Island of Broken Math: Why Alcatraz Makes Zero Fiscal Sense A Policy Analysis Introduction: The Rock Is Back — Whether You Like It or Not Imagine spending $2 billion to house fewer than 300 inmates on a crumbling, salt-corroded island with no running water, no functioning sewage system, and no operational heating — where every…
Category: Misguided Government
The Digital Landlord Dilemma: Why Your HOA’s Ban on Investor Purchases Deserves Scrutiny
An examination of property rights, market dynamics, and the unintended consequences of well-intentioned housing restrictions When Issues & Insights published “Investors Should Not Be Barred From Buying Homes” on January 13, 2026, the editorial board aimed to propose legislation in Minnesota and Maryland that would restrict investor purchases of single-family homes. Their argument was straightforward:…
The Minnesota Fraud Web: Examining Governor Walz’s Potential Exposure
A Pattern of Oversight Failures Raises Questions About Leadership and Accountability Minnesota Governor Tim Walz finds himself navigating increasingly treacherous political waters as multiple fraud investigations converge on programs and agencies under his administration’s watch. While no direct evidence has emerged linking Walz to criminal activity, the scale and scope of fraudulent schemes that flourished…
Use Extreme Caution in Justifying Drug Boat Destruction.
U.S. maritime interdiction efforts against drug-smuggling vessels have saved countless lives and disrupted transnational trafficking networks that threaten national and regional security. The destruction of self-propelled semi-submersibles and high-speed vessels carrying narcotics is often both necessary and justified under well-established law enforcement protocols. Yet even in these legitimate operations, extreme caution must guide decision-making. Those…
Minnesota’s Billion-Dollar Fraud Scandal: Examining the Walz-Omar Connection
Update, Thursday, December 11, 2025: 🚨 BREAKING: New COURT FILINGS show a SOMALI SCAMMER STOLE $50 MILLION of TAXPAYER MONEY 🚨 THE SCAMMER SPENT the CASH on: A LAKEFRONT PROPERTY ✅ A PORSCHE MACAN ✅ FIRST CLASS TICKETS TO ISTANBUL AND AMSTERDAM ✅ HONEYMOON STAY IN AN OVERWATER VILLA WITH A PRIVATE POOL IN… pic.twitter.com/pLAlp3lTNz…
Wanna know where the “Tax on Tips” came from. Does the term “Smoke-Filled Room” give you a clue?
The classification of tips as taxable income in the United States didn’t originate as a new law in the 1940s but evolved through a combination of existing tax statutes, administrative rulings, and judicial decisions that solidified their status over time. The 1940s marked a period of clarification and enforcement rather than the initial establishment of…
A Historical Review: Lights, Camera, Agitation – The January 6th Committee’s Propaganda Play
Ladies and Gentlemen, brace yourselves for a tale, not of democracy in action but of Hollywood’s most audacious script yet: the January 6th Committee, a production so contrived it makes reality TV look like a documentary on quantum physics. Let’s start with the director of this farce, a former ABC News president, James Goldston. Yes,…
From Law to Vendetta: The Letitia James Legacy of Political Prosecution
Here we go again with New York’s very own political witch hunter, Attorney General Letitia James, whose legal escapades read less like a commitment to justice and more like a playbook for political vendettas. Newsweek: Letitia James Response to Donald Trump’s Election. On Wednesday afternoon, James held a press conference responding to Trump’s victory in…
The Harvard Study on Slavery Reparations: A Critical Examination of Misguided Logic
PJ Media, June 22, 2024, Rick Moran: Harvard Study Claims There Is ‘Historic Precedent’ for Paying Slavery Reparations. No good radical-left public policy proposal can gain any traction with radical-left lawmakers without a radical-left academic study to back it up. Harvard professors Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks have published a study in the…

