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

You are probably experiencing Iowa fatigue, so I will keep this brief as I have little to add to the reams of Iowa commentary out there. Prof. Blanchard's post is comprehensive enough. I simply want to point out that the...

Building A Better Election Part II

A couple notions that I articulated yesterday in this post on our election system get touched on somewhere else today. Yesterday I argued against regional primaries. One of my arguments was that the likely regions that would make up such...

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...

New Blog Added

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

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...

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

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...

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

A salute to Rachel Paulose

Paging Dr. Hillcare?

South Dakota Blogs

Graves not decided

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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

Happy New Year!

Current politics has gone astray

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

Turnaround is fair play?

Fox News bars Ron Paul

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

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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

Political Poetry

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Vehle running for Senate

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Change is nearly upon us....

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