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Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park’ This piece from The London Telegraph’s ace reporter/commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard will do nothing to calm your economic nerves, but then again, it looks more and more like it’s time to be as alarmed as we have sense to be. This is only the [...]

Reflections on Iowa

Perhaps because the nominations still seem so much in the air, the Iowa caucus is receiving an unusual amount of criticism on procedural grounds. Some, but not all of this is fair. First this from Christopher Hitchens at Slate: It...

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

Intrepid reader Blarney Bob, who is determined to keep me honest in spite of myself, had this to say about my post on the Rendezvous rib joint in Memphis: It is Nathan Bedford Forrest and he was the first grand...

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Cultural Marxists and hate crimes

The far-left diversity continue their anti-American Cultural marzist crusade with hate crimes now being reported in Sioux Falls: FBI statistics show an ugly trend: Sioux Falls went from one hate crime in 2005 to 28 in 2006. But officials attribute...

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

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....

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Why T.R. Claimed the Sea This relates to our current and future circumstances, as well as to an earlier posting concerning the sad decline of the Royal Navy. On Dec. 16, 1907, the 16 battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads, Va., on a 43,000-mile journey around the world. The occasion was immediately understood [...]

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DBA was propaganda?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

The Door Opens

The Iowa caucuses -- a pre-mortem

When the MSM digs up ?life-long Republicans? who support Democrats?

South Dakota Blogs

New Blog Added

Do The Dakota Women Speak For Dakota Women?

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

Benazir Bhuto

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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

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

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

Lesson From Pakistan: Foreign Policy Is Hard

Pat Powers is a liar?

The Gay Divorcee

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

Slouching Toward Second Rate

One vote on deck for South Dakotans' view on immigration, Herseth Sandlin votes NO.

Abortion and Cultural Marxism

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

A challenge from Stan's employee

Change is coming....

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