Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Alpha News reports that "The largest association of law enforcement officers in Minnesota has endorsed Republican Michele Tafoya for U.S. Senate over Democrat Peggy Flanagan." In their letter to Tafoya announcing their endorsement, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, aka the MPPOA, wrote "This endorsement reflects our strong confidence in your leadership, character, and steadfast commitment to public safety. The men and women who serve in communities throughout our state deeply appreciate your dedication to ensuring their safety and the safety of the citizens they protect." This is a significant endorsement because it tells the people of Minnesota that their families will be protected. It tells small businesses, especially retail shops, that crime won't steal their profits. That, in turn, permits the industry to invest in growing the business instead of FORCING THEM to spend money protecting their assets, whether it's buildings, people or ...

The word is that Minnesota's gubernatorial race isn't a competitive race because Klobuchar's past Senate races weren't that competitive. I once learned a great lesson from NPR Reporter Mara Liasson, who said after the 2006 election that "patterns are patterns until they aren't anymore." This year's gubernatorial fight is significantly different in that Sen. Klobuchar faced underfunded candidates with virtually no name recognition. Lisa Demuth is the Speaker of Minnesota's House and she's armed with plenty of cash. She isn't as well-funded as Sen. Klobuchar but she'll have enough to get her message out. Part of Speaker Demuth's messaage is that Klobuchar doesn't really care about fraud. To support Speaker Demuth's opinion is the fact "that Klobuchar’s Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025, but a review of 1,000 of her official press-release archive found no ...

During an interview on Lara Trump's My View program, former NBA player Enes Kanter-Freedom said that the WNBA "has no idea what they’re about to face" . The WNBA has been playing a virtue-signaling game, with "Golden State Valkyries star Gabby Williams’ support for trans athletes and Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve’s 'support trans kids' shirt was what led him to this moment." During the interview, Kanter-Freedom also said "So, there’s other major sports that obviously closed that loophole. They added ‘biological female’ or ‘born female’ in their collective bargaining. But when I look at them, the WNBA, they didn’t have kind of, you know, reference to biological or anything like that. And all the coaches, I was watching this, and I believe the coach of Minnesota came out with a ‘trans kids belong’ (shirt), so I was like, if no one’s against it and all the coaches are OK with it, think about how much money I can bring, think about all the end...

The DFL is about to have an affordability crisis. They don't have a crisis because I haven't laid out the truth ... YET! Let's look at the truth of who caused the affordability crisis and why we haven't gotten rid of the high prices. First, it's important to remind people how we got the high prices in the first place. Thanks to Speaker Pelosi's 'leadership' and Amy Klobuchar's cowardice, Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan, which spent $1,900,000,000,000 at a time when 3 important things were happening. First, inflation was 1.4% the day President Trump left office. Next, the economy was growing at a 6.5% rate in the first quarter of 2021 after growing at a 4.8% rate in the last quarter of 2020. There was no need to stimulate the economy at that point! Period! Third, Steven Ratner, Obama's chief economist, warned against passing the bill. So did Lawrence Summers, Clinton's final Treasury Secretary. Just 15 months later, inflation hit 9....

Years ago, in 2009, I wrote about Minneapolis "about of a plan to install ten drinking fountains designed by artists, costing a total of $500,000." You'd think they'd learn but they didn't. After reading this Alpha News article , it's clear that Jacob Frey is just as willing to waste taxpayers' money as R.T. Rybak was.ccording to Alpha, "Minneapolis is currently facing a budget shortfall of approximately $60 million. To rectify that, Mayor Jacob Frey has proposed a dramatic 11.3% increase in the city’s property tax levy and has recommended that Minneapolis cut 100 city jobs. However, the city is currently partnering with the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis to find the next 'Minneapolis Poet Laureate.' That person will be paid $16,000 by the city." That's astonishing. Minneapolis is facing an estimated $60,000,000 deficit. If those things aren't terrible enough, Mayor Frey is proposing a property tax hike of 11.3%. Who can affo...

The Calvin Coolidge Project X account reports that Elon Musk plans on being a difference-maker in this fall's midterms. According to the tweet, "Elon Musk is expected to spend between $100 million and $200 million to support Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. The spending is expected to focus on voter turnout in key battleground states , including the Texas Senate Race to help Ken Paxton." 🚨Report: Elon Musk is expected to spend between $100 million and $200 million to support Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections The spending is expected to focus on voter turnout in key battleground states, including the Texas Senate Race to help Ken Paxton Via: The Wired pic.twitter.com/oY6akbmrsX — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) August 20, 2026 This is a major boost to the GOP GOTV operation. In 2024, Musk's megabucks turned a semi-close race into a Trump rout. This year, Musk's megabucks won't turn this into a rout. It might turn a toss-up ra...