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Politico: "Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do. That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a...

More Good News From Iraq

Here are a couple reports filled with good news from Iraq. In this one the reporter states that some Marines prefer to patrol without body armor (although they are not yet allowed to). That is an indication of how safe...

Bella

From Rebecca Hagelin: Rarely am I so taken by the beauty and power of a movie that I want everyone I know to see it. "Bella" is a film you must see. The story (I won't reveal too much, because...

Whoops!

Badlands Blue excoriates John Thune for contemplating voting against cloture on the Farm Bill. Whoops. Thune voted for cloture, with the Democrats and against the Bush administration, on the cloture vote (which ended up failing). In a related story Tim...

Dangerous Ideas

Will Saletan in Slate has been discussing some dangerous ideas regarding intelligence and genetics. He argues in this piece that the evidence is now clear that intelligence is highly inherited and that there are racial differences in intelligence. Here's part...

The Adlai Problem

Historian David Greenberg over at Slate wonders if Barack Obama is "just another high-toned liberal doomed to failure?" Excerpt: No one would deny the admirable side of the Mugwump inheritance: the policies it helped to implement, the idealism it represents,...

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Much ado... Much ado...

What's New with the Blogs

Governor Rounds a globalist

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

A One-Year Old Bomb in Pakistan

Dartmouth's latest insult to the intelligence of its alumni

California Dem Party meltdown over Feinstein censure attempt: Beverly Hills 527 formed by HuffPo/MoveOn collaborators leading the way

South Dakota Blogs

No politics in this post...

A Taste for Defeat 2: Democrats Fail to Surrender

The why's and wheretofores of the upcoming changes at the SDWC.

SDP Jazz Note: Joe Lovano Coming to Sioux Falls

Here Come the Timetables, Round 36

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

Naval difficulties, if not worse:

Fun, with Physics

Funeral Picketing and Free Speech

Herseth Sandlin married, but remains anti-family

SDWC's Quote of the Day

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

The conservative case for Ron Paul

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Competition is good for schools

Pat Powers does a drive-by

Personhood

American Blogs