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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 [...]

Building A Better Election

A couple days ago I noted the virtues of Fred Thompson as a candidate. Now Glenn Reynolds directs us to this piece that argues that Fred Thompson is the only sane candidate as he is the only one dismissive towards...

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...

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

Intrepid reader Blarney Bob, who is determined to keep me honest in spite of myself, had this to say about my post on the Rendezvous rib joint in Memphis: It is Nathan Bedford Forrest and he was the first grand...

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.”

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...

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

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

WorldNetDaily?s underreported 2007 top 10 list: 1. Developments moving U.S. and continent closer to a North American Union 2. Bush's refusal to pardon imprisoned Border Patrol Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were prosecuted by the president's friend, U.S. Attorney...

What's New with the Blogs

SD Regents go anti-gun

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Navy Fighter Jets Crash in Persian Gulf

Is there crying in politics?

Help pick Hillary?s new campaign theme song

South Dakota Blogs

More Holiday Cheer!

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

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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

No politics in this post...

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

DBA was propaganda?

Change is nearly upon us....

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Current politics has gone astray

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

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

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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

McGovern on Impeachment

Vehle running for Senate

Happy New Year!

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