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I have frequently mentioned my friend Ken Laster, DJ at WHUS in Storrs, Connecticut, and host of my favorite radio show/podcast, In The Groove: Jazz & Beyond. I listened to Ken's holiday post yesterday, on the way back from Arkansas....

Plutocracy and secular humanism

Cory Heidelberger goes after Bob Ellis and myself: More often than not, Bob Ellis and Steve Sibson are the car wrecks of South Dakota blogging: so ugly and gruesome I can't help looking. But as I read Senator R.F. Pettigrew's...

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

Mark Bowden has a rare sober and cogent analysis of the use of waterboarding as a means of coercing information from terror suspects. Bowden is responding to critics of his position that waterboarding is acceptable in rare circumstances. His conclusion...

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Benazir Bhuto

The assassination of Ms. Bhutto may well be the tragedy that finally brings down the Musharraf regime. It is certainly a great blow to U.S. policy, since we "brokered" her return. From the Washington Post: Bhutto's assassination leaves Pakistan's future...

Powers tired of liberalism?

It took Pat Powers a day to catch up with my response to Joel Rosenthal?s Christmas Day attack on Christian conservatives by calling them "Mouseketeers". Excerpt: I?ve said it before - the people of South Dakota ARE fiscally conservative. A...

Things are going well.....

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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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Attacking Limbaugh is dumb

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

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

Should this bother us? RC Council votes to give Cabela's a carrot. A really, really expensive carrot.

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

Change is nearly upon us....

Religion Becomes Bigger ?Non-issue? in GOP Race

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

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

No Illusions About Pakistan

Second Aquash Murder Trial Set for June

A Brief History of Christmas

A challenge from Stan's employee

Hillary?s Universal Pre-K and Governor Rounds

Taxpayers funded lobbying

More Holiday Cheer!

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