Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Is it just speculation that Gov. Tim Walz told House DFL legislators to kill the Senate OIG bill? Is it speculation that Speaker Demuth didn't work with DFL legislators in getting the bill into the final budget package? Both things have gotten rumored at the Capitol. I don't find the Demuth speculation credible. With a gubernatorial bid hanging on the horizon, she had too much to lose. Gov. Tim Walz, though, has incentive to look the opposite direction, starting with the people purportedly involved in the fraud. While it wasn't known that Somalis were behind the Medicaid fraud, it was known that some of the first people indicted in the Feeding Our Future Fraud were Somalis. This year, a weakened Tim Walz will need a big turnout of Somalis to get re-elected. John Phelan's article digs into this question a little further. The title for his article is "Did Gov. Walz tell House DFLers to squash the bill creating a fraud investigator?" The part that causes me to q...

Tim Walz frequently highlights 'the investments' Minnesota has made in K-12 Education or in Minnesota Department of Human Sacrifices Services. How much of the K-12 Education spending was spent on Feeding Our Future fraud. How much of the DFL's 'investment' in the Department of Human Services was spent on billions of dollars of fraud? In 2023, when the DFL had a trifecta (DFL governor and DFL majorities in the House and Senate), the DFL passed controversial bills like the Trans Refuge Bill, the Blackout Bill in addition to raising taxes and license tab fees by a total of $10,000,000,000 ($10 billion), not to mention raising biennial spending by 38%. Apparently, unlike productive people, Gov. Walz doesn't think using the word no is productive. It's apparent that bureaucrats at DHS think saying no isn't productive. The thing that's got to be weighed against raising spending and taxes is limiting spending so individuals can save for their retirements, t...

I'm getting tired keeping up with all of the DFL's non-crisis crises. The latest DFL non-crisis is the Whiteness Pandemic . According to the report, "The 'Whiteness Pandemic' page, featured on the website of the Culture and Family Life Lab at the U of M’s Institute of Child Development, leans heavily on a 2021 academic paper analyzing how white Minneapolis mothers talked to their children after George Floyd’s death, a report from Defending Education first revealed." The report continues, saying "Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism ,' the website says." During the time of slavery, black families were common. These familie...

The further we dig into the Minnesota/Medicaid fraud fiasco, the more questions I get. The biggest question I have is simple. Is the DFL benefiting financially from the Medicaid fraud? I've heard, as we've all heard, that some of the money stolen from Minnesota's taxpayers, is potentially going to al-Shabaab, a part of al-Qa'ida. The more I dig, though, the more I question whether part of that money is going to the DFL. Why did it take Tim Walz and Keith Ellison 5+ years to figure out this fraud fiasco? After reading this article , I'm wondering where the rest of the money went. The article reports "The actual number of Somali TPS beneficiaries in Minnesota is reportedly small, roughly 430 as of the most recent count, meaning the vast majority of the state’s Somalis will be unaffected by the move." Let me reiterate; where did the rest of the money go? Let's remember that a member of the committee was briefed a week ago by Acting Assistant U.S. Attorne...

It's difficult to say that the Feeding Our Future is incompetence, not outright corruption after it was reported in the opening paragraph that "A man named Abdirashid Bixi Dool has been charged for his alleged role in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. The 36-year-old faces a seven-count federal indictment that includes charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Dool is the 78th person to be charged in connection with the COVID-era scheme that saw fraudsters steal hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal child nutrition program which reimbursed participants for feeding hungry children." It isn't that Dool was the second or third indictment. It was the 78th indictment in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Further, that's just Feeding the Future indictments. There are more indictments that've been handed down as a result of the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) Scandal and this autism scandal: That picture is part of this article written b...

The first domino has fallen in the case of the 6 Democrats who called for members of the military to " refuse illegal orders ", insinuating that President Trump had given the military illegal orders. Predictably, none of the Democrats in the video could identify a single order from President Trump that crossed the line into illegality. According to CBS News's reporting, "The Pentagon indicated that it's investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former U.S. Navy Captain, after he was among a group of lawmakers to release a video calling on service members and members of the intelligence community to "refuse illegal orders." Though I'm not a former member of the military, I know with total certainty that one of the first things you're taught in boot camp is that you can ignore unlawful orders. This isn't breaking news. It's dog-bites-man type news. This is sun rises in east type news. In other words, it isn't news. It'...