Liberty & Prosperity Blog

What has Minnesota's Department of Human Services gotten right this year? Perhaps, it's better phrased ' Has Minnesota's Department of Human Services gotten ANYTHING right? That becomes a legitimate question after reading this KSTP article . KSTP reported "The Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to the federal government, 5 INVESTIGATES has uncovered. The state’s Department of Children, Youth and Families, which took over administration of SNAP in 2024, then continued to rely on that flawed data to answer questions about one of the state’s largest public assistance programs." The Department of Human Services is part of the Walz administration at the moment. The base word for administration is administer. The definition of administer is "to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of." It's obvious that the Walz administrati...

I wish things were different but they aren't. I wish that the media wouldn't consistently get their predictions wrong about President Trump's economy but that's how it's going. That's their problem. I'm mentioning this because it's the subject of Stephen Moore's latest op-ed . In the op-ed, Moore writes "Even more surprising than the blockbuster 4.3% economic growth rate recorded in the third quarter of 2025 was the fact that some 90% of the nation’s professional economists got it all wrong. These economic whiz-kids’ faulty forecast comes on the heels of their predictions last week that inflation was going to be above 3%. Instead, the actual number was 2.7%." Then, to add insult to injury, Moore wrote "Welcome to the gang that can’t shoot straight." Ouchi. That's gotta sting. Moore continued, writing "But this groupthink pessimism was widespread this time last year as well, after Trump won election a second time. Yet the ...

This week has brought out the DFL's biggest panderers. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan tried pandering this week. Suffice it to say that she took it too far. Alpha News reported that "Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan praised Somali migrants in the state during a visit to a market in a video posted on YouTube Thursday." Then Alpha quotes her as saying "Salam Alaikum. My name’s Peggy Flanagan. I am the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, and I’m really honored and humbled to be here with all of you today. I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota. I think about my friendship with Nimco. We’ve been friends for almost 25 years and when I think of being part of Minnesota and growing up here, the Somali community has always been a part of my Minnesota." The thing is that she took things too far. Alpha News reported "Flanagan, who wore a hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women, during her visit to the market, held a mic...

It didn't take long for Amy Klobuchar to admit that she's a socialist . In her tweet from this morning, she wrote that "Government must work for people. That means more housing, health and child care as well as more accountability and less chaos and high costs." What that really means is more government interference, more inflation joined at the hip with bigger deficits and more irresponsible spending. Let's be clear. I'm not opposed to a state-run child care program as long as it isn't run by the DFL. That's my worst nightmare. When Sen. Klobuchar talks about health care, that's the Democrats' code for massive subsidies for insurance companies. If you thought it meant fixing the UNAffordable Care Act, you're mistaken. Sen. Klobuchar will hold onto the UNAffordable Care Act until her dying breath. Sen. Klobuchar is a 'treat-the-symptoms' type of politician. She isn't a 'fix-the-problem' type of politician. Fixing probl...

There's no doubt that something transformative is happening in Minnesota literally as we're speaking. Earlier this week, 98 mayor of cities across Minnesota signed onto Jackson Purfeerst's stinging rebuke of a letter to Gov. Walz and the legislature, though I think the letter was mostly directed at the DFL Trifecta legislature of 2023-24 than to the GOP. According to the letter , "property tax increases 'stem directly from state policies, mandates, and cost shifts that leave cities with no choice but to pass these burdens onto homeowners and businesses.'" What the letter is is a call to return to capitalism and growth. It specifically cites Minnesota's anemic GDP and job growth. This isn't a call to tinker around the edges a little. When he was interviewed on Fox , J. Andrew Mullin, Wayzata's mayor, talked about macro economics, suggesting he needed a more dynamic economy that would take pressure off people's property tax bill. These DFL l...

If you want to watch an evisceration of a politician on live TV, watch Hugh Hewitt's total evisceration of Tim Wal . This is a total mismatch. Anyone thinking that Tim Walz has the mental capacity to match wits with Hugh Hewitt is living in Wonderland. Hugh told Molly Line that hearing Tim Walz's excuses sounded like "Watching Governor Walz dance, since he first started to get questions about this story, has been amusing because it's the old, it's not my dog. It didn't bite you. Besides, you kicked it first. And every time, it's really a different excuse every time it goes in front of the cameras. It was Covid. We had no guardrails. We lacked a toolkit. President Trump is exaggerating. The acting U.S. attorney, who's, by the way, a career federal prosecutor until October, is making it worse than it really is. We're going to fix it. Just don't believe them. Pay no attention. Right now, Molly, it's a story that is growing faster -- and this wi...