Quick Hits: Volume CCCXI

 - We have been reliably informed by leftist elected officials et al that the residents of our home state are more than happy to pay for a "better Minnesota." Also, we right-of-center politicos are perpetuating a myth when suggesting people are becoming more willing to "vote with their feet," which is another way of saying relocate to a more fiscally conservative state. 

John Phelan at Center of the American Experiment punctures these leftist narratives. 

Back in December 2021, I wrote about newly released Census Bureau data that showed that Minnesota lost a net 13,453 residents to other states in 2020-2021, the most in more than 30 years. Newly released data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shows where they went.

.....Minnesota lost 16,021 residents overall in 2020-2021, the largest outflow recorded by the IRS since at least 1991. It also shows that the primary source of migrants into Minnesota was North Dakota, probably a result of that state’s economic difficulties arising from the federal government’s war on America’s extractive industries. California, Illinois, and New York rounded out the top four sources of migrants into Minnesota. Figure 2 also shows that Minnesota lost 5,766 residents, net, to Ron DeSantis’ Florida in 2020-2021, a 47% increase on the loss of 3,921 in the previous year.

In lines with that, Rep. Anne Neu Brindley (R-North Branch) shares some eye-opening anecdotes from the floor of the MN House. 

 

 

With each passing day I'm becoming depressingly more confident that the DFL is on the brink of a permanent majority, if they're not there already. The reason is quite simple: those who would even consider voting right-of-center seem to prefer to leave Minnesota altogether.

- In the aftermath of Tucker Carlson being let go from Fox News, Newsweek posted an article discussing how the network became "spooked" over certain text messages Carlson sent out. 

But there was an excerpt of one text in particular which caught Hannah Cox's attention. 

Candidly, I was no Tucker fan.

But this text reveals a recognition of humanity more people should fear:

It’s very easy to become that which you hate if you allow yourself to reduce people’s worth to their politics. pic.twitter.com/n4CpufOoiK

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) May 3, 2023

This is something I've come to realize more and more over the years as a part-time radio host. While I react angrily to how progs cast aspersions on groups I belong to (i.e. gun rights advocates and pro lifers), I'm cognizant of not responding in the same manner by launching similar character assassinations. I admit that I fail from time to time, but I feel as though I'm getting better at extending grace while at the same time poking holes in leftist chanting points. 

- The reports of a man in Texas gunning down five of his neighbors last Friday resulted in the obligatory leftist shrieks for gun control. But when more was ascertained about the shooter (i.e. he was an illegal alien who had been deported multiple times), the outrage naturally was tamped down if not disappeared completely. 

After a days long manhunt, the suspect thankfully is now in custody. 

The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, 38, an immigrant from Mexico who had been deported four times, was apprehended just a few miles from the site of the Friday night shooting, which took place in a wooded residential development in San Jacinto County, about 50 miles from downtown Houston, said County Judge Fritz Faulkner.

“My emergency manager called me and said they caught him,” Mr. Faulkner said in a brief phone interview on Tuesday. He said that the arrest had taken place in a neighboring county.

I guess we should thank our lucky stars illegal immigration is down 90%, eh?

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