Thursday Executive News Summary
Quasi-Green New Deal launched, sham impeachment proceeding, DHS’s theatrics, and more.
Government & Politics
Biden launches $2 trillion
quasi-Green New Dealwrecking 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)
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