The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?” —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Upright: “God has created and designed us and has entrusted the Scriptures to us, the owner’s manual for life, for our benefit. With the rejection of His truth, we receive the just result of our pride — a false, empty, and dangerous perspective, and disorder and lawlessness. What is needed is a spiritual revival, to restore the Lord to His proper place in every aspect of life. Only then will we have a correct interpretive lens, the truth, through which to look, to stand for and to do what is right, to embrace selfless priorities, and to pursue a right-minded and purposeful life.” —James Thrasher

For the record: “Policymakers need to realize that when they promulgate COVID-19 restrictions, they are asking the people with the least economic margin for error to sacrifice the most. Congress needs to pass a new stimulus bill to cushion the blow of a natural disaster that has immiserated many millions of people through no fault of their own. And the incoming Biden administration ideally would realize that fashionable causes like climate change need to take a back seat to the pursuit of full economic recovery. The economic pain is not the worst that the pandemic has wrought, but it cannot be ignored.” —Rich Lowry

Political futures: “[Georgia] Republicans simply have to turn out more votes than Stacey Abrams can steal.” —Newt Gingrich

Non compos mentis: “When Congress failed to do anything in the aftermath of Sandy Hook [that] was probably the angriest I ever was during my presidency. I was disgusted and appalled by the inaction… It was all viewed as politics.” —Barack Obama (Because standing on the coffins of children is political theater.) 

And last… “Why do politicians, arguably the most non-essential members of our society, suddenly get to decide who is and isn’t ‘essential’? Why are we letting them?” —Charlie Kirk