The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Executive Summary
Above the Fold
“Hurricane Laura is intensifying over the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to become a major hurricane prior to striking the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana coasts late Wednesday or early Thursday. Life-threatening storm surge and destructive winds will batter the coast and a threat of flooding rain and strong winds will extend well inland. … Laura has prompted hurricane and storm surge watches for the Gulf Coast. Hurricane warnings could be issued for parts of these areas later today. … Any westward shift of the track could increase the threat of Laura’s strongest winds, storm surge and rain in the Houston-Galveston metro area. As a result, residents in these areas should prepare for a potential hurricane strike.” (The Weather Channel)
Republican National Convention
Everything you need to see from Night 1 of the 2020 RNC, plus what you should expect tonight (The Daily Caller)
GOP goes for genuine touch with convention eschewing Democrats’ bells and whistles (Washington Examiner)
“From cotton to Congress”: Tim Scott caps GOP convention night of minority voter outreach (Washington Examiner)
Black congressional candidate speaks at RNC about what Dems don’t want you to know (Fox News)
Nikki Haley paves the way for a post-Trump foreign policy (Washington Examiner)
Elsewhere in Politics
President Trump releases his second term agenda (Townhall)
The anti-Trump Lincoln Project fabricates Obama “monkey” quote (The Post Millennial)
GOP House members ask Jeff Bezos to explain Amazon’s reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center (The Federalist)
DACA reboot to add restrictions to prevent backdoor path to U.S. citizenship (The Washington Times)
The Latest on COVID-19
Deaths average less than 1,000 over seven days in the U.S. for the first time in almost a month as infections continue to decline (UK Daily Mail)
New study suggests reinfection is possible — though that’s not necessarily cause for alarm (Time)
Is there any limit to what we’ll do to “stop coronavirus”? (The Federalist)
Around the Nation
Kenosha, Wisconsin, protesters and law enforcement clash in second night of unrest over what appears to be a justifiable police-involved shooting (Fox News)
Planned Parenthood staff admit to performing illegal partial-birth abortions for better tissue harvesting (The Federalist)
Americans react to Kamala Harris’s call for post-20-week abortions with pictures of their 20-week-olds (The Federalist)
The U.S. has added five million new gun owners in 2020 (The Truth About Guns)
Other Notables
Jerry Falwell Jr. retracts resignation from Liberty University over allegations of sexual improprieties (National Review)
University of Pittsburgh students required to take “Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance” (Power Line)
Closing Arguments
Policy: A back-to-school guide for conservatives (The Daily Signal)
Policy: Learning pods aren’t the problem. They’re part of the solution. (Forbes)
Humor: Goodyear announces it will only sell tires for left side of car (The Babylon Bee)
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