The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive News Summary
COVID Authoritarianism
President Biden mandates COVID-19 vaccines for large companies as well as federal employees (Daily Signal1)
RNC to sue Biden administration over vaccine mandates (Washington Examiner2)
“Will fight them to the gates of hell”: Governors immediately push back on unconstitutional plan (Daily Wire3)
“We will fight”: Ron DeSantis promises to battle Biden’s sweeping mandates (Daily Wire4)
Afghanistan
Pentagon top brass to testify before Senate panel on chaotic U.S. pullout from Afghanistan (Washington Times5)
GOP letter to Biden flags Afghan evacuees’ “rushed and incomplete” vetting (Fox News6)
Taliban lets plane carrying Americans and other foreign nationals leave Kabul (CBS News7)
“Their interior minister has an ‘FBI Wanted’ poster”: White House challenged after calling Taliban “businesslike and professional” (Daily Caller8)
New and improved? Hardly: Taliban tortured journalists who covered protests in Kabul despite “free press” pledge (Daily Wire9)
Fort Hood terrorist congratulates Taliban from death row in handwritten letter (Washington Examiner10)
Politics
Merrick Garland’s Justice Department suing Texas over pro-life law (The Federalist11)
Rand Paul calls for Anthony Fauci to be jailed for lying to Congress (Washington Examiner12)
DOJ moves to release FBI documents on investigation into possible Saudi-9/11 hijacker links (Washington Examiner13)
Team Biden puts systemic racism at center of U.S. foreign policy (National Review14)
Health
The CDC quietly changed the definition of “vaccination” so as to fit the political narrative (Not the Bee15)
Los Angeles school officials order sweeping vaccine mandate for students 12 and older (LA Times16)
FDA declines emergency use authorization for Humanigen COVID-19 drug (The Hill17)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Wage stagnation and its discontents: Rethinking the safety net to encourage a more dynamic economy (Manhattan Institute18)
Policy: Why Japan’s next prime minister matters (National Review19)
Satire: Jussie Smollett disguises self as Larry Elder so people will commit real hate crimes against him (Babylon Bee20)
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Links
- https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/09/biden-vaccine-mandates-not-about-freedom-or-personal-choice/
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/republican-national-committee-sue-biden-vaccine-mandate
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/governors-immediately-push-back-on-unconstitutional-biden-plan-will-fight-them-to-the-gates-of-hell
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-will-fight-ron-desantis-promises-to-battle-bidens-sweeping-covid-19-mandates
- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/9/pentagon-top-brass-testify-senate-panel-chaotic-us/
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-letter-biden-afghans-rushed-incomplete-vetting
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-taliban-americans-evacuate-flights-kabul-airport/
- https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/09/peter-doocy-challenges-psaki-wh-calls-taliban-businesslike-professional/
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-tortured-journalists-who-covered-protests-in-kabul-despite-free-press-pledge-report
- https://www.yahoo.com/now/fort-hood-gunman-congratulates-taliban-151300171.html
- https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/09/bidens-justice-department-is-suing-texas-over-pro-life-law/
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-calls-fauci-jailed-lying-congress
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-moves-to-release-fbi-documents-on-investigation-into-possible-saudi-9-11-hijacker-links
- https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/team-biden-puts-systemic-racism-at-the-center-of-u-s-foreign-policy/
- https://notthebee.com/article/cdc-quietly-changed-the-definition-of-vaccination-so-as-to-fit-the-political-narrative-and-im-pretty-sure-thats-not-how-science-is-supposed-to-work
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-09/los-angeles-school-officials-approve-vaccine-mandate
- https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/571546-emergency-use-authorization-for-humanigen-covid-19-drug-declined
- https://www.manhattan-institute.org/schrager-wage-stagnation-rethinking-safety-net
- https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/why-japans-next-prime-minister-matters/
- https://babylonbee.com/news/jussie-smollett-disguises-self-as-larry-elder-so-people-will-commit-real-hate-crimes-against-him
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