The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain has made much of Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden's incorrect interpretation of the constitutional role of the vice president.

Posing a number of concerns about the proposed Wall Street bailout, Independence Party candidate for the U.S. Senate Dean Barkley said today that Congress should not vote on a bail-out package before adjourning at the end of the month.

According to a MinnPost.com post by Doug Grow, Rep. Keith Ellison is "steamed" that blame for the financial meltdown is being placed on "poor blacks."

On Sept. 10, 2003, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, testified before House Financial Services Committee, which was holding hearings regarding special privileges extended to government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In his testimony. Paul criticized such privileges in general and warned of the potential for disaster posed by government involvement with Fannie and Freddie specifically.

My MinnPost.com colleague Eric Black recently posted a very well-researched piece, "Palin's phony claim." Eric's analysis of GOP claims that Palin said "Thanks, but no thanks" to the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" takes us down into the weeds of the issue. Good reporting, but there's a much larger issue with far greater ramifications than the truth or fallacy of Palin's claim.

The center-spread poster in today's print edition of the Pioneer Press/Politico coverage of the Republican National Convention shows an animated John McCain at the podium in the Xcel center and quotes from his speech — "Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second Washington crowd: Change is Coming."

I spent all day and into the evening Tuesday at Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic listening to speakers extolling the virtues of individual freedom and limited government. Wednesday morning I attended the progressive think tank Growth & Justice symposium heralding the contributions to the common good of Minnesota's Progressive Republican Tradition. That's like running out of a sauna and leaping into a lake through a hole in the ice – it can be exhilarating if it doesn't kill you.

Ron Paul didn't have to give the "speech of his life" Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis. He didn't have to strive for soaring rhetoric to inspire nor carefully parse his words to maintain political balance.

Why John Cunningham, a Massachusetts candidate for Congress, became a 'Ron Paul Republican' after decades as a libertarian. 

And now it's time for change, Republican-style. The message from Democrats is that Republican "change" means no change at all.