The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Insight

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” —General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

For the Record

“In June 2021, [Senator Mitt] Romney believed [Ketanji Brown] Jackson was not qualified for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals, but now, in March 2022, he believes she is qualified for a seat on the Supreme Court. … Back when he ran for president in 2012, there was lots of discussion about his history of flip-flops, the most famous being his change of heart on abortion. Perhaps his Jackson vote is part of that tradition. But perhaps, along with the reasons he has given, the Jackson decision can be attributed to Romney’s desire to separate himself from his party. He wants to stand apart from much of the GOP, and with this vote, he is doing it.” —Byron York

“Chief of staff Ron Klain … last weekend told the nation, ‘The president’s confident that his son didn’t break the law,’ when it turns out that Klain himself asked Hunter for donations to help out the then-veep back in 2012, which suggests he knows full well that Joe has long relied on Hunter’s dubiously gotten gains.” —New York Post editorial board

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“Former President Barack Obama complained on Tuesday that his administration had been forced to deal with ‘misinformation’ when it came to the Affordable Care Act — and then came dangerously close to repeating the misinformation he had helped to spread. … In fact, Obama repeated the false claim ‘if you like your doctor/health care plan, you can keep your doctor/health care plan’ so many times that Politifact awarded it with the auspicious title ‘Lie of the Year’ in 2013.” —Virginia Kruta

Credit Where It’s Due

“I don’t think that biological males should be competing in female sport events.” —British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

“It looks like the left-wing media just buried the [Hunter Biden laptop] story because it wasn’t part of their narrative and that’s why people don’t trust the media.” —Bill Maher

“This is part of the erosion of institutional trust, where one side feels like the media is on their side. And it does seem like this Hunter Biden laptop story did get buried because of the timing. I mean, it was coming out during the height of the election in 2020. And they did not want that out in the mainstream.” —Andrew Yang

Race Bait

“Dear Republican Senators: if you vote against Judge #KetanjiBrownJackson please don’t ever say a word when you are denounced as the Dixiecrats you are.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid

And Last…

“Hunter Biden laptop puts a big asterisk next to the *2020 election, all on its own. You can’t have a free and fair election when the media, tech companies, and intelligence community knowingly censor crucial information about the likely foreign corruption of one of the candidates.” —Joel Pollak