Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Apparently, House DFL legislators think they don't need to work to get paid. This Minnesota Reformer article reports that "House Republicans on Thursday filed a lawsuit with the Minnesota Supreme Court to compel boycotting Democratic-Farmer-Labor House members back to the Capitol by fining them. House Democrats have been deliberately staying away from the Capitol for more than two weeks, since Jan. 14, in an effort to deny Republicans quorum and control of the chamber." This started when the DFL had a retired judge swear in the DFL legislators in a secret, private ceremony. Further, the DFL did this to avoid the Jan. 14th swearing in on the opening day of the session swearing in. Had they shown up for the opening day swearing in, there would've been a quorum. The DFL couldn't have that! Minnesota's Constitution ARTICLE III DISTRIBUTION OF THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT Section 1. Division of powers. The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct dep...

Sunday marked Secretary of State Marco Rubio's first visit to Panama since being sworn in as Secretary of State. It was a successful visit because " Panama's president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and after complaints from President Donald Trump that the Latin American country had ceded control over its critical shipping canal to Beijing." Make no mistake about this. This is a defeat for the Chinese Communist Party, aka CCP. China wanted to influence Panama through its Belt And Road Initiative. Fox is reporting that "José Raúl Mulino, Panama's president, said his nation's sovereignty over the 51-mile waterway, which connects the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, will remain unchanged. But he said he would not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China’s Belt and Road global development initiative and that Panama would instead look to work more closely with the U.S....

A pause has been hit in the tariff threat against Mexico. Just minutes ago, President Trump announced that he had "paused for a month a new 25% tariff on goods entering the United States from Mexico after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to her country’s border to prevent trafficking of fentanyl and other drugs." President Trump insisted on getting protections for Americans against the scourge of fentanyl. With this agreement now in the process of getting implemented, a pause is definitely in order. According to CNBC's article, "The announcement of the pause came two days after Trump slapped 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10% tariff on goods imported from China. Trump said there will be negotiations on tariffs between Mexican officials and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick." The article continues with this informat...

Ric Grenell, President Trump's special envoy to Central America, South America and Latin America, was given the assignment to secure an agreement with Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro in which Maduro would agree to accept repatriation flights of TdA cartel members back from the U.S. Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, is rounding up lots of TdA members already and he's running out of space to hold them. Thanks to Grenell's efforts, that won't be a problem anymore. Not only did Maduro agree to accept these thugs back to Venezuela. Maduro also agreed to pay for the flights of TdA members back to Venezuela. The deal gets even better, though. Maduro also released 6 U.S. hostages being held in Venezuela . The thing is that the media didn't report that these hostages had been taken. Further, the Biden administration didn't announce the taking of these hostages. Finally, this wasn't on people's radar screen when this trip was scheduled. The Reuters article o...

Based on this Politico article , it's painfully obvious that new DNC Chairman Ken Martin is planning on moving the DNC further to the left. In this article , which I wrote yesterday, I highlighted some of the far-left Minnesota progressives behind Martin on stage for his victory speech. Behind Martin were Keith Ellison, Minnesota's scofflaw AG, Peggy Flanagan, Tim Walz's Lt. Gov., and Squad member Ilhan Omar. Had Walz been there, the stage might've collapsed to its left. Politico reports "For two months as he campaigned for Democratic National Committee chair, Ken Martin worked methodically through a call sheet of the committee’s 448 members, sometimes on the phone for as long as an hour, even two hours, at a time, often until 10 p.m." It continues, adding "But it was another side of Martin, what one DNC member, granted anonymity to speak candidly, called his ability to be a "knife-fighter", that Democrats and their new chair himself on Saturday...

Minnesota will need to elect a new chairman for the DFL. That's because Ken Martin, currently the DFL state party chair, won a first ballot victory to become the new incoming DNC Chairman. To win the chairmanship, the candidate needed to win the support of 214.5 delegates. "Martin secured 246.5 votes of the total 428 members who voted in person and by proxy. Runner-up Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, received 134.5 votes, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley received 44 votes and four people abstained. Faiz Shakir received two votes, Jason Paul received one vote and there were no votes for Nate Snyder, Quintessa Hathaway or Marianne Williamson." As a Minnesotan, it was easy to spot the DFL flavor to the Martin campaign. Standing behind Martin were Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. In short, the Martin 'Campaign' is filled with far-left lunatics. They've done well in urban areas b...