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."

Journalism is a joke

Twitchy: "Brit Hume Has the Answer to Ari Fleischer's Question About NBC News' Softball for Abdul El-Sayed."

This could have been a classic "gotcha" moment but NBC News couldn't be bothered to do the slightest bit of research.

Meanwhile:

Jacqueline and the NYT have tracked down a disputed bakery bill from 6 years ago…but let James Talarico disappear this month for 12 days with no curiosity. Journalism is dead.

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 11, 2026

A lesson for California (they probably won't take)

Washington Post editorial: "Billionaires are leaving Britain — and sending a warning to the U.S. - An exodus of billionaires representing $160 billion in wealth should give California voters pause."

As the tax base dries up, welfare spending is out of control: "The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain - The soaring number of people on disability and sickness benefits is blowing up the country’s welfare bill and imperiling its long-term financial stability."

So maybe it wasn't the flu

Townhall: "Confirmed: James Talarico Was at a Mental Health Facility in Ohio."

This is a litmus test for the mainstream media: Talarico cannot be allowed to continue his campaign until this question is answered.

Who am I kidding?  This will be another incident of Republicans "pouncing" followed by a story about the heartbreak of mental illness to elicit sympathy.

Update - Looking at this report with a more critical eye, it's an anonymous source at this facility and revealing a patient probably violates HIPPA regulations.  The private plane log is circumstantial.  So maybe it's nothing but Talarico can clear this up if he's asked the question.  Will he?  Will the media ask?  Or is this the Biden "basement strategy" all over again?

Update 2 - Talarico denies: "‘This Is a Lie’: Talarico Campaign Calls Mental Health Facility a ‘Pathetic Conspiracy Theory’." 

More - BattleSwarm: "Talarico Pops Up, Sees Shadow, Predicts Six More Years Of Communism."

When Republicans are on the popular side of an issue

Look at this insane framing from the L.A. Times: "How the GOP weaponized trans issues and left Democrats searching for a strategy."

I guess you can say the GOP pounced and/or seized on the issue. 

The French are revolting

Well, maybe not the "French": "France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy." 

France is cooked

The bond market is delivering its verdict on the French economy:

This is a sad statement

Federalist: "Poll: 1 In 5 Undergrads Says U.S. Deserved 9/11, Nearly Half Endorse Violence Against ‘Hate Speech’."

Once you've defined "hate speech," you've given yourself agency to violently shut it down.

Zo can't help it

Bret Stephens in the NY Times: "Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Obscenity"

Finally, it is obscene because Mamdani is the mayor for about one million Jewish New Yorkers, many with close relatives in Israel, who deserve better on a day of grief than to be offered the equivalent of an “All Lives Matter” homily. This is yet another of the double standards through which modern-day Jew hatred manifests itself: Whenever antisemitism is mentioned in progressive circles, it is inevitably accompanied by nods about Islamophobia or other bigotries.

It would be better to have a mayor who, if only on Oct. 7, can say: Jewish Lives Matter. Israeli Lives Matter. Full stop. The lectures about Gaza can come some other day.

If only one day a year.

We can't have nice things

Tulsa: "Ella Langley concert at BOK Center canceled after security threat."

Somebody called in a bomb threat and ruined everybody's night.  I suspect one particular group: "Country Music Star Ella Langley’s Deer Hunt Puts Her in Liberal Haters’ Crosshairs."