The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “The Futility of Biden’s Climate Act”

“Keep in mind the ‘carbon costs’ of making ‘green’ energy products in China. Wind turbine blades are generally made of fiberglass or carbon fiber composites. Both require a significant energy input. Eighty-three percent of the energy input for fiberglass production comes directly from fossil fuels; the rest is electricity. China is probably less concerned than the U.S. about volatile organic compound emissions from resin production and curing (part of fiberglass component manufacturing), and VOCs are generally more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. I don’t have the numbers at hand, but it appears likely that the carbon emission and monetary cost of wind turbines per unit of energy produced is far in excess of the cost of nuclear power.” —Minnesota

Re: “Forced ‘Diversity’ Can Only Hurt STEM Fields”

“I am a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, as are my two brothers and our father. Admission to the school is by a competitive exam in Math and English. Tech, as it is often referred to, serves all five boroughs of New York City. The mayor of NYC wants to do away with the exam because the school’s population does not mirror NYC’s. If that isn’t a way to ruin what is one of the top high schools in the country, I don’t know what is. Many of the courses at Tech were the equivalent of what I had in undergraduate and even graduate school. My Bachelors is in Mechanical Engineering and my Masters in Civil Engineering — not exactly basket weaving. So if you want to ruin a school, follow the mayor’s idea.” —Wyoming

Re: “CDC Grants ‘Permission’ to Unmask”

“Authority varies from state to state, but we already know the only legitimate source of federal authority: the Constitution. Given that I am a civilian, until or unless someone shows me Biden’s authority to ORDER anything, I’ll consider his ‘rules’ null and void. The Constitution clearly laid out the limited powers that Washington, DC, has and wisely left the rest up ‘to the States respectively, or to the people.’ I happen to think wearing masks is a good idea, but Biden or Congress ORDERING me to is no more welcome (or binding) than the guy at the next table in a restaurant telling me he thinks I should order a salad instead of a steak.” —Georgia

“This is just a step away from the COVID passport nonsense still being promoted by some businesses, the airlines, and too many power mad politicians. That would violate equal protection under the law as stated in the 14th Amendment. But hey, what’s a constitutional amendment among politicians? If I choose to wait and see how the long-term effects of this vaccine turn out, I am still entitled to live my life with the same freedoms that all Americans are guaranteed by those precious documents.” —California

Re: “‘Fact-Checkers’ Enforce the COVID Narrative”

“Combine Anthony Fauci’s involvement in China’s work to enable a bat virus to infect humans with the fact that, as old as the Chinese wet markets are, they’ve never before produced anything like COVID-19. It’s no coincidence that the virus and pandemic that supposedly came out of the wet markets is the same virus that the Chinese were working with in their Wuhan lab. There’s truly something rotten, but it ain’t in Denmark; it’s in the U.S. and in China. And We the People are being damaged and killed by it.” —Illinois

Re: “What to Do About Nancy Pelosi’s Pa?”

“In point of fact, Robert E. Lee only joined the secession in the Commonwealth of Virginia once Abraham Lincoln started to raise 75,000 troops to attack South Carolina. Virginia’s ratification of the Constitution included the right to secede if the Union became a tyranny — just as New York and Pennsylvania did. In no case did Lee or Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson assault the Union; the Union assaulted their Commonwealth, and they ably defended it. They were men of honor. Jackson, as a Presbyterian elder, taught black freed men and women and slaves to read so that they could read their own Bibles. When told that Virginia had a law forbidding that, he said, ‘Well, that’s a law that must be changed!’ This perhaps five years before Lincoln was elected.” —Tennessee