Need to Know

E-Verify is an electronic system, managed by Homeland Security, that allows employers to determine if new hires are authorized to work as US citizens. The program is voluntary, but many companies refused to use it because they can pay lower wages to illegal immigrants. President Trump campaigned on requiring employers to use E-Verify, but this year, he cut $3.7 million from the program and appears to have dropped his support. Instead, it is said he is following the advice of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has prepared a 600-page immigration proposal to create a more ‘business-friendly’ system. -GEG

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Market Watch – by Greg Robb

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday the central bank would fight the next economic downturn by buying large amounts of government debt to drive down long-term interest rates, a strategy that has been dubbed quantitative easing, or QE.

In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Powell said the Fed had two recession-fighting tools; buying government bonds, known as QE, and communicating clearly with markets about interest-rate policy, routinely considered as “forward guidance.”  Continue reading “Powell says Fed will aggressively use QE to fight next recession”

FFF – by Jacob G. Hornberger

Many years ago, I was giving a lecture on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to a class at a public high school here in Virginia. During the course of my talk, I made the following statement: “The First Amendment does not give people the right of free speech.”

I asked the students whether my statement was correct or incorrect. Everyone immediately told me that I was wrong. They said the First Amendment did in fact give people the right of free speech.  Continue reading “Do We Need the First Amendment?”

The Hill – by Justine Coleman

The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) poll measuring anti-Semitism in the country discovered that more than half of U.S. citizens surveyed agree with at least one anti-Semitic stereotypical statement.

The poll, which studied Americans’ perceptions of Jews and was released Wednesday, showed 11 percent of respondents “intensely harbor” anti-Semitic views by agreeing to six or more anti-Jewish statements. That percentage would translate to about 28 million people.  Continue reading “61 percent of Americans agree with at least one anti-Semitic stereotype: poll”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

A biosafety level 4 laboratory that studies the “world’s most dangerous pathogens” is based in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China, leading some to claim that the virus could have accidentally escaped the lab.

In a 2017 article, Nature reported on the Medical Research Institute at Wuhan University, which houses the biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) lab, which cost 300 million yuan (US$44 million) to set up.  Continue reading “Chinese Lab That Studies “World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens” is Based in Wuhan”