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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 [...]

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...

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

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Governor Rounds made his plutocracy clear yesterday: Gov. Mike Rounds enthusiastically outlined South Dakota energy opportunities in a State of the State message Tuesday and hammered again at growing reserves in public school budgets. The proposed TransCanada crude-oil pipeline from...

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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

Things Fall Apart for Ms. Clinton

As I write this post, the long arc of midnight has since passed over the tiny New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch, home to 17 stout voters and, until moments ago, many more employees of the various news networks. It...

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

My SDP colleague, Professor Schaff, has a reply to my post on George McGovern and his call for the impeachment of President Bush. I think in fact that we are largely in agreement on the matter, but I try to...

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Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

A Prize Fit for a King

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We interrupt the campaign season for a border reality check

South Dakota Blogs

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

Whither The GOP

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Iowa

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Tax Reform Coming To The Legislature

Why should we be surprised?

Change is coming....

WSJ: The importance of a strong Navy

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Romney Takes Wyoming

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

The Dead Shall Rise Again

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

Intel Report Status

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