Bye, Bye ‘Build Back Better’
Manchin says he will not vote for Build Back Better: ‘This is a no’ — The Hill
White House accuses Manchin of double-cross on Biden’s $1.75T Build Back Better Act — Washington Times
Statement from Press Secretary Jen Psaki — White House
Far-left pundits left stunned as Democrat torpedoes Biden’s massive socialist spending plan — Fox News
Joe Manchin May Have Just Killed Transformational Liberalism for a Decade — National Review
COVID News
Fauci Says Masking on Airplanes Will Never Go Away — National Review
WH Slammed For Slow Response; ‘Did Not See Variant Coming’ — Daily Mail
OSHA Vax Penalties to Start Jan 10 — MLive
Legal Attacks On Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Reach Supreme Court — Washington Free Beacon
U.S. vaccine mandate revived, Supreme Court showdown looms — Yahoo Finance
The study the CDC used to justify masking in schools is reportedly “profoundly misleading” and has “significant flaws” — Not the Bee
U.S. could see 1 million cases per day, warns departing NIH director Francis Collins — NPR
Damage control: White House backtracks on Kamala’s claim that they didn’t see COVID variants coming — Hot Air
Border Control
Thwarted By Parliamentarian, Senate Dems Vow Back-Door Amnesty Scheme — The Hill
Texas has officially begun building its own border wall — Not the Bee
Media Bias
Lib TV News Ignores Sen. Blumenthal Attending Communist Party Event. — Newbusters
From Media Bias to Outright Partisanship — Powerline
Bidenflation Update
The Week Central Banks Started Getting the Chills About Inflation — Financial Times
Misc
Biden’s Next Failure — Andrew Malcolm, Red State
Far Left Disappointed By Biden’s First Year — The Hill
REVIEW: ‘Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide’ — Washington Free Beacon
School districts screen for ‘racial biases,’ then wonder why teachers are quitting — The College Fix
Pot Industry in California on Verge of Collapse — PJ Media
Humor
Salvation Army No Longer Accepting Bills Or Coins With White People On Them — Babylon Bee
Elon Musk buys Twitter for $600B to label all CDC tweets as misinformation — Genesius Times
California Store Owner Prices All Items At $951 So Thieves Can Be Prosecuted — The Glorious American
San Fran Retail Outlets Adding Moats and Drawbridges — The Peoples Cube