FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

• Nate Jackson: Biden Stands on Sandy Hook Caskets Again — President Unity used yesterday’s ninth anniversary to push more of his preferred gun control.

• Thomas Gallatin: Pentagon Holds No One Culpable for Botched Kabul Drone Strike — Where’s the justice for Afghan victims of Joe Biden’s gross malfeasance?

• Douglas Andrews: Elon Musk Zaps the Opposition — In taking Elizabeth Warren to task, Time’s Person of the Year showed he’s never too busy to call out fools and their foolishness.

• Michael Swartz: Facebook ‘Fact-Checkers’ Are Now ‘Protected Opinion’ — A stunning admission comes from the company’s legal defense in a defamation suit.

• Charles Paige: Ukraine — Biden’s Dangerous Record of Appeasement — Whether Putin is saber-rattling or going to invade, either way he’s in a winning position.

• Emmy Griffin: Religious Liberty, Transgender Activists, and Women’s Voices — The transgender agenda is being challenged on multiple fronts.

• Douglas Andrews: COVID-19: Atlas Sets the Record Straight — Dr. Scott Atlas, a former adviser to Trump, has a lot to say about national policy and the bureaucrats who ran it off the rails.

• Thomas Gallatin: Will SCOTUS Hear a Christian Defamation Case? — D. James Kennedy Ministries was falsely labeled a “hate group” by the SPLC and the ministry is suing.

• Gary Bauer: Appeasing Beijing — The Biden/Harris regime censored a Taiwan representative in order to pacify Beijing.

• Roger Helle: Dare to Be a Daniel! — Daniel rebuked Belshazzar for his ignorance of history. He reminded him of Nebuchadnezzar’s arrogance and pride.

• In Brief: Have Americans Surrendered Their Liberties? — It’s the Bill of Rights’ 230th anniversary, and people have lost many of their rights.

• The Bill of Rights — On December 15, 1791, the first 10 Amendments were ratified.

Spendapalooza

• House votes to raise debt ceiling, sends bill to Joe Biden’s desk (Fox Business)

• National debt now $287,859 per household (Daily Wire)

• Congress’ debt-limit hike ignores our dangerous addiction to spending (New York Post)

Inflation

• Key inflation metric — producer price index — grows at fastest pace (9.6%) ever recorded (National Review)

• Gas up 58%, meat up 13%: Inside the newest record-breaking inflation report (Daily Wire)

Politics

• House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress (Fox News) | Laura Ingraham fires back at media “hacks” and Liz Cheney over January 6 messaging (Washington Examiner) | Tucker Carlson: Liz Cheney is lying to you (Fox News)

• House Democrats pass bill to combat “Islamophobia” in support of anti-Semite Ilhan Omar (The Hill)

• Democrats worry their grip on Hispanic vote is loosening (The Hill)

Security

• In first two weeks of December, Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill more than 23 million people (Daily Wire)

• D'oh! San Francisco Democrat mayor, after backing defunding police, reverses (Daily Wire)

Village Academic Curriculum

• High schools steering students to alleged porn producer for “scholarship” (Daily Wire)

• Denver elementary school hosts racially segregated family playground night (Daily Wire)

• Los Angeles schools host LGBT club for four-year-olds, promote “two spirit” sexuality and child mutilation (The Federalist)

• New Hampshire teachers union sues to block CRT ban in public schools (Daily Wire)

Odds & Ends

• A grim milestone: U.S. reaches 800,000 COVID-related deaths (Daily Wire)

• And who can blame them? Only a minority of parents are getting their hardly-at-risk children vaccinated for COVID (Sharylattkisson.com)

• When it rains, it pours: Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1 million pandemic book profits to state (New York Post)

• CNN fires producer charged with luring minors for sex (PM)

“Stop Digging” Award

• NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace stands by discredited “noose” incident in ESPN documentary (National Review)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: “Build Back Better” could decimate the childcare landscape (EducationWeek)

• Policy: Don’t count on Olaf Scholz to transform Germany (Washington Times)

• Humor: Baptist kid singing “What Child Is This?” mentally prepares for part where he has to say the word “ass” (Babylon Bee)

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