Liberty & Prosperity Blog

It's indisputable that every state has a homeless problem to one extent or another. Blue states apparently haven't figured out how to fix this problem because they keep proposing different solutions to fix the problem. As with most things Democrat, the solution appears to be to create another pot into which society pours money. The problem doesn't disappear; it just metastacizes. According to this article , "Minnesota Democrats introduced legislation to prohibit cities from penalizing homeless people who are camping in public areas. The bill would allow homeless individuals to reside at public plazas, sidewalks, parking lots and more." The subtitle is the best part of the article. It says "HF 5004 does not appear to be moving this legislative session." Hooray for that. The bad news is that this will be one of the first bills introduced by a DFL Trifecta legislature in 2027. If you don't want this becoming law, you need to vote and bring 10 other peop...

Not that long ago, there were 2 distinct groups of politicians. The first group were known as patriots. That group was filled with men like JFK, Sam Nunn, Bob Dole, Dwight David Eisenhower, Scoop Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The other group were known as happy warriors. This group is smaller. It consists of Paul Wellstone, Jack Kemp, Hubert Humphrey and greatest among them, Ronald Reagan. Today's Democrats aren't anything like those giants. Today's Democrats think only about gaining power, growing that power and shoving things down people's throats. Doing the right thing isn't anywhere near the top of their list. Picture Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid doing the right thing with Obamacare. Picture Tim Walz or Amy Klobuchar banning boys from teenage girls' bathrooms. That isn't happening. Period. Picturing Tim Walz campaigning with a U.S. Senate candidate who unashamedly wears a Nazi tattoo. Better yet, picture Tim Walz calling law enforcement officers ...

Friday night, Almanac/TPT visited St. Cloud to do their show from the SCSU, aka St. Cloud State, campus. Rep. Bernie Perryman was part of the Almanac Roundtable at the end of the show, appearing with Stearns County Commissioner Tarryl Clark, Rep. Dan Wolgamott and former St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis. Early in the Roundtable, Commissioner Clark said that the legislature had better pass the property tax relief bill. There's no disputing the fact that property taxes are rising quickly. The dispute is what's driving the property tax hikes. Rep. Perryman replied, saying that unfunded mandates were a major cause of property tax hikes. DFL politicians often will pass a bill that orders counties, school districts or municipalities to spend money on things that lobbyists have talked the legislators into. It's time for legislators to put families, not lobbyists, first. For the past 2 years, the MNGOP has worked hard on slowing spending. Bernie Perryman has been a vital part of that ef...

DFL politicians won't admit this, but they advocate for socialism. Tim Walz is one of the exceptions. He said "One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness." Actually, socialism is theft. It takes from the earners and gives to the nonproductive. Families with common sense understand that each family has obligations and responsibilities. If you want your kids to be better off than you are, that requires capital formation. Period. Without capital formation, widespread prosperity doesn't exist. In fact, where socialism exists, the middle class doesn't exist. A wise economist once told me that only 2 classes of people exist in socialist nations: oligarchs and serfs. The late, great economist Milton Friedman pointed out to Phil Donahue that the only places where people escape grinding poverty are where they have "largely free trade" and capitalism. Further, he was thoroughly convinced that capitalism was the only system that'd consistently ...

Within a society bent on ignoring our civil liberties, it's essential that people like Mark Trammell step forward to protect our rights. Trammell is the CEO of the Center for American Liberty, which was founded by Harmeet Dhillon. She's currently serving as "the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice." Trammell joined Liz Collin for her podcast because he thinks that civil rights and constitutional rights have been under attack . He's right. This morning, I saw a report that California is planning on passing a bill that would presumably prevent Nick Shirley from reporting in California. It's been nicknamed the Stop Nick Shirley Act . But I digress. Trammell "explained how suing governors who abuse their power is a 'favorite pastime' and how his organization has been pushing back and winning more than a few high-profile cases in court." If governors like Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker think tha...

Wednesday morning, it was announced that 2 people had been indicted in the beating of TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez. It was speculated that the names weren't released until the federal grand jury had finished their deliberations. Wednesday evening, Alpha News updated their article to report "US Attorney Daniel Rosen announces that Christopher Ostroushko, Deyanna Ostroushko, and Paige Ostroushko have been charged with assaulting Savanah Hernandez." This has the potential of getting pretty ugly pretty quickly for the Ostroushko family. Alpha News is reporting that "The assault of Hernandez on April 11 near the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis was caught on video later posted by the TPUSA journalist on X, prompting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon to say, 'On it' in response ." There's a high likelihood that the jury will have to consider extenuating circumstances if they convict any or all of the members of the ...