Minnesota Lawyer

Given that Minnesota is now creating jobs at a faster pace than the national rate, one could argue that Minnesota's position of holding the line on taxes has spurred our economic growth, or at least is a contributing factor.

A few weeks from now, on Nov. 2, New Mexico's Environmental Improvement Board is scheduled to vote on proposed regulations setting in motion a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases. It is likely to approve them. That same day, voters will elect a new governor. She will object to the whole idea.

I was in Nairobi, Kenya, recently to speak at a conference on values as the necessary basis for leadership.

DFL gubernatorial nominee Mark Dayton has not had a good September. The Department of Revenue estimated that his proposed tax increase on the rich would yield not quite half of the $4 billion he originally claimed it would generate; when Dayton submitted a revised budget, it got the tax proceeds right but still fell almost $1 billion of solving the deficit.

Anyone who has vacationed at a national park knows one of the real challenges is not to leave any necessities at home.

We are in the thick of campaign season-and this time around we are all focused on the governor's race.

For months now the air waves have been filled with hype and hyperbole from Minnesota's gubernatorial candidates explaining how they're going to come up with billions in revenue the state badly needs.

We don't know yet if a Muslim community center and mosque will get built near the World Trade Center site of the 9-11 terrorist bombings in New York City.

When I saw the video footage of Shirley Sherrod, Georgia’s rural development director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I leapt to the conclusion that she’d committed a firing offense. For admitting she gave less aid to a farmer because he was white, off with Sherrod’s head!

In my years defending America, I realized we can never be truly safe as long as we are dependent on energy from other countries.