One and done, California-style

Wall Street Journal: "California’s Wealth Tax Boomerang - A new study says Prop. 40 could lose revenue for the state."

“The state’s cash flows will have a pattern similar to that of the sale of a financial security: the state receives an up-front payment today from one narrow group of taxpayers in exchange for a lost stream of payments in the future,” the paper explains. The overall result will be a revenue loss of $38.9 billion to the state.

Prop. 40 has already done damage, and if it passes, expect more pain than gain.

In my opinion, one of the funniest selling points for the wealth tax is that it's a "one time" tax on billionaires.  Zero - there is zero chance that California won't try to dip into that well after they run out of money again. 

The brother's shoe drops

NY Post: "Ilhan Omar isn’t ‘Squad’ rep’s real name as feds’ bombshell docs give huge clue she did marry brother." 

Stopped watching a long time ago

Hollywood in Toto: "Classic ‘SNL’ vs. Today’s Cast Captures Show’s Shocking Decline." 

California is disenfranchising the entire nation

Ace: "The Federal Government Identified 20,000 Mail-In Votes In California Likely Cast by Illegal Aliens. California Refuses to Segregate These Ballots to Verify the "Voters'" Eligibility to Vote Before Counting Them."

Ever-petulant California and Gavin "French Laundry" Newsom is flying the "resistance!" flag and refusing to verify that voters in American elections are...American.  As in "legal" voters.  Because Trump.

California is an enormous state so a tiny percentage of illegal voters is negating a sizable number of legal voters in the rest of the country.  Remember when George W. Bush won the Presidency by 537 votes?  Good times.  Just tell us what the new rules are.  We'll adjust accordingly.

Check out Sydney Sweeney:

Prop 39 released a new ad today highlighting what politicians don’t want you to know: California is one of a handful of states that don’t require a photo ID to vote. Prop 39 is a battle of politicians versus people. Politicians want you to vote no. The People are voting yes. This ad is a parody, but the problem is not. The politicians want to protect their power and money. We want to give it back to you. Vote Yes on Prop 39. Donate: https://t.co/Y4MzbvVzfh

— Californians for Voter ID, Yes on 39 (@ca4voterid) October 21, 2026

Sad

American Greatness: "Forty-Five Percent of College Students Justify Violence to Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey." 

Republicans pounce

Axios: "France riots become Republican midterm boogeyman."

What a ridiculous headline.

The Russiagate hoax and its enablers

Federalist: "How Democrat Activists Conned The Country By Pretending To Be ‘Journalists’." 

None dare call it fascism

Ace: "Democrat Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin: We Must Relentlessly Prosecute Trump Personnel So That Young People Are Too Scared to Join the Conservative Movement." 

These are the same people celebrating the "Kirk-aversary."

Extra - Professor Reynolds: "Elissa Slotkin’s threats to prosecute conservatives moves America closer to civil war." 

More - Ah, the old reliable excuse: "After Threatening Young Trump Staffers, Slotkin Says She's Being Attacked Because She’s a Girl." 

Of course.

Don't Massachusetts my Texas

The Boston Globe has a series called "Why Massachusetts lost it's mojo - and how we get it back."  It looks like that strategy is to be more like Texas: "He left Boston for Austin. He’s not the only one. - By the numbers, the ‘Texas mecca’ isn’t so different from the Massachusetts capital. But only one of the cities is booming."

“I want to stay forever,” Bisono proclaimed on hour 16 in his new city.

When Bisono and his roommate, Marino Ginebra, moved from Boston to Austin in September, they joined a growing club of emigres. Texas has become a top destination for those leaving Massachusetts, and young people in particular are exiting at an alarming rate, IRS data show. Bisono and Ginebra both came to Boston for college, worked in the city for a year, then decided to head south in search of cheaper housing, better weather, and a stronger entrepreneurial landscape for their fledgling supplement business. In Austin, they hope to find more job opportunities and a lifestyle more suitable for 20-somethings who are past the college partying stage but not yet settled down.

This article shows the median rent and job growth in Boston vs. Austin and it's really no competition, especially if you're a young professional.

Boston vs. Austin:

Like clockwork

Twitchy: "Try Not to Get Run Over While the NYTimes Quickly Moves the Goalpost Voter Fraud Severity."

Get woke, go broke

Reason: "College Still Has a Future, but It's No Longer the Default Choice - High costs and political bias have eroded higher education’s standing."

A lesson that Hampshire College learned too late:

The parking lots are mostly vacant. Locked and dark, many of the buildings are lifeless but for dying plants in dusty pots. One of the few people visible is a white-bearded man on a riding mower, tending to an empty lawn as if by habit.

This is not a factory or office park abandoned by its tenants. It’s Hampshire College, a once-celebrated liberal arts school that will shut down in December. That makes it the latest in a steady stream of colleges that are closing or merging, at a rate that last year reached the equivalent of nearly one every three weeks.

It's a hard truth that colleges lowered their standards and then employers didn't find much premium in a college education. 

Circle those wagons

Townhall: "Federal Agents Are Dumpster Diving Through Ilhan Omar's Trash. Does This Go Beyond Immigration Fraud."

Multiple sources have confirmed to me that federal agents went dumpster diving to get DNA from Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her family before the raid on her D.C. home earlier this week. Our reporting suggests investigations go far beyond simple immigration fraud. 

NewsNation sources say the likely coming indictments will be stunning in nature and far beyond anything the public has understood the case to be about.

Reminder: this investigation started under the Biden Justice Department.  From what I've read, I believe the immigration charges are going to be hard to prove because (as I understand it) all the immigration documentation from Somalia burned up in a fire.  It's going to be Learing Center fraud.

The Townhall link has a video of CNN, of course, pulling the old "we don't really know the charges" act to give Omar the benefit of the doubt.  Every time...if you're a Democrat.

The philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy

 Glenn Reynolds: "Flying Cars, and Those Who Hate Them."

That's (D)ifferent

Katie Zacharia said she's a lawyer but she's not a lawyer!  She must be destroyed!

Abdul El-Sayed said he's a doctor but that's kinda-sorta true in that he went to medical school even though he's not board-certified to practice medicine.  Vote for Abdul! 

"I'm just an unfrozen caveman lawyer"

"What is this SAVE Act you speak of?  I was recently revived from a frozen block of ice."  Hot Air: "More Talarico: Gaslighting Texas About the SAVE America Act and Voter ID." 

A billion dollars in fraud

Tim Walz prepares his exit.  Vodkapundit: "So Long, and Thanks for All the Learing Centers." 

Here in the People's Republic of MA

Townhall: "Trump's US Attorney Nabs Dem Aide Who Trafficked Coke Out of a State Building." 

Video's wild

Hot Air: "Today's Progressive Parable: When Michael of Tracey Met the AWFLs of Ithaca." 

Three weeks before election day

Washington Free Beacon: "Abdul El-Sayed’s Mother Was Active in Muslim Brotherhood in College, Sister Said."

Abdul El-Sayed’s mother—whom the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate has described as "smart, warm, charismatic" and whom he called on camera in a May campaign video—was active in the Muslim Brotherhood while in college in Egypt, a revelation that further contradicts El-Sayed’s recent claims that neither he nor his family have ties to the radical Islamist group.

Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor and El-Sayed’s half-sister, wrote about her mother and other family members’ ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in social media posts in June 2012, just after Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt.

This information is just coming out just now after this dude has been in the race for months.  What, exactly, do "journalists" do all day?

Kristin Welker did not question Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's deep family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. She did instead what all left-wing "journalistic" activists do, give him an easy opportunity to deny the facts without any push-back that might cause him discomfort.

"That denial was just delightful," Kristin cooed. 

Everybody act surprised

Federalist: "Dems Push Medicare For Illegals After Claiming Medicare For Illegals Was A GOP Hoax."