The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Upright: “Unchecked emotion has replaced thoughtful reasoning on campus. Feelings are no longer subjected to evidence, analysis or empirical defense. Angry demands, rather than rigorous arguments, now appear to guide university policy. This must change.” —Harvard University law professor Ronald Sullivan

For the record: “America’s colleges are run by reasonably clever people. Put trillions of dollars in free money on the table, and they’ll figure out a way to absorb it. Indeed, subsidized student borrowing is believed by many economists to be an important driver of tuition inflation.” —National Review

Observations: “Too many in the media are like the guy who owns the substandard gas station, ignoring complaints about their performance. The predictable results are fewer readers of newspapers and lower ratings for television news programs.” —Cal Thomas

That’s not saying much: “It was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is to pay off my student loan debt.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s. … This glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name in those districts.” —Nancy Pelosi, April 2019)

Alpha Jackass: “[There is] an active desire by this administration to hurt kids. We need to stop funding the detention of children under any and all circumstances.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Non Compos Mentis: “Yeah, the concentration camps, even though there’s lots of controversy about the word. But actually, legitimate scholars who study genocide say, yes, these are, in fact, the criteria for concentration camps, they meet them. There are over 100,000 camps in nearly every state.” —Rosie O'Donnell

Braying Jenny: “Trump, you get no credit for so-called stopping the strike against Iran. Why was the unmanned drone in Iran’s airspace? Why the surveillance? Don’t provoke and then pretend innocence.” —Rep. Maxine Waters

And last… “There’s another possible reparations issue completely ignored: Blacks as well as whites live on land taken, sometimes brutally, from American Indians. Do blacks and whites owe American Indians anything?” —Walter E. Williams