The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin.” —Sonia Sotomayor on “gender-affirming care” for minors

For the Record

“The ‘gender-affirming’ bit is meant to establish the legitimacy of a minor’s potentially fleeting but passion-fueled self-conception. Transgenderism in kids cannot be an ephemeral thing produced by a mercurial mind — it must be the fruition of a destiny conferred at birth. The ‘care’ part is self-explanatory. What kind of ghoul would deny ‘care’ to the deserving and needy?” —Noah Rothman

“The Left is desperate to create new categories of oppression, which has culminated in ‘trans kids’ — a purely ideological phenomenon that is justified post hoc through fake ‘medical necessity.’” —Chris Rufo

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the revolving door and the eye-opening profits of the health care industry.” —Armstrong Williams

“Biden announced that American taxpayers — you and me — are giving $1 billion to help the people of Angola who have been ‘displaced from their homes’ because of climate change. Biden says the people of Angola are suffering from climate change. WRONG! They are suffering from a corrupt government and failed socialist policies. And why do we owe anybody money for ‘climate change’? We should bill them for most of what they have because it was invented or built in America!” —Gary Bauer

“If Hunter’s last name weren’t ‘Biden,’ special counsel David Weiss would never have let him get away with failing to register as a foreign agent or avoid paying millions in taxes that flowed from his foreign arrangements. If your name isn’t Biden, don’t try writing off your hookers and crack as tax deductions.” —David Harsanyi

“There are two big problems for those who push the politics of economic redistribution. First, the United States already has a highly redistributive tax system. Second, the United States already has highly redistributive economic policies.” —Michael Barone

Pardon This

“President Biden’s pardon of his son will contribute to the growing cynicism many have about politics, politicians and Washington.” —Cal Thomas

“Democrats are now viewing the presidential pardon as a license to commit crimes, playing the victim when those targeted by their misdeeds want justice.” —Charlie Kirk

“Joe Biden’s sleazy, deceitful, unprecedented, sweeping pardon of his son Hunter is the quintessential ‘norm’ shattered — the very thing Uncle Joe purported to stand against for years.” —Josh Hammer

And Last…

“Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government.” —Speaker of the House Mike Johnson