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I found this column by Dr. Jack Wheeler very interesting. Excerpts: So it was a strange experience for me to see the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," a movie portraying events I participated in, to see how it was both true...

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...

Pat Powers is a liar?

?Pat Powers says this today: I was checking out some of the various political websites on the Internet today. Just on the off chance that more information might have been available from the SDCAC in reference to my infamous ten...

Why America's in the Gulf

Walter Russell Mead: Why America's in the Gulf

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

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

The Washington Post has a good test of the various candidates for President: how they reacted to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Here is the summary of results: THE ASSASSINATION of Benazir Bhutto presented U.S. presidential candidates with a test:...

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...

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America's Challenge

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Tuesday Night Ocean

Oops, Never Mind

Chaos and bloodshed in Kenya, Sudan

South Dakota Blogs

A Bhutto Successor

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Things are going well.....

New Blog Added

A challenge from Stan's employee

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...

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

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

Clean up our act, or more inflation? Inflation wins!

The Case For Thompson

The Higher Ed scam

DMR Poll Puts Huckabee, Obama At Top

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Slouching Toward Second Rate

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

No politics in this post...

Populism v. Classical Liberalism in Iowa

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