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What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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...

Reflections on Iowa

Perhaps because the nominations still seem so much in the air, the Iowa caucus is receiving an unusual amount of criticism on procedural grounds. Some, but not all of this is fair. First this from Christopher Hitchens at Slate: It...

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...

Iowa

Not exactly a big surprise: Huckabee wins the Republican caucus. From Washington Post: Mike Huckabee 34% Mitt Romney 25%, Fred Thompson 13% John McCain 13% Ron Paul 10%. Obama wins big on the Democratic side. Barack Obama 38% John Edwards...

No Illusions About Pakistan

Andy McCarthy: "There is the Pakistan of our fantasy. The burgeoning democracy in whose vanguard are judges and lawyers and human rights activists using the ?rule of law? as a cudgel to bring down a military junta. In the fantasy,...

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

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....

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

New Blog Added

Property Taxes Lead Issue For South Dakota Legislature

A Bhutto Successor

Statistical Dead Head in Iowa

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

Cultural Marxism in Malaysia

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

Religion Becomes Bigger ?Non-issue? in GOP Race

Much ado... Much ado...

Cultural Marxism and witchcraft

Pander Bear

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

Bloomberg For President?

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

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

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

Mrs. Clinton on Pakistan

American Blogs