### FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

+ Nate Jackson: It's the Inflation, Stupid — Biden and Pelosi predict victory in '22, but voters blame them for rising prices.

+ Thomas Gallatin: Are the Soft-On-Crime Dems Waking Up? — San Francisco's mayor sounds like Dirty Harry in her plan to get tough on crime.

+ Douglas Andrews: Blumenthal the Closet Commie — The Connecticut Democrat lauded a commie front group for its activism and support.

+ Lewis Morris: Does Anyone Care About Omicron? — Attitudes are becoming remarkably more jaded after nearly two years of diktats and misinformation.

+ Emmy Griffin: Woke Christmas Ornaments — All the decor your virtue-signaling, anti-racist, LGBTQ+ home needs for the holidays.

+ Thomas Gallatin: Dems Circle the Wagons for Omar Again — Pelosi and company pass the Combatting International Islamophobia Act.

+ Douglas Andrews: Hispanics to Democrat Party: Adios, Amigos! — Democrats' open borders and "woke" politics are driving many Latinos to favor Republicans.

+ Catherine Mortensen: DOJ Threatens Potential GOP Gains in Congressional Maps — Under proposed map, Texas would go from 11 competitive House seats to just one. But DOJ is already suing.

+ In Brief: Murder Records Due to 'Soros Effect' — Criminal-friendly district attorneys are making life very hard and dangerous for regular citizens.

+ Boston Tea Party — On Dec. 16, 1773, "radicals" from Boston threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

+ Reader Comments — A few thought-provoking comments about specific articles.

### Top of the Fold

  • Senate passes $770 billion annual defense bill (Axios)
  • Karma: "Woke" retailers who asked Congress for help amid smash-and-grabs supported left-wing police reforms (Fox Business)
  • Tornadoes, 100+ MPH wind, heat, snow, and dust: Historic severe weather outbreak pummels Midwest (Foxweather.com)
  • January 6 Committee admits it doctored text message between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan (The Federalist)

### Politics

  • Down but unfortunately not out: Senate giving up on passing Biden's Build Back Better in 2021 (Daily Wire)
  • Democrats resort to blaming business greed for Democrat-agitated inflation (Washington Examiner)
  • White House "hung up" on Senator Rick Scott, who pleaded help for activist being tortured by Cuban communists (Daily Wire)
  • United Nations grantee uses U.S. tax dollars to fund illegal immigration (The Federalist)

### ChiCom Chronicles

  • NFL releases map falsely claiming that Taiwan belongs to China (Daily Wire)
  • Beijing pays U.S. TikTok traitors to hype Olympics, downplay boycotts (Daily Caller)
  • Commerce secretary's husband is top executive at tech firm funded by Chinese government (Free Beacon)
  • Birds of a feather: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discuss security cooperation against U.S. (Washington Examiner)

### Health

  • Appeals court lets healthcare worker vax mandate take effect in 26 states (Forbes)
  • "Masks don't add much": Major airline CEOs push back on plane mask mandates (Daily Wire)
  • Twitter oligarchs to penalize users who validly claim vaccinated people can spread COVID (Mediaite)

"Vaccinated people can spread the virus if they get a breakthrough infection." —CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Twitter, August 2

### Culture

  • Project Veritas reveals another pedophilia scandal involving a CNN producer (PM)
  • "In God We Trust"? Number of U.S. adults who identify as Christian drops 12% in just 10 years (Washington Examiner)
  • Clown world: 67% of vaccinated Americans favor COVID tax for the unvaccinated, poll finds (Washington Times)

### Heartland

  • Georgia elections most trustworthy in the country, Heritage report finds (National Review)
  • New York City Council idiotically votes to ban natural gas from new buildings (The Federalist)

### Closing Arguments

  • Policy: Will inflation tank the housing market — and the economy? (AEI)
  • Satire: CNN quietly resets "Days Since an Employee Committed a Sex Crime" counter back to zero (Babylon Bee)

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