The Trump economy remains strong enough as 2020 fast approaches:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/the-trump-economy-remains-strong-enough-as-2020-fast-approaches/

The Trump economy grew at 2.93 percent in 2018, the best year since 2005, according to the most recent data. Unemployment remains at a 50-year low of 3.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wage growth since 2017 is the best seen since the financial crisis, most recently at 2.8 percent growth in the first quarter of 2019. 4.9 million jobs have been created since 2017. For 16-to-64-year-old working age adults, the economy is definitely improving, the civilian labor force grew by 2.1 million, outpacing population that increased by about 1 million between 2016 and 2018. Those are good numbers. Former President Barack Obama got reelected with numbers that were much, much worse. What do you think?

Another brick in the wall as Supreme Court upholds Trump reprogramming funds for southern border wall. Democrats whine after they voted for it.
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/another-brick-in-the-wall-as-supreme-court-upholds-trump-reprogramming-funds-for-southern-border-wall-democrats-whine-after-they-voted-for-it/

Brick by brick, figuratively, with a serious assist from the Supreme Court ruling that reprogramming $2.5 billion of counter-narcotics monies may be used towards the southern border wall, Donald Trump is fulfilling his promise to get the wall built. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi complained on Twitter, “This evening’s Supreme Court ruling allowing @realDonaldTrump to steal military funds…” Here’s the best part: Democrats voted for all of it. Specifically, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, the bill which allowed the $2.5 billion for counter-narcotics barriers to be built, passed with 185 Democrats voting in the affirmative in the House. Every Democrat except for Sen. Bernie Sanders voted for it in the Senate. Similar overwhelming Democratic majorities voted for another $6.1 billion for the wall and another $4.5 billion to address the humanitarian crisis on the border the Trump administration requested. How will Dems in 2020 say they want to tear down the wall they voted for?

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?

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?

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?

The ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag SJW Nike nixed was likely not popularly used until 1876—after slavery was abolished:
http://dailytorch.com/2019/07/the-betsy-ross-american-flag-sjw-nike-nixed-was-likely-not-popularly-used-until-1876-after-slavery-was-abolished/

The “Betsy Ross” flag was not really popularized until 1876 for the 100-year celebration of independence—after slavery had been abolished in 1865 after the bloody Civil War. Ross’ grandson in 1870, William J. Canby, presented a paper to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania that forms the basis of the claim based on a family oral tradition that he only learned of in 1857, which lent itself to the popular legend. When Harper’s New Monthly Magazine picked up the account in 1873, it reached a large audience for the first time. Come 1876, it was common to see the “Betsy Ross” flag. Maybe someone should tell Nike and Colin Kaepernick?