The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Good questions: “Is Pennsylvania the only state in the nation that has done a full investigation into predator priests and the coverup thereof? Given what that Pennsylvania grand jury and [PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro] found, shouldn’t every state AG now be doing this?” —Jake Tapper

Braying Jenny: “Look, [Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court] is not a done deal. Donald Trump has made his nomination. And he picked somebody off a list that has been prescreened … by not one but two right-wing extremist groups [The Federalist Society and The Heritage Foundation].” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

Braying Jackass: “This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent.” —John Brennan on losing his security clearance

Alpha Jackass: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” —NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was never that great.

There’s something fundamentally immoral and wrong about socialism: “I think that there is an understanding there is something fundamentally immoral and wrong about a nation in which we have three people who own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people. That does not make sense.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

And last… “In these polarized times, Americans are not so much angry that newspapers and magazines fire reporters, or that Robert Mueller indicts those under suspicion. What bothers them is that our guardians of morality do not offer any principles to explain why some people’s lives are harmed or destroyed, and others’ lives are not. When there is no blind code of justice, people suspect that our institutions define wrong behavior and bad words as those in service to the wrong political agenda. And they are right.” —Victor Davis Hanson