Random News and Notes 11 March
We kick off today’s RNN in the wannabe commie hellhole of Washington state where the state’s House of Reps passed Senate Bill 6346 on a 52-46 vote, imposing a 9.9% tax on income over $1 million to raise $3 billion starting in 2029. The exodus started almost immediately. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announced he was leaving Seattle for Florida within hours of the passage.
The bill affects some 20,000 households across the state. What these commies fail to realize is that wealth like that is portable. Take Norway for example, in 2022 they imposed a 1.1% wealth tax. That tax was estimated to raise an estimated $146 million. Instead, it resulted in a ~$594 million loss in annual tax revenue, with $54 billion in assets leaving the country. The bill hasn’t even been signed by the commie governor yet and the exodus has already started in Washington state.
A man in a van breached a White House security checkpoint this morning. The incident happened around 6:37 a.m. at Connecticut Avenue and H Street Northwest. Metropolitan Police assisted Secret Service, who apprehended the operator immediately.
There were no injuries reported and the situation was quickly contained. Officials confirmed the driver is under questioning, but have not released identity or motive.
The plans for the first new oil refinery in the US in the last 50 years have been announced. President Trump revealed America First Refining’s $300 billion project at the Port of Brownsville, crediting streamlined permits, lower taxes, and a partnership with India’s Reliance Industries. The 168,000-barrels-per-day facility, set to break ground in Q2 2026, will process U.S. shale crude.
All well and good, but why involve the Indians?
Was Bill trying to push her into traffic? He did it twice.
Epic Fury News
During a March 10 Pentagon briefing, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine praised the ‘yellow shirts’—flight deck crew on carriers like USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln—who launch and recover jets amid extreme conditions for Operation Epic Fury strikes against Iran.
Caine highlighted their role in U.S. air superiority, calling their work ‘perfectly organized chaos’.
In a 19-second video, posted on March 10 from a former school turned Basij base northwest of Tehran, shows an IRGC Basij militiaman saying everyone is fleeing and urging surrender to avoid revenge. It surfaced on day 12 of U.S.-Israel airstrikes that began February 28. This video surfaced amid other reports of fatigue among the low-paid militia conscripts.
I cannot offer any confirmation of this video. I suspect it is authentic, but other than one Kurdish outlet, nobody is saying anything about it.