Insight

“There are two histories: official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.” —Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Re: The Rainbow Mafia

“Biden promised to nominate a black woman to the court but the woman he nominated after saying he would nominate a woman can’t define what a woman is — make it make sense.” —Jack Posobiec

“She’s celebrated for being a pathbreaking woman…but she can’t (won’t) tell you what a woman is. Not a good sign for someone who wishes to be in a position to determine the rights American women will get to keep.” —Abigail Shrier

“It isn’t a ‘gotcha’ to ask a politician to define terms such as ‘man’ and ‘woman’ — it is a means by which we can assess the honesty of the ruling class.” —Andrew Doyle

“The ‘what is a woman’ movement has begun. As I’ve said for years, this is the question that single-handedly destroys gender ideology. One question knocks the whole house of cards down.” —Matt Walsh

“There is a chasm between arguing that a ‘society should make accommodations for transgender Americans’ and ‘men can get pregnant,’ and yet Democrats are now going with the latter. Jackson’s answer is also a reminder that the liberals’ rock-ribbed belief in ‘science’ often relies on reverse-engineered junk science concocted to prop up trendy new theories.” —David Harsanyi

“Making you pretend to believe something you don’t, that’s the point. Because if they can make you to pretend to believe something you know is untrue, they’ve won. They control your brain. So this isn’t about trans people. It’s about all of us, and the stakes are very high, and that’s why the censorship is so intense. Have you noticed? Our national conversation about transgenderism is completely defined by censorship, by making you shut up.” —Tucker Carlson

Dezinformatsiya

“In the 13th hour of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked the Supreme Court nominee: ‘Can you provide a definition for the word "woman”?’ Jackson, appearing confused, responded, ‘I’m not a biologist.’ … Scientists, gender law scholars and philosophers of biology said Jackson’s response was commendable, though perhaps misleading. It’s useful, they say, that Jackson suggested science could help answer Blackburn’s question, but they note that a competent biologist would not be able to offer a definitive answer either. Scientists agree there is no sufficient way to clearly define what makes someone a woman, and with billions of women on the planet, there is much variation.“ —USA Today

Race Bait

"When watching Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson endure racial insult after insult during her confirmation hearings over the past few days, with some of that racism coming even before the process began, one person kept coming to mind: Jackie Robinson.” —USA Today’s Mike Freeman

Another Cleanup on Aisle 6

“Ukrainian people have a lot of backbone. They have a lot of guts. And I’m sure [our troops are] observing it. … And you’re going to see when you’re there.” —President Joe Biden

“For God’s sake, this man [Vladimir Putin] cannot remain in power.” —Joe Biden

A Trip Down Memory Lane

“I can assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight, and she probably would be filibustered.” —Joe Biden (2005) on George W. Bush’s consideration of Judge Janice Brown for the Supreme Court, who would have been the first black female nominee

Village Idiot

“The veneration that this country has for the Constitution is simply weird. It’s crazy. It’s not what other countries do for their written documents. We act like this thing was etched in stone by the finger of God, when actually it was hotly contested and debated, scrawled out over a couple of weeks in the summer in Philadelphia in 1787, with a bunch of rich, white politicians making deals with each other.” —The Nation legal correspondent Elie Mystal

“The thought that this document, made by one class of people, represents the best we can do in America is just ludicrous. Of course it’s not very good. You only let one kind of person write it. The second aspect of this, and how we go from ‘not good’ to ‘trash,’ is that structurally there are a lot of stupid things in the document. There are a lot of things that you just wouldn’t think we should do if you were starting again from first principles.” —Elie Mystal

Non Compos Mentis Award

“Clarence Thomas needs to be impeached.” —Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Old Man Yells at Cloud

“Anybody who thinks we don’t have an oligarchy in this country is sorely mistaken.” —Senator Bernie Sanders