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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...

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

Cory Heidelberger has brought up the issue of plutocracy, and I believe that is an issue we need to understand and more fully discuss. Tony Dean has a post covering Brad Redlin?s, director of the Izaak Walton League's agricultural programs,...

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

Juno: The Best Movie in Years

I went to see Juno this afternoon and I can't stop thinking about it. Roger Ebert calls it "just about the best movie of the year." Obviously, I am willing to go further. In the first place, it is persistently...

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...

More Holiday Cheer!

Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park’ This piece from The London Telegraph’s ace reporter/commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard will do nothing to calm your economic nerves, but then again, it looks more and more like it’s time to be as alarmed as we have sense to be. This is only the [...]

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...

What's New with the Blogs

McGovern embarrasses again

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Duncan Hunter Counterattacks

Crying in politics -- Dick Morris' take

Let the voting begin: The New Hampshire primary kicks off

South Dakota Blogs

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

Building A Better Election Part II

Iowa Interpreted 2

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

Change is nearly upon us....

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Political Poetry

Obnoxious South Dakota

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Graves not decided

Abortion and Cultural Marxism

Building A Better Election

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

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Intel Report Status

Fox News bars Ron Paul

Things are going well.....

The Gay Divorcee

American Blogs