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Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

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...

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

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Huckabee’s Nutty Flip-Flop One of the most vivid incidents in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer was the inimitable fence-painting incident (commemorated annually in Twain’s boyhood home of Hannibal, MO - but I digress) in which Tom managed to present the job in such a light to his passing friends that they ended up “bribing” him to do [...]

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...

B. Hussein Obama Update

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam This is the latest in a tit-for-tat argument between Daniel Pipes, and Media Matters for America. Based on the prima facie evidence, Pipes has the point, which raises an interesting point that he passes on: All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a [...]

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 [...]

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

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....

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?

Pre-Debate Open Thread 1

Fred Thompson's call to arms in South Carolina

Hillary Clinton?s not-namesake passes away

South Dakota Blogs

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

The Dead Shall Rise Again

Populism versus globalism

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

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

Things are going well.....

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

Things Fall Apart for Ms. Clinton

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

Romney promotes secular humanism

Political Poetry

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

American Blogs