The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive News Summary

FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

• Mark Alexander: The Medal of Honor: Cashe, Celiz, and Plumlee — “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.”

• Douglas Andrews: Two Cheers for Joe Manchin — The West Virginia Democrat has repeatedly frustrated the fiscally reckless Biden administration.

• Nate Jackson: U.S. Military Now Punishing the Unvaxxed — One year ago, Joe Biden said of the vaccine, “No, I don’t think it should be mandatory.”

• Thomas Gallatin: Salvation Army at a Woke Crossroad — The Christian charity’s Red Kettle Campaign is seeing slumping donation numbers.

• Emmy Griffin: China’s Useful Idiots — The ChiComs are paying American TikTok influencers to spread propaganda in support of the Olympics.

• Brian Mark Weber: Get Rid of the Debt Ceiling — Threatening existential crisis every now and then benefits only Democrats who want to spend more.

• Thomas Gallatin: Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff Is at It Again — Pelosi’s J6 Committee is a sham. Schiff presents doctored text messages as “evidence.”

• Douglas Andrews: Biden, MSM Ignore the Waukesha Story — The racial elements of the Christmas parade massacre defy leftists’ narrative, so they’re gamely trying to ignore it.

• In Brief: The Public-Health Mafia — Led by boss Anthony Fauci, they have exploited the COVID pandemic for power.

Government & Politics

• Parliamentarian strikes down Democrats’ immigration proposal in Build Back Better boondoggle (National Review)

• Senate passes Uyghur forced labor bill (Axios)

• A cancerous prescription: HHS offers bonuses to doctors who implement “anti-racism plans” (Free Beacon)

• In case you thought somehow he would go away in shame… DC Bar Association restores convicted FBI Russiagate forger Kevin Clinesmith while he’s still serving probation (The Federalist)

• Senate confirms Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China (Axios)

Security

• Border arrests ticked up 5% in November, first increase since summer (Washington Post)

• DOJ ends asinine settlement talks with migrant families separated at the border (National Review)

• All from U.S. missionary group freed in Haiti (AP)

• 62,000 visa applicants and interpreters still in Afghanistan (Daily Wire)

• U.S. blacklists China’s premier drone maker, seven others over ChiCom surveillance ties (Washington Times)

• Cyber vulnerabilities overwhelming security professionals in government and industry (Washington Times)

Health

• Feamonger-in-chief warns of “winter of severe illness and death” for the unvaccinated (Fox News)

• CDC recommends Pfizer or Moderna’s COVID vaccine over Johnson & Johnson’s due to rare blood clots (CBS News)

• Judge overturns Purdue Pharma’s $4.5 billion opioid settlement (National Review)

• Ghoulish: FDA to permanently allow abortion pills by mail (NBC News)

Heartland

• Rate at which people stopped moving to California surprised researchers (but not the proletariat) (Fox News)

• Cancel culture: DC Public Schools to remove name of its slaveholding founder (Robert Brent) from Capitol Hill school (Washington Times)

• Wharton study: Bidenflation will cost families $3,500 this year (Breitbart)

Odds & Ends

• Facepalm: Biden military aide announces posthumous Medal of Honor — for living recipient standing in room (Daily Wire)

• Seventeen gun firms flee to friendlier states (Washington Examiner)

• Authorities issue search warrant for Alec Baldwin’s cellphone in connection with fatal shooting (ABC News)

Non Compos Mentis Award

• Need not apply to CNN: A Danish heroine goes to prison — for rescuing the child brides of Muslim migrants (FrontPage Mag)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: The Federal Reserve’s war on inflation is too late (1945)

• Policy: Washington is preparing for the wrong war with China (Foreign Affairs)

• Humor: 10 Christmas gift ideas for your leftist child (Babylon Bee)

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