Liberty & Prosperity Blog

I've watched politics since the 1970s. As a senior in high school (1974), I took a class on Watergate WHILE WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN were investigating the break-in of the DNC Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. While that was worthy of impeachment, what's infinitely worse is the Democrats' insistence on not enforcing this nation's immigration laws. Their chutzpah is so in-your-face that they aren't hiding it from anyone. Additionally, they're accusing ICE and Border Patrol agents of wanting to commit murder inside airports, thereby ratcheting up the Democrats' rhetoric to never-seen-before levels. These are elected officials! There's no hesitation in saying this disgusting, dishonest BS. Tim Walz, Minnesota's knucklehead DFL governor, gave the commencement address at the University of Minnesota's Law School. Things didn't turn out too well for 'Tampon Timmy.' That day, Gov. Walz told the graduating class that ICE we...

Anyone thinking that Saturday's No Kings rallies were a grassroots operation isn't thinking straight. Asra Nomani's report` dispatches that BS quickly, saying "A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide 'No Kings' protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a 'revolution,' according to a Fox Digital News investigation." According to this videotaped report , one of the goals of the No Kings rallies is to start a communist uprising. This isn't hidden. It's loud and it's proud. It's in-your-face. Im Ms. Nomani's report, she writes "One message said, "People everywhere are becoming increasingly hostile to the Trump agenda, and more sympathetic to revolution. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines, it's the time to go out and join the people, get our revolutionary message in front of them, and turn a...

Last night during Almanac's Political Roundtable segment, co-host Eric Eskola brought up Minnesota's projected budget surplus for this biennium that's expected to morph into a projected deficit in the next biennium. Specifically, Eskola mentioned "$3.7 billion projected surplus. Are you confident that any of that will get back to the taxpayer in relief in 1 way or another?" Emily Novotny-Chance replied "We'll see. I don't think so. We still have to balance out the (budget) tail." That led into the hottest conversation of the night. Eskola started by asking "Because, down the line, there's a problem. Note that the tab fee thing got beat already in 1 of the committees in the legislature. Jesse Ventura won an election on that." After Jeffrey Hayden's answer, former Rep. Garofalo replied, saying "I think that's a sleeper issue. Not that it's all about me but, hey, it's all about me. My license fees were over $1,000....

Predictably, another Schumer Shutdown Showdown ended, as Ed Morrissey quoted T.S. Eliot here, that another "Schumer Shutdown ended "not with a bang, but a whimper." Another Schumer Shutdown, another whimper, another brave-sounding speech from Sen. Schumer in the middle of the night. Blah, Blah, Blah, Yada, Yada, Yada. Early this morning, CBS reported "The Senate early Friday unanimously approved funding for most of the Department of Homeland Security. The exceptions were Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection. The measure now heads to the House for approval." For the past 40+ days, Democrats insisted they wouldn't budge until they got a raft of reforms. Senate Majority Leader John Thune addressed those wished-for reforms, saying Democrats have "been demanding changes in immigration enforcement policies. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters later he thinks 'that ship has sailed, and they kind of ...

After a long quiet spot, transgender rights in sports just reappeared . This is the official IOC statement . First, the IOC statement is mostly a scientific statement, starting with "Eligibility for the female category is to be determined in the first instance by SRY gene screening to detect the absence or presence of the SRY gene. Based on scientific evidence, the IOC considers that the presence of the SRY gene is fixed throughout life and represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development." It continues, saying "Furthermore, the IOC considers that SRY gene screening via saliva, cheek swab or blood sample is unintrusive compared to other possible methods. Athletes who screen negative for the SRY gene permanently satisfy this policy’s eligibility criteria for competition in the female category. Unless there is reason to believe that a negative reading is in error, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime test." The NPR article reports...

Though I don't know what it's like to go through a TSA line these days, I'm definitely getting pissed with heartless Democrats who've kept TSA agents, Coast Guardsmen and women, FEMA agents and the people who protect us from cyber attacks, aka CISA off the job for 84 days since Oct. 1, 2025. That's a total of 157 days on the calendar. That means that these heartless Democrats have inflicted 80+ days of unpaid pain on the men and women of DHS. It was just a matter of time before President Trump entered the dispute . According to the article, "President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting Thursday urged Congress to find a quick resolution to the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that’s leading to increasing headaches for air travelers. 'They need to end the shutdown immediately, or we’ll have to take some very drastic measures,' Trump said from the White House." This falls primarily on Democrats, starting with Sen. Schumer but also including Mi...