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Property Taxes Lead Issue For South Dakota Legislature

What the South Dakota media will cover in the upcoming legislative session is anyone's guess. If the media cover the most contentious issue that draws the most attention from the legislators then property taxes will lead the coverage. Faithful legislature...

McGovern on Impeachment

My SDP colleague Professor Schaff knows more about George McGovern than I know, or want to know. But I do know something about the Constitution, and that seems to be more than McGovern knows. In the Washington Post he advocates...

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Why T.R. Claimed the Sea This relates to our current and future circumstances, as well as to an earlier posting concerning the sad decline of the Royal Navy. On Dec. 16, 1907, the 16 battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads, Va., on a 43,000-mile journey around the world. The occasion was immediately understood [...]

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...

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Do The Dakota Women Speak For Dakota Women?

This is the question posed by Mr. Powers. Does the site Dakota Women actually speak for the women of the Dakotas? He notices the preponderance of abortion/reproductive freedom talk at that site. Don't women care about more than these issues?...

Intel Report Status

Iran says U.S. report a “declaration of surrender” Washington’s bureaucratic establishment contradicted iteself with the much ballyhooed N.I.E. (National Intel. Estimate) concerning Iran’s nuclear status. The Chief was, and is of the opinion that said report constituted prima facie evidence of treason within a bureaucracy out to politically emasculate the administration policies at all cost [...]

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

Pelosi vows more civil approach ? next year Sort of brings to mind the sinner’s prayer: “Make me good, Lord, just not quite yet.”

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

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

A challenge from Stan's employee

Building A Better Election

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Cultural Marxism and witchcraft

Ron Paul On The Civil War

Graves not decided

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Change is nearly upon us....

Push-Polling in Iowa

The Case For Thompson

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

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Current politics has gone astray

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

Bloomberg For President?

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

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

American Blogs