Social Security: 62, 67, or 70

AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.25.26

Speaker Johnson: Congress Needs To Back DOGE Cuts

 

DOGE legislation. Otherwise you won't be Speaker Johnson very long. 

EBL: Big Beautiful Bill passes in House and Rand Paul and Dana Loesch not fans of the "Big Beautiful Bill"

American Greatness: DOGE cuts?, ‘Congress Must Pass DOGE Cuts’, and Codify DOGE

NY Post: GOP needs to codify DOGE and GOPe banking on BBB

DaTechGuy: About that Big Beautiful Bill and winning

Instapundit: Disappointed, DOGE, and DOGE states

Hot Air: Some DOGE cuts off to Congress?

Breitbart: Musk disappointed with BBB

AoSHQ: Morning Report 05.28.25

Did my best

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2025

Bottom line? As I have exhaustively explained in detail on air, all of this is a sugar high. Without the legislative efforts to make EOs permanent all of this goes away in ‘28, some earlier.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 28, 2025

Should we scrap the Jones Act? 🚢🤔

Zeihan has a point about the Jones Act.

Be skeptical 24 hours after a disaster and should we scrap the Jones Act?

EBL: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses in Baltimore After Cargo Ship Collision

AoSHQ: Morning Report 04.02.24

Fun Fact: You’d have to burn a pizza stove 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry’s private jet 🍕✈️🔥🤔😡

 

So John Kerry's Private Jet vs. a wood fired pizza oven? Which would you prefer?

This sums up how out of control these purported climate czars really are...

Spreading evil like putting his wife's tomato sauce on hot dogs.

First they came for your guns, now they are coming for your pizza...

No Pizza For You

Instapundit: Climate Commies Ruin Everything, Sod Off Swampy, and Inflation Killing $1 Pizza

Legal Insurrection: Putting wood and coal fired pizzerias out of business

Watts Up With That: Pizzerias vs. Climate Change Busybodies

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.27.23

BIDEN SOLVES THE BABY FORMULA PROBLEM 👶🍼😬

 

Or alternatively you can just abort them.  Problem solved. 

Government Caused The Formula Shortage

Instapundit: The Berlin airlift in reverse

EBL: Baby Formula

Did Kamala Harris's Bus go Thump, Thump, Thump over her brother/UBER? 🚍

LA Times: Awkward

I suppose if Kamala is willing to throw her brother and Uber under the bus, that shows she is independent and not about cronyism (although hurting Uber is often about protecting other crony donors to Democrats and their graft machine).  Personally, I like Uber and like how it and Lyft have knocked out the cab monopolies in cities.  This is still worth a close watch. 

Makes family reunions awkward.  

EBL: Kamala Harris Believes Joe Biden's Accusers 🤷🏻‍♀️, Kamala Harris: Lock 'em Up! ⛓️👮🏾‍♀️, Kamala Harris's Bus go Thump, Thump, Thump over Joe Biden🚍 and Willie Brown's Advice🍊

AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.14.20

“The fact that Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law is chief legal officer for Uber at a time when the company has vowed to cut off all operations in California rather than pay its drivers as employees ought to be a bigger problem for the Democratic ticket.”
-@jimgeraghty

— Mike a.k.a. Proof 🇺🇸 (@ProofBlog) August 14, 2020

Horowitz Report 🤷🏻‍♀️🚨

Daily Caller: Horowitz Is Coming!

I am not expecting much (I mean in the report) but here it is!

Instapundit: Durham's got the goods on someone, The investigation was as corrupt as ComeyAG Barr believes there was spying on Trump, and Durham Disputes IG Report

AoSHQ: Morning Report 12.10.19 , While it is rather critical of the FBI, it is mostly a white wash for the guilty, and reports are Durham and Barr are furious with this. 

Rush Limbaugh: Rush's theory of what Barr and Durham are doing, The IG report confirms the Coup, and Huge! Durham Disputes the Horowitz Report

Powerline: The FBI as the Titanic, Barr is on the case, and Finessing the Inspector General Report

Legal Insurrection: AG Barr's statement on Horowitz, FISA, and Crossfire Hurricane

Breitbart: IG Report a complete white wash but Comey still a dirty cop

Jonathan Turley: The IG report is damning for the FBI

DURHAM BOMB https://t.co/L4joIukihp

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 9, 2019

I just got out of a nearly 2 hour briefing on the IG report.

It is deeply disturbing. Some former FBI and DOJ officials are about to have some serious explaining to do.

More details to come shortly.

— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) December 9, 2019

CONFIRMED: Brennan Lied About Not Including Steele Dossier In Intelligence Community Assessment On 2016 Russian Election Interferencehttps://t.co/Rs8DsFVDcQ

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) December 9, 2019

Comey: 'We Did Not Spy---We Just Observed And Reported Secretly Without The Subject's Knowledge Or Consent' https://t.co/bVhLwrw0BN

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 9, 2019

It Is Out Of Control: Pedestrians Being Killed By Cyclists in New York City 🚶 💥🚴

Little Mabel Jensen was hit by a bicycle in Riverside Park.

NY Post: NYC bicyclists are killing pedestrians and the city won’t stop it and Blowing through signals

Mayor Bill de Blasio has aggressively pushed a bike-friendly agenda, adding about 100 miles of dedicated lanes for cyclists amid a spike in rider collisions, but he’s done little to address the danger that bikers themselves pose.

Since 2011, bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died — according to stats from the city Department of Transportation and published reports.

We obviously need bike control now in New York City!  🚶 💥🚴

Instapundit: Bikes have a place,Bikes are the worst, Hi Speed Bike Menance, Bikes Out Of Control in NYC, Knife Control Needed, San Francisco: A Tragedy Waiting To Happen, and De Blasio Missing Posters in NYC

EBL: California Nightmare: Boat Fire Disaster 🛥️🔥

Democrats Destroying Family Farms in Upstate New York

State Senator Pam Helming responds to what a disaster this bill will be for New York Farmers

Most farm workers get paid piecemeal, not by the hour.  Most farmworkers do quiet well. A skilled farm hand can harvest a lot of strawberries, apples, and other seasonal produce--most earn far better than minimum wage. There is no incentive to bust your butt harvesting produce on an hourly pay scale. Farmers operate on thin margins, so they cannot easily pass these costs on to consumers (especially since other states are not as bat shit crazy as New York Democrats). Neighboring states will under cut them.

This bill, which requires paying farm workers minimum wage and time and a half for over time (over 40 hours) also results in less money for farm workers. That is because farmers can't afford to pay them the OT. So guess what, most will go seek work elsewhere.

So this bill hurts family farms. It hurts farm workers. It benefits larger agro businesses who are better able to automate and other states. This is all because New York City and Albany posers have to virtue signal.

Buffalo News: A Raw Deal For Farms

Be exceedingly careful when dealing with the police when you have a firearm (or even if you don't)...

We had the recent man shot in a "red flag" incident in Maryland, a security person who was shot by the police showing up at a bar shooting (he was holding a suspect down with his gun out), and a man who tried to stop a fight in Portland who was shot by police. And let's not forget the guy shot in his own apartment when the officer supposedly mistook it for her own.  

I am not excusing the police or blaming the victims in these events (with the exception I see no excuse for the shootings by Officers Noor and Guyger). Each case is its own situation. You can be right (in whole or part), but if you're dead, you're dead. Do not mess around when the police show up (especially if you have a firearm). Make it absolutely clear you are not a threat to officers and follow their instructions.  

If you are going to carry a firearm, you better know the law in the state you are in. Take a course from The Law Of Self Defense (or other appropriate firearm training course on state law compliance and safe practices). You want to avoid legal liability and also keep yourself from getting shot. If you are carrying, avoid incidents that could end up getting you shot by the police or prosecuted by some prosecutor looking for a scalp.  

Gun control opponents seem to want more incidents like the ones noted above, so they can get more gun control... 

Their efforts are widespread and intended to gut the 2nd Amendment. The attacks come from the left pushing stricter and stricter gun control on a state level (where they can) and trying desperately to gain control of the U.S. Supreme Court to push through restrictions via the judiciary on those states who don't share the same sensitivities of California and the Northeast.  

We also had the Borderline shooting. California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but those regulations did not stop that shooting. That shooter had an earlier disturbing incident in his home which did not result in his guns being confiscated, and then he shot up a bar and killed 12 people (including a sheriff deputy).  

Meanwhile we also had a women in Minnesota shot in the pajamas (she was holding a cell phone and had just reported a possible sexual assault she heard) and a cafeteria worker shot in his car (who declared he had a gun to the police). Both cases raise serious issues on the use of deadly force by the police. People are on edge.  

AoSHQ: Maryland cops shoot man while trying to confiscate his guns 

Instapundit: The Democrats' Beto Problem, Support for Gun Control Drops Before Midterms, but A Democrat Push For Gun Control After The Midterms (they know what is best for you)

AoSHQ: Morning Report 11.13.18

Can't Touch This

Honolulu Star Advertiser: Alabama man fined $1,500 for touching monk seal and harassing sea turtle

Telegraph: Sexually Frustrated Dolphin Zafar going after tourists in France!

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Woodsterman: It's Funday

The Daley Gator: Daley Babe

Minuteman: Rule Five Dancers

Goodstuffs Cyber World: Photo Dump

Wired Right: Our pick for Lingerie Model

AoSHQ/J.J. Sefton: Lit' Shiter Targets Pelosi

The Right Way: Rule 5 Saturday Link Around

A View from the Beach: Wet T-Shirt Thursday

Political Clown Parade: Flowing Curves Of Beauty

American Power : Kate Upton's Struggles (VIDEO)

By Other Means: BeCosPlay Friday & Random Hotness

Animal Magnetism: Travel Totty Rule Five and Gingermageddon

Diogenes Middle Finger News: A Good Monday Morning and Fishnet Friday

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick, Girls With Guns and Morning Mistress

The Pirates Cove: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pin Up, If All You See ..., If All You See...

Knuckledraggin My Life Away: I’m sure she’s taken, men and  I’ll leave you with this 

The Feral Irishman: Frideyes Siren.... Causing Ship Wrecks For Hundreds Of Years and Wednesdeyes

Proof Positive: Friday Night Babe - Rebecca Gayheart, Zooey Deschanel, and Vintage Babe of the week -Teri Martine

Rush Limbaugh: This Rosenstein Sound Bite Should Be The Only News and Getting rid of Trump is all that mattes to Mueller

TOM: The Church of Fear: Democrats are the Prophets of Doom, The Subjectivity of 'Harassment', Paging Captain Obvious, Paul Gottfried vs Neocon Mythology, Support Higher Education, Trans-gendered activist and his/her Pedophile Dad, Fake Jew Socialist accuses Truth-Tellers of Racism, Every Liberal's Favorite Conservative and the problem with "Bipartisan Compromise," Trey Gowdy is well worth your time,  RIP, Senator John McCain, In The Mailbox 08.24.18, Fake Hate (because it is an election year), Big Brother Inc., Friday Fiction Smitty/Darleen, Hollywood Boy Toy Shakedown, Rare STD reported in England, In The Mailbox 08-23-18

A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and appreciating look but don't touch:

H2
TOTUS
Egotastic
Dust bury
HeroPress
Hogewash
Theo Spark
Daily Gator
O.K. Corral
Daily Caller
Wired Right
Pirate's Cove
Woodsterman
Proof Positive
The Right Way
RULE 5 SITES
Blazing Cat Fur
MissK's World...
By Other Means
American Power
Irons In The Fire
Guns and Bikinis
SayanythingBlog
Raconteur Report
Doubletroubletwo
Angrymikes hood
The Last Tradition
Adrienne's Corner
The Feral Irishman
Camp of the Saints
Animal Magnatism
Maggie's Notebook
The Classic Liberal
The Rio Norte Line
Randy's Roundtable
A Nod To The Gods
Grouchy Old Cripple
Small Dead Animals
Political Clown Parade
24 Femmes Per Second
The Vulgar Curmudgeon
A View From The Beach
Diogenes' Middle Finger
Your Crazy Uncle Bubba
Old Retired Petty Officer
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Knuckledraggin My Life Away
In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)

How does the rest of the world get such fabulous affordable heath care?

That headline is of course a gross oversimplification and exaggeration. There are some benefits but also plenty of negatives under these various health care systems around the developed world. It is true, however, that in most first world countries, they do have some form of universal health care. How it performs varies widely depending on the system adopted. All these system, however, tend to eat up a considerably smaller percent of gross national product than the United States  The United States spends about 18% of Gross National Product on healthcare each year. In comparison, France spends about 11% of its GNP.

The United States is far from a pure free market system. The US does have socialized medicine (similar in some ways to Great Britain's National Health Service), such as the medical systems for the United States Armed Forces and the Veterans Administration. We have a Canadian health care model in Medicare (Medicare and Medicaid were actually based on the Canadian system).  We have elements of the German/French system in employer funded health care. And of course we have a very flawed Democrat imposed regulatory scheme that made things worse called Obamacare.

The United States care has excellent world class health care, if you can afford it. Frustrating but still very good health care if you are typically insured (with lots of co-pays and self pay and significant financial burdens in worse case scenerios). Poor care if you are under-insured (and the working poor do worse than than those at a poverty level). Our system with its layers of insurance and regulation does increase the overall costs far more than they would in a free market setting.

Leaving the British system aside (which does generally sucks) and the Canadian system (which has some serious flaws), the French and German systems (they are both hardly perfect) do provide fairly decent health care at a much lower percent of GNP than in the USA. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan follow similar models. How do they do it?  A very good read on the topic is T.R. Reid's The Healing of America. I don't agree with all of Reid's positions, but he does a very good job describing health care systems around the world.  Getting back to how they manage to keep costs under control:

ALL OF THESE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS STRICTLY REGULATE HOW MUCH DOCTORS AND MEDICAL PROVIDERS CAN CHARGE.

They also do things in France like have your health records portable on a credit card chip (which is very smart actually, it makes record keeping way easier and cheaper). When you go to a French doctor, you hand him your card and your records all pop up. They (for the most part) don't have medical malpractice lawsuits and doctors insurance coverage is considerably less than here. Medical insurance is mostly non profit (sort of like the old Blue Cross Blue Shield). Germany does allow you to obtain private insurance for greater medical services. In France and Germany if you are working, you are directly paying premiums for healthcare (the state pays for unemployed and others). Since there is no fighting over how services are coded, it requires far less staff. Hospitals are typically non-profit too. So that efficiency helps, but it is still just a fraction of health care costs. The biggest thing is...

ALL OF THESE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS STRICTLY REGULATE HOW MUCH DOCTORS AND MEDICAL PROVIDERS CAN CHARGE.

It is actually transparent. In France, for example, prices for common procedures are listed at doctor's office. They are negotiated each year. Doctors protest they are not getting paid enough (and compared to US doctors they definitely paid less), but that is how they make the systems work.

I am not suggesting we do that. I would prefer going in the opposite direction and allowing a freer, transparent, market driven health care (similar with what you find in plastic surgery and orthodontics, which are typically not insurance driven).Still, there are elements of these other countries systems that warrant a closer look.

TOM: In The Mailbox 08/08/18: American Power: Britain’s Labour Party Pushing For Second Brexit Vote

Twitchy:  Doctors will just have to take a massive pay cut for the USA to be more like Canada

Instapundit: Choice is Good: Trump allowing lesser health care plans (with lower costs)

Once you establish an entitlement like this, it is a huge political cudgel to use on opponents!

Kaiser Health News: Doctors once opponents, embracing single payer

Powerline: Medicaid For All (be careful of this becoming true...)

Lem's Place: Healthcare reform and how the US stacks up

So who will be running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday?

Awkward: Two acting directors, one appointed by an Obama Holdover and one by the Trump Administration. Last time I checked, Trump is president, it makes sense he names the successor.

Cordray is a partisan leftist tool who answers to Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren

NBC: Justice Department Issues Memo Saying Trump Can Appoint Successor

Why stop at director, let's close this agency and repeal Dodd-Frank!  Hey, if this anticipated Democrat wave is coming in 2018 (as NeverTrumpers chides and RedState commentators like to remind us), Trump better get done what needs to be done now.

Rush Limbaugh: Libs cling to Franken, Conyers, Pure Caca Presser, and Classic Misinformation on Trump's CFPB Powers

Hot Air: CFPB's top attorney agrees with...Trump over successor and Battle over CFPB head

Powerline: On Pocahontas, Sarah Sanders gets the last word and Is Pocahontas racist?

Lem's Place/Chip Ahoy: Deconstructing the CFPB! Great gif by Chip!

Washington Examiner: Trump to Cordray: See ya!

AoSHQ/J.J. Sefton: All About Feelings!

EBL: Call her Fauxchahontas!

McConnellCare Is Coming?

What could go wrong? 

EBL: Repealing Obamacare: Is this a reason to be a little optimistic?  and Mark Steyn explains why RyanCare was a bad deal

Instapundit: Why didn't Obamacare make us healthier, Healthcare vote by July 4 looking more in doubt (good news)

Legal Insurrection: What's in the GOP Senate Healthcare Bill

Rush Limbaugh: GOP Senate Healthcare Bill Preview

Real Climate Change Is Coming To The EPA...

RedState: The current EPA will not like Myron Ebell

It is going to get a lot chillier!  

This is a big deal. Like potentially Ronald Reagan big deal. The EPA is a rogue out of control agency. Things may start dramatically changing. With a conservative shift in the Supreme Court (and in the lower courts) and a change of leadership at the EPA, we might see this agency start to get in line. Here's hoping for that. 

EBL: Getting a new Sheriff In Town? and John Bolton for Sec of State?

AoSHQ: EPA staffers freaking out and thearpy dogs brought in

Don Surber: Trump is rattling some cages with this move

WUWT: Shock and Awe to Liberals at the EPA

Instapundit: Midnight regs at the EPA

Powerline: Trump's First Appointees

Michelle Malkin: Trimming time!

Powerline: Freakout at EPA

Donald Trump and Football Being Soft: Is this an analogy for an over-regulated America?

The NFL, of course, did not voluntarily go to these new concussion and safety rules on their own. They were prompted with medical evidence of serious head injuries with players from repeated strikes. But the question is, did Trump do this spiel stream of consciousness or were these comments intended to make a point on regulation?  My guess it is stream of consciousness, but Trump did make a general connection on America getting soft. Trump comes off as genuine with this type of campaign style. This is why guys like Jeb are blown out by Trump. 

Getting back to over regulation.  The problem with a lot of the regulations in this country is they are prompted by a real but often isolated events. A regulatory cure is proposed (often quickly and without a lot of thought, oversight or review).  And while some regulatory action is justified, often the cure tends to be worse than the harm it was meant to correct.  

If only we had more leaders who thought and acted like this under pressure...

Oldschool Football

And while the Vikings lost to the Seahawks in a heart-breaker, you have to admire Bud Grant.
Washington Post: Cindy Boren
American Power Blog: #GoldenGlobes and popular culture
EBL: Golden Globes, Leo and #TheBearIsLoose
Regular Right Guy: Schlafly: Rubio will not be President
Instapundit: Fundamentally Transformed, The GOPe hate Trump but they fear Cruz, Born in the USA? Coin Toss? Democrats worried
DaTechGuy: Epiphany
Rush Limbaugh: Eilites realize Trump could win, Saturday Night Disgrace and Comments outside of his being a Steeler Fan

Hillary Clinton Emails: Are we heading for a Constitutional Crisis?

Instapundit and Don Surber: Will There Be A Show Down Between The FBI and Attorney General?

It is almost certain Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch (despite their dislike of the Clintons) will not jeopardize Democrat presidential chances. Ultimately this comes down to whether James Comey had the integrity to make this an issue and demand that a special prosecutor be appointed. Given he was the prosecutor against Martha Stewart and was a Republican who appointed and backed Patrick Fitzgerald as special prosecutor in going after Scooter Libby, you think he would be willing to do this (unlike lower level agents, he could land on his feet just fine if he goes head to head with the President and the Attorney General).  

Mark Tapscott thinks it could happen. Sarah Hoyt will believe it when she sees it.

Lem's Levity: Joe Biden regrets his decision not to run every day?

RRG: Is Hillary feeling the Bern?

Rush Limbaugh

Wombat: Mark Steyn: Someone's lying, who is it? (it is not just Bill who does this)

TOM: Feminist Barbie and Rape Culture

Powerline: Hillary Indictment?

Boom!

Barack Obama is playing with guns again...

Instapundit: AP Fact Check: No Change, Macguffinization of Politics, The Day the Clown Died (ouch), Obama channels Glenn Reynolds but misses the essential message, Glenn on Dana Loesch's show: How Obama is using his gun EO to distract from his failures

Rush Limbaugh: Doctors as eyes and ears of the regime, Snarling Obama and his gun fatwa, and Obama's final year will shock you

RedState/Leon Wolf: Media goes 'Jesus Wept' over Obama crocodile tears

Dana Loesch: A through fisking of Obama's gun executive orders

Conservative Review: Another example of constitutional crisis

TOM: When crazy is against the law...

AoSHQ: It is sort of a mixed bag

RRG: Communication skills

Chip: Crocodile Tears

Andrew Branca

Dealing with a world without transfat...

@AceofSpadesHQ hey #embracethelard #PaulaDeenIsRight #lardisgoodforyou #criscoisthedevil #transfats #Lard @rsmccain pic.twitter.com/J65MUvQVNM

— JeSuisEBL (@MsEBL) June 16, 2015

Instapundit: There is a lot of transitioning going on...

The world is soon to be rid of evil trans-fats, but when it comes to Wombat's In The Mailbox posts he had Monday Phat, Tuesday Phat, Wednesday Phat. Thursday Phat with plenty of links!
I thought trans stuff was always good?
The Federalist: Why the transfat ban is worse than you think.

Bias in Prosecution: The Gaystapo teams up with the Gay Mafia, what could go wrong?

Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Oregon

AoSHQ: Bias in gay wedding cake prosecution? 

Who do these Oregonians think they are, Marilyn Mosby? 

Legal Insurrection: Or maybe the New Black Panthers (who get a sweetheart deal)

The GoFundMe campaign for Sweet Cakes did not violate GoFundMe Rules

EBL: GoFundMe? Try GoF***Yourself

The Gaystapo look, however, is fabulous!

TOM: Martin O'Malley's Legacy of Failure, Greece Threatens Default, and HeteronormativeGaze, the War on Human Nature, Welcome to Texas, hope you are hungry

Instapundit: Fake Science, Fake but Accurate?, and Serious Professional Breach

Legal Insurrection: Our changing moral climate
Mark Steyn: The Death of Eurocentrism and Rampant Ciscentrism

American Power Blog: Rise of Authoritarian Transgender Politics

Regular Right Guy: Caitlyn, Caitlyn, Caitlyn, Caitlyn, Caitlyn, …

Lem's Levity: Trangendered is a mental disorder

Legal Insurrection: Academic War on Men?

Hot Air: Why gender transformation is a lose lose for liberals
Mark Steyn: Birth of the New