The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight: “There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.” —James Otis (1725-1783)

Upright: “The Biden infrastructure plan is a head fake. The agenda here isn’t about creating ‘millions of new jobs.’ It’s a declaration of war against one of the largest sources of new jobs in the United States: our domestic energy producers. Some 80% of our energy today comes from fossil fuels, and well more than half of it comes from oil and natural gas. … Let’s have a grown-up discussion on energy policy. The U.S. is going to continue to use oil and gas for decades to come. Today, only 10.7% of our energy comes from wind and solar power. Approximately 2% of the cars on the road are electric vehicles. Even if that were to rise by tenfold over the next decade, we will still have 80% of cars using good old gasoline. If we don’t produce the oil and gas here, we are going to fill our tanks with oil and gas from the Middle East or Russia.” —Stephen Moore

Observations: “Truth, it is necessary to say again and again, is a liberal value and a conservative value, but it has never been a left-wing value. … America is drowning in left-wing lies. And it is being asphyxiated by the left’s substitution of ‘social justice’ for justice.” —Dennis Prager

For the record: “What I saw on this trip was chaos and disorder. What the Biden administration does not want you to know is simply that they have handed over the borders of our country to the cartels and smugglers.” —Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis

Hot air: “Given the circumstances, Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term ‘climate emergency’ in its coverage of climate change. … This idea is not a journalistic fancy. We are on solid scientific ground.” —senior editor Mark Fischetti (“This sounds very, very sciency and not at all political.” —Ben Shapiro)

Non compos mentis: “You can’t be anti-racist if you’re anti student debt cancellation.” —Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley

A trip down memory lane: “Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency.” —Joe Biden, August 2020

Dezinformatsiya I: “Daunte Wright was stopped for expired plates, but driving while Black may have been his ‘crime.’” —NBC News

Dezinformatsiya II: “Did the Boulder shooting count as White male violence? Depends on how you define White.” —The Washington Post

And last… “There can be tragic mistakes that have nothing to with race. The desire to label every dire outcome a product of racism, no matter the intent, is destroying our society.” —Erielle Davidson