Did you know? The Patriot Post is funded 100% by its readers. Help us stay front and center in the fight for Liberty and support the 2024 Year-End Campaign.

March 2, 2021

Tuesday Executive News Summary

Cuomo faces fresh accusations, Dr. Seuss cancel culture, Minneapolis prepares, and more.

Top of the Fold

  • Governor Andrew Cuomo accused by third woman of unwanted sexual advances (Fox News)

“Anna Ruch has claimed that Cuomo asked to kiss her at a wedding in 2019. In an interview Monday, she specified that Cuomo put his hand on her bare lower back.”

Meanwhile: “Cuomo hires criminal defense lawyer after sexual harassment allegations, nursing home scandal.” —Fox News

  • Cancel culture: Six Dr. Seuss books to stop being published because of “racist” imagery (Fox News)

“‘These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,' Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement. … Copies of 'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,' 'If I Ran the Zoo,’ ‘McElligot’s Pool,’ ‘On Beyond Zebra!,’ ‘Scrambled Eggs Super!,’ and ‘The Cat’s Quizzer’ will no longer be published.”

National Security

  • Biden administration to allow migrant families to reunite in the U.S. (UPI)

  • Pentagon: One militia member killed, two injured in Syria airstrike (UPI)

  • We’re shocked — shocked! Iran rejects Biden offer to discuss new nuclear deal (Disrn)

Around the Nation

  • California lawmakers reach agreement to return schools to in-person learning (UPI)

“All public schools would be required to offer in-person instruction for kindergarten through second grade students as well as ‘high-needs students,’ while schools districts in areas with seven or fewer cases per 100,000 residents would be required to provide in-class learning for all elementary school students and at least one grade of middle or high school by the end of March. Schools that do not return to in-class learning would lose 1% of eligible funds every day that they fail to do so.”

  • Minneapolis prepares for unrest during Derek Chauvin trial next week (Examiner)

“From now until the end of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial, swaths of the city’s downtown will be closed to traffic and strictly limited for pedestrians. Businesses have begun boarding up windows in hopes of limiting further damage following last summer’s riots.”

  • Virginia to become 16th state to legalize marijuana (Daily Caller)

Double Standards

  • Gavin Newsom ignores his own shutdown rules again at restaurant (PJ Media)

  • California teachers union president who led school closures caught dropping daughter off at private school (Daily Caller)

Odds & Ends

  • Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as secretary of education (UPI)

  • Andrew Cuomo backers reevaluate fundraising amid sexual harassment probe (CNBC)

  • Conservative United Methodists detail breakaway plan (World)

  • Golden Globes suffer ratings nightmare (Disrn)

Stranger Than Fiction

  • A rooster killed its owner with a knife (Not the Bee)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: A $15 minimum wage would hit parents hardest (National Review)

  • Policy: Blowing four factual holes in the Biden gun control agenda (Heritage Foundation)

  • Humor: Women’s History Month canceled for implying there is such a thing as “women” (Babylon Bee)

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

The Patriot Post is a certified ad-free news service, unlike third-party commercial news sites linked on this page, which may also require a paid subscription.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.