The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Executive News Summary

Government & Politics

• Who’d a thunk it? Newly declassified documents show James Comey purposefully lied about the Steele dossier (Townhall¹)

• Governor Andrew Cuomo blames “disinformation” and “toxic political environment” for self-caused COVID nursing home scandal (Post Millennial²)

• Nancy Pelosi: “Next step” is 9/11-type commission to investigate the January 6 riot (Daily Wire³)

The Democrats’ game plan is to use last month’s riot as an albatross around the neck of every conservative in perpetuity.

Media

• Double standards: WaPo and CNN “fact-checkers” silent as Kamala Harris falsely claims Biden is “starting from scratch” on vaccine rollout (Fox News⁴)

• Parler finally resumes social media app after being jettisoned by Big Tech (Just the News⁵)

Unfortunately, its viability is dubious, though we remain hopeful it can survive.

The Latest on COVID-19

• Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic cases with Pfizer vaccine (Reuters⁶)

• WHO approves AstraZeneca’s vaccine for emergency use (AP⁷)

• Thirty-two million government-provided rapid tests have gone unused, with some close to expiration (Examiner⁸)

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” —Ronald Reagan

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

• Antifa cowards piled snow in front of a Seattle police precinct to keep them from responding to emergency calls (Not the Bee⁹)

• Healing! Trump impeachment lawyer’s home vandalized (ABC News¹⁰)

• Max Lucado shamefully kowtows, apologizes for hurting LGBT community amid outrage following sermon at National Cathedral (Daily Wire¹¹)

• “Family-friendly” Hallmark Channel promises more LGBT bunk (Disrn¹²)

Odds & Ends

• D'oh! Because there wasn’t a back-up plan, nearly half of Texas’s wind turbines frozen in winter storm, limiting state’s power output (Daily Wire¹³)

• Unsurprisingly, the COVID “investigator” for WHO is a Chinese CDC advisor who accepted ChiCom research grants (National Pulse¹⁴)

• Bluefield College suspends entire team for kneeling during anthem, forcing them to forfeit (Disrn¹⁵)

• Support for a political third party reaches all-time high (Daily Caller¹⁶)

“Non Compos Mentis” Award

• “Gorilla Glue girl” Tessica Brown now has a full-time agent (NY Post¹⁷)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: The WHO’s probe into Wuhan needs a dose of common sense (AEI¹⁸)

• Policy: Biden is set to revive Obama’s devastating Middle East foreign policy (The Federalist¹⁹)

• Humor: People who moved to Texas from California finally feeling at home now that power is out (Babylon Bee²⁰)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report²¹.

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