The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Your silence gives consent.” —Plato (429-347 BC)

Upright: “I say this to Obama: ‘Excuse me, Mr. President, but you’re wrong.’ He’s dead wrong. … [G]lobal warming basically is a non-problem. Just leave it alone and it will take care of itself.” —Nobel laureate and physicist Ivar Giaever

Uh, no: “I believe that Jesus would approve of gay marriage. … I think Jesus would approve of any love affair that was honest and sincere, and was not damaging to anyone else. And I don’t think that gay marriage damages anyone else.” —Jimmy Carter

Non Compos Mentis: “Certainly the First Amendment says that in institutions of faith that there is absolute power to, you know, to observe deeply held religious beliefs. I don’t think it extends far beyond that.” —Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

A stopped clock is right twice a day: “Folks who do not like guns is [sic] fine, but we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country; 99.9% of those people obey the law.” —Bernie Sanders

Hot air: “I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people will know who will fight for them when they need them, and that’s the person who I am and what I will do if I am president.” —Hillary Clinton (The late Christopher Stevens and his Benghazi colleagues were unavailable for comment.)

The BIG Lie: “Everything I did was permitted. There was no law, no regulation, there was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate.” —Hillary Clinton on her secret email servers

Belly laugh of the week: “People should and do trust me.” —Hillary Clinton

And last… “Hillary Clinton infuriated reporters covering her at a July Fourth parade in New Hampshire by forcing them to stand behind a rope away from the street. She needed a little me-time. She had just heard Greece is about to run out of all its cash reserves, meaning she’ll never give a speech in Greece.” —Argus Hamilton