As March Madness nears its exciting zenith, it’s worth looking beyond the drama and excitement to the colleges themselves. Beyond their basketball prowess, which schools in this year’s bracket deliver…
Fourth time’s the charm. In his fourth attempt, Feeding Our Future defendant No. 64, Suleman Yusuf Mohamed, became (coincidentally) the 64th person convicted in the sprawling free-food scandal. The three…
Gov. Tim Walz has been a fan of Wallethub’s work, including its recent ranking of Minnesota as the second-best state to raise a family. He did not, however, see fit…
The question keeps coming up in reference to the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal: What did Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison know, and when did he know it? Another piece…
Yesterday, I noted that the average earner pays more state tax in Minnesota than in 42 other states. This is something which, Minnesota Department of Revenue (DOR) analyses show, got…
Minnesota Democrat legislators appear to have anticipated the ruling. They have introduced a workaround bill designed to chill the very speech the Supreme Court just protected.
A funny thing happened on the way to conviction No. 64 in the sprawling free-food scandal. Defendant Suleman Yusuf Mohamed has had his guilty plea hearing rescheduled some three times.…
A recent downward departure in the sentencing of a mass shooting defendant in Minneapolis illustrates how woefully inadequate our criminal justice system is at following through with meaningful terms of…
Welcome back! This week on the American Experiment Podcast… This week, we discuss whether Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison lied to Congress about his connection to the Feeding Our Future…
Feeding Our Future defendant Zamzam Jama was sentenced this morning to six months in jail for her role in the free-food scandal. Prosecutors had requested a sentence of 16 months…
Yesterday, I asked “What would a genuine ‘affordability’ agenda look like?” I noted that “the most direct way possible” for Minnesota’s state government to ease affordability concerns for its citizens…
For the fourth year in a row, Minnesota’s third-grade reading scores have declined. While COVID didn’t create this crisis, it exposed and exacerbated it. And Minnesota is finally being forced…
This morning, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, Judge Nancy Brasel handed down just the 7th sentence in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. [The related juror bribery…
The two parties in St. Paul have very different priorities this session. For Republicans, the focus is “affordability;” for the DFL, it is gun control and immigration. But, as we found in our…
After 1,385 bill introductions, two-dozen press conferences, hundreds of committee meetings and 17 days of floor session, the 2026 Minnesota legislature has passed a grand total of three bills. The first…
From KARE-11, After weeks of gridlock, Inspector General bill to fight fraud finally advances in Minnesota House. You may recall that a similar bill, to create an office of inspector…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…