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Last week, observers were quick to jump on Mike Huckabee for his response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He offered "apologies" to Pakistan (later clarifying he meant "condolences") and then placed Afghanistan on Pakistan's eastern border rather than western....

Turnaround is fair play?

Not sure if this is a good way to handle this, but it does send a point to the Cultural Marxists: A school district following Maine's Human Rights Law and providing special accommodations to a 10-year-old with "sexual orientation or...

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

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 [...]

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

Cultural Marxists and hate crimes

The far-left diversity continue their anti-American Cultural marzist crusade with hate crimes now being reported in Sioux Falls: FBI statistics show an ugly trend: Sioux Falls went from one hate crime in 2005 to 28 in 2006. But officials attribute...

Santayana And History

Faithful reader Gary writes in to offer a mild correction to this post of mine on Churchill and the study of history. I?ve just read your post for December 19th on Winston Churchill and I feel I must digress and...

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

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...

What's New with the Blogs

Romney promotes secular humanism

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

New Feature: Top Rated Links

We'll know that Huckabee has truly arrived

Sunday night roundtable: The Fox News/GOP debate

South Dakota Blogs

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

SDP Jazz Note: The Bible of Jazz

Intel Report Status

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

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Bloomberg For President?

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

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

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

Fox News bars Ron Paul

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

American Blogs