The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “No one is educated who knows only one side of an argument.” —John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

“The Washington, D.C.-based Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. … In truth, since 2015, the FBI has been constantly in the news — and mostly in a negative and constitutionally disturbing light. … For its own moral and practical survival, the FBI should be given one last chance at redemption by moving to the nation’s heartland — perhaps Kansas — far away from the political and media tentacles that have so deeply squeezed and corrupted it.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“[Joe Biden] continues to assure the public that he won’t raise taxes on those who make less than $400,000. But, Mr. President, inflation is a tax. It is the unfairest tax of all. You don’t have to be Bill Gates or Warren Buffett to realize that you’re paying this Biden tax every time you fill up your gas tank.” —Stephen Moore

“I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.” —Senator John Kennedy to commie comptroller of the currency nominee Saule Omarova

Friendly fire I: “I think [Democrats are] going to get whopped or thumped in the … midterm elections. But, I mean, Joe — look, I’m glad he’s there. But he has not exactly stuck the landing.” —Bill Maher

Friendly fire II: “Teaching that racism is the essence of America [is] what people get upset about, or involving children who are probably not old enough or sophisticated enough to understand this very complicated issue with a very complicated history. … [We] should be moving toward a colorblind society, where we don’t see race. That’s the old way to look at it. I think that’s still the good way to look at it. That’s how we win.” —Bill Maher



Friendly fire III: “There’s a reason why the term ‘woke’ has come to signify going too far and doing things that don’t make sense. I keep saying this to the Democratic Party: ‘The reason why you’re so toxic is because you have become the party of no common sense.’” —Bill Maher

The BIG Lie: “My Build Back Better Act is going to reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion over ten years.” —Joe Biden (“The CBO score of his Build Back Better multitrillion-dollar spending bill … says it will add $367 billion to the deficit over ten years. … We’ve gone from the bill will be $6 trillion to the bill will be $3.5 trillion to the bill will be $0. Now that the CBO score has come out saying it will add to the deficit, the bill will reduce the deficit.” —Dominic Pino)

Well, get ready to be disappointed: “[Republicans] shouldn’t have a gavel be anywhere near them, ever.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Sexism bait: “I do think that it has been easier and harsher from some in the right wing who have gone after [Kamala Harris] because she is the first woman, the first woman of color.” —White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

And last… “Ashli Babbit, a tiny unarmed woman, was a lethal threat to Michael Byrd while climbing through a window several feet away. Rosenbaum, a child-raping mental patient, was not a lethal threat to Rittenhouse while chasing and assaulting him. This is the position held by many.” —Matt Walsh