Wednesday Executive News Summary
Biden sledgehammers Trump agenda, McConnell excoriated, Harris preps for prez, and more.
Government & Politics
Joe Biden takes a sledgehammer to Trump immigration agenda by pulling 65 pending EOs (Free Beacon)
Zero-sum game: Trump unnecessarily slams Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” (Post Millennial)
Soon-to-be President Kamala Harris is now taking Biden’s head of state calls (Disrn)
A second underage boy accuses Lincoln Project cofounder of sexual harassment (Breitbart) | Meanwhile, the law firm “investigating” The Lincoln Project gave thousands in donations to the PAC (PJ Media)
Big Tech Oligarchs
Irony: Twitter suspends free speech group’s account (Daily Signal)
Christian actor Kevin Sorbo gets deleted by Facebook (Disrn)
Education
William Shakespeare ditched by more and more woke teachers over “misogyny” and “racism” (Fox News)
New York school encourages parents to become “white traitors,” “white abolitionists” (Daily Wire)
Dumb and dumber: San Francisco school board delays talk of reopening classrooms — but keeps working on changing “racist” school names (Daily Mail)
The Latest on COVID-19
U.S. cases are plunging too quickly to be credited to vaccine rollout (Examiner)
India’s dramatic fall in cases leaves research experts stumped (NY Post)
National Security
National Guard mission in DC to finally conclude by mid-March, Pentagon claims (Examiner)
Iraq rocket attack kills contractor, wounds U.S. service member; it was the most deadly attack to hit U.S.-led forces for almost a year in Iraq, where tensions have escalated (NBC News)
Business & Economy
White House expands federal foreclosure moratorium, mortgage relief (UPI)
Wharton School analysts concludes that Biden’s proposed spending binge would actually lead to a smaller economy in 2022 (FEE)
We’re shocked — shocked! Venezuela turns to privatization after being bankrupted by socialism (FEE)
Around the Nation
Board of Registration and Elections in Fulton County, Georgia — which has a population of one million — votes to fire elections director (Examiner)
Unity! Andrew Cuomo squeezed by critics on the Right and Left (Examiner)
Winter storm leaves at least 20 dead, more than three million houses still without power (Forbes)
Odds & Ends
Democrat governors’ approach couldn’t be more different than the effective one Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken (American Spectator) | As such, Ron DeSantis gets 2024 “Tier One” designation from party insiders (PJ Media)
It didn’t start on January 6: A brief history of terrorist violence at the Capitol (Heritage Foundation)
“Non Compos Mentis” Headline Award
- Pandemic lockdowns gave young people freedom to explore gender identities (USA Today)
As the old adage goes: Idle hands are the devil’s play thing.
Stranger Than Fiction
- Lulu the border collie just inherited $5 million and is living her best life (Not the Bee)
On a Lighter Note…
Satirical billboards mock Michigan Gov. Whitmer as “Indiana Businessperson of the Year” (Disrn)
Endangered bears being released into the wild start charging their rescuers because that’s what bears do (Not the Bee)
American Spirit
- Chick-fil-A worker wins car in company raffle, gives it to coworker who was biking to work (Not the Bee)
Closing Arguments
Policy: It’s time to get the National Guard off of Capitol Hill (National Review)
Policy: Biden should keep U.S. troops in Europe (Heritage Foundation)
Humor: Ignorant senator shares New York Times article thinking it’s real (Babylon Bee)
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