The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive News Summary
Top of the Fold
Take that! Ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith receives probation, not prison (which he deserved), for altering email about Carter Page (Daily Caller)
Trump announces new impeachment legal team after high-profile departures of Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier (CBS News)
Government & Politics
GOP stimulus proposal would cost $600 billion, include more direct checks (Fox News) | Biden invites Republican senators to talk coronavirus relief package (Examiner) | In any event, Democrats are ready to go it alone (Examiner)
Righting wrongs: Republicans across the country are pushing for stricter voting rules (Examiner)
“Biden Lied” trends on Twitter as critics demand the $2,000 stimulus checks he promised (Daily Wire)
As the article explains, “The complaints came after the Democratic Party posted a tweet outlining Biden’s new plan to distribute $1,400 stimulus checks to American families. That would come on top of the $600 checks that were approved earlier this month. That equals $2,000.” Semantics aside, people shamefully expect handouts and vote in favor of government doling out checks like candy.
For the Record
The real inciter? Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claims he funded the rally that led to Capitol chaos (NY Post)
Biden pick for commerce secretary ran state ranked one of the worst to start a business (Disrn)
Twenty-one men now accuse Lincoln Project cofounder of sexual harassment, including solicitation of 14-year-old boy (Post Millennial)
Health
Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine somewhat less effective than others but offers one-shot solution (Roll Call)
Gitmo prisoners will be offered vaccines this week — ahead of most Americans (Blaze Media)
CDC issues sweeping public transportation mask mandate for travelers (NPR)
What could possibly go wrong? Oregon becomes first state to decriminalize cocaine, heroin, meth, and other illicit drugs (UPI)
Education
Strike forthcoming? Chicago mayor orders teachers to return to classroom as tug-of-war with union intensifies (Fox News)
Mississippi looks to withhold funds from schools teaching the odious 1619 Project (Disrn)
National Security
Two Proud Boys face federal conspiracy charges in Capitol riot (Politico)
Islamic State senior leader in Iraq killed in U.S.-led coalition airstrike (Military Times)
Russia has developed a “super-electromagnetic pulse” (EMP) weapon, with China close behind (Disrn)
U.S. expresses “grave concern” over reports of military coup in Burma, “will take action” (Fox News)
Business & Economy
Puerto Rico’s effective minimum wage would be $68/hour under Biden plan (FEE)
Gretchen “Grinch” Whitmer’s Michigan was #1 in jobs lost last month (Not the Bee)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
Violent Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (Fox News)
Twitter suspends Christian magazine for calling Biden’s biologically male nominee a man (Disrn)
Homeless activists occupy Olympia, Washington, hotel in apparent takeover attempt (Fox News)
Coca-Cola requiring even affiliated law firms to meet intersectional diversity quotas (Not the Bee)
Odds & Ends
Double standards: Twitter troll replaced “Trump” with “Cuomo” in Maxine Waters’s infamous call to violence and Democrats lost their minds (The Federalist)
Non compos mentis: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio moves to ban hookups of relatively clean natural gas (Examiner)
Russia arrests 4,500 during protests backing dissident Alexei Navalny (Time)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Three unintended consequences of student loan “forgiveness” (FEE)
Policy: Reforms to make all of Medicare financially sound (AEI)
Humor: AOC claims Starbucks tried to kill her by misspelling her name on her to-go coffee (Genesius Times)
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