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Mark Bowden has a rare sober and cogent analysis of the use of waterboarding as a means of coercing information from terror suspects. Bowden is responding to critics of his position that waterboarding is acceptable in rare circumstances. His conclusion...

Bloomberg For President?

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a run for presidency. I don't know what kind of an impact such an effort might have, although I suspect it would be minimal. The mayor is apparently being urged to run...

Primary Reform

The national party organizations have actually tried to impose some discipline on the state party organizations this year, which I believe is unprecedented, and may mean that serious reform is coming down the pike. Of the two parties, the Democrats...

Ron Paul On The Civil War

OK, this is very late, but that's what Christmas vacation can do to you. A couple weeks ago Ron Paul was on Meet The Press when he was asked about comments he had made about the Civil War and the...

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

The Argus editorializes in favor of higher teacher pay: This is how far behind we've fallen: There is no realistic raise in the amount of money spent on K-12 education that this year would vault South Dakota out of its...

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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 [...]

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...

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