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The Minnesota Legislature has convened its 2012 session, and there is a simple legislative test that should be administered immediately so that Minnesotans can see whether this session will be about common-sense compromise or partisan politics.

Jan. 22, 1973 is when America started dying. That was the day that nine pompous judges created their own law, that it should be legal to kill unborn babies.

Accept, for the moment, the truth of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's version of his role in the sexual-abuse allegations involving one of his former assistants. Acknowledge his illustrious accomplishments, on and off the football field.

Mitt Romney has a prescription for the super PAC problem: Allow political candidates to collect unlimited donations, instead of having the funds funneled to supposedly independent groups. "Let campaigns then take responsibility for their own words," Mr.

While few question the fact that income inequality has risen in the United States over the past three decades, there is plenty of dispute about why.

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, R, began the second half of his term outlining an expansive agenda to remake public education. He is on solid ground in wanting to give parents more choices, improve teacher quality and keep students in school longer.

I know the Internet represents the greatest technical advance since Gutenberg's printing press for the sacred cause of freedom of speech. So it's too bad that so much of the torrent of commentary that now flows before our eyes is sewage.

Broadcasters have long been bound by government decency standards in exchange for the use of public airwaves.

A request by Minnesota for a waiver on the accountability measures of the No Child Left Behind law will make a flawed system work better and has the potential to make schools, students, teachers and principals more accountable.