Non Compos Mentis

“I’m really proud that we’ve got the gayest parliament … anywhere in the world. I don’t think that there’s any parliament that is gayer than this parliament.” —outgoing British Prime Minister Kier Starmer

“Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting — biological male, biological female — the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent. But just so you know, we’re using those terms from the decision itself: biological male, biological female.” —NBC News’s Craig Melvin with a trigger warning

Braying Jenny

“I am the proud daughter of Guatemalan immigrants. I am a proud ‘anchor baby.’ AND I AM AN AMERICAN!” —Illinois Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez

For the Record

“The administration was never going to win the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court [with an executive order]. … But the real losers from Tuesday’s decision are the American people. That’s because the high court didn’t just strike down Trump’s January 2025 executive order on ‘Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.’ Rather, by a 5-4 vote, it said that Congress did not have the authority to change our current practice of granting U.S. citizenship to almost everyone born here, even children born to tourists, foreign students, visa workers, or illegal aliens. This removes the issue from normal democratic politics. The only way to reform the rules now is a constitutional amendment.” —political analyst Mark Krikorian

“Unconditional birthright citizenship practiced in the United States is not the norm. Approximately 80% of countries around the world reject it outright or limit it in some way.” —Gary Bauer

“Someone born to, say, a Chinese birth tourist that goes back to China after two weeks is not ‘as American’ as those born and raised here. And the 14th Amendment never contemplated the former situation.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

“My country is more than a pile of magic dirt. While the Supreme Court may consider anchor babies of illegal aliens to be citizens, they are not my countrymen. Citizenship means something more than jumping a border and having a baby while here illegally.” —Oversight Project President Mike Howell

Re: The Left

“People who believe we are responsible for 9/11 are being welcomed into the Democrats’ big tent, along with those who regularly incite violence against conservatives, Christians and anyone who disagrees with them. The Democrats’ ‘big tent’ is a big lie.” —Gary Bauer

Friendly Fire

“She was praising Kim and Stalin. … Some of the most evil and terrible people in the world or in history, and she was praising them. … She deleted those things, but this [is] not ancient history. … Our party’s becoming an orgy of socialism.” —Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman on New York DSA congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier

And Last…

“Your American homework assignment for this week is simple: read the entire Declaration of Independence. … I will not be here for America 300, but my daughters may; certainly, my grandsons will. We must do our homework assignment and instill in them the tradition of doing the same as we go forward.” —Allen West