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Huckabee’s Nutty Flip-Flop One of the most vivid incidents in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer was the inimitable fence-painting incident (commemorated annually in Twain’s boyhood home of Hannibal, MO - but I digress) in which Tom managed to present the job in such a light to his passing friends that they ended up “bribing” him to do [...]

The Case For Thompson

Fred Thompson has played the coy suitor to Republican voters in this primary campaign. The fact that his is the most conventionally conservative and with some personal cache (hey, this dude was in Hunt For Red October) had Republicans (including...

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

The Republican candidates are off to Wyoming on Saturday. Everybody thinks that the Granite State is next in line on Tuesday, but Wyoming holds its caucus on Saturday. It's getting very little attention, but some candidates are taking it seriously:...

Graves not decided

The Mitchell Daily Republic did cover Representative Mike Vehle?s official announcement that he is running for district 20 Senate. They also reported that Dr. Joseph Graves has not officially made a decision, as they mentioned the newly adopted policy that...

Primary Reform

The national party organizations have actually tried to impose some discipline on the state party organizations this year, which I believe is unprecedented, and may mean that serious reform is coming down the pike. Of the two parties, the Democrats...

No politics in this post...

Abortion and Cultural Marxism

Pat Powers put up an interesting post has he pointed out the Dakota Women web site going after Shantel Krebs. Here is an excerpt from Dakota Women: The Krebs MO: promoting an agenda of women?s equality in business?not to be...

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

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

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

Iowa Interpreted 2

The Gay Divorcee

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Things are going well.....

DBA was propaganda?

Vehle running for Senate

Happy New Year!

Reforming The Reform

America's Challenge

Obnoxious South Dakota

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

Prince of the Ozarks

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

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

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

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

American Blogs