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December 19, 2024

Reader Comments

Observations on the week’s analysis and commentary.

Publisher’s Note: We receive hundreds of comments and can only select a few to publish in our Tuesday and Thursday “Reader Comments” section. Every article we post has social media links to start a conversation online and a “Comment” button to send a comment to our editors.

Re: Yes, Virginia…

“I was familiar with this letter but had not read it for many years. And re-reading it, it’s clear why it is the most reprinted column in history!” —Illinois

“Thank you for this uplifting message. Here on the Left Coast, in the once-great state of California, we can always depend on The Patriot Post for clarity and a proper focus on what is eternal, not temporal. ‘Pro Deo et Libertate,’ indeed!” —California

“Thank you for providing the historical context for this child’s letter, and Church’s response. It is a message we all need not just at Christmas but every day of the year!” —Massachusetts

Re: The Hysterical Drone Hysterics

“This is the most cogent and rational analysis of the drone concerns available anywhere. Thank you for standing alone with this informative article dispelling the irrational concerns about drones, but highlighting the concerns we should be paying attention to.” —New Jersey

“I suspect all those drones are just checking on who has been naughty and who has been nice so Santa Clause will know where to stop!” —New York

“Clearly, as Alexander notes, while there are legitimate concerns about drone use, the greater concern is that many Americans, me among them, do not trust ANYTHING Biden or his corrupt administrators say about anything!” —Ohio

Re: Friday: Below the Fold

“In regards to the ‘separation of church and state’ that everybody is so obsessed with, it is not even a part of the Constitution or any law. It was an opinion expressed by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association on January 1, 1802. It was a lengthy missive, but it was an opinion, not a requirement or law.” —North Carolina

“I wonder what AOC thinks about the violence the Social Security Administration commits against people who routinely get denied disability claims and are forced to endure a year or more of lawyers and lawsuits, lack of healthcare coverage, and no income to get benefits and disability income approved. SSA recently cut off a lot of recipients because they had assets greater than $2,000. Assets such as a life insurance policy, savings account, or Christmas Club account. Some recipients not only lost their SSA benefits, but they were handed a bill to pay back benefits they’d been receiving. That right there is a troubling violent act by the government.” —Texas

Re: The Growing Contagion of Leftist Violence

“Nathanael Blake’s statement — ‘ought to consider how the left would react if the right responded with half of this glee to the shooting of an abortionist’ — took me back to May 31, 2009, when a Wichita, KS, late-term abortion doctor by the name of George Tiller was killed by a pro-life individual. I clearly remember the pro-abortion crowd and local media coming unglued.” —Kansas

“Would this be the same Left that has a meltdown every time some loon with a gun shoots innocent people? The same Left that wants all guns confiscated and the Second Amendment obliterated just because? Why is it different now that a loon from ‘their’ side has done the killing? Do any of these useful idiots EVER hear the hypocritical, obscene garbage they spew? The elitist Left makes the pre-revolutionary French aristocracy look positively enlightened.” —Pennsylvania

Re: Biden’s Economy Stumbles Out the Door

“The current infestation of inflation actually started in 2008 under Obama when the Federal Reserve initiated quantitative easing (QE). Simply put, QE is printing U.S. dollars. By the time QE ceased 14 years later, the Fed had printed $8 trillion and grew its balance sheet to $9 trillion from $8.5 billion. Furthermore, this dollar printing is offset by federal debt in the form of Treasury bonds issued. Every citizen for generations will pay this debt back through depressed economic activity.” —Colorado

Re: Biden’s Final Monkey Wrenches

“Gone are the days when the legislative and executive branches worked together in both parties for the American people. Mudslinging, fences to halt progress — whatever it takes to hold power through the next administration is the name of the game. And they wonder why we don’t trust them… I won’t waste my typing the words to express the ‘why.’” —California

Re: The Democrats’ Civil War

“I, for one, am glad that the Democrats don’t know what to do with their lousy election performance. These cheaters did everything they could to try and stop Donald Trump from going back to the White House. The only thing they have going for them is that the average voter has a short memory. So it’s up to the Republicans to keep reminding them!” —Illinois

Re: The Mixed Multitude

“We must know who the ‘mixed multitude’ are lest we uproot the good along with the tares. The Scriptures give us specific descriptions: ‘Beware of false prophets’; ‘reject a contentious person after the second and third admonition’; the manifestly impenitent, who ‘will not hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector.’ But we must not act as knock-heads cops, but ‘in a spirit of gentleness and fear, considering yourselves lest you also be tempted.’” —Minnesota

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