Insight

“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.” —President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Odds & Ends

“What price can be affixed to the change that the American fabric undergoes — over weeks and months and years and generations — when an influx of people unlike any in American history is forcibly distributed across the land by the Biden administration? Does our patriotism and our sense of Americanness grow stronger or weaker? Do we become more inclined to fight for our country or less so? More inclined to obey our nation’s laws or less so? More inclined to pay taxes or less so? More inclined to work or less so? More inclined to vote or less so?” —Douglas Andrews

“Jobs were lost and livelihoods ruined because [Anthony] Fauci and the other tyrants in Joe Biden’s administration and elsewhere in corporate America decided that they knew better than you what to put in your body, and that natural immunity — which oh by the way works better — doesn’t count. The distrust alone sown by this tyranny will take perhaps generations to reverse. This free people in our constitutional Republic ought to have confidence that our government is at least being honest. We no longer believe it is, and that can have deadly consequences.” —Nate Jackson

“Pornography contributes to all sorts of amoral behavior and not only influences sexual behavior and expectations but also the brain. These adverse effects on the consumers of porn are not limited to minors. Pornography doesn’t have any positive contributions to society as an industry and harms those who use it, make it, and profit from it. It should be banned entirely.” —Emmy Griffin

“The reason today’s Democrat Party has become obsessed with racism has everything to do with advancing political power. America’s past history of racism, a history that one party is primarily responsible for promulgating, has been weaponized by hard-left Democrats to pound today’s populace that has for the most part overcome racism into embracing ‘equity,’ which is simply racism repackaged to target whites rather than blacks.” —Thomas Gallatin

Dumb & Dumber

“I am planning to go [to East Palestine] … Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years. We dealt with a lot of disasters.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

“I’ve been a terrible liar on those subjects. What I tried to convey to the American people is I made mistakes of allowing the pressures of what I thought needed to be done in order to — this, this wasn’t about tricking anybody.” —Congressman George Santos

“Republicans use ‘wokeism’ to attack left — but struggle to define it.” —The Washington Post

Race Bait

“I see [Nikki Haley] and I feel sad … because she uses her brown skin as a weapon against poor black folks and poor brown folks and she uses her brown skin to launder white [supremacist] talking points.” —The Daily Beast’s Wajahat Ali