The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts
Re: The Village Academies
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” —H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
“Schools are quick to blame everyone and everything but themselves for the failures of American education. To them, every bad teacher is the exception and every bad parent is the rule.” —Thomas Sowell
Re: The Left
“Most of our disagreements today depend on what we believe about Genesis 1-2. Most of the ‘culture war’ issues we face go back to Genesis 3. Your position on the biggest moral issues we are fighting about today will be determined by whether you believe Genesis 1:1 & Genesis 1:27 are true and by how you answer the question, ‘Did God really say?’” —Allie Beth Stuckey
“Democrats are jubilant that everything they’ve been hoping for as far as high fuel costs is coming to pass. In less than a year and a half, gas prices have nearly doubled, with the promise of much more to come. Just in time to save the planet.” —Rick Moran
Non Compos Mentis
“America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. I was … in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him. That’s when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was vice president. I don’t know that for a fact.” —Joe Biden
“I knew it wouldn’t be easy. But I knew the person I nominated would be put through a painful and difficult confirmation process. But I have to tell ya: What Judge Jackson was put through was well beyond that. There was verbal abuse. The anger. The constant interruptions. Most vile, baseless assertions and accusations.” —Joe Biden
Demagogues
“I know it’s controversial, but I got it done once: Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. I was getting criticized when I first passed this law when I was a senator. And guess what? I was down in southern Delaware — they do a lot of hunting and fishing down there — and I was walking up one of the creek beds. And a guy standing said, ‘You want to take my gun?’ I said, ‘I don’t want to take your gun.’ He said, ‘Well, you’re telling me I can’t have more than X number of bullets … in my gun.’ And I said, ‘What — do you think the deer you’re hunting wear Kevlar vests? What the hell you need 20 bullets for? You must be a hell of a terrible shot.' No, I’m serious. Think about it. Think about the mass shootings. As many as a hundred rounds. It’s a weapon of war. It has nothing to do with recreation.” —Joe Biden
“There’s no question we’re all feeling pain from high gas prices. The average price of regular gas in California is now around $6.00 per gallon. And while pundits and politicians will continue to point fingers, I’m going to keep focusing on solutions that deliver real results.” —Congressman Mike Levin (D-CA), proud owner of two electric cars
Non Sequitur Awards
“Because of the actions we’ve taken to address the Putin price hike, we are in a better place than we were last month, but we expect March CPI [Consumer Price Index] headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin’s price hike.” —White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
“[Florida officials] don’t have a plan on anything else, right? I mean, they don’t have a plan on dealing with inflation or dealing with gas prices or dealing with the issues.” —Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
And Last…
“The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to prevent you from making your own firearm. This a fact that has been recognized for 200+ years. Also, Article 1, Section 1 (literally the first operative sentence in the Constitution) says Congress makes law, not POTUS!” —Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY)