Liberty & Prosperity Blog

The Truth in Funding Minnesota Schools/Learners, plus a Proposal for $7K for Parents to Invest...at NO Cost to Taxpayers, Part I by Ramblin’ Rose This article is about Minnesota’s ESA (Education Savings Account), not the federal program of ECCA (Educational Choice for Children Act). While both advocate for education and fund special ways for parents and children to make better choices for learning, they are very different. This post focuses on an approximate $7000 savings account for students who are NOT enrolled in traditionally funded public schools. ESAs are NOT vouchers, even if some politicians intentionally misuse the term. Educated citizens were vital for our fledgling nation. Consequently, education was a priority as the USA began. The first public school opened in 1635 in Boston. Support for education and an educated citizenry continues. For decades, Minnesota was championed as a leader in education, but now half of our students cannot read nor do math at grade level, dropping...

Without a significant shake-up in Minneapolis's political leadership (Mayor Frey, the City Council) and police leadership, it looks like Minneapolis will remain a lost cause in terms of public safety. Joe Gamaldi, the national vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police, had some harsh criticisms for Mayor Frey. For instance, Gamaldi told Liz Collin that "I think Mayor [Jacob] Frey likes to talk tough with everyone, but I think we all know he is completely spineless . Because these gangs know that even if they are arrested, they’re just gonna be let right back out over and over and over again." Ms. Collin reported in her podcast that "This past weekend marked yet another violent Fourth of July in Minneapolis. Dozens of car windows were smashed, there was a homicide, and several people were injured by gunfire—with some of it caught on camera. Despite the danger to the public, many local leaders seem unwilling to publicly acknowledge that there is a Somali gang ...

Friday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Criminal Illegal Alien Tou Lue Vang to be deported back to his native Laos. The Trump administration issued this statement om the deportation. The administration said "A convicted child sex offender is no longer in our country thanks to President Donald J. Trump and his Administration — defeating a sick attempt by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to lend him safe harbor in the so-called 'sanctuary' state." When Vang was initially arrested for assaulting the then-10-year-old girl, they removed Vang's green card. That made it easier for DHS and the State Department to deport Vang. Thank God for big favors. The DFL has focused too much on sanctuary city status. They didn't focus on putting together a coherent, popular governing agenda. That's difficult work. It's easier to flood the country with criminal illegal aliens, give them drivers licenses, then have them vote i...

Anyone that's paid attention to Minnesota politics knows that AG Keith Ellison is multiple layers beneath a dirtbag. After reading this Alpha News article , it's obvious that Keith Ellison isn't into enforcing laws. He's just a political hack with the nastiest anti-Trump bias I've ever seen. The DFL is the ultimate soft-on-crime political party in history. The proof is in the article. It says "Perhaps most shocking, despite pleading guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a child under 13, Vang never served a day in prison . Instead, the court imposed a stayed 144-month prison sentence and placed him on probation for 30 years. He was discharged from probation in 2019." This happened before Keith Ellison was elected to Congress, which is 12 years before getting elected AG. Still, Ellison should've taken that into consideration before voting to grant Vang's pardon. The good news is that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Va...

On Friday, July 3, 2026, an American flag was flown upside-down "at a Somali Independence Day celebration in St. Cloud." Alpha News is reporting "St. Cloud City Councilmember Scott Brodeen said he went to Lake George Municipal Park after receiving a message from a resident asking whether the city council had approved flying the American flag upside down during the event." That isn't the end of the story, unfortunately. The major part of the story is that the DFL is trying to BUY Somali votes by being disrespectful to the people who settled the land in the 1850s. According to the Alpha News article, "Brodeen urged residents to consider the incident when deciding whom to support at the ballot box, though he did not identify any specific candidates. However, the banner in the Rocks and Cows video indicated that the event was also sponsored by Democrat Minnesota House candidates Zachary Dorholt and Abdi Daisane, congressional candidate Doug Chapin and U.S. Se...

Obviously, a war that's lasted a few months isn't a forever war. Still, it isn't too soon to question President Trump's exit strategy and his accomplishment goals. The Powell Doctrine summary indicates that President Trump has anwered most of the major questions of the Doctrine: Is a vital national security interest threatened? Do we have a clear attainable objective? Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed? Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted? Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement? Have the consequences of our action been fully considered? Is the action supported by the American people? Do we have genuine broad international support? It's apparent that President Trump doesn't have "a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement." His approach to the negotiation phase of the war has been more of a play-it-by-ear or we'll-see-what-happens than a we'll-pound-them-into-...