Joe Biden goes all in on defund the police with Kamala Harris VP pick:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/joe-biden-goes-all-in-on-defund-the-police-with-kamala-harris-vp-pick/

Former Vice President Joe Biden has selected U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate and presumptive Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in the 2020 election as the Biden campaign goes all in on the defund the police issue. In June Sen. Harris supported cutting $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department budget and taking the police force below 10,000 for the first time in more than a decade. “I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done,” Harris told ABC’s Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos in June, adding, “Right now, what we’re seeing in America is many cities spend over one-third of their entire city budget on policing but meanwhile we’ve been defunding public schools for years in America.” The pick of Harris comes as Biden for his part has attempted to thread the needle on the issue, telling CBS News in an interview: “No, I don’t support defunding the police. I support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness and … are able to demonstrate they can protect the community.” Meaning, if police departments did not meet up with Biden’s criteria, he would indeed deny funds. In June, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found 64 percent of Americans reject the idea of defunding the police, including 91 percent of Republicans, 45 percent of Democrats, 43 percent of blacks, 58 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of whites. In short, Harris is a sop to the BLM-Antifa wing of the party, a signal by Biden to the rioters that says “I’m with you”, but at the cost of moderate Democrats in suburban areas who oppose defunding the police. What do you think?
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The Democratic candidate for president has a history of slips, blunders and gaffes that go on and on and on. His often slurred speech is used to say things about race, sex or — well — we don’t know because he screwed up the wording too bad. Watch this sleepy, hair-sniffing politician in his greatest hits!

President Trump urges Portland, Oreg. to ‘bring in the National Guard. The Mayor and Governor are putting people’s lives at risk’:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/president-trump-urges-portland-oreg-to-bring-in-the-national-guard-the-mayor-and-governor-are-putting-peoples-lives-at-risk/

President Donald Trump on Twitter on Aug. 10, urged Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown to deploy the National Guard after a riot was declared in Portland, Oreg. when the Portland Police Association (PPA) building was set on fire. “Portland, which is out of control, should finally, after almost 3 months, bring in the National Guard. The Mayor and Governor are putting people’s lives at risk. They will be held responsible. The Guard is ready to act immediately. The Courthouse is secured by Homeland!” Trump wrote. But Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown may simply lack the political will to do what is necessary to preserve law and order for fear it might help President Trump politically. That’s just too bad. Governor Brown and Mayor Wheeler must realize that if they refuse to restore civil order, President Trump is more than willing to step in and do it for them. What do you think?
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COVID-19 crushed the American economy just months ago. Jobs upon jobs upon jobs were lost. Now, under the Trump Administration, close to two million of those jobs are back in July!

Yates says Comey had the FBI ambush Michael Flynn in the White House ‘unilaterally,’ was unaware Steele sub-source folded on Trump-Russia allegations in Jan. 2017:
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/yates-says-comey-had-the-fbi-ambush-michael-flynn-in-the-white-house-unilaterally-was-unaware-steele-sub-source-folded-on-trump-russia-allegations-in-jan-2017/

“I didn’t authorize that interview because I wasn’t told about it in advance… I was upset that Director Comey didn’t coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally.” That was former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, telling Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham in Aug. 5 testimony that former FBI Director James Comey did not clear with the Justice Department his plan to send FBI agents to interrogate then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn into office. Comey kept the then-Acting Attorney General Yates in the dark about something that by all accounts was a serious breach of protocol — an attempt to entrap the President’s top foreign policy advisor to take out the President. The agents questioned Flynn on what turns out were routine discussions with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the presidential transition. Yates was apparently also in the dark about the FBI’s separate Jan. 24, 2017 interview of the primary source used by former British spy Christopher Steele in drafting the dossier falsely alleging President Donald Trump was a Russian agent and that the Trump campaign knowingly assisted Russia in hacking the Democratic National Committee and putting its emails on Wikileaks. The source ended up contradicting Steele’s allegations in the Jan. 2017 interview, leaving the FBI with no real witnesses of Trump’s supposed treason. If Yates didn’t know, then the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is supposed to assist the President in his duties to combat enemies of the U.S. foreign and domestic with the gathering of intelligence, should be abolished immediately. Nobody responsible for overseeing the surveillance of U.S. citizens or even the President verifies the most important allegations. Not the Justice Department. Not the FBI. And not the FISA court. Do you think FISA should be abolished?

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President Trump is right. Why is the U.S. still building important parts of the F-35 outside the U.S.?
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/president-trump-is-right-why-is-the-u-s-still-building-important-parts-of-the-f-35-outside-the-u-s/

The fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter plane by Lockheed Martin has been in development since the 1990s, one of the most expensive military systems ever at a cost of about $80 million per plane, after all these years is still dependent on global supply chains including certain Chinese-made components and rare earth minerals. In May, President Donald Trump declared, “It’s a great jet, and we make parts for this jet all over the world. We make them in Turkey, we make them here, we’re going to make them there. All because President [Barack] Obama and others — I’m not just blaming him — thought it was a wonderful thing. The problem is if we have a problem with a country, you can’t make the jet. We get parts from all over the place. It’s so crazy. We should make everything in the United States.” He’s right. Why are we outsourcing our national security?
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A new movie, narrated by Jon Voight, portrays former Fox News head Roger Ailes in a positive light. That is in contrast to three previous films that made him look like a villain. Former Fox News Channel Producer Frank McCaffrey talks about his relationship with Roger Ailes and why this new movie, “Man in the Arena,” is a must-see.

Why are American pensions and mutual funds investing $251 billion in Chinese equities and bonds built on child and slave labor?
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/why-are-american-pensions-and-mutual-funds-investing-251-billion-in-chinese-equities-and-bonds-built-on-child-and-slave-labor/

U.S. mutual funds and pension funds, including private, state and local government pensions, have invested about $251 billion in Chinese equities and bonds including Hong Kong, according to an Americans for Limited Government estimate of U.S. Treasury data. That is out of a total of $381 billion that U.S. residents have invested in China and Hong Kong as of April 2020, according to the U.S. Treasury. Here’s the problem. A good chunk of the investment that includes manufacturing in China that is built on child and slave labor, according to the annual report on child and forced labor by the Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs, including any investment in companies producing textiles made by child labor, artificial flowers, Christmas decorations, coal, footwear and garments and nails made by forced labor, and bricks, cotton, electronics, fireworks and toys made by child and forced labor. Meaning, because millions of U.S. investors and pensioners own tens of billions of dollars of shares of these companies who are abusing their labor forces, we are effectively slave owners — despite having abolished slavery 155 years ago in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. What do you think?
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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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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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