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The Argus Leader editorial board again brings up the Republican/Democrat love feast that we have in the South Dakota Senate: The parallels between the South Dakota Senate's Republican and Democratic leaders almost are as easy to see as the differences:...

Government accountability

Yesterday?s Dave Kranz column included this: A Web site to help hold state government accountable? That is what Lee Breard, director of the South Dakota Conservative Action Council, is offering. He says that is the goal of the new information...

Populism v. Classical Liberalism in Iowa

Laura Meckler and Elizabeth Holmes, writing in the Wall Street Journal, have the best piece I have seen yet on the contest between Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney in Iowa. In Iowa, the Republican presidential race has come down to...

Sorry for the light posting today... In the meantime, more on the immigration issue.

No Illusions About Pakistan

Andy McCarthy: "There is the Pakistan of our fantasy. The burgeoning democracy in whose vanguard are judges and lawyers and human rights activists using the ?rule of law? as a cudgel to bring down a military junta. In the fantasy,...

Much ado... Much ado...

The Case For Thompson

Fred Thompson has played the coy suitor to Republican voters in this primary campaign. The fact that his is the most conventionally conservative and with some personal cache (hey, this dude was in Hunt For Red October) had Republicans (including...

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

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Pat Powers is a liar

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

New Year's Supertankers

Happy New Year...

Ringing in 2008

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More Holiday Cheer!

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

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

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

Bill Kristol Joins the Gray Lady

Slouching Toward Second Rate

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

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

Tolerance of a Christian Nation

Taxpayers funded lobbying

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

Keloland backtracks on Heidepriem setup

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

McGovern on '72, '80, and '08

Religion Becomes Bigger ?Non-issue? in GOP Race

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Why should we be surprised?

A Bhutto Successor

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