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Ed Morrissey: What happened to the Ron Paul supporters?

A new poll out today shows some interesting developments for tomorrow's New Hampshire primaries. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, both seen as front-runners in the state early on, are being challenged by John McCain and Barack Obama, respectively. USA Today...

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...

On The Religious Right...And Left

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...

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

Animals torn to pieces by lions in front of baying crowds: the spectator sport China DOESN’T want you to see You’ve got to read this to believe it. Great shades of the Roman Circus! The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears. Some of the more [...]

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

This piece from the American Thinker gives some useful background on Barack Obama's radical past. As to his present, the author points out that Obama's church recently gave an award to Louis Farrakhan, the proto-fascist head of the Nation of...

Glowbull Warming Notes

THere’s been more and more coming out…from the scientific world…in the nature of inconvenient truths that, contrary to AlGor et al, climate is being driven by the sun…and, global temperature seems to have peaked in 1998! SOMEBODY…ANYBODY… PLEASE HIT ALGORE WITH A CLUEBAT & SHUT HIM UP! Firstly, from the Boston Globe (not exactly a bastion [...]

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...

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?

David Duke's Advice for Ron Paul

Fred Thompson's call to arms in South Carolina

What should Fox ask the GOP candidates tonight?

South Dakota Blogs

New Blog Added

Political Poetry

Vehle running for Senate

Bad News In Aberdeen

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Things are going well.....

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

Romney Takes Wyoming

Turnaround is fair play?

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Push-Polling in Iowa

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

Reforming The Reform

Change is nearly upon us....

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

New Hampshire Post Script

American Blogs