Liberty & Prosperity Blog

It's apparent that DFL senators either don't have a clue about foundational constitutional principles or they don't care about the Constitution. I'm betting that some DFL senators never learned about the Constitutions that they've sworn to protect and uphold. Likewise, I'm certain that other DFL senators don't care about foundational constitutional principles like Separation of Powers. This Minnesota Reformer article reports that "The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved a package of bills aimed at reining in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after more than 3,000 federal agents descended on Minnesota for what the Department of Homeland Security called its largest immigration enforcement operation ever." The bill means nothing. The Minnesota state government doesn't control federal ICE or Border Patrol agents any more than cities have the right to tell state troopers what to do. Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, jumped into the...

It isn't that surprising that the House DFL staged a lengthy sit-in with the hope of forcing a vote on an assault weapons ban. Fox9's article reports "The sit-in began Thursday night after the House ended its session without voting on the Senate’s gun safety bill. About two dozen DFL lawmakers immediately started the protest, which was supposed to wrap up Friday morning, but was extended to Saturday at noon." Further, Fox9 reports that "The protest is a response to Republican leadership not acknowledging the bill, which passed the Senate eleven days ago. The bill aims to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, ghost guns, and binary triggers. It also includes funding for school safety and mental health support." The dirty little secret is that the bill would pass unanimously or close to it if the DFL left out the assault weapons ban and the high-capacity magazines provisions from their annual assault weapons ban legislation. That would make the bill c...

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...