The News
Wednesday, April 8th, 7:30 a.m. ET

The Trump administration will seek an additional $250 billion from Congress for small business loans to further the economic recovery from coronavirus.  CNBC

Mortgage forbearance requests surged after a coronavirus relief bill was signed last month.  Call center wait times are up to 18 minutes.  UPI

Chicago’s Mayor signed an order making illegal aliens eligible for all city coronavirus relief programs.  California’s Governor and legislature are working on aid for illegal aliens in that state.  Washington Times  Fox

The FCC rejected a complaint by an activist group seeking to investigate TV network broadcasts of the coronavirus task force daily press briefings from the White House.  OAN

A U.S. airstrike killed a high-ranking member of the Al Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab group in Somalia.  Military Times

President Trump signed an executive order encouraging U.S. companies to mine the moon for minerals.  The U.S. did not sign a 1979 treaty purporting to make the moon international property.  The Guardian

The Truth
March 26, 2020

Soft-on-crime policies invariably lead to a spike in crime.  This dynamic is especially important now that a number of radical soft-on-crime prosecutors have been elected around the country.  Here are some of the stories in the news, recently:
 
Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted that a new bail reform law has caused crime rates to go up in New York City since the first of the year. The heavily criticized law prevents judges from setting bail in most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases.  New York Post
 
Defendants let out under New York City’s no-bail law include a hate crime suspect who attacked a fourth woman after being released following an arrest for attacking 3 Jewish women.  Another defendant, an alleged bank robber, apparently robbed a fifth bank after being let out for robbing 4 banks.  No gun was used, so he was released under the new law.  He reportedly said: “I can’t believe they let me out.  What were they thinking?”  Indeed.  BizPac Review
 
The homicide rates in several cities have gone up under progressive social reform DAs.  Philadelphia’s is the highest in over a decade and violent crime there is up 5 percent overall.  Epoch Times
 
A radical soft-on-crime prosecutor in St. Louis refused to charge a suspect who confessed to shooting a 7-year-old boy.  The prosecutor claimed she could not determine who was responsible for the child’s death despite the confession.  This prosecutor took campaign funds from the soft-on-crime movement and had two dozen attorneys quit the prosecutor’s office after she was elected.  Gateway Pundit
 
A few years ago, California reduced the penalties for shoplifting. Subsequently, the number of “mass grab and dash” thefts steadily increased.  These organized thefts involve large numbers of people entering a store at the same time, taking what they want, and fleeing.  Hot Air

Despite what some believe, 60 percent of inmates are in state prisons for violent crimes or weapons offenses, including  murder, rape, assault, robbery, and burglary.  This is four times the number convicted only of drug offenses.  Manhattan Institute

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The Reel Deal
March 5, 2020

Environmental Expert Greg Walcher on the Need for Environmental Impact Statement Reform

• Greg Walcher is the Founder and President of the Natural Resources Group and previously led the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. He is the author of Smoking Them Out: The Theft of the Environment and How to Take it Back
• More of Greg’s analysis of environmental impact statements here and here
  
• Greg is on the Web at GregWalcher.com
  

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