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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...

DBA was propaganda?

Pat Powers has a post that claims the South Dakota Blogosphere has changed in 2007: A friend who was trying to get to those websites that continuously touch on SD issues had asked for my recommendation as to which blogs...

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

If Jazz if America's great contribution to music, and the Europeans certainly think it is, Barbecue is America's great contribution to the global kitchen. The best pork ribs I have ever tasted in a restaurant were served to me Thursday...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Relative of murdered Dallas girls: ?This was an honor killing;? father abused daughters

South Dakota Blogs

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

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

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

Ron Paul On The Civil War

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

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

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

Prince of the Ozarks

Much ado... Much ado...

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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

Blognote

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Cultural Marxists and hate crimes

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

Santayana And History

American Blogs