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Walter Russell Mead: Why America's in the Gulf

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...

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

The Argus editorializes in favor of higher teacher pay: This is how far behind we've fallen: There is no realistic raise in the amount of money spent on K-12 education that this year would vault South Dakota out of its...

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

Laptops, REED, and highways

Bob Mercer has a report in today?s Mitchell Daily Republic that shows the expensive laptop program of Governor Rounds is not improving school performance. And as Rounds propose to spend millions more in Higher Ed?s Internet (that the general public...

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...

More Holiday Cheer!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

South Dakota Blogs

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

Fox News bars Ron Paul

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

The Gay Divorcee

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

Intel Report Status

Things are going well.....

Much ado... Much ado...

Pat Powers is a liar?

No politics in this post...

Mrs. Clinton on Pakistan

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

Assault on free speech

Why should we be surprised?

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

Bloomberg For President?

American Blogs