May 18, 2021

Tuesday Executive News Summary

Hope for pro-lifers, door opens for red-flag challenges, Space Force commander removed, and more.

Top of the Fold

  • Giving pro-lifers hope: Supreme Court to weigh major rollback of abortion (NY Post) | Jen Psaki says the most Catholic president ever is “committed to codifying" Roe v. Wade (National Review)

  • Supreme Court sides with Rhode Island man fighting gun seizure (Free Beacon), which opens the door for gun owners to challenge "red flag" laws (Daily Wire)

Government & Politics

  • Biden’s HUD to let illegal immigrants use taxpayer funds for public housing (Washington Times)

  • Matt Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg pleads guilty to sex-trafficking charges (Fox News)

National Security

  • Venezuelans are showing up in record numbers at Mexican border (Washington Examiner) | Sex offenders also surge into the U.S. (Washington Times)

  • Space Force commander removed for accurately saying Marxism is infiltrating the military (NY Post)

  • "Woke” Apple working with Chinese government to censor and surveil its citizens (Daily Caller)

Odds & Ends

  • Andrew Cuomo got $5.1 million for COVID book despite nursing home scandal (NY Post) | Meanwhile, the governor laughs and jokes when asked about sex with subordinates (NY Post) | For the record: Accuser claims Cuomo has “pattern of misconduct” in new op-ed (Washington Examiner)

  • Israel-Gaza conflict continues to intensify; rockets reported from Lebanon (Fox News) | Israeli strike kills Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander (Washington Times) | U.S. approves $735 million weapons sale to Israel per new report (AMN)

  • Parler back on Apple App Store after months-long ban (PM)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: Pipeline cyberattack shows Jones Act is a threat to national security (Daily Signal)

  • Policy: A disaster entirely of Biden’s making (Washington Examiner)

  • Satire: Latest science now says we all must wear masks to prevent global warming (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 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.