The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive Summary
Above the Fold
Pennsylvania Supreme Court sides with state’s Democrats, permits mail-in ballots to be counted three days after Election Day (The Daily Wire)
Election fraud? Four voters claiming NPR as residence turn up in search of California voting records (The Daily Signal)
Judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail delivery (Fox News)
Government & Politics
President Trump announces executive order establishing “1776 Commission” to combat “1619 Project” (The Federalist)
D'oh! Education Department opens investigation into Princeton University after president deems racism “embedded” in the school (Washington Examiner)
“The questions … sound as if they were written by Biden’s campaign”: CNN panned for softball Joe Biden town hall (Fox News)
Trump fielding roughly five times more reporter questions than Biden since July (New York Post)
Leaked 2016 phone call to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reveals that hypocrite Joe Biden — who suggested using the Logan Act against Michael Flynn — risked national security to sabotage Trump (The Federalist)
Birds of a feather: Twitter public policy director decamps for Biden transition team (Politico)
DOJ considered bringing charges against Portland officials over unbridled rioting (New York Post)
Around the Nation
Seventeen-year-old arrested for shooting at troopers in Arizona; third attack on police officers in a week (Daily Mail)
Louisville city council votes “no confidence” in mayor for handling of media-distorted Breonna Taylor case (NBC News)
New California Rainbow Mafia law increases the risk of child sexual abuse (The Daily Signal)
Not just Chicago: New York City murder rate soars by 27% and gang violence rises 52% in 2020 (Daily Mail)
New Jersey to hike taxes on state’s millionaires (Fox Business)
Education
Buffalo school teaching students to question nuclear family as part of BLM-integrated village academic curriculum (Fox News)
NYC again delays in-person learning for most students (AP)
The Latest on COVID-19
Pandemic restrictions reintroduced across Europe under threat of a second wave (Washington Examiner)
Nashville mayor’s office and health department concealed low COVID numbers tied to restaurants, emails show (National Review)
National Security
FBI Director Chris Wray: “Antifa is a real thing”; FBI has cases against people identifying with movement (Fox News)
U.S. pushes arms sales surge to Taiwan, needling the ChiComs (Reuters)
Other Notables
Planned Parenthood whistleblower David Daleiden sues abortion mill for defamation (The Federalist)
Woman with concealed carry permit holds supermarket murder suspect at gunpoint until cops arrive (New York Post)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Trump accomplished in the Middle East what no other president could (The Federalist)
Policy: Competition among schools is healthy, especially in a pandemic (Newsweek)
Humor: Biden campaign holds boat parade, but it’s just Biden alone in a paddleboat (The Babylon Bee)
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