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It just goes to show you, it's always something. Now that gay couples have the right to marry in Massachusetts, a new problem has arisen: divorce. For example, how do courts resolve disputes over the custody of children? From the...

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:...

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

I have frequently mentioned my friend Ken Laster, DJ at WHUS in Storrs, Connecticut, and host of my favorite radio show/podcast, In The Groove: Jazz & Beyond. I listened to Ken's holiday post yesterday, on the way back from Arkansas....

DMR Poll Puts Huckabee, Obama At Top

With two days to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Des Moines Register has published a survey showing Mike Huckabee outpolling Mitt Romney among Republicans and Barack Obama leading over Hillary Clinton among Democrats. Although John Edwards has tried to...

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...

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Today's OpinionJournal piece by Peggy Noonan, "Out With the Old, In With the New" makes a key point about Huckabee's win last night in Iowa: From the mail I have received the past month after criticizing him in this space,...

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...

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

I have previously posted on Fox News not inviting Ron Paul to its New Hampshire Forum. Now the New Hampshire GOP withdraws its support: Following a week of controversy over Fox News' decision to exclude Rep. Ron Paul from a...

What's New with the Blogs

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Al Qaeda Traitor Stars in New Video

Last Night's Debate: A Post-Mortem

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

South Dakota Blogs

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

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Santayana And History

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Turnaround is fair play?

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

Building A Better Election Part II

Graves not decided

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Iowa Interpreted 2

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

Change is nearly upon us....

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

American Blogs