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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a run for presidency. I don't know what kind of an impact such an effort might have, although I suspect it would be minimal. The mayor is apparently being urged to run...

No politics in this post...

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

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...

A Bhutto Successor

Time reports that Bhutto's nineteen-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto, will take over the leadership of her Pakistan People's Party: A senior official of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister's 19-year-old son,...

The Higher Ed scam

Phyllis Schlafly provides us with some information from US News &World Report that should give us pause in regard to Governor Rounds? plan to bank South Dakota?s future on Higher Ed: U.S. News & World Report, which has made a...

Prince of the Ozarks

Todd Epp and Pat Powers have some kind of inside joke of "Prince of the Ozarks. So I thought I would promote a 2008 event that is happening in the Ozarks: Aside from the incredible beauty of the rolling Ozark...

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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Cultural Marxism and witchcraft

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Fiskie/Fallaci Awards Update

McCain turns to Michigan

USO directors object to MoveOn?s cash

South Dakota Blogs

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

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

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

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

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

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

A challenge from Stan's employee

Why America's in the Gulf

Statistical Dead Head in Iowa

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Mrs. Clinton on Pakistan

Why should we be surprised?

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Religion Becomes Bigger ?Non-issue? in GOP Race

Benazir Bhuto

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