When you’re in a budget hole, stop digging.  Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton should think about that age-old rule of state governance. Then he should call back and cut down on his $1 billion bonding proposal — an action that would amount to his tossing up his shovel, climbing out of the crater a...

Some legislators sponsoring a voter identification bill appear to be promoting a solution that is looking for a problem, as well as attempting to create another expensive state mandate.  Republican legislators have introduced a bill that would require Minnesotans to show a driver’s photo ID, ...

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their freedom deficit signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies. In...

Hopefully a harbinger of positive work ahead, Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday issued an executive order to two state agencies to speed up permit requests from businesses at the same time the Republican-led Legislature is considering legislation to do the same thing....

When Haitian “President for Life” Jean-Claude Duvalier fled into exile in 1986, his legacy stained by brutality, greed, incompetence and a staggering indifference toward his own country’s travails, rapturous Haitians celebrated his departure in the streets. Toppled by popular revolt, his depar...

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What do Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and John McCain have in common? All three — and others as well — fueled their presidential campaigns with federal matching funds. Absent that money, they might not have been able to mount serious primary efforts, and the political landscape would have been les...

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President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. I have served for the past two years on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and I look forward to leading the next phase of this effort as we transition from recovery to long-term growth. Bus...

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