The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice! … Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time!” —Princeton University professor emeritus Cornel West

“Rest in power Aaron Bushnell. … May his sacrifice deepen our commitment to stop genocide now.” —Green Party candidate Jill Stein

Useful Idiot

“The important thing to focus on is any one instance shouldn’t shape our overall immigration policy.” —Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA) regarding Laken Riley, who was murdered allegedly by an illegal immigrant

The BIG Lie

“Not … wanting to talk about slavery or the Jim Crow or [the] civil rights movement, it is not who we are supposed to be. … And this is what Republicans are trying to do.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

For the Record

“In July 2021, Biden promised, ‘There’s nobody suggesting there’s unchecked inflation on the way — no serious economist.’ Like Biden himself, that hasn’t aged well. … If Biden really wanted to deal with inflation, he’d get federal spending under control and he’d get out of the way of businesses trying to cope.” —Nate Jackson

“Democrats never seem to think it’s greedy when they demand higher tax rates on corporations or the rich so they can ‘afford’ their income redistribution schemes.” —Nate Jackson

“If the economy was doing well and our southern border was secure, more Americans would be willing to help fund Ukraine. But as long as Americans effectively see Biden putting the country last, they’re not going to support spending billions on an apparently unwinnable war.” —Thomas Gallatin

“The unions have never answered a simple question: If the union label is so beneficial to workers, how come you need to force them to join?” —Stephen Moore

“I have been waiting for Donald Trump to do what so many world leaders, both current and former have done: condemn Vladimir Putin for having murdered Alexei Navalny. … As a conservative in the Reagan-Thatcher-John Paul mold, my DNA compels me to rise up against tyrants. That’s why my anger is strongest against my fellow travelers on the right, who have hitched their wagon to a man who compares his legal troubles to the death of a hero.” —Christine Flowers

“The [RINO] insult dates from the 1990s, when it meant a Republican who was squishy on conservative issues. Now it is shorthand for any Republican the former president deems insufficiently loyal personally.” —William McGurn

“Online media was never on a secure footing, dependent as it was not just on advertising — which is true for almost all media — but on the whims of Big Tech. … Fewer newspapers means more centralized power — and more conflict over it. Conservatives who don’t want that have reason to want newspapers to survive. And newspapers that want to survive have to fight hard for local interests and values — including conservative ones.” —Daniel McCarthy