April 18, 2024

Reader Comments

Observations on the week’s analysis and commentary.

Publisher’s Note: We receive hundreds of comments and can only select a few to publish in our Tuesday and Thursday “Reader Comments” section. Every article we post has social media links to start a conversation online and a “Comment” button to send a comment to our editors.

Re: American Liberty Born Again — Patriots’ Day Then and Now

“On behalf of all your readers out here in the wasteland of what once was Reagan country, thank you for the Patriots’ Day reminder of our national legacy, and who we must all fearlessly strive to be today.” —California

“Amid all the other news that floods my inbox, I never miss my Patriot Post edition, and this week, Alexander’s column revisiting the actions of those first American Patriots at Lexington and Concord was inspiring. We ALL need to remember who we are and the legacy of Liberty we are charge with upholding.” —Florida

“Just made my Patriots’ Day donation to help keep you guys on the frontlines stocked up with ammo. Thank you all for what you do every day. You are the true voice of our nation!” —New Jersey

Re: Biden’s ‘Gun Show Loophole’ Gaslighting

“In the last several days, Australia, which has for the most part completely banned private ownership of firearms, has shown us what happens. There have been incidents of ‘knife violence,’ including a mass slash and stab that left multiple victims dead. Will the Left demand the registration of knife dealers and require background checks of every cook and woodcarver? Or will leftists finally understand that the problem is violent people, not weapons? The fact is that no human law is going to end violence; we can only deter it with effective enforcement against those who attack others. Violence can truly be reduced only by reconciliation with God, whereby the love of Christ compels believers to willingly ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’” —Minnesota

Re: Iran Attacks Israel (Again)

“This ‘attack’ by Iran was nothing more than a maneuver to assess the strength of Israel’s defense system. This is but the first salvo of an all-out attack on my beloved Israel. May the Lion of Judah gird for war and destroy her enemies!” —New Hampshire

“Quite a few years back now, Elvis Presley had a song titled, ‘Don’t.’ I wonder if the Trump campaign could get approval from Elvis’s estate to incorporate the song into a message mocking Biden’s marvelous defensive strategy. The Dems must be made to own this stupidity. Just a thought.” —West Virginia

Re: The Tantrums of Toddler Terrorists

“These vile pro-Palestine (Hamas) protesters (domestic terrorists) have every right to protest, but that’s where it stops. They do not have the right to trespass public highways, trample on other people’s rights, interrupt commerce, or subject innocent bystanders to life-threatening medical treatment. Every one of them should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If they hate America so much, then get out of our country.” —Kansas

Re: Banning Noncitizen Votes and Ensuring Fair Elections

“Time is running out for the globalists to achieve their agenda by 2030. Ergo, they will stop at nothing to achieve this goal. When you have zero honesty, integrity, morals, or Christian beliefs, you don’t have to worry about what you lie about, how you cheat, or who you have to kill. Just win.” —Texas

“Having noncitizens vote in any election seems like a simple thing to reject, but some have an issue with it. Enrolling illegal trespassers in social support programs is another issue. Pay our veterans for what they sacrificed and move illegals back to their home where they can apply for access. Legal access is available, but it takes a while.” —Washington

Re: MSM Run Debate Interference for Chicken Joe

“Presidential debate? Why? Both of the presumptive candidates have a public record of their performance in the Oval Office. The only thing a debate would demonstrate is which candidate is better at speaking without actually saying anything of substance, and I think we are all aware of that already. We are also aware of which one can barely speak at all without uttering gibberish.” —Florida

Re: Johnson Announces Stand-Alone Bills

“Stand-alone bills should be the norm rather than the exception. With a stand-alone bill, each supporter is exposed and therefore easier to identify. It is the only way to see how your elected official is performing. The added benefit, and probably more important, is that it serves to slow the pace of bill generation. We have thousands of bills that no one has read or understands or enforces, which is neither efficient nor moral. One bill, one vote, one responsible representative. Seems easy.” —Washington

Re: The Right’s Intelligence Problem

“If anything, the ‘intelligentsia’ have proven that all the education in the world doesn’t give you either common sense or the ability to do what’s best for the country. I survived the indoctrination and indebtedness centers of so-called higher education and realized that one non-college-educated working man understands more about how the world works than a room full of professors.” —Ohio

“The reasons for supporting Trump have more to do with the demise of the Democrat Party with its leftist binge than with the leadership of the Republican Party establishment. Republicans need to put the self-inflicted hatchet away and start supporting each other, or we will lose what precious time we have left to right our ship. Take a page from Mike Lowe’s philosophy of work and apply it uniformly to all hardworking Americans who want our country to proceed forward with integrity, honesty, and forbearance.” —Texas

Publisher’s Note: Caleb Nunes’s analysis is under the banner, “Grassroots From the Campus.” He is an award-winning writer and student at Northwestern University. Thus, we include his perspective because it is “from the campus.” As Nunes notes in his recent post, conservatives have a growing support deficit with young people, and from his perspective, one reason is the high media profile of those like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has become something of a Republican mascot to counter Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Don’t shoot the messenger.

Re: Are Women Trying to Be Miserable?

“Too bad all these highly educated, terribly sophisticated, worldly-wise, and street-savvy females don’t have the sense God gave a flea. If they did, they could think for themselves for a change instead of constantly having to look to someone else to tell them what to do, believe, etc. Isn’t that what feminists are supposed to be free of — having someone tell them how to live?” —Pennsylvania

Re: Navy Maintenance Challenges: Part 2

“When I served aboard United States destroyers in the Pacific (1956-1960), I remember how efficiently the Japanese made repairs to them when necessary. I wonder if they have since succumbed to the blackhole vortex that is the money-sucking bureaucracy, a never satisfied glutton resembling hatchlings in the nest, heads held high, beaks wide open, screaming for sustenance. I wonder how other nations manage their ship construction and maintenance.” —Ohio

Re: Fleece

“The problem is not Old Testament Gideon putting the fleece out for confirmation (he is listed in the ‘Hall of Faith’ in Hebrews 11:32); the problem is today’s professing, shallow Christians who, unlike Gideon, have the completed Word of God in their hands but not in their hearts and yet continue to test God with their demand for ‘signs’ — like fleecing!” —Colorado

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