The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

Wandering minds want to know: “Remember when we were told we had to flatten the curve and we’d lockdown for a few weeks to ramp up PPE and free up ventilators or else we’d have to start death panels? When did that turn into indefinite lockdowns and economic destruction because ‘if it saves one life’?” —Bethany Mandel

Upright: “No one with [Adam] Schiff’s record of deceit should be anywhere near the Intelligence Committee, much less leading the Intelligence Committee!” —Gary Bauer

Braying jackass, Part I: “By dropping the case against Flynn, the Justice Dept lost 50 years worth of ground in maintaining its independence post-Watergate. Once again, Bill Barr is doing Trump’s dirty work. And once again, Barr has undermined the legitimacy of our justice system and the rule of law.” —Rep. Adam Schiff

Braying jackass, Part II: “Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his illicit Russian contacts. His lies do not now become truths. This dismissal does not exonerate him. But it does incriminate Bill Barr in the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history.” —Adam Schiff

Hypocrite: “Kavanaugh was under the harshest inspection that we give people over a substantial period of time. And I don’t know this person at all [Reade] who has made the allegations [against Biden]. She came out of nowhere. Where has she been all these years? He was vice president.” —Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Non compos mentis: “The Trump admin is now projecting 3,000 daily deaths by June, and they are STILL pushing to ‘reopen.’ We are now careening towards one 9/11-scale death event per day. This was all preventable w/ tests, tracing, & policy. Instead the GOP showered their friends w/ bailout money.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Grand delusions: “How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy?” —Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves suggesting Trump’s strategy is to kill off Demo voters

Braying jenny: “If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was confident that I was going to be his equal. The thing that really changed it was the birth of our children. I wasn’t really ready for that. That really made it harder. Something had to give — and it was my aspirations and dreams.” —Michelle Obama in her documentary “Becoming,” ironically just ahead of Mother’s Day

And last… “Isn’t it funny how ‘we need to release people from jail so they don’t get COVID’ applies to rapists and pedophiles but not hair stylists?” —Allie Beth Stuckey