Liberty & Prosperity Blog

The Trump administration scored a major victory Tuesday when it reached agreement with the University of Pennsylvania, aka UPenn, that UPenn " has entered into a Resolution Agreement to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972." According to the Department of Education's statement, "the Department’s Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) investigation that found UPenn violated Title IX by allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only intimate facilities." That's a big admission. UPenn admitted that they'd violated Title IX when UPenn let Will Thomas , aka Lia Thomas, compete as a female. I'm not a legal expert but I don't see why the DOJ couldn't use that admission in their lawsuit against the state of Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League, aka the MSHSL in their lawsuit involving the transgender softball player. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is quoted as saying "Tod...

It was inevitable that professional perverts would invade Minnesota's Department of Education. Alpha News is reporting that the progfessional perverts have infiltrated Minnesota's Department of Education. The article quotes documents from Minnesota's Department of Education as saying "Under the draft standards, third graders would be asked to 'Define gender identity and expression' and 'Describe internal and external reproductive body parts using medically accurate terms in a gender-neutral way.'" What 8-year-old knows what gender identity or gender expression is? How many 8-year-olds could describe "internal and external reproductive body parts using medically accurate terms in a gender-neutral way ?" That's why Minnesota needs serious educational leadership at MDE. In fact, MDE needs to be gutted, then restarted from scratch. The people putting these standards are described as "a group that includes parents, students, teachers...

John Catsimatidis has forgotten more about grocery stores than Zohran Mamdani will ever know. Period. Full Stop. That's because Mr. Catsimatidis is "the owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino’s, this city’s oldest and largest independent supermarket chains." Yesterday, Mr. Catsimatidis wrote this op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Catsimatidis opened his op-ed by saying "As owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino’s, this city’s oldest and largest independent supermarket chains, I’ve spent my life keeping shelves stocked, workers employed and families fed. That’s what capitalism does. It works. It builds. It feeds. And it empowers. " Mr. Catsimatidis is right. It does all those things. If I were to offer a minor quibble to Mr. Catsimatidis' op-ed, I'd add that it builds generational wealth while improving families' standard of living. It didn't take Mr. Catsimatidis long to criticize Mr. Mamdani. In the second paragraph of his op-ed, Mr. Catsimatidis w...

It's now apparent that Democrats are fighting a losing fight against President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill. Thanks to Ron Johnson's change in how he'll vote, Republicans should now have the votes to pass the bill. NPR is reporting "Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin says he voted to advance President Trump's tax and spending bill after being "satisfied" with President Trump's commitment to reduce federal spending. That gives Republicans at least 51 votes, which is the magic number for passage. Lisa Murkowski can't vote against the bill because there's too many oil and natural gas provisions in the bill. Voting against oil and natural gas interests in Alaska is like voting against the Packers in Wisconsin or voting against hog farmers in Iowa. It's political suicide. NPR isa also reporting that "Johnson, who originally voted no, cast the deciding vote late Saturday to advance debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill that incl...

While Zohran Mamdani is grabbing most of the headlines, AOC has enjoyed herself after endorsing Mamdani and campaigning with him. Still, I've enjoyed watching NY Assemblyman Matt Slater take AOC to the proverbial woodshed. WGME 13 is reporting "New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater, R-District 94, fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. on Tuesday, after she claimed to have originally come from New York City’s Bronx borough. " After AOC got into a Twitter fight with President Trump, AOC replied "Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully." That's when Slater entered the fight. In his tweet , Slater questioned AOC, asking her "@AOC, if you're a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook? Give it up already." There you have it. AOC caught lying. I don't think it's the first time she's gotten caught. After Assemblyman Slater's dust-up with AOC, Slater was inv...

Anyone that thinks Zohran Mamdani's New York City is a progressive utopia hasn't read Mamdani's campaign website . Let's see what's part of Mamdani's agenda. The highest-profile item on Mamdani's agenda is his idea for "city-owned grocery stores." According to his own website, Mamdani said that "Food prices are out of control. Nearly 9 in 10 New Yorkers say the cost of groceries is rising faster than their income. Only the very wealthiest aren’t feeling squeezed at the register." The dirty little secret is that big government liberalism is more expensive than limited government conservatism. Florida's population is a little less than double the size of New York State's. Despite that statistic, New York State's state budget is almost twice the size of Florida's state budget. Another high-profile agenda item on Mamdani's website is "no cost childcare." According to Mamdani, "After rent, the biggest cost f...