Liberty & Prosperity Blog

There's a misconception that the DFL is the pro-education party. That misconception needs to be demolished ASAP. Rep. Mary Franson's latest legislative update provides a great picture of what's happening in the legislature. Rep. Franson wrote "Negotiations on several major bills are still in progress, but the process took a disappointing turn this week with the K-12 education finance and policy package. After weeks of work, GOP and DFL committee leaders came to a bipartisan agreement on the bill. The bill moved forward with bipartisan support, passing through the Education Finance committee and then through the Ways and Means committee. Every step of the way, it met the requirement for support from both parties." So far, so good, right? Enter the DFL members of the Rules Committee: Then, when it reached the Rules committee, everything stalled. Despite the deal being negotiated in good faith and approved by leadership from both sides, the DFL members on the Rules ...

Back in March, former St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson announced that he's running to defeat Tim Walz and deny Gov. Walz a third term in office. In his announcement, Councilman Johnson said that Minnesota is facing a series of crises , each attributable to Gov. Walz's lack of leadership. There are lots of people who agree with that. In Councilman Johnson's own words, "Walz still lacks a coherent plan for making Minnesota safe, growing Minnesota’s economy, and slowing the exodus of Minnesotans to other states. Minnesota is dealing with unprecedented murders, assaults, armed carjackings in broad daylight, riots, demoralized police forces, taxpayer fraud exceeding $600,000,000 and oppressively high taxes with more increases on the horizon. It’s obvious that Tim Walz has been involved in one train wreck after another, Johnson said." Tim Walz can list lots of bills that he's signed. He can't say that he's signed bills that've made Minnesotans'...

To say that President Trump, with Tom Homan's and Kristi Noem's help, has stopped illegal immigration is understatement. On Monday morning in the White House Briefing Room, Tom Homan explained how the Trump administration shut down the border . Homan said "Now, President Trump and this administration here, it’s a success, it’s unprecedented. We’ve beat the Trump administration’s first-term border success. Border numbers are at a historic low. Today, we have the most secure border in et? The border wall save lives because the most vulnerable women and children can’t get over that wall, which means they’re going to a place where there’s not a wall, and what’s waiting are the men and women of the United States Border Patrol who will take care of those humanitarian needs to help." I knew that Trump would fix the border. I just didn't know he'd fix it this fast, this thoroughly. For once, the Trump administration gets a fair interviewer: PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: We just...

Today, Rep. Angie Craig, (DFL-MN2), announced that she's running for the open Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Tina Smith , who is retiring at the end of her term. Rep. Craig faces an uphill fight, facing off against Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and former State Senate Minority Leader Melisa López Franzen in the DFL primary. At this point, she's probably leading Franzen and trailing Lt. Gov. Flanagan. With Rep. Craig running for Senate, that opens her congressional seat. That being said, Craig won this seat handily in 2024. NBC is reporting "Flanagan, who would be the first Native American woman in the Senate if she wins, immediately signaled after Smith's retirement that she would run to replace her." Later, NBC reported "Ahead of Craig's expected announcement, Flanagan rolled out a handful of endorsements from key Democrats in the state, like Attorney General Keith Ellison and former Sen. Al Franken (who resigned in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduc...

In one GOP legislative update after GOP legislative update, each has highlighted the DFL's 'free' health care for illegal aliens. Rep. Mary Franson highlighted the program in this legislative update , saying "Last year, they expanded MinnesotaCare to cover this population, promising it would serve 7,700 people at a cost of $196 million. Now, after months of House Republicans demanding transparency, the truth is out. Enrollment has jumped to over 17,000, and the price tag has exploded to more than $550 million. That entire cost is coming straight from Minnesota taxpayers because illegal immigrants do not qualify for federal support." This was the DFL's highest priority other than establishing Minnesota as a trans-refuge state. The DFL wouldn't be in this position if they hadn't spent the entire projected surplus. If the DFL had been a bit more restrained, Minnesota wouldn't be facing a major deficit. Frankly, Gov. Walz and the DFL are prioritizing...

Apparently, the media hasn't told us about the workings of the White House. I'm not talking the media's cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline, either. I'm talking about the bitter feud between Joe Biden and Barack Obama. The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that there's a major feud between Barack Obama and Joe Biden. According to the Beacon's reporting, "Years later, Trump's odds of becoming president would dramatically increase when Obama tapped Hillary Clinton, one of the worst politicians (and least likable human beings) in American history, as his heir apparent" In an earlier instance of poor judgment, Obama had picked Joe Biden as his running mate because, among other reasons, he thought Biden was too old and unambitious to consider running for president again. " Biden never forgave Obama for anointing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee ," writes journalist Chris Whipple, author of Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Har...