The Patriot Post® · Thursday Executive News Summary

Government & Politics

• Biden launches $2 trillion quasi-Green New Deal wrecking ball with promises galore (Daily Wire)

• Energy secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm: Some jobs may have to be “sacrificed” to climate agenda (Daily Wire) | A trip down memory lane: As Michigan governor, Granholm divvied millions in taxpayer funds to alternative energy startups that went bankrupt (Daily Caller)

• Chuck Schumer vows to move forward with sham impeachment trial (Daily Wire)

• First step toward unity: Kevin McCarthy to meet with Trump in Florida (Examiner)

• Biden starts staffing a commission on court packing now that Trump has balanced the judiciary (Politico)

Big Tech Oligarchs

• Conservative outlet Epoch Times demonetized by YouTube (Disrn)

• YouTube extends Trump’s suspension for a second time (CNET)

Education

• Chicago Teachers Union moves closer to a possible strike (WLS)

Memo to unionists: Even the CDC is now advocating “a path forward to maintain or return primarily or fully to in-person instructional delivery.” Moreover, as this headline in The Hill explains, “CDC study finds COVID-19 outbreaks aren’t fueled by in-person classes.”

• “Open the freaking schools”: Understandably irate parent slams Virginia school board (Disrn)

National Security

• Shameful theatrics: DHS issues nationwide terrorism alert over “violent extremists” (American Military News)

• National Guard ludicrously to remain in Washington, DC, until at least end of March (Disrn)

• To Iran’s delight, Biden administration slows arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE for review (Bloomberg)

Health

• Who’d a thunk it? Hydroxychloroquine may have some use to treat COVID after all, study shows (NorthJersey.com)

• Not exactly benign: Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use (University of Queensland)

Business & Economy

• Red-state governors lead the COVID recovery after blue-state tyrants tanked the economy (The Federalist)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

• Christian professor attacked for “transphobia” at Baylor University (Disrn)

Non Compos Mentis

• Press Secretary Jen Psaki on GameStop stock surge: “We have the first female treasury secretary” (Daily Wire)

Double Standards

• Climate czar John Kerry’s family still owns private jet as he (mis)leads climate fight (Fox News)

American Spirit

• Indiana community gives 31-year pizza deliveryman a new car as a tip (Disrn)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Canceling Keystone and reducing U.S. arms are Biden’s first two major gifts to Russia (The Federalist)

• Policy: The dark side of global “gender equality” (The Daily Signal)

• Humor: Democrats vote to reinstate Trump as president so impeachment trial is constitutional (Babylon Bee)

• Related humor: Congress to retroactively impeach all previous Republican presidents (Babylon Bee)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report.

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