German Alexis Funez-Canelas pled guilty to one felony count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported illegal alien this morning in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. Prosecutors documented that Funez,…
I learned a new German word this week, via Zerohedge. It turns out that the Germans really do have a compound word to describe everything: The UK Telegraph provides some…
Ninety years ago today, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, the first line of which read: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Germany has entered into a recession as households cut spending in response to sharply higher prices for energy and food. Energy prices rose due to…
How a small cadre of political radicals is hijacking the mission of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote that Berlin’s rent controls had slowed house building in the city. To recap, the German capital’s population is growing rapidly which means that the…
As the Italian and German examples show, Gov. Walz was probably correct in March when he said that the spread of Covid-19 couldn't be stopped.
The 1850s produced a string of flashpoints that pushed slavery to the forefront of politics even in Minnesota' and its journey to statehood would be intertwined with the issue.
Minnesota’s implacable opposition to slavery.
I recently posted my testimony from Rochester on the Clean Energy First (CEF) bill currently circulating around the Minnesota State Senate. Today, I’ll elaborate on the good parts of the…
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. The cover of…
America's first experiment in social engineering-conceived by a congressman from Minnesota-became an epic fail because Americans didn't buy it.
Tomorrow, Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan and State Senator Dave Senjem, along with several other members of a Minnesota delegation including Jessica Hellman, Steve Kelley, and members of the Minnesota Public…
Renewable energy rent-seekers often tout Germany as a paradise of renewable energy integration, but Germany is no role model that Minnesota should follow. Unless of course, it's following Germany's lead…
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…
The German-Spanish wind power company Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has recently announced it will lay off thousands of workers in their wind energy sector, will the same thing happen in…
Both Minnesota and Germany have pushed expensive green energy policies, but have they actually accomplished anything besides raising electricity prices?