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An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: From The Associated Press On Democratic leadership in Congress: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been the most effective Democrat over the last two years, and among the most effective in the last generation. But...

People need to be reminded that the current national and state economic and unemployment problems began during, and as a result of, the Bush and Pawlenty Republican leadership. The deficit needs to be paid. Government spending needs a major overhaul. Wasteful and fraudulent spending...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Improving education demands more money, Minnesota's top three Democratic governor candidates say, a tough challenge when the next state budget could face a $6 billion deficit. The three promote different ideas about school funding. Margaret Anderson Kelliher backs...

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann looks more and more like a politician with permanent foot-in-mouth disease. Yes, the 6th District Republican representative is opened her mouth again and, surprise, says something -- either outrageous or wrong. This week it was both. Bachmann said...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation's first female president. Obama is 40 delegates shy of clinching the nomination,...

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) - Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more of the party leaders who are key to settling the Democratic presidential nomination. An embattled Clinton is urging the party leaders to take a hard...