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As if we needed another frivolous lawsuit, yesterday Connecticut became the first state to sue the feds over funding for No Child Left Behind. That education reform, which passed with bipartisan majorities in 2001, provided the largest increase in education spending in the nation's history. But never mind. According to state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who filed the suit, it's an "unfunded mandate." In fact, the money complaint is a red herring used by Mr. Blumenthal, Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell and others to avoid the real issues of accountability and transparency. In return for federal funds, No Child Left...

This presidential election gives voters their starkest choice since Ronald Reagan challenged Jimmy Carter in 1980. President Carter had left a record of high taxes, economic stagnation and out-of-control inflation on the domestic front, and an America reeling from setbacks overseas, thanks to a gutted military and a weak, dithering foreign policy. Reagan, in contrast, promised to slash income-tax rates, rein in runaway government spending and push deregulation. He also vowed to launch a massive military buildup and a confident, assertive foreign policy against the Soviet Union. We've been living off of Ronald Reagan's legacy ever since. We won the...