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Want to know why Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee are doing so well? Peter Schramm thinks he has an answer. Fred Thompson?s comment "We just got our ticket to the next dance," reminds to say a brief word on the...

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

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

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...

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

From WorldNetDaily: Candidates for the GOP nomination for president universally describe themselves as friendly to family issues, but a California organization has issued a report card indicating they aren't listening to the same drummer, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee and...

Reflections on Iowa

Perhaps because the nominations still seem so much in the air, the Iowa caucus is receiving an unusual amount of criticism on procedural grounds. Some, but not all of this is fair. First this from Christopher Hitchens at Slate: It...

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

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...

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

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

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

Cultural Marxists and hate crimes

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

The Case For Thompson

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Current politics has gone astray

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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

Building A Better Election

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

A challenge from Stan's employee

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

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