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Cory Heidelberger has brought up the issue of plutocracy, and I believe that is an issue we need to understand and more fully discuss. Tony Dean has a post covering Brad Redlin?s, director of the Izaak Walton League's agricultural programs,...

Regents against gun rights and freedom

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...

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...

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

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 [...]

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Maybe Mitt Romney needs to cry.

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...

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

The Dead Shall Rise Again

Juno: The Best Movie in Years

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

Blognote

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

New Blog Added

Another Good Night for Public Opinion Polls?

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Vehle running for Senate

Government accounting fraud

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

Things are going well.....

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

Headlines Worth Noting

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

ELECTION NOTE

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