Remember the days when every shooting incident was framed as a potential racist or bigoted Tea Party activist letting off steam? Those days aren’t gone, they’ve just been modified. Now every act of violence is the result of Trump’s rhetoric, we are told.

What else hasn’t changed? The violence is almost always perpetrated by a registered Democrat or someone from a certified progressive victim class tribe. Case in point.

A Muslim girl, Nabra Mohmod Hassanen, is beaten to death in Virginia. The left-wing noise factory “hints” at a hate crime catalyzed by Trump’s tweets or something. Before the digital ink is dry, it turns out to be a very different tale.

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Bud-dah-buh-buh-bahhhh….

The stock market is luvin’ McDonalds stock, which has continued its recent relentless rise to all time highs, up 26% YTD, oblivious to the carnage among the broader restaurant and fast-food sector. There is a reason for Wall Street’s euphoria: the same one we discussed in January in “Dear Bernie, Meet the “Big Mac ATM” That Will Replace All Of Your $15 Per Hour Fast Food Workers.” (Zero Hedge)

McDonald’s Stock hits an all-time high as Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers with Kiosks.

Next up, stupid liberals and with their crazy ideas will raise business taxes or just tax and fee the crap out of kiosks to recover additional lost payroll tax dollars (because they’re already losing them thanks to the smaller paychecks).

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The Supreme Court has agreed unanimously to combine two challenges to the second Trump travel ban (EO-2) and hear the case. In the meantime, with one exception all injunctions against that Executive Order have (unanimously meaning 9-0) been lifted and it may now be enforced.

We accordingly grant the Government’s stay applications in part and narrow the scope of the injunctions as to §2(c). The  injunctions remain in place only with respect to parties similarly situated to Doe, Dr. Elshikh, and Hawaii. In practical terms, this means that §2(c) may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States. All other foreign nationals are subject to the provisions of EO–2….

The Government’s application to stay the injunction with respect to §§6(a) and (b) is accordingly granted in part. Section 6(a) may not be enforced against an individual seeking admission as a refugee who can credibly claim a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States. Nor may §6(b); that is, such a person may not be excluded pursuant to §6(b), even if the 50,000-person cap has been reached or exceeded. As applied to all other individuals, the provisions may take effect.

Complete Order on the Jump.

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In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has declared that a state may not withhold an available public benefit on account of religious status.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Missouri church that sued the state after being denied taxpayer funds for a playground project because of a provision that prohibits state funding for religious entities. 

This ruling suggests to me the possibility that public education tax dollars for public school tuition (Croydon Bill) may not be withheld from a student just because they choose to attend a religious school. The bill as written, if I recall, includes that limitation.

Additionally, the existing restriction prohibiting business tax scholarship money from going to a religious school would also be unconstitutional.

Maybe it’s not that far-reaching but here’s to hoping it is. (Time to dig into the full decision, available on the jump.)

H/T Fox News

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God, I love being right especially after watching progressive narrative monkey’s puke their Union/Democrat party minimum-wage-talking-points all over my comments section. Being right is the best. And when it comes to Seattle, right comes easy.

This week’s Poster Child for Stupid Liberal ideas we told you would not work, is last weeks. Seattle.

Seattle’s minimum-wage law is boosting wages for a range of low-paid workers, but the law is causing those workers as a group to lose hours, and it’s also costing jobs, according to the latest study on the measure passed by the City Council in 2014.

To keep rising payrolls from eating their businesses alive employers are operating with fewer workers and working them fewer hours. The result is that low-wage workers are suffering from higher unemployment (check), and lower total earnings (check).

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Before his nomination, there wasn’t much to go on when it came to Judge Gorsuch and guns, but that has changed. Eugene Volokh hints at the point here,

We now have more evidence, from his vote joining Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent from denial of certiorari in Peruta v. California — he, like Thomas (and, before his death, Justice Antonin Scalia), seems to be a strong gun-rights supporter, indeed likely more so than some of the other conservative justices.

Professor Volokh was referring to this.

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There’s a great article from the New York Post linked here, that paints the evolving Democrat dilemma.

For Republicans, luck can’t get much better. While Clinton and Pelosi were hardly innocent bystanders in the historic rout of Democrats at every level of government, the main culprit was Obama.

It was Obamaism, more than Clintonism or Pelosism, that elected Donald Trump and gave the GOP both houses of Congress. The former president’s coercive liberalism at home and appeasement abroad led to the greatest upset in American politics.

Obama is trying to get back into the spotlight, and as the NYP points out, Obama is why we have Trump.

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The Case went the other way with a 7-2 decision but Justice Gorsuch’ dissent is a thing of beauty, a gift we hope keeps on giving.

Anthony Perry asks us to tweak a congressional statute—just a little—so that it might (he says) work a bit more efficiently. No doubt his invitation is well meaning. But it’s one we should decline all the same. Not only is the business of enacting statutory fixes one that belongs to Congress and not this Court, but taking up Mr. Perry’s invitation also seems sure to spell trouble. …

Mr. Perry’s is an invitation I would run from fast. If a statute needs repair, there’s a constitutionally prescribed way to do it. It’s called legislation. To be sure, the demands of bicameralism and presentment are real, and the process can be protracted. But the difficulty of making new laws isn’t some bug in the constitutional design: it’s the point of the design, the better to preserve liberty.

It makes for a decent start, wouldn’t you say?

H/T BizPac

Complete SCOTUS Decision on the Jump.

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The city of Franklin, New Hampshire got a gift in the new Republican state Budget. A grant for $125K to address its distinction of having the third highest dropout rate in the state.

FRANKLIN — Franklin will receive $125,000 for dropout prevention through a grant that was included in the state budget passed yesterday.

“I was surprised,” said School Administrative Unit 18 Superintendent Daniel LeGallo. “I did not expect to get it.”

The grant will allow the school district to expand high school offerings that keep students interested in hopes of reducing the district’s dropout rate, which is one of the highest in the state.

Governor John Lynch never did get the state to “zero dropouts” as he hoped but the mechanics behind “improving” those numbers are still the same.

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Minuteman Health hasn’t even been available for two years in New Hampshire, and they are already bailing. Why? The ACA makes it too expensive to stay in business.

The company, which insures about 27,000 individual members and three dozen small group members in New Hampshire, began offering coverage in the state in 2015 on the online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

The company cited significant declines in its capital and surplus and will need to use its resources to pay claims incurred under existing policies.

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Not everyone in New Hampshire suffered from a “drought” last year.

(Patch) In 2016, the highest number case ever — 104 — were reported. The outbreak in New Hampshire is consistent with national trends and is being seen mainly in men under age 40 and in men who have sex with men (MSM). Approximately 60 percent of cases have been in Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties.

Does anyone else find it funny that men having sex with men is abbreviated MSM? Talk about a cruel irony.

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The pundits are flabbergasted by the Republican turnout for Karen Handel in Georgia. They don’t know what to make of it.

I do.

They made it about Trump, and the Trump voters showed up. They don’t always, like in small town New Hampshire for a relatively meaningless state House race, but they do turn out for elections where Trump is directly challenged, even when he’s not running.

They also, more often than not, are keeping that support to themselves for all the obvious reasons. Democrat domestic terrorists and their ideological inquisitors make them reluctant to speak out publicly, privately, or at all.

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