deal-consider-it-a-warning/

At the height of the state-led COVID-19 pandemic economic shutdowns in April, 25.3 million Americans had lost their jobs as businesses shuttered up and families stayed behind closed doors, waiting for the worst of the virus to pass. While working from home or being furloughed, millions of Americans stayed off the roads, driving much less and monthly fuel consumption down 47.1 percent in April, according to the Energy Information Agency. As a result oil consumption fell off a cliff, the price of oil briefly went below zero. Monthly consumption including of electricity by commercial and industrial sectors during the pandemic was way down, 12 percent and 10.4 percent in April, respectively, according to the Energy Information Agency. Airlines were largely grounded as travel from Europe and China was restricted nationally by President Donald Trump, with fuel consumption down 45 percent year to date according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. And, sure enough, daily global carbon emissions for 2020 had dropped a dramatic 17 percent by early April compared to 2019, with an overall drop of 4 to 7 percent expected for the year. That’s pretty close to the United Nations’ annual global emission reductions target of 7.6 percent. So, is this a trial run for the Green New Deal?

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Has cancel culture created a silent majority for Trump? You better believe it.
http://dailytorch.com/2020/06/has-cancel-culture-created-a-silent-majority-for-trump-you-better-believe-it/

In 2016, President Donald Trump consistently underperformed in presidential election polls versus actual voting results leading up to his historic victory against Hillary Clinton. In Florida, polls underreported Trump support by 2 percentage points, in North Carolina by 3.3 percentage points, in Ohio by 5.5 percentage points, in Pennsylvania by 3.5 percentage points and Michigan by 4.1 percentage points. Specifically, Trump garnered 49 percent of the vote in Florida, 49.8 percent of the vote in North Carolina, 51.7 percent of the vote in Ohio, 48.2 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania and 47.5 percent of the vote in Michigan. How could this be? In 2016, there was a lot of social pressure among families, friends and even professionally. If you were a Trump supporter, you could expect personal ostracization from peers and employers. You might be called a bigot. A racist. A fascist. A Nazi. You name it. And so, 2016 was a notoriously hard year to poll politically, given the fear of repercussions among Trump supporters. In 2020, the climate of social fear is arguably even worse. It’s cancel culture run amuck. What do you think?
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A Texas woman dreamed of opening a beauty salon on the border with Mexico. She has seen business go away due to COVID-19.