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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...

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

My favorite website is Arts & Letters Daily, a very literate Readers Digest for the web. It's my homepage on my home computer. Now they have created a second website dedicated to the global warming issue called Climate Debate Daily....

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

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,...

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...

Change is nearly upon us....

New Hampshire Post Script

Two things, of unequal weight. First, who is left standing? Not Edwards, after tonight, I think. Good. His angry man routine was entertaining, but no one thinks its good for four regular seasons, let alone eight. Besides, he is the...

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 [...]

Graves not decided

The Mitchell Daily Republic did cover Representative Mike Vehle?s official announcement that he is running for district 20 Senate. They also reported that Dr. Joseph Graves has not officially made a decision, as they mentioned the newly adopted policy that...

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Education is breaking the bank

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Friday Morning Linkage

Charm and evasion, Part Three

The Iranian incident and the ?Filipino Monkey?

South Dakota Blogs

New Blog Added

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Reforming The Reform

No politics in this post...

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

Juno: The Best Movie in Years

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Obama, McCain Ahead in New Hampshire

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Headlines Worth Noting

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

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

McGovern on Impeachment

Glowbull Warming Notes

Government accounting fraud

McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

American Blogs