There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.