Insight: “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)

Upright: “[W]hile no one should be compelled to stand, they should recognize that by sitting in protest to the flag they are disrespecting everyone who sacrificed to make this country what it is today — as imperfect as it might be. … It is a flag for everyone, of every color, of every race, of every creed, and of every orientation, but the privilege of living under this flag does not come without cost. Nor should it come without respect.” —Adm. William McRaven, Ret.

Dezinformatsia: “Hillary Clinton had it right when she made her famous declaration that a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ was out to get her and her husband. The opposition was and is passionate. It is well financed. It sees dark — sometimes preposterous — motives in nearly everything the Clintons do. By the time Barack Obama took office, what she had called a conspiracy had grown into a permanent institution.” —The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty

Belly laugh of the week: “I feel very good about the work of the foundation. I feel very good about my service as secretary of state. No decision I ever made was influenced by anybody. What I made a decision based on was what was good for the United States, what was good for our values, our interests, and our security. And the State Department has confirmed there’s no evidence of any such influence at all.” —Hillary Clinton

The BIG lie: “The fact is that whatever it was that Hillary Clinton dealt with in that manner had no threat to our security, and I think that too much has been made of this. … This is really much ado about something, but too much ado.” —Nancy Pelosi, who further asserts the attention devoted to Clinton’s email scandal “is a distraction from what we really should be talking about”

And last… “[T]he last thing that anyone who cares about the conservative movement should want is for the public to base its opinion of it on people who are trying to offend as many people as possible to get attention.” —John Hawkins