The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“Look, my Marine … has a code to blow up the world.” —President Joe Biden

The BIG Lies

“Almost everything we now live with, from assault rifles to stand-your-ground laws, is new. This crushing pattern of domestic armament is not the American heritage or the will of the people. It’s a political experiment, conjured and contrived by a militant minority. … What changed? The short answer is President Ronald Reagan, whose crisp, Cold War thinking reduced domestic policy to a series of simple choices. Good and evil. Light and darkness. Arm the righteous, he promised, and crime will take care of itself.” —historian Dominic Erdozain

“This ‘constitutional right’ to own a gun for self-defense is another product of our times — a right unknown before the ‘dramatic upheaval’ of the District of Columbia v. Heller decision of 2008. For decades, gun activists have claimed history for their radicalism, framing gun control as a failure of patriotism. But theirs is an imagined past, a brutalized freedom — and one that is now tearing American communities apart.” —Dominic Erdozain

“I cut the federal deficit by over $7 billion.” —Joe Biden

“We’ve created over 14 million brand-new jobs. Good-paying jobs.” —Joe Biden

“When I took office, I vowed I’d be president for all Americans, whether you live in a blue state or a red state, whether you live in rural or urban areas, and we’re delivering on that promise.” —Joe Biden

For the Record

“Team Biden is taking on ‘misinformation’ about inflation. But here’s a problem for the White House: Americans have experienced Biden-era inflation in their own lives. They know what it has done to their finances. They don’t feel positively about an economy that has made it difficult for them just to get by. And no Biden effort to suppress discussion or attack ‘misinformation’ will change what those Americans already know to be true.” —Byron York

Upright

“There is no free speech if the government can forbid anonymous speech. Like all expression, nameless social media posts can be put to repugnant uses. But under the Constitution, we err on the side of freedom. Anonymous speech can be vile. Banning it would be worse.” —Jeff Jacoby

“Abortion, the collapse of marriage and family, and dropping fertility rates have everything to do with the overall health of our society. As we look at this data from the Census Bureau projecting an aging country and a shrinking population, we need to look at the changing values prevailing in our culture as the number one culprit driving our problems.” —Star Parker

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“While the dead bodies of Jewish Israelis were still warm, while hundreds of Jewish Israelis were being carried as hostages back to Hamas tunnels under Gaza, Jewish Americans were alarmed to see some of our fellow citizens characterize a brutal terrorist attack as justified because of the actions of the Israeli government. A vicious, bloodcurdling, premeditated massacre of innocent men, women, children, the elderly — justified! Even worse, in some cases, people even celebrated what happened, describing it as the deserved fate of quote ‘colonizers’ and calling for quote ‘glory to the martyrs’ who carried out these heinous attacks.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

And Last…

“No one with two functioning brain cells looks at Hamas’ massacre and rape and kidnapping and says, ‘Let’s give these people a state.’ No one.” —Erielle Davidson