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The Argus goes after State Government. Again.And the evil part of me hopes they succeed.

Just got a call from a reporter from the Mitchell Daily Republic saying that Representative Mike Vehle is running for the District 20 Senate seat in 2008. The reporter?s question was relative to the talk on the Internet about my...

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

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Current politics has gone astray

Donald Simmons, director of the George and Eleanor McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service in Mitchell, is in Iowa this week and said this in yesterday?s Mitchell Daily Republic: While watching the events of the past two days unfold...

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...

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

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

WorldNetDaily?s underreported 2007 top 10 list: 1. Developments moving U.S. and continent closer to a North American Union 2. Bush's refusal to pardon imprisoned Border Patrol Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were prosecuted by the president's friend, U.S. Attorney...

What's New with the Blogs

Turnaround is fair play?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Still There'll Be More

Michael Barone on Election 2008

Saturday night jive: The New Hampshire debates; Round Two - Dem candidates; Update: Hillary turns Shrill-ary; Edwards: ?Forces of status quo?= Hillary; Unlikeable? Hillary?s feelings are hurt

South Dakota Blogs

SanFran Nan: ?I?ll be good?later.?

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

Ron Paul On The Civil War

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

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

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

The Case For Thompson

A challenge from Stan's employee

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Blognote

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Laptops, REED, and highways

Do The Dakota Women Speak For Dakota Women?

Property Taxes Lead Issue For South Dakota Legislature

Reforming The Reform

American Blogs