The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” —Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

“The lies that [race hustlers] can just get away with spreading is just sickening and it’s a disgrace to this country. It shouldn’t have been a political case.” —Kyle Rittenhouse

“Mr. President, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial and understand the facts before you say [I’m a white supremacist]. It’s actual malice, defaming my character, for him to say something like that.” —Kyle Rittenhouse

“I … think it’s important we do two things at the Olympics in China. Number one, that we actually show the courage the Women’s Tennis Association is showing to call out the murder, the genocide, the torture, the lies, the complicity in COVID-19 of the Chinese communist government, to speak the truth. And then number two, I really hope our young men and women … go over there and kick their commie a**es.” —Senator Ted Cruz

Friendly fire: “Democrats don’t go anywhere these days where they’re not being adored. And that’s my last bit of advice to them. Go where the ‘amen corner’ isn’t.” —Bill Maher

Tone-deaf: “We have grave concerns that excessive bail amounts are leading to unnecessary pretrial detention and contributing to a humanitarian crisis in New York City’s jail system, particularly on Rikers Island.” —Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney, Jamie Raskin, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “just one day after a man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, ran over dozens of people at a Christmas parade while he was out on ‘inappropriately low’ bail,” per The Daily Wire

Too little, too late: “The credibility of the [Steele] dossier has significantly diminished. A series of investigations and lawsuits have discredited many of its central allegations and exposed the unreliability of Steele’s sources. … Legitimate questions are now being raised about the dossier — how it was used by Democrats as a political weapon against Trump, how it was handled by the FBI and US intelligence agencies, and how it was portrayed in the mainstream media. … Nearly five years later, it’s clearer than ever that [Donald Trump] wasn’t too far off about the origins of the dossier.” —CNN’s Marshall Cohen

The BIG Lie I: “We’ve gone from an economy that was shut down to an economy that is leading the world in economic growth.” —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie II: “Experts across the board have looked at [Build Back Better] and concluded that it won’t increase inflation because it is paid for. When you pay for investments you don’t actually add aggregate demand to the economy.” —National Economic Council director Brian Deese

Dezinformatsiya: “The Rittenhouse trial involved issues of race and self-defense, but it also highlighted the growing presence of guns on America’s streets and the failure of efforts to come up with even modest new gun restrictions.” —New York Times

You’ve been warned: “Look, we are a state that has a long, proud tradition of responsible gun ownership. And most of us here in Texas do not want to see our friends, our family members, our neighbors shot up with these weapons of war. So, yes, I still hold this view.” —Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto “We’re Going to Take Your AR-15” O'Rourke

Non compos mentis: “Parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated. But it actually (gasp!) doesn’t work that way. … Unless they’re licensed and certified, parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about curricula. In fact, parental interference can actually hinder student advancement. An educator’s primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal. … Our nation’s children are in good, educated and capable hands — no matter what some parents and politicians appear determined to believe.” —NBC News’ THINK contributor/educator Christina Wyman

And last… “There is nothing so good that politicians can’t make it bad and nothing so bad that politicians can’t make it worse. Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state. Crime is bad but politicians have made it worse by going easy on criminals.” —Thomas Sowell