Village Idiot

“We were kind of embarrassed at that time to call ourselves American because of the dirty politics of the Vietnam War. To be as subtle as possible, it’s more embarrassing now.” —musician Nancy Wilson

The BIG Lie

“I have never seen any instance of political bias determining editorial decisions [at NPR]” —NPR CEO Katherine Maher

For the Record

“In government regulations, Signal is not an authorized system for transmitting government secrets. Period. … Officials do not get to make up their own rules because they personally suppose Signal is just as secure as the government channels.” —Andrew C. McCarthy

“Signal is a commercial-grade, encrypted-messaging app that is commonly used to gain a degree of confidentiality. But it’s not an appropriate venue for senior government officials to discuss U.S. foreign policy or a surprise military action.” —National Review

“In the end, this was a blunder, but also what the left calls a ‘teachable moment’, in which a) all future similar conferences should be either held in person or its participants triple-checked on a secure line; and b) all Trump high appointees and their staffers should know enough to have nothing to do with those who wake up each morning wishing to destroy them — and go to bed each night lamenting that they have not done enough to advance that destruction.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“So, let me get this straight. The Atlantic released the so-called ‘war plans’ and those ‘plans’ include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information. Those are some really [crappy] war plans. This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an ‘attack plan’ (as he now calls it). Not even close.” —Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

“Procedure-based scandals have gone the way of the dodo bird. When James Comey refused to prosecute Hillary Clinton in 2016 on the basis that she had not intended to disseminate classified information … he essentially wiped out all similar potential scandals in the future.” —Ben Shapiro

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“Among the top 20 universities receiving federal largesse are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Dartmouth College. … Added together, the total for the top 20 is close to $2 trillion. … Why should wealthy American universities that are not providing the useful kinds of education they once did continue to receive the equivalent of life support from the federal government?” —Cal Thomas

Sad, but True

“Planned Parenthood is now boasting about being the second-largest provider of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ hormone care in the U.S. And they’re doing it to kids after just 30-minute consultations.” —Lila Rose

The Fix is In

“The tentacles of the censorship-industrial complex are choking out freedom of expression, debate, and the right to criticize powerful institutions such as corporate media and the government. Federal and state governments fund and promote censorship and blacklisting technology. … Academic institutions … are given large grants not to defend free speech but to conduct research on so-called disinformation for use by the censorship regime. … Attacking free speech and debate has become a massive industry, much of it government-funded and all of it threatening a free society.” —Mollie Hemingway

“Think about what is a right, as opposed to what is a privilege. As soon as the government operates under the irrational notion that it gives you rights…know that they can also take them away.” —Allen West

Upright

“If you invite me into your home … and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray-painting your kitchen, I bet you you’re going to kick me out. Well, we’re going to do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us. We don’t want it.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio

And Last…

“Just captured a major leader of MS13. Tom HOMAN is a superstar!” —Donald Trump