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I' m giddy with excitement! The circus has come to town! The political circus, of course. I don't care what anyone wants to believe. If you want to believe carrying...

The political convulsion over Missouri Republican Todd Akin's bizarre talk of "legitimate rape" highlights an issue that the GOP had buried in its campaign. While the U.S. senatorial candidate's grasp...

In 1965 the Voters Rights Act was passed, yet we've got voter suppression in many areas of our nation. It's now being proposed in Minnesota by an amendment requiring voters...

SAN DIEGO -- I'm delighted to report that the giant isn't really sleeping after all. He's just engaged in some selective outrage. Latinos in America -- 52 million people with...

WASHINGTON -- Because the possibility of effectively supervising government varies inversely with government's size, so does government's lawfulness. This iron law of Leviathan is illustrated by a dispiriting story that...

There's a ribbon cutting today marking the official opening of the Minnesota Highway 23 bypass of Paynesville. The 7½-mile, four-lane stretch actually opened July 20, a month ahead of schedule...

Bicycle riders owe thanks to Minnesota Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Joe Gimse, R-Willmar, for supporting the following laws that became effective Aug.

Paul Ryan has bold economic ideas. Or maybe he doesn't. It's really hard to know what Mitt Romney's VP pick thinks, since his budget plan includes Obamacare's $716 billion in...

Rep. Todd Akin is staying in the Missouri Senate race, notwithstanding the calls of many fellow Republicans that he step aside after flaunting his ignorance about anatomy and his lack...

Listening to the blizzard of down and dirty TV campaign ads candidates use against one another, it becomes readily apparent that we the electorate have to make a decision as...

Mitt Romney's campaign on what Barack Obama very kindly calls, "top-down economics," is really called trickledown economics. Trickledown economics has been the Republicans' fiscal agenda forever. When the rich people...

Why, Mr. Mayor, are you proposing an increase in the budget of an 18.4 increase in the salaries of the mayor and councilpersons? Especially when you personally told me that...

Today is primary day in Minnesota. So it an important day for you and other citizens to practice America's most basic and important right -- vote today. This primary is...

Mankind took another giant leap forward in space exploration Monday morning as car-sized space vehicle from the United States quickly landed on Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory rover was lowered...