"And yet it moves"

I feel like Galileo in the debate over whether millionaires and billionaires are moving out of Massachusetts.  The early answer based on 2023 data is "yes" - to the tune of $4.2 billion in taxable income - and more recent data will show an acceleration, which is what triggered this Boston Globe article.

Nevertheless, Boston Globe letter writers are going to stick to two themes: it's not really happening and, if it is, we don't need those rich jerks.

Extra - Wall Street Journal: "The High-Tax Wealth Flight Continues - IRS data show that taxpayers keep fleeing rapacious states even after the pandemic."

While out-migration declined from pandemic levels for most states, not so in Massachusetts. Taxpayers making more than $200,000 accounted for 70% of the state’s net outflows, roughly double the share in 2019. This is notable since progressives claim Massachusetts shows that raising taxes doesn’t drive away top earners.

Come back and be patriotic!

Schumer gets nothing for this chaos

Hot Air: "Dems Throw In Towel on Schumer Shutdown II: TSA Boogaloo"

Democrats didn't stop immigration enforcement. They didn't defund ICE or the Border Patrol. They didn't get any new concession on immigration-enforcement practices. All Schumer got from his latest shutdown was weeks of snarled travel for millions of Americans and an opportunity for ICE agents to engage in a public-relations lovefest in airports with voters who would otherwise have had little or no contact with the agency. 

Why cave now? Trump took their last bit of leverage off the table. Schumer wanted to create chaos in airports to keep pressure on Trump and the GOP to get his radical "reform" agenda adopted. At one point, Schumer and the White House appeared to have a deal on some concessions, but then Senate Democrats decided to walk away and demand their entire wish list. Trump then ordered new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA agents out of other funds and order them back on the job, leaving Democrats with nothing at all to show for their weeks of disruption of Homeland Security in the middle of a war.

The only thing they got from this deal was that ICE and CBP - which are already lavishly funded from the One Big Beautiful Bill - are going to get their funding through budget reconciliation which only requires a majority vote in the Senate, meaning Republicans can control the funding.

This bratty temper tantrum was just another appeal to the infantile Left.

Same vibe as California's high speed rail

Twitchy: "Two Years After Its Collapse, Let’s Check in on the Rebuilding Effort of the Key Bridge."

Voice vote then skedaddle

NY Post: "Senate approves deal to end DHS shutdown without Democratic immigration demands"

Senators approved a compromise measure early Friday to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September, taking a major step toward ending the 42-day partial shutdown that has seen hundreds of airport security workers quit after missing paychecks and snarled travel nationwide.

The agreement, passed by voice vote before senators departed Washington for a two-week recess for Easter and Passover, will be considered by the House later Friday morning.

Nothing motivates these clown like threatening their beloved recesses. 

Has she considered using the race card?

Oh, it's a'comin'.  Hot Air: "Florida Democrat Could Be Expelled from Congress." 

Kimmel is an asshole

Powerline: "Time to get the hook"

It will be a happy day when the last of the left-wing late-night “comedians” is finally off the air. The latest outrage comes from Jimmy Kimmel, who might have been funny once in his life, but if so, I missed it.

I can't believe that ABC/Disney extended Kimmel's by a (token) one year after his Charlie Kirk comment.  IF anything, they've freed him up to say even more outrageous things, daring ABC to fire him.  Then, if that does happen, he can spend the rest of his days as a First Amendment martyr.

Trump has utterly broken this man-child and his schtick is a stone-cold bore.

Extra - Speaking of insufferable celebrities, here's Sasha Stone on Bruce Springsteen and his new band: "So here comes No Kings, complete with aging billionaire boomer Bruce, irritating aristocrat Jane Fonda, and screeching socialist Bernie Sanders to remind everyone just how crazy and how unbearable all of them still are and how they see themselves as morally superior."

People like Springsteen and DeNiro and Fonda and Kimmel can't sit down and discuss their thoughts with anybody slightly adversarial...so they don't.  

More - Legal Insurrection: "Actor Vince Vaughn Slams Groupthink of Late Night TV: ‘They All Became the Same Show’ - “It stopped being funny and it started feeling like I was f—— in a class I didn’t want to take.”

Because of course

Fox News: "Loyola student newspaper apologizes for calling suspected murderer of Sheridan Gorman an illegal immigrant." 

Also huge if true

And I also doubt it will work.  Gateway Pundit: "BREAKING: Senate Leader John Thune Floats RECONCILIATION Plan to RAM Through SAVE America Act — Only Needs 50 Votes + VP JD Vance to BYPASS Democrat Filibuster." 

I believe reconciliation can only be used for budgetary purposes so I don't see how voter ID can pass under this structure.

Huge if true

But probably not true.  Red State: "Breaking: Trump Says Iran Has Agreed to Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons Fantasy."

Why would we believe anything the Iranians have to say, given their history?  How can whoever is "authority" now even make that promise, given the chaos over there?

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."