The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

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