Trump, Barr set sights on Big Tech over antitrust concerns:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/trump-barr-set-sights-on-big-tech-over-antitrust-concerns/

The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department is setting its sights on big tech firms like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon in announcing a review of potentially anticompetitive activities that could be limiting consumer choices. The push comes on the heels of the White House Social Media Summit where President Donald Trump citied censorship on social media as a major concern of his administration. To follow up the summit, Trump promised that there would be a meeting with “representatives of the major social media platforms” to have “a real conversation”about the issue. Now, given the Antitrust Division’s statement that “If violations of law are identified, the Department will proceed appropriately to seek redress,” those meetings may have become a whole lot more interesting. Perhaps a deal can be struck that avoids a confrontation. What do you think?

Judicial Crisis Network Chief Counsel Carrie Severino talks with Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning about her book, “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Nomination.”

After Mueller testimony, there will be no Trump impeachment before Nov. 2020:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/after-mueller-testimony-there-will-be-no-trump-impeachment-before-nov-2020/

After former Special Counsel’s Robert Mueller’s testimony: If there was no Trump-Russia conspiracy, what was the basis, the conspiracy theory the Justice Department spent three years pursuing that Mueller ultimately debunked saying there was no evidence? Mueller could not say. And now it is abundantly clear based on Mueller’s (lack of) testimony that to find the answer, Attorney General Barr — whom President Trump has delegated his declassification authority to — must get to the bottom of why the heck the Justice Department and intelligence agencies were doing investigating and conducting surveillance on the opposition party in an election year. Spy agencies getting involved in politics is a mortal threat to our republican form of government. And Mueller had no good answer for why it happened. It’s about time we found out. The lack of accountability here is appalling. It’s time to declassify this mess, Mr. Attorney General. What do you think?

Is the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development about to double down on the 2015 federal takeover of local zoning regulations?
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/is-the-dept-of-housing-and-urban-development-about-to-double-down-on-the-2015-federal-takeover-of-local-zoning-regulations/

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is getting set to finalize a regulation modifying the 2015 rule from the Obama administration, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, that conditioned $3.3 billion of annual community development block grants on rezoning local municipalities along income and racial guidelines. More than 1,200 cities and counties accept those block grants nationwide affecting populations of tens of millions of people. Now sources familiar with the final regulation currently being considered by the White House Office of Management and Budget suggest that it will still condition funds on making changes to local zoning, just with a different rationale, to reduce regulatory burdens that contribute to higher housing costs particularly in urban areas such as San Francisco. There’s only one problem. Congress prohibited anything to do with zoning and this rule. Is there any way to stop it?

Trump economy keeps chugging along with 1.4 million more job openings than jobless:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/trump-economy-keeps-chugging-along-with-1-4-million-more-job-openings-than-jobless/

The U.S. Government debt, over $22 Trillion is a sum most cannot grasp. News coverage about deficits while still borrowing money is difficult for most to understand. The average citizen could be excused from comprehending any personal impact.Adding the total U.S. Government, States, and Local debts (nearly $26 Trillion) divided by the current population of about 330 Million gives each of us a bill of nearly $79,000 plus our own personal debt. Can we ever return to a sustainable trajectory?

To end border crisis, Trump administration restricts asylum claims from Central America:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/to-end-border-crisis-trump-administration-restricts-asylum-claims-from-central-america/

Under current immigration and asylum regulations, it was impossible to enforce the law on the southern border. The hundreds of thousands of Central Americans flooding the border the past several months gamed the system, betting that a compassionate America would let them in. Afterward, the families were released into the U.S. pending hearings, but those that showed up did so only to the extent they might be granted asylum, and upon rejection were never heard from again. It’s mandatory catch-and-release. Because of the way the regulations were written. Now, to get a handle on the problem and to deter future waves, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are using their powers under the law to provide for additional restrictions and have issued a new rule telling asylum seekers they must first apply for asylum in the country they first transit through and be denied before they may qualify. Can this stem the tide and deter future migrant waves?

President Trump’s tweets were not racist and anti-American, but the U.S. Reps’ statements he was responding to may have been:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/president-trumps-tweets-were-not-racist-and-anti-american-but-the-u-s-reps-statements-he-was-responding-to-may-have-been/

Do we have a country anymore? I think the State of the Union is poor. And I don’t think it’s Trump’s doing. Here is where I agree with Trump the most in his more recent statement that “Go wherever they want them, or they can stay. But they should love our country. They shouldn’t hate our country. You look at what they’ve said.” Trump is right. We shouldn’t hate America. We should be working to make it a better place. Tearing it down, comparing it to Nazi Germany — a monstrous lie — saying that we should represent our race before our country, suggesting that Jewish money controls Congress, is destructive. It fuels division. And I, for one, am glad President Trump called it out. It’s about time someone did. What do you think?

Antifa firebombing ICE in Tacoma inspired by AOC’s reckless comparison of the border crisis to concentration camps and the Holocaust:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/antifa-firebombing-ice-in-tacoma-inspired-by-aocs-reckless-comparison-of-the-border-crisis-to-concentration-camps-and-holocaust/

It appears that U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s irresponsible and reckless comparison of illegal immigrant detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps where millions were murdered inspired the Antifa member who firebombed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Wash. on July 12. A manifesto reportedly left behind by Willem Van Spronsen, a 69-year-old, ran with the AOC comparison, stating, “evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary… detention centers are an abomination. i’m not standing by.” Why won’t AOC denounce this terrorist attack and stop making these insane comparisons to the Holocaust?

Citizen, legal resident and illegal alien populations will still be determined under 2020 Census via Trump executive order:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/citizen-legal-resident-and-illegal-alien-populations-will-still-be-determined-under-2020-census-via-trump-executive-order/

President Donald Trump via an executive order is mandating federal departments and agencies to provide records to the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau to compile an accurate counting of citizen, legal resident and illegal alien populations for the 2020 Census — but without a citizenship question on the Census form households fill out. Instead, the Trump executive order requires “All agencies shall promptly provide the Department [of Commerce] the maximum assistance permissible, consistent with law, in determining the number of citizens, non citizens, and illegal aliens in the country, including by providing any access that the Department may request to administrative records that may be useful in accomplishing that objective.” If the same data can be gleaned from other means than the questionnaire, then why not? President Trump is doing everything he can to ensure that the data is collected. It’s better than nothing. What do you think?

Reckless comparisons of the border crisis to concentration camps and the Holocaust are unfortunate — and dangerous:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/reckless-comparisons-of-the-border-crisis-to-concentration-camps-and-the-holocaust-are-unfortunate-and-dangerous/

While almost everybody died in German imprisonment in the concentration and death camps during World War II, totaling six millions Jews and another 13 million Slavs, Poles and others, with murder being the top cause ordered by Hitler and his regime, with starvation and disease being another, in comparison, more than 99 percent do not die in U.S. prisons or whilst in Border Patrol custody. None were ordered to be murdered by President Trump or his administration. It is a dangerous comparison, likely to provoke yet more political violence against Trump supporters and Republicans more broadly as we proceed into the 2020 election cycle. Increasingly, the comparisons made are to liken regular Americans to the perpetrators of the Holocaust, to see your neighbors as being Nazi stooges. What is alarming is how much traction such bizarre claims have. What do you think?