Washington’s ‘Millionaire’s Tax’ challenged by trucking owner
Spirit Transport Systems owner Curt Nuccitelli discusses the court challenge on ‘The Bottom Line.’
Local Politics
Even electricity is leaving blues states
New York state’s tax policy is exiling millionaires to Florida. California’s craziness is banishing billionaires.
But Illinois has them beat with its climate change laws that are forcing two-thirds of an electric plant in Elwood to take the advice of Suzy Bogguss and drive South with the one they love.
Reefer Madness Wasn’t a Movie—It Was a 100-Year Information Operation
There’s a comfortable lie Americans like to tell themselves: that we are too smart, too informed, too free to be manipulated at scale. That propaganda is something that happens in other countries, to other people, under other flags. Then you dig up a grainy black-and-white relic like Reefer Madness and realize—no, we ran one of the most effective information operations in modern history… on ourselves.
South Dakota State Politics: The Top 12 Issues, Part II
Part I (see here) discussed the first six of the top 12 issues that continue to be debated in the state, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.
Boss Newsom’s Empire of Waste, Fraud & Mismanagement
Those of us who live in this mismanaged, Democrat-ruled dung-show are keenly aware that Gov. “Hair Gel” has already relentlessly trashed the “Golden State.”
South Dakota State Politics: The Top 12 Issues, Part I Primary considerations for all candidates
South Dakota’s 101st session of its state legislature recently completed work and adjourned last month, with a number of unresolved matters carrying forward for further work and deliberation.
The top 12 issues that continue to be debated are discussed below, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.
Living Behind Enemy Lines In Portland, Oregon, Tale #91: Death By Liberalism
Lloyd Center Mall fell apart from death-by-liberalism as BLM/Antifa terrorists and common criminals took over the streets. Democrats defunded police while unleashing hundreds of criminals upon the streets creating a massive crime wave.
Voting Behind Enemy Lines In Washington State, Tale #90: Threatening Bonnie Lou
It is anyone’s guess how many foreign nationals are currently holding elected office statewide in Washington State and thus, breaking the law with impunity. While WA statutes requires US citizenship to run for and hold an elected position, THE SECRETARY OF STATE (election office) WILL NOT ENFORCE IT.
The Real Virus: How Fear, Stress, and Certainty Changed Us
You didn’t need a history degree to recognize what was happening during the pandemic—you just needed to pay attention to how quickly ordinary people changed under pressure. Not all at once, not everywhere, but enough to notice a pattern. Stress, fear, and anxiety didn’t just shape policy; they reshaped behavior. And in many cases, they …
TSSA: $10 Billion for Airports, $0 for Kids: America’s Backward Security Priorities
There’s a quiet absurdity baked into modern America, and like most absurdities, we’ve lived with it so long we stopped questioning it. Every day, the federal government spends billions protecting people who fly occasionally—while leaving tens of millions of children sitting in classrooms with wildly inconsistent security. Let that sink in. We’ve normalized a system where you can’t bring a bottle of water through an airport without federal scrutiny, but your kid can walk into a school where security depends entirely on the zip code.
Welfare For the Well-To-Do
On Boxing Day of 2023, I noted an article in The Wall Street Journal concerning investors souring on electric vehicle charging companies. In plug in electric vehicles are the wave of the future, why would investors not be moving into, rather than out of, such companies? Note that the original article was from December of …
The Michigan Deer Debacle: How the DNR Managed to Fail Hunters, Farmers, and the Deer Herd All at Once
For generations, deer hunting has been woven into Michigan’s identity. Opening day used to look like a state holiday. Orange jackets in diners at 4 a.m., rifles leaning in pickup trucks, kids learning from their dads and grandfathers that hunting wasn’t just about venison—it was about discipline, stewardship, and tradition. But if you look at the numbers today, something has gone badly wrong. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has spent decades regulating, restricting, tweaking, and “managing” the deer herd, yet the results speak for themselves: declining harvests, shrinking hunter participation, and a system so tangled that it now struggles to produce enough hunters to even keep the herd under control.
Washington State Democrats Decertifying Very Popular Sheriff
The last decade or so a scheme has been developed by Washington State’s Dems who hate the independence of county sheriffs. They have been chip, chip, chipping away at the citizens’ right to choose their sheriff and transfering that “right” to unelected, unnamed bureaucrats appointed by Democrats.
The Texas Republican Party Reset
The Texas Republican party, like the national party, is run by Republicans In Name Only (RINOs). The Lone Star State is giving us hope of knocking some out.
Acorns, Aggression, and Melanin: Why the Black Squirrels Run Northern Michigan
If NATO ever needs a real-world case study in territorial conflict, dominance hierarchies, and cold-weather logistics, they can skip the war colleges and simply hang a bird feeder in northeastern Michigan. Within hours, it becomes a contested supply hub. Within days, a full-blown squirrel conflict emerges—predictable, ruthless, and strangely educational.
Warm Collectivism Burns It Again
York City needs more affordable housing for its residents. Pushing private owners out will only make matters worse
Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #82: City Of Long Beach, WA Virtue Signals, Caves To Immigrant NGO’s Demands
A invasion of illegal aliens on the Long Beach Peninsula did not happen. There are few, if any, of Biden’s “newcomers” here. Yes, there are about 140 foreign nationals, mostly Hispanic, residing here, who came before Biden opened up the southern border.
WA Governor, Attorney General Sending Useful Idiots Into The Streets
Promoting violence against ICE officers, WA AG said “As a general matter, state and local law enforcement do not have to simply watch or look away if the laws being violated if they see somebody being assaulted unlawfully or attacked unlawfully or otherwise having their legal rights violated.”
Color Revolution Phase 2: Barking in the Streets for a Hunter You’ll Never See
Phase 2 of a color revolution is the “streets on fire” phase. It looks organic. It feels spontaneous. It’s loud, chaotic, righteous, and emotionally intoxicating. This is where the dogs flood the streets. Students, activists, professional grievance collectors, and social-media revolutionaries with ring lights and Venmo links all sprint after the same thing: meaning.
Minneapolis: Watching a Color Revolution Come Home (Live, Local, and “Mostly Peaceful”)
Minneapolis isn’t “going through a moment.” Minneapolis is running a script.
And not the kind of script where everybody just hugs it out at the end and the credits roll over a lake with a canoe and a golden retriever. This is the other kind—the kind you used to see overseas, the kind cable news used to narrate like a nature documentary: Observe the fascinating uprising in its natural habitat. Note the coordinated chants. The symbolic signage. The sudden appearance of professionally printed banners that definitely came from someone’s garage printer.