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As I indicated recently, property tax reform is going to headline this year's legislative session in Pierre. See this article from the American News for some background. You can ignore the bit about Jim Hundstad's threat of an income tax...

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

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...

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...

Fox News bars Ron Paul

I think this Joseph Farah column lends evidence to a possible globalist agenda at Fox News: As almost everyone who reads this column regularly know, I do not support Ron Paul's bid for the presidency. My strong preference is for...

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Iowa Interpreted 2

How you read the results in Iowa depends a lot on how you read the New Hampshire primary and other contests, in advance. See Fred Barnes: Let's start with Obama. Pre-Iowa, polls showed him trailing Clinton in New Hampshire. He's...

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims Somehow this cannot be what they fought for in “their finest hour”. Islamic extremists have created “no-go” areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England’s most senior bishops warns today. The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester [...]

Change is coming....

What's New with the Blogs

Populism versus globalism

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

The Emotion Factor

Dueling speeches

?Comeback Girl? spin and counter-spin

South Dakota Blogs

Do The Dakota Women Speak For Dakota Women?

On The Religious Right...And Left

Sorry for the light posting today... In the meantime, more on the immigration issue.

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

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Turnaround is fair play?

McGovern embarrasses again

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

No politics in this post...

More Holiday Cheer!

Much ado... Much ado...

Push-Polling in Iowa

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

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

Obama, McCain Ahead in New Hampshire

Intel Report Status

Political Poetry

American Blogs