The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight: “The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interest.” —Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

Political futures: “Despite President Biden’s pretensions about bringing our nation together, Democrats want to impeach Trump because it will be divisive, not despite its divisiveness. They are banking on his being acquitted and politically revived, not underestimating that possibility. They want him to run for office again, not banish him.” —Andrew McCarthy

Woke jargon: “The World Health Organization gave new guidance about Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine this week, recommending generally against its use for most pregnant people.” —The Wall Street Journal (“I don’t know what ‘pregnant people’ are.” —Allie Beth Stuckey)

Demo-gogue: “I think that, unfortunately, workers have been fed a false narrative. … They’ve been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense. No it’s not. What is happening to them is because other market forces are already taking place.” —John Kerry shifting blame from the Biden administration’s job-killing energy edicts

The BIG Lie: “Climate change is the most significant public health challenge of our time.” —National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy

Grand delusions: “This is almost like we’re suffering an attack from Mars — some extraterrestrial species. We have to come together in what I call planetary realism.” —former California Governor Jerry Brown on climate change

And last… “The Keystone pipeline was entirely a private sector project that had obtained its legal permits. … I can’t think of another example of a president crushing thousands of private sector jobs at a stroke in the absence of a genuine legal reason. Biden offered no legal reason, such as defects of the permit or violations of the permit conditions. He just doesn’t like it.” —Steven Hayward