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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a run for presidency. I don't know what kind of an impact such an effort might have, although I suspect it would be minimal. The mayor is apparently being urged to run...

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

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Why T.R. Claimed the Sea This relates to our current and future circumstances, as well as to an earlier posting concerning the sad decline of the Royal Navy. On Dec. 16, 1907, the 16 battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads, Va., on a 43,000-mile journey around the world. The occasion was immediately understood [...]

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Argus Leader excerpt: Work by South Dakota's congressional delegation in 2007 means the state's ethanol producers will sell a lot more biofuel next year, military veterans will get better medical care and an important regional water purveyor will get a...

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...

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Obnoxious South Dakota

Right Wing News' list of 40 Obnoxious Quotes of 2007 has a couple South Dakota references. Coming in at #29: "Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave...

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

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?

Political Gross-Out of the Year So Far

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

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

Things are going well.....

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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

The Case For Thompson

Iowa Interpreted 2

Building A Better Election Part II

Iowa

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

Cultural Marxists and hate crimes

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

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

Change is nearly upon us....

Statistical Dead Head in Iowa

DBA was propaganda?

Ron Paul On The Civil War

American Blogs