Our “leaders” have no answers after ANOTHER violent weekend in Minneapolis Check out the American Experiment Podcast! Catch up on the violence that plagued Minneapolis over the weekend, the latest numbers documenting Minnesota’s education crisis, and an...
More transparency is needed about the 1 in 4 chronically absent Minnesota students
Today, the majority of Minnesota students cannot read or do math at grade level. One strong contributor is the fact that many students don’t attend class. In Minnesota, there’s been a significant decline in actual school attendance. In 2024, about one in four...
Minnesota’s new law awards honorary high school diplomas to veterans
For a number of Minnesotans, answering the call to serve meant risking their lives for the nation, and sometimes sacrificing their education, too. A new Minnesota law set to take effect Aug. 1 will recognize veterans who never finished high school while serving...
Data show that, since 2018, Minnesota has had average population growth but below average job growth
Last week, I noted that Minnesota’s job growth since 2018 had been less than one third the national rate. As I’ve noted before, these estimates of jobs come from the Establishment survey which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collects as part of its Current...
Will Mike Lindell comment on Ellison’s child rape pardon?
On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, apparently to help him avoid deportation and remain in Minnesota. Last...
The habeas defiance
Illegal aliens are seeing ever greater success in their habeas petitions filed in Minnesota federal cout. Joe Biden-appointed Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan leads Minnesota-based federal district judges in defying an 8th Circuit court of appeals’ ruling on the...
14 people shot in 2 Minneapolis “mass shootings” Sunday
Minneapolis police are investigating two unrelated mass shootings that took place about 20 hours apart on Sunday in South Minneapolis. A total of 14 people were shot in the two incidents, and one person has died. No arrests have been made, and police have not...
More students choose 2-year colleges in Minnesota
Undergraduate enrollment at Minnesota’s public two-year schools increased more than 10 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). While the latest two-year sector enrollment data is about two percent lower than...
Did Keith Ellison lie about his reasons for pardoning child rapist?
On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, apparently to help him avoid deportation and remain in Minnesota....
Meth, heroin, and redactions
Iris Garcia Salamanca made her first court appearance yesterday on multiple drug distribution charges. The hearing took place at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul and your correspondent was there. The case involves a major federal drug distribution...









