OBAMACARE’S POISON WELL: Republicans during July Fourth recess are confronted with prospect of premiums increasing 20% in January.

Republican senators are confronting a political challenge that is increasingly hard to ignore as they engage with voters during the July Fourth recess: Under their health-care overhaul, average premiums for a midlevel insurance plan would jump by 20% next January.

Left unasked: How many people will continue buying ObamaCare plans at any price once the mandate is removed.

More:

That means many people who don’t get insurance through work would see their premiums increase just a few months before the midterm elections, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Premiums would fall in later years, in part because less-comprehensive plans would be offered by that time.

This highlights what some Republicans privately concede is a Catch-22 as GOP Senate leaders work to assemble a bill they can bring to the floor when Congress returns to Washington: Both passing a bill and not passing one carry political peril.

Repeal now, replace… someday, maybe.

THUG JOURNALISM: CNN Threatens To Reveal Identity Of Reddit Man Who Made Trump-CNN Bodyslam Meme If He Disobeys Them. “CNN has accomplished the Houdini-esque feat of turning itself into the villain after President Trump tweeted a gif of himself body-slamming the CNN logo and punching it. This should demonstrate once again that Trump isn’t ruining CNN – CNN is so obsessed with Trump that it’s busily ruining whatever is left of its credibility,” Ben Shapiro writes.

Happy Fourth of July America, from Time-Warner-CNN-HBO!

PATRICK POOLE: Swedish Spy Chief Admits ISIS Sympathizers Have Increased Tenfold to 2,000.

If Swedish officials are willing to admit to 2,000, then it’s a safe bet the actual number is much higher.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION? A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley.

I kind of feel like this wave of stuff is a sign that Silicon Valley is over. When it was really rolling, people didn’t have time to sexually harass, or to complain.

REALLY WAIT, WHAT? PEOPLE DO THAT? Why women should never put a glitter bomb down there.

WAIT, WHAT? You can now snort chocolate to get high.

AS WE’VE BEEN SAYING: The Fight for Freedom Begins in Culture.

CONTINUING THE WEEK OF THE FOURTH: I’m in this.  So is my friend Brad Torgersen.  Rocket’s Red Glare.

GOOD CIVIL RIGHTS NEWS: Federal Judge Blocks California Gun Magazine Confiscation Scheme.

BUT THEY TOLD ME HE WAS ANTI-SEMITE!  IS HE THAT BAD AT IT? Trump Admin Stands With Israel Against U.N. Bid to Delegitimize Jewish State.

IS THAT A BIGGER OR SMALLER DIFFERENCE THAN IN THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE?  Women who work at the White House are earning a lot less than men.

AN ANTHOLOGY WITH LARRY CORREIA AND JIM BUTCHER: Straight out of Tombstone.  (Yeah, I’m in it too, but that’s not important right now.)

CHARLIE MARTIN: CNN Appears to Extort Apology from Trump Meme-Maker:

You know, I just didn’t think my opinion of the legacy media could possibly get lower.

Okay, folks, make note, you don’t get to hear me say this very often: I was wrong.

A lot of people on both sides of the aisle came to that conclusion as well on Twitter tonight. QED: When CNN loses their fellow lefties at Vox, you know they’ve made a very poor decision.

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DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING: CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski threatens to out anonymous Internet user who created the animated “Trump clotheslining CNN logo” GIF that the president’s account retweeted:

CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

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In the phone interview on Tuesday, “HanA**holeSolo” said the White House did not ask his permission to use the GIF, and said he probably would have said no if they had.

As Twitchy notes, “Seriously, this is what the media does now? They track down people and ‘threaten’ to post their personal information for sharing content they don’t like?”

Sharing content, incorrectly answering hypothetical questions about who they’d make pizza for — wherever there is badthink being thought, the DNC-MSM is one business that’s always ready to swing into action to destroy its customers.

And on the Fourth of July, to boot.

UPDATE: “CNN has chosen the form of its Destructor. A million @4chan guys,” Glenn tweets.

SARAH HOYT ON THE FOURTH: Being A Usaian.

FROM A FORMER STUDENT OF MINE, thoughts on law practice and drug addiction.

AND SOME CHOICE REPLIES FROM THE RIGHT: Happy 4th of July From the Left to America.

THE ACCELERATING DEMISE OF THE NEW YORK DINER.

ONE OF US: A Slow Becoming.

MORE ON TRUMP AND DECORUM, FROM A WHILE BACK:

Of course, by limiting what people can think and say, political correctness has hollowed out America’s universities, cheapened and distorted its politics, and served (and this last is entirely intentional) to make those who favor traditional American values like free speech feel marginalized and at risk. (I saw someone on Twitter talking about “America-shaming” last week, and that term fits pretty well.) But as leftists like to say, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

Almost as irritating to a lot of people, though, is the extent to which self-described “conservative” politicians, pundits and media organs have gone along. Part of this is because PC is often misleadingly sold as politeness, and elite American conservatives are suckers for etiquette. Part of it is because those conservative leaders move in an upper-middle-class environment where academic norms govern everyone, including them.

So nobody “respectable” was willing to launch a full-scale counterattack on PC, on or off-campus. Crack the occasional joke, maybe. But actually do something? Not so much.

But when “respectable” people won’t talk about things that a lot of voters care about, the less-respectable will eventually rise to meet the need. That’s what Trump’s doing. And a lot of people are cheering him on not so much because they’re fans of Trump personally as because they’re happy to see someone finally stand up to the PC bullies.

Will electing Trump solve all the nation’s problems? Nope. But, as mentioned above, it will show that more than half the country rejects the culture of political correctness, and the political class that let it take over. And for many people, that’s reason enough.

Decorum is a virtue, but it’s not the only virtue. And given that the people who are now asking “have you no decency?” have spent the last 50 years either undermining the concept, or letting others do so, it’s really hard to take their sudden concern for decorum seriously.

SERIOUS BADASS: “Special Forces Hero Killed an ISIS Fighter With His Bare Hands by Drowning Him in a Puddle.” If King George had an SAS, we’d all be driving on the wrong side of the street today.

CAN ANYONE HERE PLAY THIS GAME? The NSA Confronts a Problem of Its Own Making: Recent cyberattacks show what happens when America’s secret-keepers can’t keep their secrets. The “intelligence community” has had a bad couple of decades.

FIRE ALL OF YOUR GUNS AT ONCE, AND EXPLODE INTO SPACE: Today is the fifth anniversary of the infamous San Diego fireworks show: “About five minutes before the Port of San Diego’s Big Bay Boom was to begin at 9 p.m., spectators saw a brilliant display of fireworks that shot up in only 15 seconds – an incredible disappointment to hundreds of thousands of spectators who had waited for hours for the 18-minute show…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvulaROLsfg