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Our forces can’t carry on like this, says General With the Clintonista administration, indeed, under BOTH Bush administrations there has been a marked tendency to try tu run our military “on the cheap”. This, to any rational mind, must inevitably result in ony one outcome: deterioration of the ability of military forces to successfully [...]

The Strategy that Beat Al Qaeda

Fox has a facinating story on the strategy the U.S. military used to flush out and destroy Al Qaeda in Iraq. The way Fox tells it, the whole thing may have turned on the discovery of a hand-drawn map made...

New Business In Aberdeen

Apparently Mike Rounds will be in Aberdeen on Monday for the announcement of the opening of a wind turbine plant in here. I understand the plant will start with 250 jobs paying around $15 and hour. Life is good in...

Sci-Fi TV: Heroes and Torchwood

While I wait for the return of Lost and Battlestar Galatica, two shows that thought so much of themselves that they could disappear for the better part of a terrestrial year, I have been enjoying Heroes and Torchwood. The former...

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Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Why should we be surprised?

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...

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America?s lost limited legacy

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Ron Paul Courts the Troofers Again

Hillary Clinton -- forceful but too modest

New Hampshire moves up primary to January 8

South Dakota Blogs

The conservative case for Ron Paul

Science supports religion

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

Be thankful for our Christian Nation

Change is coming....

Bella

Personhood

"Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on"

Why they are mad

Rapid City Journal Criticizes Daschle Earmark

What Would Buy Your Vote?

Election 2008: A Narrative

Pat Powers does a drive-by

Funeral Picketing and Free Speech

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

Supreme Court set to Rule on DC Handgun Ban

Dangerous Ideas

Politics, Memory, and the 1960s

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