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

On this day of the New Hampshire primary The New Republic publishes a piece describing comments on race that appeared in various iterations of a newsletter put out under Ron Paul's name. Pajamas Media helpfully lists the most explosive quotations....

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

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...

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...

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Why T.R. Claimed the Sea This relates to our current and future circumstances, as well as to an earlier posting concerning the sad decline of the Royal Navy. On Dec. 16, 1907, the 16 battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet sailed from Hampton Roads, Va., on a 43,000-mile journey around the world. The occasion was immediately understood [...]

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Today's OpinionJournal piece by Peggy Noonan, "Out With the Old, In With the New" makes a key point about Huckabee's win last night in Iowa: From the mail I have received the past month after criticizing him in this space,...

What's New with the Blogs

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Let's Give Them a State!

Looking ahead to Michigan

Hilarious hate mail of the day

South Dakota Blogs

Things are going well.....

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

New Blog Added

No politics in this post...

Change is coming....

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

Primary Reform

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

McGovern embarrasses again

Populism versus globalism

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

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

Bad News In Aberdeen

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

American Blogs