THE DAY IN PICTURES:

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DAMNED RIGHT WE DID: CNN Host says Trump voters staged a ‘rebellion against people like us’.

JAKE TAPPER TO BERNIE SANDERS: “How do you make it [health care] national if you can’t even get it in Vermont and California?”



Reply (summarized): "Well, that's different."

UH-OH: Eco-friendly light bulbs causing health problems?

UNEXPECTEDLY: California voted to go easy on criminals; got more crime.

HAS THE TIPPING POINT BEEN REACHED? The can can be kicked only so far before the road ends in a cliff.

CONSERVATIVE MOVE aims to help Republicans living in blue states move to states more aligned with their conservative ethos.

Heh. And I don't think it's a niche market either....

THE POLITICALLY CORRECT NATION is in a tizzy because the movie "Dunkirk" historically accurate.

THE HISTORY of Fusion GPS. It's not pretty.

THE BILL to permanently fix health care for all. It should be titled 'The bill to permanently get government the hell out of health care.

Read it carefully.

SO TELL ME AGAIN how that 'I' in FBI stands for 'integrity'.

HARD TO BELIEVE: Not even the engineering professions are immune to political correctness. Iowahawk has the right answer, but it would be futile - solving differential equations requires a brain; political correctness requires no brain.

PREDICTION: ObamaCare will fail in 2018: 1,332 counties in the United States will only have one health insurer on ObamaCare exchange in 2018; 40 counties will have none.

There are 3,144 counties or county equivalents in the United States; that means 44% - almost half - will no choice at all. That's not government health care?

Remember that it was government healthcare that killed Charlie Gard (but they did it kindly).

GOVERNMENT wrecked the gas can. and that's just the short list of wreckage.

Linked from Instapundit. Be sure to read the comments for even more wreckage. And don't forget the damage done to healthcare.

TOWNHALL: Of skunks and leakers.

[P]ursuing one's own political agenda, whether as a government servant or an elected official via 'leaks' is not only dishonorable and perhaps illegal depending on what information is being leaked, but it's also cowardly. The actions of a gutless and spineless individual. Lily-livered, craven and chicken-hearted also come to mind.

Comparing leakers to skunks is an insult to skunks.

THE OBAMACARE DRAMA isn't over (yet).

Keep in mind that it was government healthcare that killed Charlie Gard (with kindness, of course).

FROM FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY:

What? Not Trump?

Thomas Sowell on Medicare.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS that can end obamacare once and for all. Here's the key quote: "Throw in a third plank. Term Limits. Limit each member of Congress to two terms. One term in office and one term in prison."

My thought exactly. Make them pay for their graft and corruption.

PORTLAND MAN accused of sexually assaulting 65-year-old had been deported 20 times. And...

Multnomah County leaders and Sheriff Mike Reese wrote a letter to the community earlier this year saying, “The sheriff’s office does not hold people in county jails on ICE detainers or conduct any immigration enforcement actions.

They should all be arrested and prosecuted for, at a minimum, aiding and abetting criminal activity.

FOURTEEN QUOTES FROM THE 1980S:

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.

The most terrifying words In the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

From my email.

And in case you didn't recognize them, they're all from Ronald Reagan.