The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “Desperate Biden Politicizes Abortion”

“They keep calling it ‘reproductive healthcare’ when it’s neither reproductive nor healthcare, but truth has never been a strength of the pro-abortion faction. In this EO, the Biden administration urges the FTC to sue pro-life crisis pregnancy centers for ‘fraud.’ If anybody ought to be sued for fraud, it is abortion clinics that tell their clients ‘it’s just a clump of cells’ or ‘a pre-human stage of evolutionary recapitulation’ or that ‘abortion is safer than pregnancy.’ The recapitulation claim is especially egregious; it is based on nothing but the work of Ernst Haeckel, who was shown a century ago to have faked the research. (The story remained in textbooks for decades because it promotes belief in evolution. Enough said.)” —Minnesota

Re: “RCI: The Surprising Backstory of the Downfall of Roe”

“Observe the contrast between the opposing sides of the abortion debate. Pro-lifers held vigils and peaceful, prayerful pro-life marches. Since Dobbs, pro-choicers are rioting, firebombing, injuring, and credibly threatening worse. While one may cite the rare anecdotal exception to this generalization, none can ignore this unequivocal conclusion: The behavior of pro-lifers is far more rational, measured, and civil than the rage reaction of pro-choicers, whose reaction prohibits any credibility to claims of rational behavior, reasoned thought, and measured legal processes. Their display of rage compels only one inference: These people are suffering psychologically and emotionally.” —Missouri

Re: “Monday Short Cuts”

“Codifying Roe — that is, making abortion a right by law — must be vigorously resisted. Dobbs was not the end but the start of the real conflict. The multi-generational progression if abortion becomes the law is this: 1) Women must choose to work or be mothers. 2) Childless women will become wealthier. 3) Families with children will become poorer. 4) Those with political power will defend abortion and condemn families. 5) Significant population decline. 6) Increased animosity of all things children — except among the very wealthy elite. The rest will know destitution. Such is the unavoidable nightmare following the codification of a right to abortion.” —Missouri

Re: “The Latina Canary in the Democrats’ Coal Mine”

“To liberals, progressives, and others of the effete elite, ‘God, Family, and Country’ are ‘extreme right’ concepts that threaten their perceived hold not only on Latinos but on other minorities as well. Most of the mainstream media recognize this awakening but are fearful of publishing the truth for its potential impact on the coming midterm elections. Mayra Flores’s special election victory in Texas was just too obvious, and thus their reactionary, fearful concerns of Democrats losing a significant portion of the minority vote that was taken for granted. The Democrat Party leadership vacuum and malaise at all levels of government are to most Americans, including the Leftmedia, overwhelming.” —Florida

Re: “Biden’s Bid to Take Over Our Elections”

“Allowing ballot boxes to be stuffed with possibly fraudulent votes is only their short-term plan. Their longer-term plans tie in with their open-borders policy. When an illegal alien is granted ‘asylum’ status, they are, under U.S. law, able to apply for citizenship after only five years. Meanwhile, the Democrats will have been bribing them with cash, healthcare, cellphones, etc. Even if after this November the flood of illegals were somehow to be completely stemmed (which won’t happen), the 2026 and 2028 elections may well see an additional 2-4 million new Democrat voters.” —Georgia

Re: “Journalists Shun Journalism”

“The most interesting thing to me about the way the press views the ‘propaganda’ problem is that both the Right and the Left agree that there’s a problem. BUT, their agreement is like two ships passing in the night — the Left believes that the entirety of the problem is right-wing propaganda being presented as news, whereas the Right believes that the entirety of the problem is left-wing propaganda being presented as news. Even when the Left is presented with cold-hard facts (e.g., the Hunter Biden laptop story), it can’t see its own bias. I can certainly see an amount of right-wing bias as well, but it never comes close to the level of the hysterics of the Left.” —Texas

Re: “Friday Executive News Summary”

“I doubt the IRS audited James Comey and Andrew McCabe for political reasons. Given the financial connection between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Fusion GPS, and Christopher Steele in relation to the Russian collusion hoax, somebody at the IRS may have wondered if the money was spread further since Comey and McCabe sacrificed their careers to promote the lie. If so, they hid it well. On the flip side, an audit that finds nothing is a perfect cover. It’s a sad time in this country when we cannot know when our government agencies are being honest.” —Minnesota

Re: “A Small Victory for School Choice”

“Our current Education Department concept of choice echoes the old-school Soviet/socialist perspectives: The powerful elite overlords dictate ‘The Choice,’ and the threatened-with-force workers of the world bow their collective knee and accept the benevolent (malevolent, actually) choice thrust upon them. Such a wonderful Peoples’ Democratic Republic. Indeed, who wouldn’t want to live there? Hint: Ask the millions of people risking their lives everyday to flee such awful places for the United States.” —Virginia

Re: “A Small Victory for School Choice”

“The error is in allowing federal funding for any elementary or secondary school, other than compensation to districts with children of military families living in untaxed base housing. There is no provision in the Constitution giving Congress authority to transfer funds to such schools directly or indirectly, so the Tenth Amendment reserves that to the several states and to the people. Otherwise, as we see here, the federal government usurps authority over the schools using award or denial of funding to exert its will. Even private schools have to keep an eye on this administration. One proposal was to deny funding to public school lunch programs if the schools aren’t woke enough. Lunch subsidies to private schools could be next.” —Minnesota

Re: “Feminists: Untethered and Internally Fighting”

“I am, and always have been, female. I have never marched on anything, burned any undergarments, refused to wear makeup, none of that nonsense. I have two children whom I love very much. I was a technical illustrator; graphics artist; electronics, oil, gas, and nuclear power drafter; copy editor; and proofreader. I met my first female illustrator in 1960. I had majored in art, so I set out to learn. Two nights a week at junior college, and three nights a week and Saturday/Sunday while expecting my second child. Yes, I got sexually harassed, yet I handled each incident with humor, catching the offender in front of his buddies and shooting him down in flames so badly that he never dared try it again.” —Nevada