Insight

“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” —Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)

For the Record

“Instead of passing a federal budget for the coming year, the senators and House members will take a knee and pass what’s called a ‘Continuing Resolution.’ A ‘CR,’ as Washington insiders like to call it, is a temporary funding bill that averts a federal government shutdown. It allows the massive over-spending of the federal government to continue even though the politicians in Congress and the White House have failed to come up with a real budget that will fund the federal government in the next fiscal year. By law, Congress is supposed to do that basic duty by the end of September. But Congress, as you have probably sensed, has managed to do that only three times in the last 47 years, most recently in 1997. That goes a long way toward explaining why the annual federal budget is now in the $6.2 trillion range and our national debt is around $32 trillion. CRs are more common than Super Bowls. There have been 47 of them just since 2010, some lasting as long as six months. They are the legislative equivalent of kicking the federal budget can down the road.” —Michael Reagan

“A penniless, imprisoned, and for the moment silent [Sam Bankman-Fried] leaves behind a trail of ruin. He is a reminder that sanctimony is a handy tool for scam artists, and that well-credentialed Americans have a bad habit of rewarding a person’s ability to speak with certitude and emphasis and presumed expertise — no matter how dull, unoriginal, obnoxious, insipid, or crooked that person happens to be.” —Matthew Continetti

Dezinformatsiya

“Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories.” —NPR, one of the big Leftmedia disinformation spinners, laughably pointing an editorial finger at Musk

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard President Biden say, ‘We have an open border; come on over.’” —ABC News’s Martha Raddatz (“I would in fact make sure that … we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard.” —Joe Biden, September 2019)

Demagogue

“I don’t hear a lot about immigration from voters except people in the far Right that always want to gain political advantage by talking about it.” —Senator Sherrod Brown

The BIG Lies

“It would be wrong to think that the border is open. It is not open.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“What we saw on January 6th was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“My dad, when I got elected vice president, he said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.’ He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle of the Bulge. But he said, ‘And he won the Purple Heart. And he never received it. He never — he never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We’ll surprise him.’ So we got him the Purple Heart. He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember he came over to the house, and I came out, and he said, ‘Present it to him, okay?’ We had the family there. I said, ‘Uncle Frank, you won this. And I want to…’ He said, ‘I don’t want the damn thing.’ No, I’m serious. He said, ‘I don’t want it.’ I said, ‘What’s the matter, Uncle Frank? You earned it.’ He said, ‘Yeah, but the others died. The others died. I lived. I don’t want it.’” —Joe Biden (“Though Biden’s uncle did serve in the military during World War II, he died in 1999, according to available records, so Biden would not have been able to give him a Purple Heart medal in the time period he claimed he did.” —Snopes)

“Clean energy is cheap energy. … Once you understand that it’s cheap, it’s about creating the incentives that allow everybody to access cheaper energy sources like solar, like electric vehicles, like geothermal, like heat pumps.” —Congressman Sean Casten

Missing the Forest for the Trees

“[The COVID vaccine mandate] is to improve the health and well-being and readiness of the workforce. That’s something that obviously should be supported. So I hope we can get past some of the hype. With all due respect, I think some of these are manufactured grievances to pursue domestic political issues. And I think we need to put these aside for the good of our men and women in uniform and their families and for the readiness of the U.S. military.” —former CIA Director David Petraeus

We’re Shocked — Shocked!

“2 COVID-19 deaths reported in Beijing as virus surges.” —AP headline

And Last…

“Pornography drives sexual violence, infidelity, body dysmorphia, sexual dysfunction, child sex abuse, sex trafficking, and more. There are 0 positives. Eradicating porn would immediately improve society.” —Allie Beth Stuckey