Liberty & Prosperity Blog

While I wish I could say that President Trump's address to the nation about the status of the Iran War was all positivity, I can't do that without crippling my integrity. My reputation and integrity would still be higher than CNN's, but it would still take hit. According to the transcript of President Trump's speech , he opened by saying "As we speak this evening, it’s been just one month since the United States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight, Iran’s navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most of them, terrorist regime, they led, are now dead. Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed. A...

It's patently obvious that the DFL realizes that they can't compete with the GOP on the issue of education. That's because they're owned by Education Minnesota, the biggest teachers union in Minnesota. Think of Education Minnesota as the puppeteer. Think of the DFL as the puppet. This article highlights the EdMinn/DFL relationship perfectly. According to the article, "Last year, federal lawmakers created a tax credit which gives taxpayers a dollar-for-dollar reduction in their tax federal tax bill if they donate to a scholarship-granting organization (SGO). An SGO is a nonprofit that gives education-related scholarships to K-12 students. The tax credit goes up to $1,700, meaning a taxpayer can donate $1,700 to an SGO and receive an identical reduction in their federal tax bill. Funds given out by SGOs could be used for private school tuition or eligible expenses at public schools." It's a great idea. Why shouldn't society establish a scholarship fund ...

Minnesota's DFL activist politicians apparently think federal laws don't pertain to them or their programs. They're about to get a hard lesson that Keith Ellison, Tim Walz and future DFL activist politicians shouldn't mess with Title IX provisions. Acccording to this article , the U.S. DOJ "announced a lawsuit Monday against Minnesota and the state’s high school sports league for allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports. According to the DOJ, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged 'in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are designated exclusively for girls and allowing boys to invade intimate spaces designated exclusively for girls.'" With this being a civil rights case, oral arguments will be heard in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Eighth Circuit has one of the lowest rates of cases overturned by the Supreme Cou...

It's difficult to picture a state in greater disarray than Minnesota, especially since it's become clear that the DFL thinks it's going to win another Trifecta next year. This weekend, I spoke with a GOP operative who is also a daily reader of this blog. This friend told me that the DFL is blocking every prioritized bill that the GOP is pushing. Earlier this morning, I stumbled across this article about Rep. Ben Bakeberg's bill, which "would require websites 'where 25 percent or more of the webpages feature pornography to verify that a person seeking to access the website is 18 or older,' according to a House research summary." Predictably, DFL Rep. Leigh Finke spoke out, saying that "attorneys general in states with age verification laws are 'almost jubilant' about using those laws to ban 'young people from accessing content that could be educational if they are queer.'" Finke continued, saying "Can we get this bill to ...

Dr. Sen. John Barrasso broke some news while being interviewed by Trey Gowdy on Gowdy's Sunday Night In America program. Early in the interview, Gowdy asked Sen. Barrasso "How does this end. Democrats think that they have a political advantage right now. How do we get out of this?" Barrasso replied "Democrats care more about protecting criminal illegal immigrants than they care about protecting the American people. That's why we're in this situation right now. They want open borders and they want to shut down Immigration and Customs Enforcement and they voted that way in the Senate 7 times in the last couple of weeks. It's disgraceful. ... My hats off to President Trump for decisively telling Democrats 'Look, we're not going to be held hostage by the Democrats, by Chuck Schumer. We're going to pay the TSA agents, which is what he's done. The paychecks will go out tomorrow. I was on the phone with him Thursday night and we agreed we'd ...

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...