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The Huckabee candidacy should serve as a warning to Republicans. Huckabee, whatever problems he may have as a candidate, is touching a nerve among the GOP electorate that is both anti-government and anti-corporation. As Cory points out, many Republicans have...

New Blog Added

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...

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

WorldNetDaily?s underreported 2007 top 10 list: 1. Developments moving U.S. and continent closer to a North American Union 2. Bush's refusal to pardon imprisoned Border Patrol Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were prosecuted by the president's friend, U.S. Attorney...

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

The Republican candidates are off to Wyoming on Saturday. Everybody thinks that the Granite State is next in line on Tuesday, but Wyoming holds its caucus on Saturday. It's getting very little attention, but some candidates are taking it seriously:...

More Holiday Cheer!

Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park’ This piece from The London Telegraph’s ace reporter/commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard will do nothing to calm your economic nerves, but then again, it looks more and more like it’s time to be as alarmed as we have sense to be. This is only the [...]

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...

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Robert Samuelson has a must read piece from yesterday's Washington Post. Read the whole thing, but here is the gist: The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take...

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?

GOP Debate Thread the Fourth

How Many Iraqis Killed?

The South Carolina GOP debate; Update 9:26pm Fred goes after Huckabee; 9:36pm - Fred?s on fire, Hume embarrasses Paul; 9:50pm - It?s the battle of the one-liners

South Dakota Blogs

Things Fall Apart for Ms. Clinton

Bad News In Aberdeen

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Regents against gun rights and freedom

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Romney Takes Wyoming

Graves not decided

The Argus goes after State Government. Again.And the evil part of me hopes they succeed.

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

Clinton, Obama, 08

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

Romney promotes secular humanism

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

SD Regents go anti-gun

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