The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight: “Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.” —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Leftmedia double standards: “Bush flies over New Orleans two days after Katrina: DOESN’T CARE! Obama visits San Bernardino two weeks after massacre on way to tropical paradise: COMPASSIONATE.” —twitter satirist @hale_razor

Village Idiots: “[W]e’ve allowed these trillion-dollar industries to manipulate the argument about the science for too long. This year is a massive tipping point in the climate struggle. … [L]ook, everyone loves money, I love money — we live in the United States. This is a capitalist country. But ultimately we’ve locked ourselves, through capitalism, into an addiction to oil that’s incredibly hard to reverse.” —Leonardo DiCaprio (So when can we expect you to begin living like the rest of us commoners?)

Wrong prescription: “Never before in our history have enemies outside the United States been able to propagate genuinely dangerous ideas on American territory in such an effective way — and by this I mean ideas that lead directly to terrorist attacks that kill people. The novelty of this threat calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech.” —University of Chicago Law School professor Eric Posner in Slate

Non Compos Mentis: “White men are approximately 30 percent of the population but account for 60 percent of the mass shootings. … White men are 31 percent of the population but own 62 percent of the guns in the United States. … There will be no effective gun control in the United States, even in the aftermath of horrific events such as Sandy Hook, the Planned Parenthood Shooting, or the San Bernardino massacre, until politicians, pundits, and analysts realize that the gun is a type of totem or fetish object for too many white men.” —Salon’s Chauncey DeVega

And last… “Our Syria evolution: 1) Assad must go. 2) Don’t you dare use chemical weapons. 3) Use of chemical weapons shows why Assad must go. 4) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.” —Andrew Stiles