May 18, 2026

Monday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Hillary Clinton, Sarah Trone Garriott, NBC News, the AP, David J. Bier, Brandon Gill, Donald Trump, Victor Davis Hanson, and more.

The BIG Lie

“Abortion pills are safe, effective.” —Hillary Clinton

Race Bait

“I remember the first time I went back to northern Minnesota to visit, and I was just kind of shocked at how many white people there were.” —unearthed recording of Iowa Democrat House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott

“The resignation of a Southern California mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for China has sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination.” —NBC News

Yellow Journalism

“A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations.” —The Associated Press

Shot/Chaser

“Give up on the mass deportation fantasy. About one in five Fairfax residents is someone who could be deported or who lives with them. It would destroy neighborhoods.” —Cato Institute’s David J. Bier

“20% of the population in any U.S. county being deportable means that our immigration laws have completely failed and that drastic action is needed to fix the problem.” —Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX)

Political Futures

“I think the Democrats have a weird — a weird — candidate. … I think he’s a pathetic candidate, especially for Texas.” —President Donald Trump on James Talarico

Re: The Left

“The only meaningful resistance to the anti-Israel crowd is not the DEI coalition, not the new Democratic Party, not the coastal and credentialed and supposedly enlightened left-wing white elite, not the supposedly ‘character is destiny’ Never Trumpers, and certainly not the allegedly brave mavericks who have bolted from the MAGA base. Instead, what is left in the pathway of demonizing Israel and blaming Jews, here and abroad, is the supposed bigot Donald Trump and his ‘irredeemable,’ ‘deplorable’ MAGA movement — for now, the last dam holding back the rising flood.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“In the Trump era, the leftist lust to overturn all the norms to maximize their power has been growing every year. Trump’s reelection is always treated as the End of Democracy when it was obviously democracy’s continuation. Arrogant Democrats think democracy is only functioning when they win.” —Tim Graham

“This thing we call the Red-Green alliance is rooted in a vitriolic angst against Western civilization, and that means the Judeo-Christian faith heritage. The essence of our independence is individual rights, freedom, and liberty. Neither Marxists nor Islamists embrace that fundamental ideal.” —Allen West 

And Last…

“Crucially, only … a properly anchored society can claim to comprehend the truth — let alone assert that certain truths are ‘self-evident,’ as we recall every Independence Day. Because when God falls by the wayside, truth does as well.” —Josh Hammer

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