May 1, 2017

Monday Top Headlines

  • Congress strikes deal on funding for 2017 to avoid shutdown. (The Hill)

  • Trump: “I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” (CNS News)

  • Court suspends case over Obama climate rule — a win for Trump. (The Hill)

  • IRS tax fraud prevention program costs taxpayers $18.2 million, but doesn’t work. (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Piety and Trump-bashing: The sheer awfulness of the White House Correspondents’ dinner. (Washington Examiner)

  • Second North Korea ballistic missile test fails. (USA Today)

  • McMaster says U.S. will pay for THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea. (Fox News)

  • War casualties in Afghanistan hit all-time high as country stands on brink of collapse. (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • NSA ends one particular type of domestic email data collection. (Reason)

  • Soros a major backer of weekend’s climate march. (The Washington Times)

  • VIDEO: Students despise Obama policies … when credited to Trump. (Campus Reform)

  • The average student loan debt in every state. (USA Today)

  • Policy: Who should pay to cover pre-existing conditions? (E21)

  • Policy: The roots of campus progressivism’s madness. (National Review)

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.