The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Upright: “Facts are facts and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn’t become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.” —EPA chief Scott Pruitt

For the record: “Britain outlaws guns, started taking knives and now starves toddlers to death. Something tells me the first 2 had to happen before the 3rd.” —Bethany S. Mandel

Food for thought: “The great silver lining in the collapse of the West is that people of faith are still producing large families while the secularists are either aborting or not having children at all.” —Erick Erickson

Good question: “You called the dossier unverified, salacious. Why did you [bring] that to the FISA court to ask for surveillance for Carter Page?” —Fox News’ Bret Baier to James Comey

It goes without saying… “Here’s the difference between the two parties. For the past eight years, the GOP has been the party that begins each conversation with, ‘This is why we can’t do it.’ The Democrats begin theirs with, ‘This is how we’ll get it done.’” —L. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Friendly fire: “I have said over and over again that I don’t think that we should be talking about impeachment. … I don’t think that we have the information to go to that place, and I discourage any discussion of impeachment. On the political side, I think it is a gift to the Republicans to talk about impeachment.” —House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

And last… “Kayne West has triggered the entire snowflake empire. The amount of hair on fire this week will contribute enormously to global warming.” —Gary Bauer