The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight

“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.” —Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Upright

“If you view abortion as somehow more sanitized and less vile than racism, you’ve been conditioned to accept the dominant paradigm our secular world expects you to conform to in order to neutralize you. Christianity condemns abortion & racism because all humans bear God’s image.” —Andrew T. Walker

“If you have sexual conversations with kids and hide those conversations from their parents, you are a groomer. This isn’t complicated.” —Michael Knowles

“President Biden’s perpetual student loan payment moratorium is an insult to every American who responsibly paid debts. There’s no free lunch: this reckless move puts taxpayers on the hook for billions.” —Senator Tom Cotton

The Final Pivot

“[COVID] is not going to be eradicated, and it’s not going to be eliminated. And what’s going to happen is that we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take.” —Anthony Fauci

“At least a dozen high-profile guests who attended Saturday’s Gridiron Club dinner have tested positive for the coronavirus… While contact tracing investigations have yet to confirm that these infections occurred at the dinner itself, the growing number of cases among attendees suggests the Gridiron was a super-spreader event. Still, that does not mean large events should be canceled. To the contrary, the Gridiron Club outbreak shows what living with covid-19 looks like. … Event organizers should decide what level of risk they can tolerate and therefore what precautions they need to have in place.” —Washington Post contributing columnist Leana Wen

The BIG Lie

“If we were to cancel all of the [student] debt that’s out there, we would raise the wealth of black families in America by 40%. This is a racial justice issue as well.” —Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

Yellow Journalism

“The treatment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson by most Republican senators is beyond shameful.” —Dan Rather (“Your side accused a man of gang rape without any evidence. Our side quoted a woman’s court opinions and judicial record. We are not the same.” —Michael Knowles)

Non Compos Mentis Award

“[Republicans] had suggested that defining ‘woman’ was simple, and I’m here to say that it’s not. Not when you take the question seriously, and look for answers outside your own immediate experiences and intuitions. Which is why when these lawmakers attempted to show how much smarter they were on gender science than a judge who takes things seriously for a living, what came out was gobbledygook. … Providing a definition for ‘woman’ isn’t a task that can be determined via checklist, no matter how hard the list maker tries to make it so.” —Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse

And Last…

“Pretty incredible that Joe Biden can kiss COVID-positive Nancy Pelosi on the face … and the CDC is like ‘I’ll allow it.’ But we still have to wear masks on planes.” —Matt Whitlock