FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

• Douglas Andrew: A Dozen Cities Set an Awful Record — At least 12 American cities have eclipsed their milestone for homicides in 2021, and all of them are run by Democrats.

• Thomas Gallatin: Repealing Biden’s Vax Mandate Gets a Senate Booster — Joe Manchin (WV) and Jon Tester (MT) say “no” to vaccine mandate on private businesses.

• Nate Jackson: Hillary’s Arrogant Crocodile Tears — Clinton is so entitled that she read the victory speech she expected to deliver in 2016.

• Lewis Morris: What Will Biden Do About Chinese Genocide? — The president doesn’t want to offend the ChiComs with anything to protect Uyghur slaves.

• Thomas Gallatin: Musk Balks at Bilk Back Better — The Tesla CEO rejects the Democrats’ massive socialist spending bill as “unnecessary.”

• Emmy Griffin: Male Swimmer Shatters Female Records — UPenn’s latest “star” is just the latest example of this humiliating charade degrading women’s sports.

• Douglas Andrews: It’s BLM vs. Jesus at a Midwest University — A former college football coach was fired soon after removing a Black Lives Matter poster from his office door.

• Catherine Mortensen: Biden’s Radical Banking Nominee Drops Out — A radical appointee in this relatively obscure position poses a real danger.

• In Brief: A Peach State Showdown — Stacey Abrams “might be better than” Brian Kemp, says … Donald Trump.

Top of the Fold

• Kamala Harris’s approval rating is … well, bad. Just 28% hold enthusiastic vibes toward the vice president, and a lot of that has to do with absurd decisions like this one (via the Daily Mail): “[On Monday] Harris held a private meeting with black feminist activist Cora Masters Barry — who publicly said ‘f*** white women’ on a Zoom call before last year’s presidential election in which she accused Donald Trump supporters of ‘wearing a white sheet.’” Columnist Adriana Cohen adds: “In recent weeks, four prominent staffers have announced their departures, including Ashley Etienne, the vice president’s communications director, and Symone Sanders, a top aide serving as senior adviser and chief spokesperson. Additional staff are eyeing exits according to reports. What on earth is going on?” What’s going on is that Harris keeps terrible company.

• Our Mark Alexander observes that a bunch of talking heads on the Right are trying to monetize Kyle Rittenhouse, but he needs to fade to the dark for a while. These interviews are not doing his verdict any good. Alexander notes: “I don’t disagree with Rittenhouse’s statement, ‘Well, I have PTSD, but the best thing to do is to joke about it.’ But DON’T do it in a national forum. This kid is getting used.” While the Tucker Carlson interview was reasonable, subsequent ones were trash. He is young, and his attorneys undoubtedly want to keep him front and center for their liability settlements. But yakking it up and grinning from ear to ear undermines his case.

• Per The Hill: “Rising costs due to inflation have become a top concern among Americans, a new Monmouth University poll found. The poll found that 15 percent of respondents currently see everyday bills such as groceries as the top concern in the country, while 14 percent see inflation as the top concern.” Interestingly, “In addition to those expressing concern about inflation and high costs, 46 percent of respondents to the poll said whatever they named as their top issue has been negatively impacted by the federal government in the past few months. That is the highest degree of blame voters have placed on the federal government regarding their top concern since former President Obama’s administration.” Could it possibly be that, as Ronald Reagan sugggested, government is the problem, not the solution?

Politics

• House finally votes to ban imports from Xinjiang over forced labor concerns (Axios)

• AOC says taxpayers should have to pay her $17,000 student loan — even though she makes $174,000 a year (FEE)

• Mark Meadows sues Pelosi and January 6 committee (PM)

Security

• Migrants rush border ahead of Biden restarting Trump asylum policy (Washington Examiner)

• Biden says U.S. ground troops “not on the table” for Ukraine (Washington Post)

• UK, Canada join diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Games (Reuters)

Economy

• 4.2 million workers quit jobs in October, third-highest number on record (Washington Examiner)

• U.S. businesses advertised near-record 11 million open jobs in October (AP)

• There are now 3.6 million more jobs than people willing to take them (Daily Wire)

Education

• Schools closing due to “teacher burnout” (PJ Media)

• LA school district fires nearly 500 employees who refused COVID vaccine (National Review)

Culture

• BLM leader backs Jussie Smollett, labels hate crime hoax trial a “white supremacist charade” (National Review)

• Ibram X. Kendi raked in $45,000 from University of Wisconsin and made school delete lecture (The Federalist)

• Georgie Orwell’s “1984” to get feminist rewrite (Daily Wire)

• Just 18% of U.S. households are “nuclear families” with a married couple and children, down from 40% since 1970s and the lowest since 1959 (Daily Mail)

Notables

• Suspected Fox Christmas tree arsonist exposed himself outside Ghislaine Maxwell trial, photographer claims (New York Post) | The suspect is already free on bail (Fox News)

• Chris Cuomo dropped by HarperCollins, too, following firing from CNN (Mediaite)

Profiles of Valor

• “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity”: Three Medals of Honor for combat actions in Iraq, Afghanistan (Washington Post)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: The economics of electric vehicles (National Review)

• Policy: Abortion is not an environmental policy (National Review)

• Satire: Biden warns Russia that if it invades Ukraine, America will evacuate haphazardly and leave $86 billion in weapons behind (Babylon Bee)

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