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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...

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...

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

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

More Holiday Cheer!

Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park’ This piece from The London Telegraph’s ace reporter/commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard will do nothing to calm your economic nerves, but then again, it looks more and more like it’s time to be as alarmed as we have sense to be. This is only the [...]

Reforming The Reform

I have the following comments on Prof. Blanchard's post on primary reforms. First, he dismisses the notion that regional primaries would produce regional nominees. He too readily rejects the notion of momentum, that a person who swept the first region...

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 [...]

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

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?

Fox GOP 'Forum' Poll

My impressions of tonight's debate

Those debate rating doo-hickey thingy things

South Dakota Blogs

Santayana And History

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Intel Report Status

Laptops, REED, and highways

Clean up our act, or more inflation? Inflation wins!

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

Property Taxes Lead Issue For South Dakota Legislature

Why should we be surprised?

Change is coming....

A challenge from Stan's employee

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

Much ado... Much ado...

Political Poetry

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Ron Paul On The Civil War

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

Change is nearly upon us....

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