Insight: “Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.” —Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)

Alpha Jackass: “Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them.” —bioethicist Travis Rieder

Non Compos Mentis: “Remington may never have known Adam Lanza, but they have been courting him for years. The courtship between Remington and Adam Lanza is at the heart of the case.” – Attorney Joshua D. Koskoff

Belly laugh of the week: “The tragic reality of gender and climate is that women, especially women of colour, are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, but are far less likely to be empowered to cope because they have fewer resources such as power and access to finance and technology.” —Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine in a piece titled, “Global climate action must be gender equal”

Leftists’ ultimate goal: “Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there’s no way around it: They’ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem.” —The Boston Globe’s David Scharfenberg in his piece, “Hand over your weapons”

Vitriol: “We will remember if [Republicans] don’t help us kill this [tax reform] bill. They better kill this bill or we’re going to kill them in the next election.” —Rep. Alan Lowenthal

And last… “Last year, a grand total of 17 unarmed blacks were killed by the police, according to The Washington Post. Contrast this with the approximately 6,000 to 7,000 blacks killed annually, almost all — as many as 90 percent — by other blacks. Where is [Colin] Kaepernick on the fact that the No. 1 cause of preventable death for young blacks is homicide, while the No. 1 cause of preventable death for young white men is ‘unintentional injuries,’ or accidents?” —Larry Elder