The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight: “It does not require many words to speak the truth.” —Chief Joseph (1840-1904)

Food for thought: “In the biographical movie ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ a World War II medic, Private Desmond Doss, a pacifist, refused to carry a rifle. In the midst of the carnage, during the Battle of Okinawa, Doss carried wounded soldiers and rappelled them down a cliff face to safety then treated them alongside the medics. He was awarded a Medal of Honor for saving scores of lives. If, however, after the war, Pvt. Doss had opened an office with a shingle saying ‘Doss’ trauma unit,‘ authorities would have thrown him in jail for practicing medicine without a license. His skills were good enough for the soldiers on the battlefield, but not good enough for civilians when Doss returned stateside.” —Larry Elder

Braying Jenny: “If you’re a senior, you know almost half of Medicaid is about long-term health care. Do you want grandma living in the guest room? You repeal the Affordable Care Act.” —Nancy Pelosi (Once upon a time, it WAS the family, not the government, that took care of people…)

Demo-gogues: “If they don’t appoint somebody good [to the Supreme Court], we’re going to oppose them tooth and nail. … It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that [Democrats] could support.” —Chuck Schumer

Is that a threat? “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, [Trump] is being really dumb to do this.” —Chuck Schumer

And last… “Barack Obama will leave office after eight years of strutting even while sitting down, preening even while standing up, swanking while playing 18 holes. Yet he remains the first president in American history to cast no shadow.” —R. Emmett Tyrrell