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Mitt Romney won the first state race in the 2008 primaries, an achievement nobody outside political junkies are paying attention to since the Granite State dominates headlines: Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most...

McGovern embarrasses again

The landslide loss of George McGovern in 1972 should have been the biggest embarrassment of his life, but he out did himself with an Op Ed in the Washington Post: Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses....

SD Regents go anti-gun

HB 1086 is being proposed for the 2008 South Dakota legislature at the request of the Board of Regents. Here is the content: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to extend to postsecondary campuses certain protections relating to the possession...

Obnoxious South Dakota

Right Wing News' list of 40 Obnoxious Quotes of 2007 has a couple South Dakota references. Coming in at #29: "Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave...

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...

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Pat Powers has a post on a Gordon Howie proposal that would replace 35% of Property Taxes with an additional 2% Sales Tax. Excerpt: That seems to not be much more than a shift. So would his bill also shift...

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

Education is breaking the bank

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

A Prize Fit for a King

The diplomacy of as if

John Kerry tries to make himself relevant

South Dakota Blogs

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

Political Poetry

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Why should we be surprised?

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

Bankers: Recession in the Offing

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

The why's and wheretofores of the upcoming changes at the SDWC.

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

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

Reforming The Reform

New Hampshire Post Script

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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

Pander Bear

Vehle running for Senate

American Blogs