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A compilation of quotations on a variety of issues by national, state and regional writers, well-known personalities, just plain everyday people and from various publications collected by the editors of THE ADVANCE.

Quotes for our Times:

Dave Marcus, columnist for Fox News Digital: PBS, NPR and a lethal case of TDS.

PBS and NPR have been given years, even decades, to clean up their act and live up to their responsibility to provide unbiased news in the service of the public, not in the service of the Democrat Party.

Time is up. Public broadcasting can be a propaganda arm of the Left or it can be funded by taxpayers; It can no longer be both.

And after all, with the passage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, millions of people who love public broadcasting will be free to donate their significant tax savings to PBS and NPR, while the rest of us can opt out of funding fake news.

I call that a win-win.

Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org: Media elites put their profession over patriotism.

America is a free country, and journalists are free to denigrate it. Journalists are free to assert that their precious profession places them above putrid pledges of allegiance. But they shouldn’t be mystified when Americans decide they don’t trust networks that sound suspicious of the national unity that patriotism can bring.

Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall. com: This progressive delivered a brutal fact check for those politicizing the Texas floods.

Also, the National Weather Service had extra staff, warnings were sent, and every anti-Trump loony toon narrative has been obliterated in less than 36 hours. Liberals don’t read the real news—that’s the problem. They’ve also lost the ability to reason. They hate, lecture, and tell people who they feel are less than that they either deserve to die or deserve bad things to happen to them based on political preferences.

That’s insane. We’re dealing with mental midgets of the worst kind.

Kurt Schlichter, conservative political commentator and author: Hell freezes over as congressional republicans don’t blow it.

And the losers? I mean, besides the entire Democrat Party? The Lol-bertarian Twins Rand Paul and Thomas Massie believed their own hype of being stalwart, principled iconoclasts standing in the breach. The Freedom Caucus got something by being a pain; these two got zilch and succeeded in doing what many believed impossible – making libertarians even more annoying. There’s no universe where their ideological fantasies pass any House or Senate that might ever exist on Earth.

Trump must crush Massie unmercifully as a cautionary example of those who don’t get on the team. Paul still has a cycle to get his head right, but we’re tired of smug talk. We want wins on the scoreboard, not some dork showboating for sophomoric incel fanboys by failing to accomplish anything except making sure no one else can accomplish anything, either. And if the passage of the BBB helps rid us of them, that’s yet another reason to celebrate.