Fundraiser: Mark your calendars for March 23. Join Annette Meeks, CEO of the Freedom Foundation, for a lively discussion about taxes in Minnesota. Find out more.
• BARACK OBAMA'S HOME STATE -- This is what happens when Democrats are in control. The state of Illinois is disintegrating. They have a $13 billion deficit in a $26 billion budget. Libraries are closing. Teachers are being laid off. Even sheriff's patrol cars are being repossessed. Possible solutions: Massive tax increases and draconian budget cuts.
• GOVERNING LIKE A CONSERVATIVE -- John Hinderaker reports on the GAMC veto: “Tim Pawlenty is the only person standing between us and rapacious Democratic majorities in the state legislature.”
• IT'S ABOUT FREEDOM -- A new CNN poll says that 56 percent of Americans feel that the Federal Government has grown so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to their freedoms. Americans voted for change and all they got was bigger government.
• IT'S ABOUT SPENDING -- Across the nation, people are expressing outrage about out-of-control government spending. Government is too big, takes on too many responsibilities, and the spending is unsustainable. Daniel Henninger provides this dramatic chart:
• ABUSE OF POWER -- If Dems think political passions are bitter now, 
• IT'S ABOUT JOBS -- Here is a set of 