THE FOUNDATION: THE PEOPLE

“To deny that [the people] are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise.” —Alexander Hamilton

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the Village Glitterati: “I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.” —singer Sheryl Crow, proposing a way to wipe out global warming ++ “A couple of things we wanted to clear up as we wrap up our tour. First, Sheryl’s suggestion of using one square of toilet tissue per bathroom visit (part of a comic moment onstage) was a joke.” —Laurie David, producer of “An Inconvenient Truth” *A joke. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

Separation of mind and body: “You know what concerns me? How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic?… Five. How about separation of church and state in America?” —Rosie O’Donnell

The need to exploit: “Details are still forthcoming about what motivated the shooter in this case to act. It is well known, however, how easy it is for an individual to get powerful weapons in our country… It is long overdue for us to take some common-sense actions to prevent tragedies like this from continuing to occur.” —Paul Helmke, President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Supporting infanticide: “[The Supreme Court’s] ruling was, under the guise of jurisprudence, nothing short of a political and quasi-religious referendum on the rights of women to make decisions about their own lives. In finding for the ban, [they] have not merely endangered the health and well-being of women who seek to exercise their autonomous rights as citizens of this nation; they have also endangered the health and well-being of our democracy as a whole.” —Sara Gould, Foundation for Women

DEZINFORMATSIA

In all things, moderation: “In just a few hours, this place will be packed with people all wearing blue. Now, where they will stand represents where the Manhattan coastline could be if the sea level rises just ten feet, actually a moderate estimate for global warming standards.” —ABC’s Christianne Klein ++ You lousy polluter!: “If you think you have nothing to do with global warming, think again. From the car you drive, to the house you live in, it all contributes to the problem.” —ABC’s Sam Champion

Say what?: “The press has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush administration to go to war on false pretenses.” —Bill Moyers ++ Nobody’s fool: “I don’t think there is any excuse for, you know, my performance and the performance of the press in general in the roll up to the war… We didn’t dig enough. And we shouldn’t have been fooled in this way.” —Dan Rather

The truth hurts: “The cost of grooming hair is peanuts compared with the cost of grooming an image. Hillary is paying a fortune to try to buy the secrets of likability. Her financial reports for the first three months of 2007 show debts to consulting firms of $447,000.” —Maureen Dowd

Katie bar the door: “It’s a disaster. Everybody knows it’s not working. CBS may not cut her loose, but I guarantee you, somebody’s thinking about it.” —anonymous CBS veteran correspondent on Katie Couric

Newspulper Headlines: Don’t Take Investment Advice From This Guy: “John Edwards: I’d Invest Billions in Michigan” —Detroit Free Press ++ “Michigan’s State Budget Problems Among Nation’s Worst” —Associated Press

That’s a Groovy Missile Plan, Comrade: “Gates Gets Cool Russian Response Over Missile Plan” —Reuters

Isn’t This an Invidious Stereotype?: “Lipscomb Fees for Trailer-Park Trash Will Not Increase” —Birmingham (AL) News

‘The Ruffles on the Door and the Flower-Box Dividers Are Just Perfect’: “Plan for Female Inmate Stalls” —The Los Angeles Times

News You Can Use: “The Solution You Didn’t Think You Needed for the Problem You Didn’t Know You Had” —Plain Dealer (Cleveland) (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

INSIGHT

“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“There ain’t no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.” —Davy Crockett

“I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.” —Frederick Douglass

“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.” —H. L. Mencken

“The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.” —Ann Landers

UPRIGHT

“Peace cannot be achieved through pretending that war does not exist.” —Steven Plaut ++ “The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.” —Burt Prelutsky

“If the war in Iraq is such an unnecessary and futile expenditure of blood and treasure as Pelosi et al. have been saying, why not put an end to it? But to do that would mean taking responsibility for the consequences—and those consequences would be disastrous and lasting. They would probably still be lasting when the 2008 elections come around. The Democrats cannot risk that.” —Thomas Sowell

“We can’t play nice with [the Left]. They go for the throat, and they don’t let go. Unless we fight back, we will not only lose elections, we will lose this country in the process.” —Bobby Eberle

“There is a time for everything, and the immediate aftermath of a ghastly mass murder is a time for tears and silence and prayer—not for exploiting the dead to advance a political agenda.“—Jeff Jacoby

“Can you conceivably wrap your arms around the perverted concept that a woman can’t be a real woman unless she has the complete autonomy to direct a doctor to partially deliver her baby for the purpose of killing it? My purpose isn’t to offend here, but, truly, I just don’t get it.”—David Limbaugh

"It is patently absurd to judge sane, normal people as being incompetent and untrustworthy to bear arms while blithely ignoring the obvious truth of the old saying that when good people are legally disarmed, only bad people will have guns.”—Michael Reagan

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“D For Defeatism: Party Of Retreat: The Senate’s top Democrat has announced to terrorists a U.S. surrender in Iraq. Considering our new strategy’s documented successes, Harry Reid’s determination to lose is practically treasonous. In a week that saw the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and a Senate committee subject the attorney general to a modern-day Salem witch trial, the Senate majority leader managed to say something that made headlines: ‘This war is lost,’ the Nevada Democrat told reporters Thursday, ‘and this surge is not accomplishing anything.’ That’s odd. According to the Pentagon, the influx of tens of thousands of troops, accompanied by a new strategy focused on counterinsurgency, and led by a new commander, Gen. David Petraeus, is accomplishing plenty. Over the past six weeks, as the Baghdad security plan has been implemented, attacks on civilians in the city have been cut roughly in half. Civilian casualties are down almost a quarter nationwide, with attacks on civilians off 17%. Only in north-central Iraq did violence grow…Reid has instead given moral support to the terrorists. His ‘leadership’ has been to try to cut off our forces’ war funding. Now he has told the Islamofascists that victory is theirs if they can just keep blowing up U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens a little while longer. In aiding and comforting the enemy in wartime, Reid has betrayed the office he holds, shamed the Nevadans he represents and made the Democratic Party he leads synonymous with surrender. There is one way he can repair the damage he’s done to the nation: step down.”—Investor’s Business Daily

THE DEMO-GOGUES

From the Surrender Monkeys: “I am proud of these troops and what they have done. They won the war and the mission was accomplished. We cannot win it militarily.”—Rep. John Murtha ++ “The military mission has long since been accomplished. The failure has been political. It has been policy. It has been presidential.”—Harry Reid, who claimed last week that “the war is lost”

Oh please!: “I can’t think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?… I believe in using former presidents, particularly what my husband has done, to really get people around the world feeling better about our country.”—Hillary Clinton on plans to make Bill her “world ambassador”

However the spirit leads: “Earth Day brought me into activism in the first place—and I still find it empowering because it’s not a day for the politicians, it’s a day that began to pressure the politicians—a day that was built from the ground up.”—John Kerry *”That"s funny, the day before yesterday wasn’t it Vietnam that brought Kerry into activism in the first place?“—James Taranto

Dream on: "When I walk into the oval office in January 2009, I’m afraid I’m gonna lift up the rug and I’m gonna see so much stuff under there!”—Hillary Clinton ++ “I think Hillary’s chances are not better than 50 percent, but right now that’s higher than anybody else’s.”—James Carville

This week’s “Non Compos Mentis” Award: “There’s also another kind of violence… It’s not necessarily physical violence but that the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways… [Don] Imus and the verbal violence that was directed at young women who were role models… It may be quiet, it may not surface to the same level of the tragedy [at Virginia Tech]… but it is violence nonethesame [sic]… There’s the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job has moved to another country… There is the violence of children, whose voices are not heard, in communities that are ignored. Who don’t have access to a decent education, who are surrounded by drugs and crime and a lack of hope. So there’s a lot of different forms of violence in our society…”—Barack Obama

SHORT CUTS

“I think we have a problem in our culture… with being realistic about reality… [T]he administration [at Virginia Tech] has created a ‘Gun-Free School Zone.’ Or, to be more accurate, they’ve created a sign that says ‘Gun-Free School Zone.’ And, like a loopy medieval sultan, they thought that simply declaring it to be so would make it so.”—Mark Steyn

“Three weeks after I wrote that I thought John Edwards might be going someplace in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, I found out where he was heading: to the barber shop.”—Richard Reeves

“It’s not against the law to be crazy—in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.”—Ann Coulter

“Why do we let politicians name buildings after each other? I understand building monuments to honor leaders like Washington and Jefferson. But monuments to current members of Congress? Haven’t we lowered the bar too far?”—John Stossel

“Chicago was chosen over Los Angeles to make America’s bid to host the Summer Olympics in nine years. It’s easy to see how Los Angeles lost out. What’s the point of having the games in the United States if nobody knows you’re in America?”—Argus Hamilton

“Those seeking the perfect politician seem to have forgotten that we’d have better luck finding a Sasquatch living in downtown Manhattan.”—J.B. Williams

Jay Leno: All the big candidates were out campaigning on the big Earth Day weekend. They had some good ideas. John McCain suggested we bomb Iran using hybrid planes. … Sanjaya was voted off ‘American Idol.’ Experts say that America wasn’t going to vote for a guy who spends that much time on his hair, which is more really bad news for John Edwards. … Edwards got two $400 haircuts in Beverly Hills. He said he only went to the expensive stylist because they are friends. Friends? What kind of friend charges $400 for a haircut? … During appearances in Denver, John Kerry re-opened the door to running for president in 2008. You know, somebody should really lock that door. It just keeps swinging open and closed. … Mitt Romney has announced that his son Tagg Romney has joined the campaign. No word from the other kids—Skip, Jump Rope and See Saw. … FEMA told Congress this week that a revised emergency response plan it was ordered to develop after Hurricane Katrina will not be ready by hurricane season. Well, there’s a shock. It’s only been two years. I’m surprised FEMA even knows when hurricane season is. … According to a news report out today, on average, 2006 was the safest year for airlines. It’s mostly due to JetBlue. You can’t have an accident if you never leave the runway.

Veritas vos Liberabit—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families—especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty, while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.)