Liberty & Prosperity Blog

The DFL is pretending to care about families' budgets. That's a heaping pile of BS. In 2009-10, DFL senators and congressmen voted for higher health insurance premiums by voting for the ACA. Since then, they've voted in lockstep for subsidies for health insurance companies. In March of 2021, when the economy grew at a rate of 6.5% rate, Democrats voted in lockstep for the American Rescue Plan. That gave the U.S. a 9.1% inflation rate in July, 2022. That was the highest inflation rate in 41 years. According to Rep. Tom Murphy's op-ed , "When they passed Minnesota’s 100% carbon-free electricity mandate in 2023, the New DFL promised our state cheaper power. Xcel Energy’s ratepayers are now finding out otherwise. Xcel, the state’s largest utility, has asked regulators for $490.7 million in rate increases over 2025 and 2026, a 13.2 percent jump, and named investments in cleaner electricity generation as a driver. Regulators trimmed the interim increase to 5.2 percent, b...

The verdict is in. Minnesota's public schools are failing Minnesota's students on one of this great nation's worst nightmares. c Tom Emmer's tweet highlighted the problem. He referenced this Lindsey Brown tweet about the fact that "9/11 is no longer mentioned in Minnesota’s social studies standards." Reporter Pilar Pedraza reported that parents are worried about Minnesota's Social Studies Standards, reporting "When state edudcators and parents got together to rewrite the state's social studies standards, they made a couple of major changes. They moved from referencing specific events like 9/11, the Civil War, the Cuban Missile Crisis to focusing on broad strokes, eras and themes. Educators say that the goal is to push teachers to provide more context and to get students to ask more of their own questions. I'm questioning whether that's the goal. It sounds more like an attempt to create storylines rather than teaching facts. That's ve...

Education Minnesota just got a new reason to worry about their monopoly on education in Minnesota. Lisa Demuth just unveiled her plan for returning Minnesota to delivering education excellence. It's titled "Lisa Demuth’s Education Comeback Plan for Minnesota." This isn't the slop that Sen. Klobuchar is offering. Instead, it's a plan that she didn't ask Education Minnesota's permission to propose. It's a plan that shouts 'Eliminate EdMinn's failed status quo. Let's install something new that works.' This isn't built on Sen. Klobuchar's tired mantra of 'We just need a little more of the taxpayers' money.' Let's examine what's in the Demuth-Wilson plan for educational excellence. The first priority is to return Minnesota to the Top 10 in the nation: Return Minnesota to the Top 10 Nationally More than half of students across Minnesota’s public schools are still not meeting grade-level standards in math and readi...

When I wrote this article , I included Sen. Klobuchar's first ad in her run for governor. In the ad, she said that she'd "launch a top-to-bottom-audit of state government." It's indisputable that it's a great-sounding line. I'm questioning, though, how committed Sen. Klobuchar is to stopping fraud. Bill Glahn, Minnesota's best fraud investigator, raises some important questions about Sen. Klobuchar's commitment to preventing fraud. In his article, Glahn reported "The ad was put out by the MN Restore Sanity Political Action Committee (PAC). The facts in the ad are easily verifiable. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) put in a request for a direct Congressional appropriation (earmark) for nearly $400,000 for a nonprofit linked to the free-food fraud scandal. It does not appear that the organization received this federal money." Then he dropped the hammer on Sen. Klobuchar: The first two years of Covid (corresponding to Fiscal Years 2021 and...

Either Ryan Winkler is a GOP plant on Friday night's Almanac or he isn't that bright strategically. Ryan Winkler stepped on a rake on Almanac's Roundtable when he said "We need a governor who's ready to show up and start addressing a lot of the issues that have not been -- I mean fraud is one but student achievement hasn't been going well, housing affordbility has not been going well, economic growth has not been going all that well and Gov. Klobuchar, when she's sworn in, her administration will be focused on delivering results." Fritz Knaak replied "Ryan, I agree with you completely that there's all there's all those needs that haven't been met but we've had 8 years of a Democrat governor and that's when all that's happened. So the real question that voters will answer is whether Amy Klobuchar will somehow be different. I would argue 'not at all' and whether they need a change like Lisa. I would think that Lisa ...

In some ways, 9/11/2001 seems like an eternity ago. On days like today, though, the >terrorist attacks seem like moments ago. Let's go through this chronologically. Andy Card notifying President George W. Bush: President Bush was determined to return to the White House. There, he delivered this speech: members of Congress burst into song on 9/11: Iconic picture of President Bush and FDNY firefighter Bob Beckwith: President Bush's speech on 9/20/2001: Years later, Ilhan Omar lied about CAIR: She dishonestly said "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties." According to the Holy Land Foundation trial , in which CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator, "A federal jury returned guilty verdicts on all 108 counts against the HLF and its five former officers on November 24, 2008. The federal government proved to the jury that the defendants funneled over $1...