The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Executive Summary
Relief Package
Congress passes coronavirus relief and government spending package (Axios) | New round of relief checks to hit bank accounts next week (Washington Examiner)
Nine things you need to know about the spending deal (Daily Signal)
Congress had six hours to read a 6,000-page bill (Fox News)
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi once so infamously declared: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
- “If money really did grow on trees, why not give more free money?” Rand Paul’s floor speech against COVID bill goes viral (Fox News)
Election Debrief
Joe Biden poised to pick Connecticut schools chief Miguel Cardona as education secretary (Washington Post)
Peter Navarro updates election report to show 379,000 “possible illegal votes” for Biden in Michigan (Washington Examiner)
Rand Paul: Voter fraud “happened” and election was in “many ways stolen” (Washington Examiner)
Mark Meadows says “stay tuned” after Trump meets lawmakers to discuss “mounting evidence” of voter fraud (Washington Examiner)
Matt Gaetz to join long-shot GOP bid to challenge election results in Congress (Washington Examiner)
A trip down memory lane: In 2018, an 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes (PBS)
Glenn Reynolds observes, “Now it would be considered ‘conspiracy theory,’ and probably censored by Facebook for ‘spreading misinformation.’”
Georgia Runoff
- “A warning” against fraud: Georgia sends letters to thousands of out-of-state voters who asked for absentee ballots (Washington Examiner)
Leftmedia
- New York Times admits it botched award-winning “Caliphate” podcast, heavily featured material from “con artist” (Disrn)
Health
- Half of U.S. states prioritizing black and Hispanic populations in COVID-19 vaccinations (Disrn)
Big Tech
- Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes “next level” battery technology (CNBC)
Ed Driscoll has a good question: “How many of the components will be built in China?”
American Spirit
- 73-year-old grandma makes and delivers 800 tamales to hospital staff that saved her life from COVID (Disrn)
Stranger Than Fiction
- McDonald’s China introduces a limited edition Spamburger topped with Oreos (Not the Bee)
Something tells me our Spam-loving managing editor, Nate Jackson, would love this. Just don’t tell him I said that…
Settled Science
- “Die Hard” director says film is a Christmas movie (Disrn)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Time to go on offense against Russian cyberattacks (National Review)
Policy: The 2017 tax cuts will make economic recovery easier (Daily Signal)
Humor: Jupiter and Saturn fined for not obeying social distancing (Babylon Bee)
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