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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...

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

From WorldNetDaily: Candidates for the GOP nomination for president universally describe themselves as friendly to family issues, but a California organization has issued a report card indicating they aren't listening to the same drummer, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee and...

Cultural Marxism in Malaysia

Remember the teacher who was threatened and prosecuted for naming a Tedd Bear Allah? Now this: A Catholic newspaper in Malaysia has gone to court to challenge a government ban on the use of the word "Allah" by Christians. The...

Why should we be surprised?

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

You are probably experiencing Iowa fatigue, so I will keep this brief as I have little to add to the reams of Iowa commentary out there. Prof. Blanchard's post is comprehensive enough. I simply want to point out that the...

Things are going well.....

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...

Do The Dakota Women Speak For Dakota Women?

This is the question posed by Mr. Powers. Does the site Dakota Women actually speak for the women of the Dakotas? He notices the preponderance of abortion/reproductive freedom talk at that site. Don't women care about more than these issues?...

What's New with the Blogs

Graves not decided

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Saturday Morning Linkage

Michael Barone on Election 2008

Helen Thomas: Bad journalism is bloggers? fault

South Dakota Blogs

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Bill Kristol Joins the Gray Lady

Pander Bear

Ron Paul On The Civil War

Cultural Marxism and witchcraft

Obnoxious South Dakota

Happy New Year

Abortion and Cultural Marxism

Change is coming....

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

DBA was propaganda?

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

One vote on deck for South Dakotans' view on immigration, Herseth Sandlin votes NO.

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

The Gay Divorcee

Fox News bars Ron Paul

American Blogs