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Lake Bemidji's 12th annual Kraus-Anderson "Walleye Classic" has come and gone. Like a circus leaving town the shoreline tents have been struck, the powerful fishing boats have sped off to...

From out of the green mist enveloping the campaign doldrums they come. Relentlessly. Doggedly. Cattedly. Trudging, blank-faced and soulless. Armies of cash-hungry zombies brandishing partisan pickaxes, shovels and crowbars, with...

In football, a team with the lead late in the game tends to go conservative, using the "prevent defense." But as any fan knows, the only thing it prevents is...

We hear almost daily that the "Bush tax cuts" are set to expire at the end of this year. Just for starters the payroll tax rollback will mean about a...

We hear almost daily that the "Bush tax cuts" are set to expire at the end of this year. Just for starters the payroll tax rollback will mean about a...

The political world is overheated and overtweeted. Every little blip and slip is treated as a decisive turning point in an election still almost five months away. The same pundits...

According to the Associated Press, residents of Middleborough, Mass., have voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 civil fine for loud, profanity-laden language...

"Scott Walker Wins Wisconsin," screamed headlines across the country after the labor-bashing incumbent governor hung onto his job in the June 5 recall election. Well, yes ... but no. Walker...

Bemidji rally encourages talk, education A safe and friendly environment should be a goal for all members of our community - and those who gathered publicly Thursday reinforced that we...

Except primarily for the ironhanded rulers in Russia and China, the most despised global dictator is President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who is inflicting monstrous genocide on his own people...

The balance between the police and the policed is getting way out of whack -- and we'd better restore it now. I speak of a spate of new technologies --...

Organized labor, liberals in general and President Barack Obama in particular got their heads handed to them by the good people of Wisconsin, with a little help from the Vast...

Glory be to the commander in chief. Everyone in the Washington-New York Axis of Evil knows that's why there has been a string of White House national security leaks. Each...

The RESTORE Act promises 80 percent of the Clean Water Act penalties paid by BP will be allocated to the Gulf Coast states. If you haven't heard of the RESTORE...

When you get right down to it, the fundamental question of this election is this: Do we place our trust in government or in the American people? Our country is...