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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 [...]

Property Taxes Lead Issue For South Dakota Legislature

What the South Dakota media will cover in the upcoming legislative session is anyone's guess. If the media cover the most contentious issue that draws the most attention from the legislators then property taxes will lead the coverage. Faithful legislature...

Current politics has gone astray

Donald Simmons, director of the George and Eleanor McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service in Mitchell, is in Iowa this week and said this in yesterday?s Mitchell Daily Republic: While watching the events of the past two days unfold...

Lesson From Pakistan: Foreign Policy Is Hard

When I teach American Foreign Policy this coming term I aim to stress one important point: foreign policy is hard. When attempting to set the nation's policy toward the world the president and other decision makers are faced with so...

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

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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...

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...

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DBA was propaganda?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Fiskie/Fallaci Awards Voting - First Round

The Iowa caucuses -- a pre-mortem

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

South Dakota Blogs

Things are going well.....

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Benazir Bhuto

No politics in this post...

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Statistical Dead Head in Iowa

Bloomberg For President?

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

Happy New Year

The Case For Thompson

A challenge from Stan's employee

Plutocracy and secular humanism

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

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

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