[Photo Source: Barbara Carlson, Facebook] Barbara Carlson, who died of cancer at age 80 earlier this week, was a friend. As just about everyone knows, she was routinely wet and…
In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark Janus ruling, unions are in a state of outrage as workers are now allowed to leave. Pro-union media is raining down accusations…
Tucker Carlson tells John Hinderaker how insiders should respond to Trump.
“There’s an adult sphere and there’s a sphere for children,” said Kim Crockett, vice president of the think tank Center for the American Experiment. “It is very clear to me…
Apparently the staff at City Hall didn’t get St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s memo on cancelling the annual July 4 fireworks show due to budget concerns. Columnist Joe Soucheray, a…
The national teachers' union (NEA) convention is in Minneapolis this year. While the rest of America is celebrating Independence Day, the teachers' union is conducting a day of business at…
100 years ago today, and 142 years after the Declaration of Independence, American and British troops fought together for the first time at Hamel, in France. In the century since…
As July 4 approaches, can picnics, parades, and fireworks be far behind? That includes fireworks of more than one variety. After all, the Fourth of July can also be an…
According to National Public Radio, “A division of the American Library Association voted unanimously Saturday to strip Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a major children’s literature award over concerns about how the…
At American Experiment, we aim to play a constructive role in Minnesota’s marketplace of ideas and public policy. To do that the Center communicates its message statewide in an increasing…
A culture hell-bent on separating pleasure from responsibility made #MeToo inevitable, so now should come the reflective part of the reckoning. This Sunday opinion cover commentary originally appeared in the…
Admittedly I may not be the best person to write about this topic as my personal experience in this area is limited to two thinly-related events in my life. As…
I am not at all unsympathetic to hungry kids if they have incompetent and/or neglectful parents. But this is not a proper expenditure or activity for any public school. Period.…
There are some uncomfortable questions women and men should ask each other when choosing a life partner.
I went to see the “Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA). I recommend that you go to see the art now that…
Minnesota’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board is writing rules to implement the state’s 2017 teacher licensing law. In the process, the board is trying to smuggle in an extremist…
Drag performers will regale families with glitz, glamor, and stories about acceptance and inclusion at three Saint Paul libraries
June 8th, 1984. Billy Gardner's Twins lost 6-1 at Comiskey Park. ABC was putting repeats of Benson and Webster up against a repeat of the Dukes of Hazzard on CBS. The Celtics beat the…
Did you know Governor Mark Dayton has declared today "Paul Simon Day?" Dayton continues to issue silly proclamations while your tax dollars are Slip Slidin' Away
A few hours after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met with several other Binghamton University students to plan a memorial event of some kind. …
In an attempt to neutralize the polarizing controversy over NFL players kneeling or sitting during the national anthem, NFL owners approved a new policy requiring players to stand for the…
This year we are serving 5,500 kids in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade over nine days, and we will start to have test scores on the impact of the program…
The author, the great-grandmother of Kim Crockett, came with her parents to the United States from Czechoslovakia as a very young girl, then Katharine Jirsa. She later taught school in…
The NFL’s self-defeating experiment with enabling players to kneel during the national anthem ended just in time for Memorial Day. Ultimately the league’s open-minded tolerance of players’ patriotic petulance came…