The Patriot Post® · Thursday Executive News Summary

By Jordan Candler ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/84932-thursday-executive-news-summary-2021-12-16

FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

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)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report.

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