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Joe Knippenberg has some thoughts on the essentials that divide the religious right and religious left. Joe sees the religious conservatives as wishing to use public policy to strengthen the family and the institutional church (making the essential public policy...

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...

Reforming The Reform

I have the following comments on Prof. Blanchard's post on primary reforms. First, he dismisses the notion that regional primaries would produce regional nominees. He too readily rejects the notion of momentum, that a person who swept the first region...

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

Tax Reform Coming To The Legislature

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...

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...

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...

Pander Bear

I also wrote yesterday that the American people say they want a candidate that won't pander to them like Santa Claus, yet that is often whom we end up supporting. Little did I know that there was a Hillary Clinton...

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

Political Poetry

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

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

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

Ron Paul On The Civil War

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

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

Clinton, Obama, 08

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Things are going well.....

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

SD Regents go anti-gun

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

DBA was propaganda?

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

Primary Reform

American Blogs