Insight

“Others — as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders — serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few — as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men — serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

For the Record

“In the first year and a half of President Joe Biden ‘s tenure, Border Patrol agents nationwide have arrested more people who came cross the border unlawfully than in President Barack Obama’s two terms — an indication of the magnitude of the situation.” —Anna Giaritelli

“[Joe Biden] didn’t scramble to get his cabinet together when we had millions of people illegally pouring across the southern border. He didn’t scramble to get his cabinet together when you had … 53 migrants die in some trailer in Texas because they were neglected by the federal government. You didn’t see him scramble to get his cabinet together when we had Americans that were victimized by criminal aliens that he let across the border. You didn’t see him scramble to get his cabinet together when we had record fentanyl deaths — which that fentanyl is coming across his open border. It’s only when you have 50 illegal aliens end up in a very wealthy, rich, sanctuary enclave that he decides to scramble on this.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

“All this talk about compassion misses the point. The issue should be the impact on Americans of all races as millions of people flood into our communities. I never hear the left expressing any compassion for hard-working American taxpayers. I never hear the left expressing any compassion for border communities struggling with gangs and crime. What’s wrong with the left? Why do only non-citizens illegally entering our country get their compassion?” —Gary Bauer

Non Compos Mentis Award

“This is an American crisis that we need to face — a humanitarian crisis that was made by human hands by some of the governors in our southern states.” —New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“What we see time and time again is that when politicians decide to try to score political points by taking advantage of vulnerable people, it’s usually a sign that they don’t have concrete solutions for the issues that Americans face.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Swamp Doctor

“How we respond and how we’re prepared for the evolution of these variants is going to depend on us. And that gets to the other conflicting aspect of this — is the lack of a uniform acceptance of the interventions that are available to us in this country where even now, more than two years, close to three years, into the outbreak, we have only 67 percent of our population vaccinated and only one-half of those have received a single boost. … We are not where we need to be if we’re going to be able to, quote, 'live with the virus.’” —Dr. Anthony Fauci after Joe Biden declared “the pandemic is over”

The BIG Lies

“There’s not a single thing that I’ve observed at all that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter.” —President Joe Biden

“Republicans always close well. Why? Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something. That’s what they did in 2021 [when] they made critical race theory sound worse than small pox. And it wasn’t being taught in any public schools in America, but they didn’t care. They just scare people.” —Bill Clinton

Yellow Journalism

“How Memes Led to an Insurrection.” –The Atlantic