The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don’t disparage envy, but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.” —Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)

Re: The Left: “It was a Democratic president who told Americans, during World War II no less, that ‘we have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ He is a liberal idol, in part for saying that. That is more or less exactly what Trump has been saying. Yet he’s an ‘existential threat’ to our country.” —columnist Dennis Prager

Observations: “Nike almost seems to be taking a page from the playbook of their foreign partners, the Chinese Communist Party. The company launched an all-out war against religious liberty in places like Tennessee, where the brand argued that letting adoption groups live by their beliefs was somehow bad for business. If it were up to the shoe giant, they’d kick men and women of faith right out of the public square. When it comes right down to it, Nike has a lot more in common with China’s dictatorial regime than anyone cared to admit.” —FRC President Tony Perkins

For the record: “[Hillary Clinton’s answers in deposition were] either incomplete, unhelpful or cursory at best. Simply put her responses left many more questions than answers.” —U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordering Clinton to be deposed again over her private email server

Friendly fire: “That was my authentic opinion then. It’s my authentic opinion now.” —Hillary Clinton reaffirming her “baloney” assessment of the Bernie Sanders campaign

Tone-deaf: “Let’s follow the rules. We had rules last time. We have rules this time. Everybody knew when they got into it.” —Hillary Clinton, whom the DNC colluded with in 2016

D'oh! “We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women created by — go — you know — you know, the thing.” —Joe Biden

Hot air: “The answer is that I spend an awful lot of time flying around the country, flying around the world working on climate change. We have closed an awful lot of coal-fired power plants, and worked to try and train coal miners to get other jobs.” —Michael Bloomberg after being confronted about his private-jet hypocrisy

And last… “Super Tuesday? More like ‘Pooper Tuesday’ because all the candidates stink!” —The Babylon Bee’s Frank J. Fleming