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The biggest impact of John Thune?s 2004 victory over Tom Daschle is in regard to the makeup of the Supreme Court. Looks like next year that impact could be in saving the Second Amendment: The United States Supreme Court today...

Change is coming....

Politics, Memory, and the 1960s

From the latest issue of Newsweek comes this question: "The 1968 election is four decades old, and yet we're still rehashing that moment?that era?in the 2008 contest. Why do we come back to it? And why won't it leave us...

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

Barry Bonds: Record Breaker

As many know, baseball star Barry Bonds was indicted this week for perjury and obstruction of justice in a federal court case surrounding the distribution and use of steroids and other "performance enhancing drugs." The reason he has been indicted...

A Taste for Defeat 2: Democrats Fail to Surrender

The inestimable Powerline takes the prize for best blog writing this year: "Democrats Unable to Bring Troops Home" That's the risible headline that the Associated Press attaches to its account of the Democrats' so-far-unsuccessful effort to surrender to al Qaeda...

Naval difficulties, if not worse:

The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world’s only military [...]

Nope, no shame at all!

Hillary takes cash from terror suspects The Democrat senator over the past seven months has received $1,000 from M. Yaqub Mirza and another $500 from M. Omar Ashraf, federal campaign records show. Federal agents raided the Virginia homes and offices of the Muslim donors after 9/11 for ties to terrorism….Mirza, who also has given to other [...]

What's New with the Blogs

America?s lost limited legacy

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

MoveOn.org Recycles Bogus Military Photo

Is Stanford violating the Solomon Amendment, Part Three

Calling all photoshop/graphic artists: ?Posterize? the Democrat Party

South Dakota Blogs

Roadsigns You Can Really Use

The Argus goes after State Government. Again.And the evil part of me hopes they succeed.

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

SDP Jazz Note: NPR Jazz and Blues

Profiles in Character

Todd Epp quotes

The lying left on taxes

Well, There Goes Christmas

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

Pat Powers does a drive-by

One vote on deck for South Dakotans' view on immigration, Herseth Sandlin votes NO.

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

New Business In Aberdeen

Every picture tells a story?

The Strategy that Beat Al Qaeda

Clinton: No to Licenses for Illegals

"I'm Just A Girl Who Can't Say No"

American Blogs