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By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 3, 2020 For most Americans the coronavirus is a scourge. But teachers unions seem to think it’s also an opportunity—to squeeze more money from taxpayers and put their private and public charter school competition out of business. That’s the only way to read the extraordinary effort by national and local union leaders…

In his latest incarnation as president emeritus and corporate multimillionaire community activist, we are reminded of the earlier Barack Obama of “get in their face,” “take a gun to a knife fight,” and “punish our enemies” vintage. From time to time, Obama ventures from his hilltop, seaside, $12 million “you didn’t build that” Martha’s Vineyard Estate or his tony Washington,…

Echoing other sources, data maintained by the COVID Tracking Project revealed that the U.S. recorded 48,694 new cases this Sunday, the smallest number since about 28 days ago on July 6, when the country reported 41,600 infections. Source: U.S. Reports Lowest Number of Coronavirus Cases in a Month

The coronavirus has illuminated many truths that shouldn’t be forgotten, but one stands out above all others: Our politicians don’t really care about you. This is clear from the antipathy toward small-business owners who were run out of work during the shutdowns. This is clear from the strong resistance to children attending school, despite the clear shortcomings of online “learning.”…

While rioters previously attacked federal buildings, businesses, and even officers, this weekend, they found a new target: Bibles. A video posted to Twitter on Saturday shows rioters holding Black Lives Matter signs tossing Bibles into a fire. Bystanders stood and watched as the flames licked away at the pages of the books. Source: As They Turn To Burning Bibles, Portland…

Is Joe Biden reaching the point of no return mentally? That’s the word from Dan Bongino, who shared earlier today that he’s hearing from sources close to the situation that Joe Biden is worsening and that Democrats will have a decision to make soon. Source: Dan Bongino: Sources Say Joe Biden Is Reaching the Point of No Return, Democrats Will…

Dr. Deborah Birx on Sunday said the US is in a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, saying that the deadly virus is more widespread than when it first took hold in the US earlier this year. “What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as…

Even with the anti-Trump media working overtime to cover for the horrendous violence and “peaceful” (sure) demonstrations ruining businesses and lives, there must be some moderate Democrats refusing to be gaslighted, understanding the level of hate driving this chaos, and walking away from their radicalized party. Source: Moderate Democrats, Walk Away From Your Radical Hate-Filled Party | The Stream

By: Larry O’Connor – townhall.com – July 30, 2020 First of all, national polls are meaningless. Let’s always remember that. Polling companies and media outlets insist on spending big bucks and lots of energy making up stories about the significance of national polls for the presidential election when the presidential election is not a national election. It makes no sense. It’s like…

By: Phil Gramm – wsj.com – July 30, 2020 When unemployment and poverty rates hit record lows in late 2019, while retirement accounts and average household incomes surged to record highs, Joe Biden understood that general-election voters would never go for Bernie Sanders’s tax-and-spend socialism or Elizabeth Warren’s command-and-control version. Mr. Biden also bet, taking longer odds, that the Democratic…

New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman may be elated, thinking that the blue-city riot-palooza will have major economic benefits. That’s because there is a long-held economic notion, mostly by followers of economist John Maynard Keynes, that physical damage to buildings and infrastructure—whether natural or man-made—can be a boon to the economy. Source: Blue Cities Give the ‘Broken Windows’ Economic…