Liberty & Prosperity Blog

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...

I'll give KARE11 credit for being truthful about a bill passed by Minnesota Senate Democrats. According to the KARE11 article , "The Minnesota Senate approved a sweeping legislative package on Monday to place limits on federal immigration authorities in the wake of Operation Metro Surge, although the bill has little chance of becoming law this session due to Republican opposition in the tied House." The string of irrelevant or unconstitutional DFL bills is lengthy. It's time that the DFL show more respect for the U.S. Constitution. States don't tell the federal government what they must or can't do. All state laws MUST conform with federal laws, especially when the laws pertain to immigration and naturalization. This bill is considered a messaging bill. It isn't a serious bill. It's meant to send a message to Minneapolis voters. The message that this bill sends to the people of Minneapolis is that DFL politicians don't care about the safety of the...

Saying that the DFL's Medicaid fraud scandal is this year's biggest political story of 2025-26 isn't overstatement. This KSTP article explores a new aspect to this fiasco. KSTP's Kirsten Swanson reports that "The praise rolled in for the team working on Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program. Launched in 2020, it was designed to help people with disabilities, seniors and individuals struggling with mental illness and substance abuse find and keep housing. But in just five years, demand for the Medicaid-reimbursed service had created a backlog within the state’s Department of Human Services (DHS). Employees working on the program were lauded for working overtime to clear it." Ms. Swanson then reported that "To reward their efforts, DHS paid bonuses to nine program staff and eligibility specialists, ranging from $1,000 to $2,000, according to data obtained by 5 INVESTIGATES. Three months later, the program collapsed." This was 1 of 14 prog...

With this 4th of July being the 250th anniversary of this great nation's birth, it isn't surprising that a bunch of Independence Day-themed books have popped up. Thus far, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's book is the best children's book on our nation's birth while Bret Baier's book is the best book for adults on Independence Day. Today, though, I'm focused on Justice Gorsuch's WSJ op-ed on what makes our nation great. Justice Gorsuch opened the op-ed by saying "The Declaration of Independence is a short document, not much longer than this essay. Even so, it contains three ideas that shocked the world in 1776: Each of us is born equal; God grants us all inviolable rights, including the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and 'We the People' have the right to govern ourselves. " Hubert Humphrey once said that the U.S. is the only nation that set happiness as a national goal. That's why he's known as the Hap...