The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”

Obama’s America: “Powerful, wealthy special interests here at home have used our government to create, in our own country, an economy that is leaving a majority of our people behind. We are allowing our land of opportunity to become a land of inequality.” —Democrat presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on why voters should keep Democrats in the White House

Dezinformatsia: “I don’t know, maybe we were not skeptical enough [of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama]. It was a campaign. … I think as journalists, basically, what we do is we watch the campaign and we report what the two sides are doing. I think it is the politicians who make the campaign.” —CBS’s Bob Schieffer (“It’s unfortunate given Schieffer’s retirement that he was unwilling to admit the role the media have in shaping a political campaign.” —Newsbusters’ Jeffrey Meyer)

Non Compos Mentis: “I have my disagreements, say, with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He’s chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.” —New York Times’ David Brooks

Village Idiot: “[T]he connection between climate change and human activity is at least as strong as cigarettes and cancer. And so, I just want everybody to keep this in mind: that it’s very reasonable that the floods in Texas, the strengthening storms … these things are a result of human activity making things worse.” —Bill Nye the “Science” Guy

And last… “The New York Times ripped President Obama for inaction leading up to the fall of Ramadi. ISIS has set fire to Tikrit, they’ve set fire to Mosul and they’ve set fire to Ramadi. Saudi Arabia has just hired a New York ad agency to re-brand ISIS as Climate Change in an effort to get President Obama to declare war.” —Argus Hamilton