Good question: “[B]lack men were roughly nine times more likely to be murdered than white men, and the overwhelming majority of those murders were committed by other black men. ... Given the undeniable reality that people don’t commit crime on a proportionate basis, why would any rational person believe that law enforcement shootings would follow population percentages more than crime statistics?” —David French
For the record: “One reason Americans are scared about the next president is that they should be. In 2017, a President Trump or President Clinton will be able to do almost anything he or she wishes without much oversight — thanks to the precedent of Obama’s overreach, abetted by a lapdog press that forgot that the ends never justify the means.” —Victor Davis Hanson
Braying Jackass: “We fight sometimes so that people can do things that we disagree with. ... I want Mr. Kaepernick and others who are on a knee, I want them to listen to the pain that that may cause somebody who, for example, had a spouse or a child who was killed in combat, and why it hurts them to see somebody not standing. But I also want people to think about the pain that he may be expressing about somebody who’s lost a loved one that they think was unfairly shot.” —Barack Obama, who isn’t interested in reasonable dialogue but rather political points
Village Idiots: “I would venture to say that this is the single most embarrassing thing that the United States Senate has done, possibly, since 1983.” —Josh Earnest on the Senate’s 9/11 vote
Non Compos Mentis: “[V]iolence has many roots — housing, health care, poverty, but certainly it has the tool, and that is guns. That is automatic weapons like AK-47s and others more sophisticated. America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.” —Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
And last... “To protest, hold a squat during the National Anthem. That proves the reason you’re not standing isn’t just because you’re lazy.” —Frank Fleming
