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The War College comments on Todd Epp's laments about the South Dakota Democratic Party. Here's some free advice, and you can take it for what it's worth. Last November, a week after the election, I was at a gathering at...

Private Company Plans Tour Around the Moon

Space Adventures, a company based in Arlington, Va., has already sent two tourists into orbit. Today, it is to unveil an agreement with Russian space officials to send two passengers on a voyage lasting 10 to 21 days, depending partly on its itinerary and whether it includes the International Space Station. A roundtrip ticket will cost $100 million. The space-faring tourists will travel with a Russian pilot. They will steer clear of the greater technical challenge of landing on the Moon, instead circling it and returning to Earth.

The Chief has to like this one, big time. Anything that extends our presence in space is a positive - and this will reinforce the moves for NASA to re-extend itself in the direction of lunar basing.

Granted there's not any new technology in this, but what of it? Columbus, and those who came after him didn't use "new technology" either to explore and settle a "new world".

Fire rages at a chemical plant in suburban Detroit

There have been several of these sorts of fires in the last couple months or so. If the Chief were paranoid, he MIGHT think that someone or some group might be trying to knock back our petrochemical infrastructure to negatively impact the economy, especially with the well documented tight situation with refining capacity.

Naaah. Surely Homeland Security or someone would tell us if something like that were happening. Wouldn't they?

Then again...just because I'm paranoid, doessn't mean somebody isn't REALLY after me!

Here are some graphs I found on eduction spending and performance. These graphs took me about five minutes to find. I love the Internet....

I've got to admit a certain level of ignorance when it comes to the Democratic side of the South Dakota blogosphere. These are not blogs that I read often (or ever), but I have noticed that a few of them...

Last week I read the revised 6th edition of The Politics of the Presidency by Joseph Pika and John Anthony Maltese. At the end of their chapter on The Presidency and The Public they write about the permanent campaign. They...

Remember: they hate us because something-something and the war in Iraq. It has nothing to do with the fact that they're all crazy as loons and have pretty much given up on living in a world where reality exists. An...

David Kranz covered Power Line blogger John Hinderaker: John Hinderaker continues to get attention for his role as a blogger, the new avenue of communication on the Internet.Hinderaker, a Watertown native, and his partners were credited with exposing the inaccuracy...

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