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The Argus editorializes in favor of higher teacher pay: This is how far behind we've fallen: There is no realistic raise in the amount of money spent on K-12 education that this year would vault South Dakota out of its...

Change is nearly upon us....

Do The Dakota Women Speak For Dakota Women?

This is the question posed by Mr. Powers. Does the site Dakota Women actually speak for the women of the Dakotas? He notices the preponderance of abortion/reproductive freedom talk at that site. Don't women care about more than these issues?...

Romney promotes secular humanism

Most would say that Mitt Romney?s religious views are Mormon, but Joseph Farah makes the argument that Romney is more secular humanist than Mormon based on his answer to a Tim Russert question: Asked by the host for clarification on...

Change is coming....

ELECTION NOTE

Yada yada yada. Choose your own talking head, and you can hear all you want (and more) about the Hawkeye Cauci, and the NH primary. What to say? Nothing CAN be said that hasn’t already been said. The Chief favors Gov. Romney, but ANY of the GOP is preferable to B. Hussein Obama, or another [...]

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

The Republican candidates are off to Wyoming on Saturday. Everybody thinks that the Granite State is next in line on Tuesday, but Wyoming holds its caucus on Saturday. It's getting very little attention, but some candidates are taking it seriously:...

Vehle running for Senate

Just got a call from a reporter from the Mitchell Daily Republic saying that Representative Mike Vehle is running for the District 20 Senate seat in 2008. The reporter?s question was relative to the talk on the Internet about my...

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

Yes, he could

Hillary and the ?Access Hollywood? Factor

South Dakota Blogs

Government accounting fraud

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

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Reforming The Reform

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Clinton, Obama, 08

Obnoxious South Dakota

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

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

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

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

Bloomberg For President?

Building A Better Election

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

Push-Polling in Iowa

McGovern embarrasses again

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