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Local Ellsworth ReactionThe American News has a story on local reaction to the resurrection of Ellsworth. Yours truly, wearing my political science hat, is quoted saying much the same thing as I have said here. Thune received more grief than he deserved...Able Danger Details
Ellsworth UpdateCaptain's Quarters has about the most thorough and detailed treatment of the Able Danger situation where advance information about BinLaden and el Qaida was discovered, but then not passed to law enforcement because of an administrative wall of separation between DoD and the FBI.
As a result, 9-11 took place, and later, the 9-11 Commission was caught with their facts down, to what will be their ultimate shame, and loss of credibility due to 5 or 65 different versions of response in the week and a half the story has been out.
The inside-the-beltway media/political axis has circled the wagons big-time on this one. As it is developing, every time they have come up with some objection, it has been met, with first one, then three named sources corroborating the event(s).
Check it out for the whole run down. This one has legs.
From today's Congressional Quarterly:BRAC Chairman Says Pentagon Might Be Wrong About Some Base Closures By John M. Donnelly, CQ Staff With an independent commission poised to vote this week on the list of military bases it will recommend for closure,...Hagel: "We Have Got To Get Out"
I wonder if he'll be upset all over again when MoveOn.org slaps this in an ad? Earlier the same day in Lincoln, an elderly woman asked about Iraq. "Why are we there in the first place?" she asked. On Tuesday...Hildebrand Vows to Fight On
Washington Post reports:Steve Hildebrand, Daschle's campaign manager, said Thune, who won by two percentage points after losing a Senate race two years before, is likely to have a strong challenger when he seeks reelection in 2010. He's still going to...SD Democratic Party's Vegetarian Spokesperson
Here are some thoughts (in pdf) on being vegetarian in South Dakota from the state Democratic Party's new spokesperson, Elesha Peterson Carr:Vegetarians are tolerated in South Dakota but let's face it, there is not a lot of love for us...ELLSWORTH SAVED!!!
ELLSWORTH SAVED!!!! Thune a hero; South Dakotans Ecstatic; Daschle Comeback Hopes Die; Hildebrand Boys Depressed...More Bias from Kranz
Dave Kranz, Tom Daschle's long-time college buddy, has an article in today's Argus in which he's whining about the Republican Senate Committee's press release about Thune's victory. The problem is that when the Democratic Senate Committee wrote a release in...
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