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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....

The Ten Most Corrupt Political Figures of 2007

Judicial Watch has named its ten most corrupt political figures of 2007, which includes several well-known politicians and four presidential candidates. Among them are: Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA): ...Feinstein reviewed military construction government contracts, some of which were ultimately awarded...

Slouching Toward Second Rate

How do you become a second rate sports league? Take a lesson from the NFL. Today the Patriots play the Giants in a bid to complete the first undefeated regular season since the 1972 Dolphins. Unfortunately, in order to actually...

DMR Poll Puts Huckabee, Obama At Top

With two days to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Des Moines Register has published a survey showing Mike Huckabee outpolling Mitt Romney among Republicans and Barack Obama leading over Hillary Clinton among Democrats. Although John Edwards has tried to...

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Religion Becomes Bigger ?Non-issue? in GOP Race

A couple of items out on this today, firstly concerning Huckabee performing a good demonstration of Orwellian double-speak. Huckabee Questions Mormons’ Belief One has got to assign credit where credit is due. In this case, Huckabee Finn floats a statement that, “Shucks, gee-whiz, I don’t know nuttin’ about Romney’s religion…but ain’t they the ones that say…?” [...]

Iowa Interpreted 2

How you read the results in Iowa depends a lot on how you read the New Hampshire primary and other contests, in advance. See Fred Barnes: Let's start with Obama. Pre-Iowa, polls showed him trailing Clinton in New Hampshire. He's...

DBA was propaganda?

Pat Powers has a post that claims the South Dakota Blogosphere has changed in 2007: A friend who was trying to get to those websites that continuously touch on SD issues had asked for my recommendation as to which blogs...

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?

Pentagon Islam Expert Fired

Don't Miss Michael Barone...

Silky Pony: I am Seabiscuit!

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Lesson From Pakistan: Foreign Policy Is Hard

Property Taxes Lead Issue For South Dakota Legislature

A challenge from Stan's employee

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Reflections on Iowa

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Change is nearly upon us....

Prince of the Ozarks

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

Building A Better Election

Statistical Dead Head in Iowa

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

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

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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