The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Executive News Summary
Top of the Fold
Joe Biden, who should be looking in the mirror, lashes out at oil and gas companies over high prices (Washington Examiner) | Backfire: Oil prices soar as market rejects strategic reserve ploy (Breitbart) | Americans know who’s to blame for rising prices (GOP.com)
Tone-deaf Biden heads for billionaire’s estate on Nantucket for Thanksgiving amid higher gas, food prices (Washington Times)
Jen Psaki refuses to retract her boss’s characterizations of Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist (Fox News)
Government
Federal jury holds pharmacies responsible in landmark opioid lawsuit (National Review)
Biden administration to take Colombian rebel organization FARC off terrorist list (Daily Wire)
Common Sense
“History can teach us important lessons”: Georgia university system unanimously refuses to rename buildings (Fox News)
“One step closer to justice”: $127.5 million settlement over FBI errors in Parkland shooting (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
“Social Justice”
Milwaukee BLM militant says Waukesha Christmas parade attack may be start of “revolution” (Fox News)
Documents reveal Fort Worth School District has key tenets of CRT after denying teaching it (Fox News)
Fairfax County schools set to return sexually explicit books to high school libraries (National Review)
UC Santa Cruz prescreens faculty job applications based on mandatory diversity statements (Washington Examiner)
J.K. Rowling says “transgender” activists are doxxing her (Daily Caller)
Can’t make this nonsense up: Women’s March apologizes for “$14.92” (the year Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas) fundraising email (Washington Examiner)
Heartland
Eight-year-old boy dies from injuries in Waukesha Holiday Parade attack (CBS 58) | Jackson Sparks remembered as “sweet, talented boy” (Fox News) | The faces of the victims (New York Post)
Looters storm Los Angeles Nordstrom store amid wave of California burglaries (National Review)
Samsung to build $17 billion chip factory in Texas (Daily Wire)
Marxist Seattle councilwoman faces recall after leading protesters to mayor’s home, misusing city funds (National Review)
What could possibly go wrong? NYC may soon let nearly one million non-U.S. citizens vote (Fox News)
Notables
“Unite the Right” rally organizers must pay $25 million in damages, jury finds (Forbes)
Jury begins deliberations in murder trial of three men in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing (NBC News)
German parties reach deal for government to end Angela Merkel era (AP)
Irony Award
- Many environmentalists back Biden’s move to tap oil reserve (AP)
Non Compos Mentis Awards
Liquor company asks consumers not to buy its “Rittenhouse Rye” brand to celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse verdict (Daily Wire)
California’s Santa Cruz County mandates masks … in private homes (National Review)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Jerome Powell’s own poisoned chalice (The Hill)
Satire: White House says everyone can save on Thanksgiving by skipping it since there’s nothing to be thankful for (Babylon Bee)
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