The EPA’s power plant regulation overreach just got the thumbs down from the US Supreme Court.  I’m formatting Justice Scalia’s decision for the majority (complete EPA decision on MICHIGAN ET AL. v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ET AL. here) to post for the wonky folks who like to get into the weeds, but for now I’ll leave you with this.

Turning to the mechanics of the hazardous-air-pollutants program, EPA argues that it need not consider cost when first deciding whether to regulate power plants because it can consider cost later when deciding how much to regulate them. The question before us, however, is the meaning of the “appropriate and necessary” standard that governs the initial decision to regulate.

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Remember what Hillary said? “Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

Translation: you will be assimilated.  Personal, individual faith must be disregarded – and then discarded.  After last week’s homosexual marriage decision by the Supremes, Obama made it patently clear that it is the Progressive thought is the only acceptable one.  Heck, we’ve been warned with the HHS abortifacient mandate, even applying to the elderly nuns of the Catholic order of The Little Sisters of the Poor.  He said:

I know that Americans of good will continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue. Opposition, in some cases, has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs. All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact and recognize different viewpoints, revere our deep commitment to religious freedom.

Yeah – this is why he is always misquoting the First Amendment.

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So here’s this group of folks – “…an all-volunteer coalition of concerned citizens and leaders in the community that advocates for educational options in the Granite State. We support parents directing their children’s education and making the decisions that best fit their children’s needs. We believe that families should not be limited to their zip codes or socioeconomic status to have their children’s learning needs and goals met. When a child is in a program that “fits” them — everyone wins…the child, the family, and the community” – that’s been doing yeoman’s work at the state house in Concord for years trying to stem the ever-overreaching arm of the state Department of Education.

The Most High Commissioner of Education, Queen Barry, routinely sets her minions upon them whenever they dare to the oppose, nay, even question her reign.  Under her reign, the NH Department of Education has been weaponized, strong-arming legislators, school administrators and parents, directing her army of thralls to attack whenever any peasant attempts to raise his or her head over the parapet.

Yesterday, one such peasant, simply desiring to comply with state law, was so set upon.

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Again, I wish I could write stuff like this.

“We’re Living In The United States Of Calvinball. It’s Time The Right Got In The Game.

—DrewM.

“Other kids’ games are all such a bore!
They’ve gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It’s never the same! It’s always bizarre!
You don’t need a team or a referee!
—Excerpt from the Calvinball theme song“

The imaginary game from the great Calvin and Hobbes comic strip series seems eerily like what liberals have made of what is supposed to be our constitutional republic.

The right is behind in this game because we don’t want to admit we’re playing it but we are. I’ll admit I’m late to the game. While I still don’t think it’s time to go full Obama it is time to embrace a hybrid game that allows us to live within the Constitution while fighting back. Well, we could if there was a party willing to play for us.

Let’s pretend for a moment the GOP wakes up one morning and realizes it stands for something beyond “win seats, hire loyalists, and pay consultants” (hey it’s Calvinball, anything is possible), what would want them to do?

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The next step might be polygamy, but that’s down the road, or is that “down several roads”. The real “next hill” your culture will die on is behind the doors of any “church” that refuses to toe the dictates of the secular-humanist world-government religion. And I very specifically mean churches. Mosques need not fear this wrath of the secular god.

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From The Blaze:

I’m tired of living in the shadows. It’s time to come out of the pantry closet.

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that everyone has a constitutional right to marry anyone (or anything), I have come to a huge decision. I have decided to marry bacon.

I’ve been struggling with this for a long time and never told anyone. As I think about it, I’ve had a preoccupation for pork since I was 12. I think God made me to spend the rest of my life with bacon. I’ve decided that I love bacon and you do not choose who you love. And since I am not a Jew, and Jesus never specifically mentioned or prohibited marrying bacon, I think I’m good.

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When asked by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday about the homosexual marriage decision made by the Supreme Court on whether or not this could lead to polygamy or polyamory, once again Ted Olsen slithers away from directly answering the question: “What about three people marrying or varieties of arrangements?”

Yes, and I think with respect to the Chief Justice, I think the Chief Justice is wrong.  He bought into a red herring.  There are reasons why the States and the Federal Government might prohibit relationships, marriage relationships in multiple persons, the rights of children and what happens when the marriage breaks up but the test is, what does the State have in its interest to prohibit the conduct that’s being considered.  The States that were involved in the case that was decided Friday could not come up with any good reasons why to prohibit a person to marry the person of the same sex, the person that they loved.  Well, they came up with “well, its against traditional marriage”.  Well, that’s like saying separate schools were a tradition. Or restrictions on marriage between people of different backgrounds was a tradition.  You can’t explain something by saying its always the way we’ve done it.

Such a whiff. And with all due respect to Wallace, I was asking this question years ago when

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She did what the Republicans in both the House and Senate refused to do:

Hassan vetoes budget; will sign 6-month spending plan

Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan officially vetoed the $11.3 billion state budget Thursday morning, setting the stage for several more months of partisan debate over the state’s next two-year spending plan.

…Hassan will soon sign a six-month temporary funding resolution that will keep government running at existing spending levels while lawmakers hammer out a new budget compromise. The current $10.7 billion state budget is set to expire June 30.

You get that?  Maggie Hassan will now only be allowed to spend at this year’s budget.  NO INCREASE.  Not a single dime more.  Not one thin penny.  And this Democrat did this to Government?  Heavens above!  She’s going to spend at the same rate.  And she did it to herself – willingly signing that fiscally limiting veto.  Yet, the Republican Party is supposed to be the Party of smaller government.  Well, even with a veto to spend the same (until she gets all that she wants), I still see a $600 million rise from this session to the next in the Republican budget – that is NOT smaller government.

But Skip, it is LESS than what Hassan wanted – can’t you give them a break?

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