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Re: Supreme Court Weighs Gender Mutilation

“I am confused: Why would anyone mutilate the healthy bodies of children under the age of 18? We do not allow anyone to get a driver’s license until they are 16. We don’t allow anyone under the age of 18 to enlist in the military. We don’t allow voting until a person is 18. Alcohol cannot legally be consumed by a person under the age of 21. When did a 12-year-old have the sense to make decisions about having body parts cut off or medical procedures that will have a lifelong impact? My observation is that it’s all about the money; the medical profession is so corrupt that they have found a new excuse to charge the insurance companies by vocabulary manipulation.” —Wisconsin

“When someone says ‘gender-affirming care,’ all I hear is ‘delusion-affirming care’ or ‘mental-illness-affirming care.’ Whatever happened to ‘who-you-were-created-to-be-affirming care’? Self-centered ideology seems to have won the day in the hearts and minds of our younger generations. When their feelings don’t comport with reality, you’re a bigot. They need help, not lies! We need a massive reawakening.” —Colorado

“The decay of morals has spawned a new immoral thinking. In the 1950s, although things weren’t as great as we’d like to remember them, we didn’t have these things to deal with. One income was enough to buy a home and have one car that everyone participated in washing. These days it seems that owning a home is beyond a lot of people even with two incomes. You lived within your means, and if you wanted better, you worked harder. These days, no matter how much you work, you may not afford what you want. No problem — we have credit cards to the rescue! We live in debt. Our government lives in debt. We have reached the point of ‘We owe our soul to the company store.’ Tennessee Ford was a visionary.” —Illinois

Re: Hunter to Suckers: Pardon My Tax Evasion

“I can understand the furor and cries of hypocrisy that have followed the Hunter Biden pardon. However, it seems that the populace has forgotten the age-old maxim: ‘Our children are what we teach them to be.’ If the ‘big guy’ is all that we believe him to be, why should it surprise us that he has a ‘tick-turd’ for a son? Moreover, I believe that applies to the entire family. Biden is a sacrilegious ‘Catholic,’ an un-indicted murderer of an unknown number of innocent children, a pathological liar, a lost soul who has traded his soul for the glimmer of gold and power.” —Texas

Re: CEO Murdered, Leftists Celebrate

“Let’s add a few more things. The cost of healthcare. The perpetuity of ‘treatments’ as apposed to cures or prevention. Care being given or compromised based on a patient’s ability to pay or what insurance will cover vs. what is best for the patient’s specific needs. This does not line up with the American way. We need competition and incentives for better care and lower costs. In 1978, a VHS VCR was a thousand dollars (not adjusting for inflation). By the 1990s, you could get one for $50 at Walmart.” —Texas

“Health insurance companies are notoriously subjective in their handling of life and death issues. I’ve known people who did not receive treatment for serious health problems resulting in death. A job comes with the duty to do it morally and correctly. That includes making sure your workers are acting properly.” —New York

Re: Just 6% of Federal Workers Show Up in Person

“I’ve said it before, and will say it again: Where an employee is located is not a measure of productivity. The problem is lack of measurable standards to evaluate work performance and/or their enforcement, and it doesn’t matter if someone works from their pajamas at home (decreasing traffic and saving gas) or warming a seat in an office building. That said, those office building leases need to be eliminated, because if they are leasing empty space, that is where the taxpayer-funded waste is occurring, not specifically because butts aren’t in chairs in offices.” —Oklahoma

Re: Thursday: Below the Fold

“Black church coalition demands MSNBC suspend Al Sharpton over undisclosed Kamala Harris campaign payments (Washington Free Beacon). Obviously, these people aren’t aware that Sharpton is the de facto prince of the ‘Worship the Golden Calf and Line My Pockets’ atheist church. He has sold his soul and is making fools of all who support him. By the way, anybody have any idea how he managed to acquire so much real estate and avoid paying taxes? Is he more equal than Hunter?” —Texas

Re: Saving the Union

“Lincoln’s humanity? Lincoln declared total war on his own countrymen. His orders to that drunkard Grant resulted in women, children, and other non-combatants being killed, homes burned, farm lands poisoned, and property stolen. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was his last attempt to gather support for this uncivil war. The atrocity committed against his people had nothing to do with slavery but everything to do with keeping the revenue coming from Southern states. It’s always about the money. Less than 2% of Southerners owned slaves, yet the South contributed and sacrificed thousands of non-slave-owning individuals in defense of their families and livelihood from an invading army.” —South Carolina