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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