The Patriot Post® · Thursday Top Headlines

• DOJ to give House Oversight panel more “Fast and Furious” documents (The Hill)

• $35,952,800,000: U.S.-China trade deficit set January record (CNS News)

• Democrat obstruction leads to more court vacancies than when Trump took office (The Daily Signal)

• Video: How an Obama-era precedent may doom California’s “sanctuary” efforts (National Review)

• Federal court extends workplace sex-discrimination protections to people who identify as transgender (National Review)

• NYT corrects piece about couple’s tax increase under new law to admit their taxes would go down (The Washington Free Beacon)

• After Florida assault, predictably, more than 600 copycat threats have targeted schools (USA Today)

• If Aetna can afford a six-figure contribution for gun control, why are health insurers asking for a multi-billion dollar federal bailout for the ObamaCare exchanges? (The Federalist)

• America should ban civilian guns to protect human rights, Chinese communist dictatorship says through state-run media (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Facebook, Google make the country safer by censoring ads for… gun locks (Hot Air)

• Humor: IRS still waiting for liberals to voluntarily mail their refund checks back (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Taking a chisel, not a hammer, to Dodd-Frank isn’t enough — but it’s a start (Investor’s Business Daily)

• Policy: Uncle Sam must rein in retirement benefits or we’re headed for economic disaster (Manhattan Institute)

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