FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

• Thomas Gallatin: Vaccine Mandates and Religious Exemptions — SCOTUS rejects another chance to weigh in on states eliminating religious exemptions to COVID vaccine mandates.

• Douglas Andrews: Pelosi’s Never Gonna Say Goodbye — The speaker has grown awfully fond of that gavel, but the American people seem more than ready to desert her next November.

• John J. Bastiat: Chinese Hypersonic Missiles Pose a Huge Threat — It’s difficult to overstate what a game-changer this new capability will be for our national security.

• Emmy Griffin: Olympics: Other Nations Join U.S. ‘Boycott’ — A diplomatic proscription is a paper tiger. China’s abuse is not going to stop.

• Harold Hutchison: Promises Matter — Keeping trust whether it’s our word to other nations or politicians promising things to Americans.

• Thomas Gallatin: Newsom’s Opportunistic Attack on Guns — California’s governor says he’ll use the Texas abortion law as a model for undercutting the Second Amendment.

• Douglas Andrews: The Trial of Officer Kim Potter — Race has taken center stage in Minnesota once again as a white cop is charged with unlawfully killing a black man.

• Catherine Mortensen: Americans Aren’t Buying What Biden Is Selling — They can’t afford to.

• Willie Richardson: The MAGA Hat Hoax Verdict — Jussie Smollet’s guilty verdict is only a glimpse of hope into a dark pit of despair when it comes to race relations in America.

• Jack DeVine: Army-Navy: More Than a Football Game — It’s often said that sports emulate life. When it comes to Army vs. Navy, life should emulate sports.

Top of the Fold

• Military will not punish any officials for drone attack killing seven Afghan children (Daily Wire)

As our Mark Alexander has noted, the disciplinary action needs to be against our military operators’ incompetent commander-in-chief.

• Open-borders fallout: Texas mother and daughter killed by illegal immigrant smuggler fleeing from police (Townhall)

Politics

• January 6 Inquisition votes to recommend contempt charges for Mark Meadows (National Review)

• Biden says he’d be willing to lose presidency over disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal (Daily Wire)

• Facebook makes shocking admission about its “fact-check” labels in court filing (PJ Media)

Heartland

• Seventy-four dead, more than 100 still unaccounted for in Kentucky tornado disaster (NBC News) | Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say (NBC News)

• California to reimpose universal indoor mask mandate (Fox News)

• Victims of USA Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar to be paid $380 million in settlement (Daily Wire)

Security

• Non compos mentis: Air Force discharges 27 active duty airmen for refusing to take COVID jab (Fox News)

• Biden’s Beijing Olympics boycott sputters as South Korea, other U.S. allies say no (Washington Times)

World

• Thanks to Trump’s Abraham Accords, Israeli prime minister makes historic UAE visit, stressing “new reality” for region (CNBC)

• Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced over banned Tiananmen vigil (The Guardian)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: The uniquely dangerous movement to end the Electoral College (National Review)

• Policy: How to stop gerrymandering (National Review)

• Humor: Brave: Chris Wallace comes out of closet as fake news journalist (Babylon Bee)

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