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Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Mr. Powers and Mr. Sibson both seem to agree that South Dakotans are taxed too much and our government is too big. Is this true? Let's look at the numbers. When one looks at state taxation, as I have reported...

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Gov. Rounds is taking some heat from Sibby for supporting the TransCanada pipeline and the Hyperion refinery near Elk Point (here's the Argus story). Sibby writes: I agree with the Governor?s point that the Hyperion project has many benefits. The...

ELECTION NOTE

Yada yada yada. Choose your own talking head, and you can hear all you want (and more) about the Hawkeye Cauci, and the NH primary. What to say? Nothing CAN be said that hasn’t already been said. The Chief favors Gov. Romney, but ANY of the GOP is preferable to B. Hussein Obama, or another [...]

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...

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

I have previously posted on Fox News not inviting Ron Paul to its New Hampshire Forum. Now the New Hampshire GOP withdraws its support: Following a week of controversy over Fox News' decision to exclude Rep. Ron Paul from a...

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

The Lancet is a very well-respected medical journal, based in Britain. In 2006, three weeks before the American election, Lancet published a report on "excess mortality" in Iraq. The report put forth numbers of civilian Iraqi deaths directly due to...

Things are going well.....

Vehle running for Senate

Just got a call from a reporter from the Mitchell Daily Republic saying that Representative Mike Vehle is running for the District 20 Senate seat in 2008. The reporter?s question was relative to the talk on the Internet about my...

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

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

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

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Romney Takes Wyoming

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Change is nearly upon us....

Romney promotes secular humanism

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

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

McGovern embarrasses again

Turnaround is fair play?

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Glowbull Warming Notes

Clinton, Obama, 08

American Blogs