Mahad Ibrahim pled guilty to two felony counts this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Ibrahim is facing years in federal prison and the…
Your humble, hometown think tank is now being studied at the university level. No, really. As he documents on his PowerLine website, our president, John Hinderaker, received an email purportedly…
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 28, conservatism was attacked. Criminals broke into the building that housed American Experiment offices and those of two other conservative organizations —…
Isaac Orr appeared on the Jon Justice show on Tuesday morning to discuss the challenges facing electric vehicle adoption. Many of the challenges are technical and economic, but some of…
Last week, Bloomberg reported on a study concluding the air-quality improvements stemming from California’s electric vehicle (EV) subsidies go to rich people, not those living in low-income areas. The findings…
While nearly all parents agree that reading proficiency is important (97 percent) and the importance of their child developing a love of reading (90 percent), when choosing between the two…
Motherboard had an interesting article on the nature of solar jobs, describing the work as transient and low-paying. You can read the beginning third below, or click the link for…
As parents and school leadership butt heads over school mask mandates, “some physicians and scientists have recently claimed that the best evidence shows that masks are not an effective measure…
With the presumptive win of Joe Biden to the presidency, it make sense to what the future will look like for our country over the next four years. Unfortunately, when…
Yesterday, I posted an article by California Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a Black Democrat in California, who said the state’s renewable energy mandates were punishing low income, minority communities. Today, I’m…
The following article originally appeared in Forbes. It was written by Michael Shellenberger. Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than…
You know its bad when Bloomberg, which almost always treats renewables with kid gloves, comes out with a piece that is one of the most devastating critiques of the unreliable nature of…
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was on CNN the other morning and I mentioned to my wife Diane that I liked him for several reasons, one being he’s among the…
The House DFL has rolled their already large energy omnibus bill into an even larger jobs omnibus bill, which still includes a $2,500 rebate for Minnesotans who purchase electric vehicles.…
[Related side comment:] In today’s landmark Janus decision, the minority accused the majority of “weaponizing the First Amendment.” Really? Are these political operatives on a TV show or justices of…
A new organization, the Restaurant Workers of America, has been founded to fight for their rights to negotiate their own terms of employment.
Minnesota has made meager progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions since 2005. And it has cost a fortune.
This op-ed appeared in the Star Tribune on December 14, 2017. Star Tribune file photo. Like many states, Minnesota is on the bandwagon for renewable energy, especially wind power. Despite…
Newly released emails show that Seattle's city council worked with the supposedly independent authors of a study which concluded that its $15 minimum wage had not hurt low paid workers.
I’ve just read the most insightful essay I’ve ever seen on a key source of political correctness in American higher education and the intellectual and other absurdities that have flooded…
Conservative author and academic Steve Hayward discusses three upcoming papers for Center of the American Experiment.
The Metropolitan Council (“Met Council”) is an appointed body created by the Minnesota legislature to plan for the growth and delivery of regional services...
On the off chance that you haven’t been following regulatory proceedings of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in your spare time, there’s a growing controversy about something called ‘net neutrality.’…