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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...

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...

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 [...]

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

My SDP colleague, Professor Schaff, has a reply to my post on George McGovern and his call for the impeachment of President Bush. I think in fact that we are largely in agreement on the matter, but I try to...

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...

Primary Reform

The national party organizations have actually tried to impose some discipline on the state party organizations this year, which I believe is unprecedented, and may mean that serious reform is coming down the pike. Of the two parties, the Democrats...

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Iowa

Not exactly a big surprise: Huckabee wins the Republican caucus. From Washington Post: Mike Huckabee 34% Mitt Romney 25%, Fred Thompson 13% John McCain 13% Ron Paul 10%. Obama wins big on the Democratic side. Barack Obama 38% John Edwards...

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

Charm and evasion -- the Huckabee way

Choose or lose? A look at two possible GOP ticket pairings

South Dakota Blogs

Regents against gun rights and freedom

Much ado... Much ado...

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

Change is nearly upon us....

Romney promotes secular humanism

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

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

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

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

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

McGovern embarrasses again

No politics in this post...

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

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

American Blogs