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A decade-old playbook of fraud, buried by bureaucratic inaction and political indifference, has surfaced in Minnesota, where Somali-owned daycare centers stand accused of systematically bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars. However, this is not a recent occurrence. The fraud schemes were first exposed in 2013. The recent […]
A Short History of the Mn 5th District Minnesota’s 5th congressional district is a geographically small urban and suburban congressional district in Minnesota. It covers eastern Hennepin County, including the entire city of Minneapolis, along with parts of Anoka and a slice of Ramsey counties. Besides Minneapolis, major cities in […]
NOTE: “Full body camera videos and the Derek Chauvin trial are included at the end of this article – Thao, Kueng, Lane” It was a warm spring night, Memorial Day, May 25, 2020, when George Floyd arrived at the corner of East 38th St and Chicago Ave in Minneapolis in […]
At the beginning of each school board meeting in Rochester, MN the chairman gives an opening invocation: “The board acknowledges this site and all RPS sites are situated on the ancestral land of the Dakota people, and we honor the Dakota Nations and the sacred lands of all indigenous peoples.” […]
Minnesota state government showered more than $1.1 billion directly to nonprofits in the 2023 legislative session through legislatively named grants. What could go wrong? Plenty. There are many problems inherent in this approach to delivering government services. Most prominent among them is due diligence. State agencies typically award a grant […]
By: George Perry Special Counsel John Durham’s indictment of Democrat lawyer Michael Sussmann for making false statements to the FBI alleges in revealing and damning detail how the Trump-Russia collusion fraud was fabricated and disseminated on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. Far from being a departing […]
Using a preposterously flawed scientific model, Gov. Tim Walz waged a campaign of fear to shut down Minnesota’s economy
Data are coming in, and their import is clear. The coronavirus pandemic is not and never was a threat to society. COVID-19 poses a danger to the elderly and the medically compromised. Otherwise, for most who present symptoms, it can be nasty and persistent, but is not life-threatening. A majority […]
What’s frightening about the COVID-19 corona virus is the overwhelming amount of inconclusive data we have about it. We are inundated with media speculation and hyperventilation, Chinese disinformation, and data that changes daily thanks to the treatment and quarantine initiatives governments are trying around the world. The fact that the […]
There are two well-known themes, or topoi, in classical literature. One concerns the graphic descriptions in Thucydides, Sophocles, and Procopius of plagues—especially the human misery and despair that accompanies outbreaks that killed large numbers. The unknown plague at Athens (430–429 bc) killed one-quarter of the Athenian population during the Peloponnesian […]
We are in the midst of an annual event – the flu season. While seasonal influenza (flu) viruses infect year-round in the United States, flu viruses are most common during the fall and winter. The exact timing and duration of flu seasons can vary, but influenza activity often begins to […]
While the debate proceeds over some details of the American Health Care Act, it’s worth pausing to take another look at how awfully misnamed the so-called “Affordable” Care Act has turned out to be, especially for people who buy their health plans on their own, rather than obtain it through […]
Are Americans loving the parks to death? This is the question most often asked by popular accounts of park problems. Indeed, park visitation has doubled in the past twenty years. Yet its rate of growth has slowed considerably from previous decades, when it was doubling as quickly as every five […]
