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As South Dakota Board of Regents recommend banning guns on postsecondary campuses, Judge Roy Moore explains how wrong that would be: The right to keep and bear arms was considered by our Founding Fathers to be one of the most...

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Municipalities can’t ban people from owning handguns, court rules San Francisco’s ban on handguns, blocked by a legal challenge since voters approved it in November 2005, suffered a possibly fatal blow Wednesday when a state appeals court ruled that local governments have no authority under California law to prevent people from owning pistols. The First District Court [...]

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...

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

I have a mild disagreement with my colleague Prof. Blanchard over the meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors" when it comes to the impeachment of presidents. Prof. Blanchard reacts to George McGovern's call to impeach President Bush. Prof. Blanchard writes:...

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 [...]

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

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

And he does it better than I am prepared to. From the Seattle Times: There are many unanswered questions about the races in both parties. On the Democratic side: Is Barack Obama for real? Or is he, as sources inside...

Blognote

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.

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 Post-Debate Open Thread

The battles within the debate

Fred Thompson: ?Late??and ?riled?

South Dakota Blogs

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

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

Political Poetry

SD Regents go anti-gun

Populism versus globalism

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Another Good Night for Public Opinion Polls?

Graves not decided

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

New Hampshire Post Script

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

The Dead Shall Rise Again

ELECTION NOTE

Teacher Pay In South Dakota

American Blogs