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A new McClatchy-MSNBC poll shows a statistical dead head in Iowa in the Democratic presidential race and a shift in the Republican race. John Edwars leads with 24%, followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton with 23%. Since the last poll in...

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Argus Leader excerpt: Work by South Dakota's congressional delegation in 2007 means the state's ethanol producers will sell a lot more biofuel next year, military veterans will get better medical care and an important regional water purveyor will get a...

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...

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 [...]

Push-Polling in Iowa

We're a few hours out from the results of the Iowa caucuses and the Clinton campaign appears to be making good use of the time. Our friend Ed Morrissey notes that push-polling calls have gone out to Iowans warning of...

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Building A Better Election Part II

A couple notions that I articulated yesterday in this post on our election system get touched on somewhere else today. Yesterday I argued against regional primaries. One of my arguments was that the likely regions that would make up such...

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...

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

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

A challenge from Stan's employee

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

A Bhutto Successor

Blognote

Bloomberg For President?

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

The Ten Most Corrupt Political Figures of 2007

Happy New Year

Prince of the Ozarks

No politics in this post...

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

Pander Bear

Bill Kristol Joins the Gray Lady

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

Why America's in the Gulf

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

Much ado... Much ado...

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