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Stephanie Herseth voted against House Resolution 3893, Gasoline for America's Security Act of 2005: To expedite the construction of new refining capacity in the United States, to provide reliable and affordable energy for the American people, and for other purposes....

New results are in from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Results are mixed. You can look at state results here, and then gain more details at the offical NAEP site here. First, let's look at South Dakota. That's...

ABC News:Dr./Leader/Sen. Bill Frist is expected to tout his work on judges when he speaks at the Reagan dinner in Iowa. Here is an advance look at what he'll say according to remarks prepared for delivery obtained by ABC News:...

It's some "100 Best novels" list that seems worth fighting over, and this time it's put together by Time magazine. Allegedly they've assembled the 100 best novels since 1923, but as you'll see they hit a few potholes along the...

Brazilians Reject Proposed Gun Ban

Brazilians soundly rejected a proposal to ban the sale of guns in a national referendum Sunday, striking down the bid to stem one of the world's highest firearm murder rates following a campaign that drew parallels to the U.S. gun control debate.

With more than 92 percent of the votes counted, 64 percent of Brazilians were opposed to the ban, while 36 percent backed it, said election officials, giving the 'no' position an insurmountable lead. The proposal would have prohibited the sale of firearms and ammunition except for police, the military, some security guards, gun collectors and sports shooters.

There are a number of interesting ramifications and issues associated with this - aside from the primary fact that the Brazilians were not willing to cede full responsibility for personal protection to an all too ineffectual governmental system.

Some Brazilians said they resented the referendum because they feel the government is ducking its responsibility to keep the peace. "It's immoral for the government to have this vote," said Pedro Ricardo, an army officer in Sao Paulo. "They're putting the responsibility on us, but ... the way to cut down on violence is to combat the drug trade and patrol our borders."

Hmmmm. Sounds sort of familiar doesn't it!? Enforce borders? What a concept!

About 39,000 people in Brazil are killed by guns each year, compared to about 30,000 people in the United States, although the U.S. population is about 100 million more than Brazil's, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hello? Come again? Does anybody know what the US Centers for Disease Control is doing collecting data on gun deaths in Brazil? One shudders to learn the answer.

Argus Leader:Commercial red meat production in South Dakota during September was up 1 percent from a year ago, according to the state Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in South Dakota totaled 87.3 million pounds for September, an increase of 5 percent...

Link: Unfair boss could shorten your life. That crummy boss in the window office could be slowly killing you, according to a study of British workers published on Monday. Researchers in Finland who did the study found that workers who...

Dr. Kamon Kambon spoke at Howard University when he advocated genocide against white people, but he was not a professor there as my post erroneously indicated. Apparently he had been a faculty member at the African Studies Department at North...

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