Liberty & Prosperity Blog

When Gov. Tim Walz tries touting Minnesota as a great place to live, people living in the real world must wonder if Alice in Wonderland is his neighbor. This week, on Dec. 1, 8 Brainerd Lakes Area mayors wrote a letter "eight mayors representing communities throughout the Brainerd Lakes Area wrote 'with deep concern—and growing frustration—about the fiscal direction of our state and the increasing impact it is having on cities across our region.'" In their letter, they wrote "For taxpayers, local governments, and businesses here in the Brainerd Lakes Area, this is more than disappointing; it is alarming. Fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul are beginning to trickle down to our cities, placing strain on local budgets and making responsible, long-term planning more difficult." These aren't fresh-out-of-college students wondering where (or if) their career will get started. For the most part, these are people who are c...

After reading this USA Today article by Nicole Russell , I was reminded of an old (almost ancient) article by NRO's Jim Geraghty about the importance of campaign cash. In 2010, when the GOP picked up 63 seats in the U.S. House, 12 of 15 best-funded Democrats lost. The lesson wasn't that campaign cash isn't important. It's that Democrats had to run with a millstone tied around their necks. That millstone was then called the Affordable Care Act. These days, it's getting called the UNAffordable Care Act. These days in Minnesota, that millstone is titled Tim Walz. The difference between 2010 and 2026 is that Gov. Walz has a rock-solid base known as the Somalis. They'll stick with Walz through thick and even thicker yet. What's required this year to defeat Gov. Walz is a combination of solutions, ledership and personality/likeability. If we want to defeat Gov. Walz this year, and I want that badly , we'll need the party to unite around a candidate who isn...

Thus far, I've focused most of my attention on the various types of Medicaid fraud that the feds have investigated, then prosecuted. I haven't paid as much attention to the Feeding Our Future scam. Notice that I didn't say "alleged scam.' That's because this article reports that "The scandal, which has already led to 61 convictions , has widely been viewed as a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic. At one point, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland called it 'the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme' in the United States." Convictions aren't theories, suppositions or allegations. Convictions are a finding of fact. That takes statements out of the realm of allegedly, then transfers them into the realm of 'proven beyond a reasonable doubt.' While I'm not a legal eagle, I know enough to know that findings of facts are more important than allegations, theories or suppositions. Aimee Bock was found to be the ringleader of the Feedin...

It isn't surprising that Gov. Tim Walz is still engaged in fiscal happy talk . Coming from a man who spent an entire $17,500,000,000 projected surplus in 2023, that's to be expected. Coming from a DFL politician who spent that record surplus, then raised taxes by $10,000,000,000 , I'd be surprised if he didn't act fiscally irresponsibly. Gov. Walz is quoted as saying "Despite the President’s tariffs and destabilization of health care costs, Minnesota’s annual budget forecast has improved in both the short and long term thanks to the responsible budgeting we’ve done in Minnesota." Spoken like a true socialist. First, President Trump didn't cause the destabilization of health care costs. They've been destabilized since President Obama signed the UNaffordable Care Act into law. Next, tariffs didn't destabilize the economy. The DFL's socialist econoomic policies destabilized the economy. Third, a growing economy isn't slowed that much by things...

Let's not tiptoe with words like affordability. That's the DFL's euphemism for Bidenflation, which was the worst since the late Jimmy Carter. Simply put, inflation is a thief. It's stealing the American Dream from Gen-Z. Let's not tiptoe around socialism, either. Socialism is a thief, too. Thriving economies are built upon capitalism, not socialism. Show me a socialist nation and I'll show you a nation without a middle class. It's that simple. Joe Biden isn't the only thief that's a Democrat idiot. Pick any DFL politician, whether it's Tim Walz, Erin Murphy, Jamie Long or Aric Putnam. Though they'll deny it, they're socialists, too. They've spent your money just as willingly as Biden did. It isn't difficult to remember that Peggy Flanagan was cheering Tim Walz and the DFL Trifecta for throwing away an $18,000,000,000 surplus, then watching Walz and the DFL raise taxes and fees by another $10,000,000,000. Though it isn't theft...