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SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

The past year saw the passing of a number of great jazz artists. Ken Laster does a nice tribute to them at In The Grove: Jazz and Beyond. You can hear selections from Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, Alice Coltrane, Michael...

Why America's in the Gulf

Walter Russell Mead: Why America's in the Gulf

Building A Better Election

A couple days ago I noted the virtues of Fred Thompson as a candidate. Now Glenn Reynolds directs us to this piece that argues that Fred Thompson is the only sane candidate as he is the only one dismissive towards...

Change is nearly upon us....

Abortion and Cultural Marxism

Pat Powers put up an interesting post has he pointed out the Dakota Women web site going after Shantel Krebs. Here is an excerpt from Dakota Women: The Krebs MO: promoting an agenda of women?s equality in business?not to be...

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says The Chief has been following the science on this for some time. In spite of the scientific mantle assumed by the IPCC, its much-ballyhooed major “scientific” paper cited ad nauseum by AlGor and others selectively ignored science that ran counter to its pre-determined and [...]

Obnoxious South Dakota

Right Wing News' list of 40 Obnoxious Quotes of 2007 has a couple South Dakota references. Coming in at #29: "Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave...

What's New with the Blogs

Vehle running for Senate

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Link Mania

To Fraser (and Flashman)!

Silky Pony: I am Seabiscuit!

South Dakota Blogs

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Religion Becomes Bigger ?Non-issue? in GOP Race

Happy New Year

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

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

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

Ron Paul On The Civil War

Laptops, REED, and highways

Slouching Toward Second Rate

Pat Powers is a liar?

Reflections on Iowa

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

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Current politics has gone astray

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

Lesson From Pakistan: Foreign Policy Is Hard

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

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