The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.” —William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

For the record: “A few weeks later and security footage from Parkland is already surfacing. 5 months later and still not one second of video from Las Vegas.” —Matt Walsh

Upright: “Very disheartened to see many in media covering the Don Jr. divorce news with glee, making jokes and memes about it. Divorce is sad and hard on kids. I speak from experience. Let’s have some sympathy and restraint.” —S.E. Cupp

Holier than thou: “[Republicans are] coming after me because of my city, and they’re against LGBT, and they’re against poor children — that’s been my mantra, poor children in America that I’m here to support.” —Nancy Pelosi, who also accused Republicans of being “devoid of ideas about how they’re going to meet the needs of the American people”

Friendly fire: “Not soon enough.” —Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s opinion of when Hillary Clinton should bug off

Tens of billions of dollars later… “I don’t agree with the America-first rhetoric.” —Bill Gates

Hypocrite: “I have huge respect for [Sean Hannity’s and Rachel Maddow’s] success, and I take nothing away from them. But … I don’t know where their partisan fights are getting us.” —CNN’s Chris Cuomo

Non Compos Mentis: “Like it or not, studies suggest that Clinton may not be wrong on white women voting like their husbands.” —The Washington Post

And last… “I remember with Occupy Wall Street, they seemed to think that by making a lot of noise and getting news coverage, someone would come up with a coherent solution for the problem they could only vaguely identify. That did not happen.” —Frank Fleming