The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Upright: “Why is it that men would ever presume to take what is not theirs to take? What is it that women would be too afraid to speak up? Could it be that the expectations of the culture have forced both men and women into a desensitization against any kind of respect for the other? Could it be that we’ve been breathing an air that has us believing that the other exists for gratification rather than for awe and reverence?” —Kathryn Jean Lopez

Good: “Harvard and Yale combined sit on a nest egg of almost $60 billion, enough to give every student free tuition at these schools from now until forever. Instead these university endowments act like giant financial trading dynasties, with very little of the largesse going to help students pay tuition. The GOP plan would put a small tax on the unspent money in the endowments if they don’t start spending the money down. My only complaint is that the tax is way too low. But the first shot against the university-industrial complex has finally been fired.” —Stephen Moore

Amazing how revisionist history is suddenly tossed out the window: “I don’t think you can rework history. I think if [Bill Clinton’s impropriety] happened today — if any president did that today — they would have to resign.” —Bill de Blasio

Friendly fire: “Hillary Clinton needs to stop. She needs to stop talking about this topic unless Bill Clinton wants to come forward and apologize for being a sexual harasser, for settling with women, for what happened with — he needs to apologize.” —MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski

A vast right-wing conspiracy: “[Fox News] wasn’t there when Bill first ran. It was one of the reasons he probably survived.” —Hillary Clinton

And last… “Why do politicians escape when private citizens face consequences? There are two main answers: an inflated sense of importance and the reality of the binary choice.” —David French