Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Reading this Executive Summary eliminates any doubt whether the DFL was interested in fraud within the Walz administration. The Executive Summary's 7 bullet-points accused "senior officials in Governor Walz’s office, DHS and Attorney General Ellison’s office knew that large-scale fraud was likely occurring in the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)." Further, it said that "The Walz Administration ignored and consciously downplayed shocking levels of fraud across more than a dozen Medicaid waiver programs, including EIDBI/Autism, Emergency Medical Transportation (EMT), Integrated Community Supports (ICS), sober homes, Adult Day Care, Assisting Living Services, and many others." The Executive Summary continued, saying "Governor Walz created a culture that enabled fraud by failing to hold anyone in his administration accountable, despite years of credible whistleblower and OLA reports and actual federal criminal indictments and convictions. Instead of addres...

The DFL's hostility towards people of faith hasn't been stronger than with various prison ministry organizations. That's why this Alpha News article quickly caught my attention. Accordidng to the article, "In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a 2-1 ruling that allowed Schmitt to resume teaching the course until the matter is fully adjudicated. Now, the law firms representing Schmitt have announced that a settlement has been reached in the case. Those law firms are the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) and True North Legal, which is the legal arm of the Minnesota Family Council." Predictably, Minnesota's DOC isn't thrilled with the settlement. Instead, they said "According to the lawsuit, a DOC leader told Schmitt that his program 'conflicts with the diversity, equity, and inclusivity values' of DOC and 'teaches participants about manhood through a lens of discrimination, exclusivity, gender biases, and stereotypes.'" Who car...

DFL Rep. Dave Pinto apparently thinks that hearing DFL whistleblowers from Minnesota's Department of Human Services testify before the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee isn't the definition of bipartisanship. According to this Alpha News article , "DFL Reps. Dave Pinto and Emma Greenman disagreed with Robbins’ comments, with Pinto saying the committee 'achieved nothing' and was a forum for 'partisan presentation after partisan presentation' while other committees worked on anti-fraud legislation." Rep. Pinto either isn't that bright or isn't that honest. That testimony alone makes the Committee's work bipartisan. If Rep. Pinto didn't like the content of these DFL whistleblowers' testimony, he should've objected to Gov. Walz's turning a blind eye towards the massive Medicaid fraud that's been prosecuted. Better yet, Rep. Pinto should've criticized Gov. Walz allegedly retaliating against these...

This afternoon, I was pleasantly surprised by a phone call from someone that I hadn't talked to in ages. Before long, just as with the past, we were talking politics, this time focused on St. Amy of Hennepin County, more formally known as Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Since Sen. Klobuchar is running from Washington, DC for governor here in Minnesota, I mentioned that Sen. Klobuchar wasn't that skilled in economic policy. At the state level, you're dealing with the nuts-and-bolts of economic issues, whereas you're dealing with macro economic issues. What does Sen. Klobuchar know about property taxes, license tab fee renewals, school district debt and tax policies? It took Sen. Klobuchar 3 months to talk about tackling Medicaid fraud. When she talked about fraud, she sought mostly to distance herself from Tim Walz , which is a tacit admission that Gov. Walz got fraud badly wrong! The MN Reformer reported "Anticipating the Walz third-term attack, Klobuchar distanced herself f...

It's often true that satisfied or complacent voters often get their a$$es handed to them. According to Jonathan Turley's NY Post op-ed , the Democrats' redistricting failure had exposed "the ambitions of Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the Democratic establishment, which tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political gambit." Let's not forget Hakeem Jeffries battle-cry of "Eff around and find out" didn't age well. Truthfully, it died because Virginia's Supreme Court, aka SCOVA, tossed the vote aside like a rag doll. Apparently, Democrats effed around and got humiliated by SCOVA. It isn't difficult to understand why Virginia's Supreme Court, aka SCOVA, ruled against Virginia's Democrats while utterly humiliating Hakeem Jeffries and Abigail Spanberger. Democrats spent north of $70,000,000 to win this referendum. They brought in all the big stars to amp up turnout, too. After the dust settled, SCOVA ruled that Virginia Democra...

Minnesota WAS a civilized state to live. It isn't anymore because Minnesota established itself as a welcoming state more than a generation ago. Minnesota became known as a soft-on-crime state in the late 1980s. That's when Willie Horton was given a weekend out of prison. That weekend, Horton murdered a woman while he wasn't locked up in prison like he was supposed to be. That incident led to Gov. Michael Dukakis losing his opportunity to be POTUS. Shortly thereafter, Minnesota gained the reputation of being a soft-on-crime state, with Minneapolis becoming known as Murderapolis. That's why I'm not surprised by this article . According to the article, "In 2012, Jennifer Nibbe pleaded guilty to the 2010 murder of her husband, James 'Jim' Nibbe, inside their Blue Earth County home near Lake Crystal, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Leslie Johnson, Jim’s sister, told Alpha News the family was recently contacted by the Minnesota Department of Correct...