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December 20, 2021

Monday Executive News Summary

Biden’s COVID epiphany, gubernatorial red wave, prison rates plummet, and more.

Government & Politics

  • Kevin McCarthy to launch seven investigations into Biden administration on Day 1 if GOP wins back House (Daily Wire)

  • The Biden administration has an epiphany on COVID-19 … too late (National Review)

  • Net negative 21 approval rating: Young voters abandon Biden (Washington Examiner)

  • Republicans eye red wave for governor races (Fox News)

  • Foreign-born population soars to new record under Joe “Open Borders” Biden (Washington Times)

“Social Justice”

  • New DOJ report: Prison rates plummeting, lowest level since 1992 (Blaze Media)

  • Meanwhile, at least 16 cities see record homicides in 2021 (Fox News)

  • Storing up treasures in Heaven on Earth: America’s wealthiest pastor, Kenneth Copeland — who is worth $770 million — dodges property tax on his $7 million mansion home by claiming it’s a “clergy residence” (Daily Mail)

Odds & Ends

  • Nicholas Sandmann reaches settlement with NBC in Covington Catholic High School controversy (Fox News)

  • Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker test positive for COVID (CNBC)

  • ChiCom coercion: Tennis star Peng Shuai denies ever accusing anyone of sexual assault (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: How Chattanooga reinvented itself (City Journal)

  • Policy: Election integrity scorecard ranking (Heritage Foundation)

  • Humor: From tornadoes to myocarditis, here are the nine worst effects of climate change (Babylon Bee)

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FROM YOUR PATRIOT POST TEAM

  • Douglas Andrews: Biden’s Bill Crashes and Burns — It took all 50 GOP senators and one Democrat, but the good guys won one going into the holidays.

  • Thomas Gallatin: Fauci’s Politicized Forever Pandemic — NIH emails reveal outgoing Director Dr. Francis Collins told Dr. Anthony Fauci to “take down” scientists advocating herd immunity.

  • Nate Jackson: Fentanyl Is Killing Us — Overdose deaths have hit a record, and it’s killing more young adults than any other single factor.

  • Emmy Griffin: The Public School Report — This week’s egregious stories include segregation in Denver and LGBT clubs in LA.

  • Thomas Gallatin: Biden’s DOJ Changes Tactics to Pay Illegals — Those migrant families who were separated after illegally crossing the border can still expect a massive payout.

  • Douglas Andrews: Can California Be Saved? — The Golden State has been ruined by unchecked Democrat governance, and its people are leaving in droves.

  • In Brief: The New Misogyny — The claim that anyone can be a woman is a denigration of all women.

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