Just a flat-out lie

I started reading this Hot Air article about a viral video of an American woman and her young daughter being detained by evil ICE agents and knew it was going to conclude with a statement by Homeland Security explaining everything alleged was false.

A Laken Riley situation in Chicago

Ace: "The Party of Illegal Alien Gangsters and Third World Pirates Claims Another Innocent Life."

As the post notes, Illinois governor J.D. Pritzker had time to travel up to Minnesota but can't be bothered to say a single word about somebody killed in his backyard.

I'm unsure this is going to help

Townhall: "Trump Just Made a Major Move After Democrats Crossed His Red Line."

If the goal here is to help out the TSA and make the security lines move faster, I'm all for that.  But if the goal is to stick it to the Democrats, I'm not sure it's going to open the logjam on funding.  As always, it never would have gotten this far if the mainstream media put appropriate pressure on the Democrats for once.

"Chuck Norris beat the sun in a staring contest"

NY Times: "Chuck Norris Punched This Article Into the Sun - Norris, best known as the butt-kicking star of action films, became an unwitting if good-natured pioneer of the internet meme." 

Condescension is all they have

American Thinker: "The Liberal's Insufferable Superiority Complex - They truly believe they have a monopoly on intelligence and morality."

All you need to do is watch a couple of minutes of James Klug or Kaitlin Bennett to find the limits of the Left's intelligence.

This is the MSM

As somebody once said, when they show you who they are: believe them.  Twitchy: "'Politics May Overshadow His Legacy': Variety's Chuck Norris Headline Gets Ratio'ed to the Moon."

I loathe these soy boy scribes.  Want to know why men gravitate to Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan?  It's because of fem-boys like Gavin Newsom and this "journalist." 

My favorite Chuck Norris joke

Amazon has since removed it from their site but for a brief time they offered an enormous Swiss Army Knife and the reviews were absolutely hilarious.  It took some digging but I found the Chuck Norris comment:

California's FAFO future in Norway

Let's see what happened in Norway: "Norway's Wealth Tax Unchains a Capital Exodus." - "Norway's wealth tax increase, expected to raise $146M, led to a $448M net loss as $54B in wealth left the country, reducing tax revenue by $594M."

I continue to be amazed to think that Gavin Newsom is considered a serious candidate for the Presidency.  Everything - everything! - in California is a train wreck.

Except for the train.  Because it hasn't been built.

Residents exiting Massachusetts took a net of $4.2 Billion in adjusted gross income with them in 2023, one of the largest totals in the country, after a tax on millionaires took effect - Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/s47lnvXCRg

— Evan (@StockMKTNewz) March 20, 2026

Time for the mainstream media to step up

Hot Air: "The Democrat Lies About the SAVE Act Are Wild."

As this article explains, CNN (!) fact-checked Chuck Schumer in real time on his wild mendacity.  This is a litmus test for the MSM.  It's time to report the truth and not the preferred narrative.

Blackboard jungle

Joanne Jacobs: "Why teachers quit: 'It was the wild West'." - "One Wisconsin teacher needed 66 stitches and foot surgery after breaking up a fight between five students, but that's not why he retired early, he told interviewers. It was the administration's failure to enforce the no-cellphone policy." 

Suicidal empathy in the UK

Twitchy: "Criminal Migrant in UK Beats Deportation, Arguing His Son Can’t Tolerate Foreign Chicken Nuggets."

That country, man.  I've read so many stories like this.

Don't end the filibuster

Wall Street Journal: "Sen. Ron Johnson: Move to End the Filibuster Now—Before Democrats Do

The 60-vote threshold stops bad bills, but it also makes it impossible for the GOP to pass good ones."

First of all, the Democrats did try to eliminate the filibuster and it was thwarted by Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona and Joe Manchin from West Virginia.  I firmly believe that they were the sacrificial lambs for the Democrats to act tough.  Democrats don't really want to eviscerate minority rights in the Senate and this is especially true for Democrats from smaller states.  Turning the Senate into just another version of the House robs these Senators of the (arguably outsized) power they have in that chamber.

Second, "what goes around comes around."  Republicans will be in the minority sometime in the future and the GOP shouldn't set the standard.  Look what happened when the Democrats triggered the "nuclear option" on judicial nominees and ended up with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

I don't think either party in the Senate really wants to get rid of the filibuster so it will remain.

As useful as an Amazon box

Fox News: "Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei 'misfunctioning,' not controlling regime: sources"

I don't think I've ever seen the word "misfunctioning." 

I swore this was AI

Twitchy: "Hochul Begs Billionaires to Come Home— Iowahawk Counters with Bounty for Every 'Fugitive' Captured in FL"

The governor of New York, shocked at the exodus of high-value taxpayers, appealed to the "patriotism" of these taxpayer to come back from Florida.  When I saw this video, I thought for sure it was a spoof.  Unbelievable. 

The numbers are in

LA Times: "2026 Oscars telecast scores 17.9 million viewers, down 9% from last year."

Whomp whomp.  Hollywood was digging out of its all-time-low of 2021 but it looks like it was just a blip on the road to irrelevance. 

Listen to the people. No, not like that!

Hot Air: "NBC Wonders: Are the Only Americans Opposed to Voter ID on Capitol Hill?" 

How's that millionaire tax looking now?

It's not just California.  Massachusetts was the pathfinder for soaking the rich.  Boston Globe: "‘Everyone’s leaving’: Why more of the wealthy are moving from Massachusetts to other states."

If there’s a group of people you probably don’t spend a lot of time worrying about, it’s those with tens — or hundreds — of millions of dollars.

But Paul Karger argues you should. At least, you should worry when they start heading for the exits.

Which is precisely what they’ve done in Massachusetts, says Karger, the cofounder and managing partner of Boston-based Twin Focus, a firm that manages investment portfolios for wealthy families.

“Half of my Massachusetts clients over the last five years have either left or are planning to leave,” Karger says. That represents “billions of dollars in net worth and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual income.”

Maybe we can get Bernie Sanders to come down from Vermont and shake his finger at them.

ICYMI - California lost another billionaire: "Billionaire Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick admits strategically moving to Texas before California wealth tax." 

Also, he's made of cardboard

Ace: "The New Ayatollah is Probably Gay and What Is Even More Disqualifying, He's Also Dead."

Mojtaba, who is believed to have been wounded in the same Feb. 28 airstrike that killed his father and other members of his family, has made "aggressive" sexual overtures to men caring for him, possibly while under the influence of heavy medication, one of The Post's sources said.

I don't know if this is true - it sure is funny - and it suggests the previous Ayatollah knew something was up because he left specific instructions to keep his son away from the levers of power.

It's the hypocrisy

Sasha Stone: "How the Oscars Made Everyone Hate Them."

I won't even be hate-watching, as Sasha suggests.  I'm the Don Draper "I don't think about you at all" meme.  And I wouldn't even mind the political speeches if these empty suits did the slightest bit of self-reflection about what they're saying.  Leonardo Dicaprio never saw a private jet he didn't like while he urges us all to use paper straws.  Last I checked, Billie Eilish hasn't moved out of her stately mansion that sits on "stolen land" behind security walls.

At least Joaquin Phoenix is a lifelong vegan when he told us to stop drinking milk.

Extra - Jeffrey Blehar: "On Oscar Night, Hollywood Celebrates Its Collapse into Cultural Irrelevance."

NY Times is gonna NY Times

Townhall: "New York Times Describes Suspected Michigan Terrorist as 'Quiet Restaurant Worker'." 

ICYMI Cynical Publius was doxxed

We are not the same.

Today has been pretty intense. Thank you all for your support. I'm going to sign off for a bit, but I want to leave everyone with some thoughts.

People on the Right tend to use pseudonyms on social media because we have well-founded concerns of death threats, attempts to get…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 14, 2026

Coming soon: the Nevada Seahawks

And the Dallas Mariners: "Seahawks GM Warns Washington's 'Milionaire Tax' Could Cost Free Agents."

London has fallen

Daily Mail: "Nearly 40 per cent of all homes built by 2030 will be needed for migrants, Conservative Party analysis shows." 

Other people's money

NY Post: "Extreme Mamdani estate tax proposal goes right after New York's middle class families."

We tried to warn you, New York. 

Judicial madness

Red State with an all-time dissent: "9th Circuit Judge Comes Out Swinging (Ahem)...in Spicy Dissent Over Women-Only Nude Spa."

When the law no longer protects people, vigilantism is the next step.