The BIG Lies

“This is a president who respects the rule of law.” —White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton

“The thing about [Mike] Pence here is that when I lived in Indiana and I went to Notre Dame, he had a terrible approval rating because of the way he treated the AIDS crisis. Awful. A lot of people died because of him.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

Hot Air

“If we don’t deal with global warming, it’s the only existential threat that exists for humanity.” —Joe Biden

For the Record

“At noon on May 19, 1780, it looked like midnight. People thought the world was ending. Scientists later determined that massive wildfires in Canada sent massive amounts of smoke drifting down into New England. That was 243 years ago. There were no factories, no SUVs. The population of the world was many times smaller. Yet that massive wildfire happened. More recently, a similar event occurred in 1950. It was the same phenomena — huge Canadian wildfires broke out and the winds blew smoke into the U.S. In spite of all the left’s hyperventilating, this has nothing to do with climate change. If anything, it points out the hubris of suggesting that we can control climate change. … Sadly, the left will exploit anything, even nature and the weather, to gain power.” —Gary Bauer

Re: The Left

“We have to marvel at how quickly the Biden DOJ can move when it wants to. … Five months after AG [Merrick] Garland belatedly appointed Robert Hur to see if maybe Joe Biden, at some time during his half-century in Washington, might’ve perhaps possibly maybe stashed boxes of classified documents next to the Corvette in his Wilmington garage, or in some office in the Chinese intelligence-gathering building known as the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, Hur hasn’t even interviewed Joe Biden. But Jack Smith can put together a seven-count indictment against Trump in less than seven months. Don’t even get us started on Hillary Clinton’s willful defiance of the law with her unsecured server.” —Douglas Andrews

“To this point, the debate over the proper pronunciation of Ron DeSantis’ last name has gotten more coverage than the president possibly pocketing millions of dollars through shell corporations. … Of course, we expect jaw-dropping hypocrisy from politicians. We expect a politicized Justice Department to protect Democrats. Nowadays, we also expect the complete abdication of journalistic responsibility from a partisan big media. And that’s a massive problem.” —David Harsanyi

“In the current culture war dealing with the transgenderism cult and the whole LGBTQ+ movement, pedophilia is the next logical step in the slippery slope of ‘liberalism.’ If the premise and goal of liberalism is individual autonomy and freedom to pursue sexual goals of virtually any kind, then after destroying the gender binary, next is undermining and destroying the protection of children from sexualization and exploitation. If gender doesn’t matter, why should age?” —Emmy Griffin

Insight

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.” —George Orwell (1903-1950) in 1984