The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Braying Jackass: “There is [sic] still those shrill voices in the national political arena trying to undo what has finally been done, but they’re not going to succeed, don’t worry about it. … [T]here’s [sic] homophobes still left, most of them are running for president I think.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie: “I have gone further than anybody that I’m aware of in American history. Now that’s not a lot of history because we haven’t had emails for that long but as long as we’ve had them I’ve gone longer and farther trying to be as transparent as possible than anybody.” —Hillary Clinton

Non Compos Mentis: “This [Benghazi] committee was set up, as [Republicans] have admitted, for the purpose of making a partisan political issue out of the deaths of four Americans. I would never have done that, and if I were president and there were Republicans or Democrats thinking about that, I would have done everything to shut it down.” —Hillary Clinton (Well duh. Why would she incriminate herself?)

Village Idiot hypocrisy: “[Hollywood] is the most liberal of all industries … and for it to be so shamelessly white and male? … I’m telling you, anthropologists are not gonna look kindly on us. We’re gonna look like Neanderthals. … It’s a form of apartheid, folks, when a minority controls everything and the majority gets a bone thrown to them. That’s just absolutely wrong.” —filmmaker Michael Moore

Dezinformatsia: “One terrorist group is responsible for more civilian deaths since December 2012 (the Sandy Hook massacre) than Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas and the Taliban. Yet it is the only nearly-state sponsored terrorist group that is not listed by the U.S. State Department as such. It is the National Rifle Association and for their unending lobbying that’s kept a lid on gun control we now have 428 times more American deaths by gun than deaths by foreign terrorists.” —New York Daily News columnist Linda Statsi

And last… “New York City reports it’s struggling to keep an increasing population of stray cats under control. That’s a tough one. Have they tried cat-free zone signs?” —Fred Thompson