CHOCOLATE RATION RAISED TO TWENTY GRAMS A WEEK! Politico Editor: Falling GDP Is Good.

John Kerry and Claire McCaskill agree that bad economic news is certainly good for Gaia.

 FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Labor Participation Rate At 38-Year Low. Plus, the inevitable downward revision to previous months: “There were 60,000 fewer jobs created in April and May than initially reported.”

Related: Men Not At Work. “Thirty-eight years takes us back to 1977, the unhappy dawn of the Age of Carter.”

[Jonathan H. Adler] Pennsylvania’s governor doesn’t understand economics (or won’t admit the real reasons he vetoed ending state liquor monopoly)  Claims monopolies now HELP consumers!

the watch this: WATCH: How Germany Forgot the Horrors of Communism an see how it applies to 19th Century US History

also related: HOW TO GET RICH QUICK VIA TAXPAYERS! A bunch of politicos got in on the ground floor of Obamacare’s $2 billion co-ops in 2011. Today, they are filthy rich cauz nobody’s been watching. Except Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation. Tomorrow’s second part will make you even madder. 

A REAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT: The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science.

 VERY comples but readable and important: I only ask because I want to know

SLOWER PLEASE: Study Shows that 1 in 4 cancer research papers contain faked data.

The Conclusions of a Press Release Should Match the Scientific Study, Don’t Ya Think?

A Physician’s Perspective on the EPA’s “Data Derangement Syndrome”  Hear a pocast with this guy recently.  The Secret Science Act shoul be getting more play.

Was gonna post a bunch of links.  Then decided to merely excerp.  Think I'll land somewhere between the two.

1.  Good news?  Chevron deference seems to be slipping away.

2.  The majority’s use of “statutory context” both to find and resolve ambiguity is problematic not merely because it transgresses the near-absolute canon against surplusage, but also because it puts the Court in the position of tipping a legislatively negotiated balance among competing policy choices. As Justice Scalia’s dissent reminds us, legislation is never about one object only, so it is not legitimate to assume all legislative text must be construed in favor of a single supposed overarching goal.

3.  Next bit of future litigation?  Oh, and don't let ANYONE tell you "it's  now settled law so stop fighting it."  The Clean Air Act has been settled law for over three decades now and the SCOTUS heard multiple attacks on it again this year.  

By imposing application of the employer mandate on non-consenting states, the Court has now set up a battle over the intergovernmental tax immunity doctrine. Under that doctrine, state and federal governments are not permitted to tax one another directly. This rule is essential to maintaining two governments that are truly sovereign, not only in their distinct spheres, but also in their freedom from control by one another.

When applied to non-consenting state governments, the employer mandate constitutes a direct tax on a co-equal sovereign that transgresses this immunity. NFIB v. Sebelius construed the individual mandate as a tax in order to find it constitutional. The employer mandate operates in much the same way as the individual mandate, is codified in the Internal Revenue Code, and is enforced by the IRS. The penalty is assessed and collected in the same manner as a tax, and is estimated to raise $140 billion over ten years. And employers against whom the penalties are assessed pay them to the Treasury via corporate tax returns. Thus, the employer mandate is a tax.

Now for a few links

from the incomperable Randy Barnett: Symposium: However King was decided, the future of American health care was going to come down to 2016

from Robby Soave Supreme Court Resigns Duties, Tortures English Language to Save Obamacare

and then there was this:

THE IRS SCANDAL, DAY 778: “Now it turns out that 422 backup tapes from the crucial period were routinely erased by IRS workers.  Unexpectedly.

As many as 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s IRS emails missing.

HILLARY CLINTON, GET THIS, EDITED THE EMAILS SHE TURNED OVER TO STATE TO DELETE EMBARRASSING REFERENCES TO OIL, TERRORISM: “Another story the media won’t discuss,” Ace writes. 

CRUZ REMINDS YAHOO VIDEO BLOGGER KATIE COURIC THAT HILLARY CREATED ANTI-OBAMA BIRTHER MOVEMENT: “The look on Couric’s smug face when he correctly reminded her that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 that birthed the anti-Obama Birther movement, is priceless.”

Saddest Hillary Clinton Email Revealed in New Data Dump!

We have the worst political class in American history. And it is an embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect.

On the other hand, Hillary has other transportation issues to wrestle with:

Hillary is having trouble deciding between the Lear jet and the G3, just like everyday Americans pic.twitter.com/Cw8v7dkOim

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) July 1, 2015

SID BLUMENTHAL EDITED HER SPEECH to the Council on Foreign Relations for ‘Vague and Gauzy Liberal Universalism.’

Huh — Hillary’s never lacked for that.

To be fair though, Huma and Hillary loathing Al Gore as much as the rest of us do goes far towards humanizing them.

BRIT HUME: WITH HER HISTORY OF LYING, HILLARY’S LUCKY SHE’S NOT A REPUBLICAN.

and finally, for today .... GOVERNMENT AS CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY: Double trouble? IRS lawyer now heads Clinton email production.

an encapsulation of Pope Francis' recent encyclical, as developed by Dominic Lawson in the Daily Mail:

Our Gaia, Who art in danger,
Sustainable be thy name,
Thy renewable energy resources come,
Thy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s will be done
On Earth as it is in the upper atmosphere
Give us this day our daily organic ciabatta
Forgive us our carbon emissions
Though we can’t forgive those multinationals who emit against us
Lead us not into excessive plane travel
Deliver us from genetically modified crops
For thine is the moral high ground
The onshore wind farms and the subsidies
For as long as the taxes can be raised. Amen.

Amazing to watch the Donks put up a flag then stand around complaining that the Elphs aren't taking it down fast enough

WHITEWASHING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S RACIST HISTORY.

CULTURAL TYRANTS: “This isn’t stopping at the Confederate flag. It accelerates with each victory the cultural Left achieves. And never, ever is there a price paid for its aggression,” Scott McKay writes at the American Spectator. “A price must be exacted. The Left cannot be allowed its double standards and guilty pleasures on the way to unquestioned cultural dominance. If traditional America must perish under Alinsky’s Rule #4 (‘Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules’), then so must the Left.”

I’M GLAD THAT SOMEBODY NOTICED: “Blogger Glenn Reynolds noted that when the South was solidly Democratic, we got ‘Gone With the Wind’ nostalgia. Now that it is profoundly less racist, but also less useful to Democrats, it’s the enemy of all that is decent and good.”

Run of the mill?  Buccaneers, Vikings, Rams

Colors?  Re Hawks, Green Knights an Blue Boys

TWO Pioneers and TWO Scots (although one of them is Fighting)

Throw in Prarie Fire and Foresters and you have the DIII Western Region MIDWEST Conference C Conference

ROGER SIMON: 90% of the Racism in America Comes from the Democratic Party and the Left:

[Randy Barnett] Expunging Woodrow Wilson from Official Places of Honor

THE DNC-MSM’S DESPICABLE, RACIST ATTACK ON BOBBY JINDAL: “As a fun test, let’s take these quotes from the Post and TNR about Jindal, D’Souza, and Haley [and] replace their names with Obama’s (along with “left-wing” instead of “right-wing,” etc.). I’ll invite my liberal friends to tell me if any of these sentiments are remotely okay to voice.”

• “Obama’s status as a liberal of color helped propel his meteoric rise in the Democratic Party… and donors from African-American groups fueled his first forays into politics. Yet many see him as a man who has spent a lifetime distancing himself from his black roots.
• “There’s not much black left in Barack Obama.”
• “The career of Barack Obama carries an implicit message: Racial minorities can advance in the Democratic Party by erasing their ethnic identity and/or attacking other minorities.”
• “Barack Obama, whose advancement includes suppressing public references to his Muslim heritage and being presented by his campaign as a ‘proud Christian man…’”
• “What can be said with certainty is that as a black willing to voice anti-black sentiment, Obama has carved out a lucrative niche for himself, enjoying a national audience from the time he was an undergraduate.”
• “One of the saddest things about Obama’s racism is that it’s clearly built on some element of self-hatred. By aligning himself with figures like Joe Biden and Robert Byrd, he chose a form of upward mobility that required abasing himself before those who despised his heritage.”

PBS YANKS BEN AFFLECK’S ROOTS: “Non-leftist Americans can be forgiven for thinking that the media has become one giant progressive racket for people who all share exactly the same social and political attitudes. So good for PBS for yanking, at least temporarily, Finding Your Roots after it was learned that Harvard professor Henry Louis ‘Skip’ Gates deliberated excised Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors from the genealogy program.”

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.@BenAffleck finally makes up for Gigli by killing a PBS show. We're good now, Ben.