LIMITED TIME DEAL: ALORAIR Air Scrubber with 3 Stage Filtration. #CommissionEarned

ALEX, I’LL TAKE “ARGUMENTS I’VE MADE SINCE I WAS A YOUNG AMERICAN” FOR $400: Don’t Lock Young Americans Into Social Security.

Rather than dragging younger workers through years of uncertain taxation, policymakers should give them a choice. Americans who are decades away from retirement should be allowed to opt out of Social Security and pursue retirement planning through private alternatives.

The freedom to decide how to spend and save one’s income is deeply ingrained in American culture. Some people rent apartments, rely on public transportation, and prioritize international travel. Others buy homes, raise families, and invest heavily in property or small businesses. The diversity of lifestyles that defines the United States is made possible by economic liberty.

Social Security’s mandatory payroll tax limits that liberty, particularly for younger generations who are unlikely to receive the same value from the program as their parents and grandparents. Every dollar directed to Social Security is a dollar that cannot be used to pay down debt, purchase a home, invest in education, build a business, or save independently for retirement.

Private retirement accounts also offer greater opportunities for long-term growth.

Virtually any growth would be an improvement.

BYRON YORK: Trump’s anti-communist manifesto. “Trump’s move wasn’t a complete surprise. After the June 23 Democratic primaries in New York — the one in which socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani emerged as a kingmaker by backing far-left candidates who upset progressive Democratic House incumbents — Trump quickly branded those far-left candidates as ‘communists,’ and not as socialists, as they styled themselves.”

To be fair, that’s because they are communists, and not socialists, as they style themselves.

THIS:

It’s quite funny that the case for Platner, up until about 15 hours ago, was, “well, yes, he has a Nazi tattoo and a history of saying terrible things and treats women abominably, but on the other hand he’s a communist.”

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 7, 2026

THEY SHOOT TESLAS, DON’T THEY?

A man shoots a father of four in his vehicle in Oakland. The fact that this vehicle is a Tesla is entirely incidental but headline writers at the @sfchronicle thought you should know. pic.twitter.com/vUwZrGaAES

— Marc Joffe (@marcjoffe) July 7, 2026

One reason that might justify the headline is that Teslas are festooned with up to nine video cameras, but the article doesn’t explicitly mention them. It just refers to the “surveillance video” and “analyzing electronic evidence:”

Investigators said they identified Evans as the suspect after reviewing surveillance video, interviewing witnesses and analyzing electronic evidence. Evans was arrested last Wednesday in Stockton on a murder warrant.

SCOTT PINSKER: My Platner Prediction Just Came True. Here’s What’s Next — Including the Death of the Dems’ Brand.

NO WONDER THE LEGACY MEDIA IS DENOUNCING THE MT RUSHMORE SPEECH:  Trump promises the torch of America’s liberty will never go out.

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON: The Nazi Tattoo Should Have Been Enough: Scandal-ridden Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been accused of rape. Democrats are finally turning on him. They should have done so a long time ago.

SOME DAMAGE CANNOT BE UNDONE:  Mamdani Does Damage Control After His Despicable Anti-American 250th Anniversary Speech.

THEY LIE, OF COURSE, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THEM:  Socialists Say Zohran Mamdani Delivered Record-Low Murders in NYC. There’s Just One Problem.

YOU MUST HAVE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA:  The LGBTQ Movement Just Found Out How Islamic Nations Actually Feel About Them.

STATES AND THE FEDS CERTAINLY POURED ENOUGH TAXPAYER $$$ UPON THEM:  New Fed Report Shows How Joe Biden’s Illegal Alien Invasion Brutalized Our Economy.

D*MN IT!  Stifling Dissent.

AMERICA CONTINUES TO CAPTURE IMAGINATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD:  Man Climbs Eiffel Tower to Hang an American Flag from the Iconic Paris Monument.

Because the future comes from America.

ABSOLUTELY WHAT HE SAID:  I hear all the time about how Gen Z is turning socialist because they have no economic hope and how I just don’t understand that we need to do more socialist stuff so they’ll still vote for us. Well…. I’ve spent quite a bit of time as a Silicon Valley startup/VC lawyer, and there is no quicker way to turn a young leftist into a junior Milton Friedman than starting their own business. I saw it over and over and over—smart twenty somethings with coding skills, blue hair and a Che Guevara poster gradually becoming more and more conservative as they slowly comprehend just how many regulatory hurdles there are to running a business and raising capital (and the amount of money they had to pay me to help do that navigation). We should all be encouraging young people to start their own businesses. They don’t need to be some novel tech business that attracts VC funding either. Every community has service and product needs just itching to be filled by someone with a little energy and smarts.

YES, BUT THEN AGAIN WHEN DEALING WITH LIBERAL FEMALES, ONE JUST WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO THINK:  I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan’t actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn’t actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from “The Onion.” back when it was funny. But no. She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically. This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room.

(And sorry, x-cancel continues not working for me.)

THEY SHOULD MOVE THERE, PERMANENTLY. WE’LL HELP THEM PACK:  U.S. ‘Influencers’ Jackson Hinkle, Max Blumenthal Support Regime at Khamenei Funeral.

THAT MEANS BEHIND THE SCENES THERE IS A PLAN TO TURF IT OUT:  Newsom-Backed Deal Transfers Iconic California Beach to Indigenous-Led Nonprofi.

And for Noisome to pocket a tidy kick back.

LIBERAL MEDIA HAS PORTRAYED COMMIES AS GENTLE DO GOODERS MY ENTIRE LIFE:  Liberal Media is Dishonestly Painting DSA Radicals as Gentle Reformers.

It’s the very definition of grotesque.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY:

Obama built that. Brick by brick by brick.

Same w/ the 6 officers shot in Baton Rouge ten days later (July 17, 2016). 3 died outright, with a 4th succumbing to his wounds in May, 2022. pic.twitter.com/8nsHQzrLoZ

— Marie von Astra (@marievonastra) July 7, 2026

Evergreen:

OPEN THREAD: It’s here for me and you.

“WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?”

OK. So Helen’s beauty sparks a war.

Athena is a strategic goddess guiding Odysseus.

Penelope embodies clever loyalty.

Circe turns men into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character arc in literature.

Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years.… https://t.co/fbEzKN0BYY

— Shawn Eni (@ShawnEni) July 6, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite.

NEO: The Platner rape story: all in the timing.

THE DECLARATION AS THE SIGNERS UNDERSTOOD IT: I’ve read more analyses  than I care to remember of the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence, and I have to say Rod Martin’s “The Christian Worldview of ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'” does a fine job of explicating key phrases as all but a couple of the signers — Jefferson and Franklin — likely understood them. And even TJ and Ben had to speak in the language of the rest of the signers. And all of them understood those inalienable rights to be characteristic of every man, not just Christians,