The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change. … The progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.” —H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Upright: “People who will get very upset if someone said all blacks look alike are really comfortable saying all blacks ought to think alike. If you said that blacks should not be allowed to go to a library, you’d be against that. If you said that blacks couldn’t read certain books in the library, you would say that’s wrong. But now we are so comfortable saying that blacks can’t hold some of the ideas in some of the books in the library. That’s absurd.” —Justice Clarence Thomas on Democrat identity politics

Alpha Jackass: “I [would have] such a great answer if it [sic] wasn’t living.” —Mayor Pete Buttigieg when prodded by Chris Matthews to “name some of your public figures — Republicans — who you respect. Living Republicans.”

Non compos mentis: “We have not called [the anti-abortion movement in the U.S.] out in the same way we have other forms of extremist hate, but this is gender-based violence against women, no question. It’s clear it’s torture — it’s a deprivation of a right to health.” —UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore

Twisted logic: “[Republicans] conflate a heartbeat with a soul or with personhood.” —Rep. Kim Schrier (She has a point only insofar as children have a soul at conception.)

And last… “Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says, ‘I think the NRA is the worst organization in this country.’ Planned Parenthood terminates more than 300,000 babies in utero every single year. The NRA is responsible for zero deaths. Which of these organizations should legitimately be considered ‘the worst in this country’?” —Jordan Candler