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Robert Novak argues that Mitt Romney's early primary strategy has failed and John McCain is the presumptive nominee. Romney's plan was to spend big on the early states and gain momentum to carry him to victory in later states. Romney,...

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....

Change is nearly upon us....

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Crisis may make 1929 look a ‘walk in the park’ This piece from The London Telegraph’s ace reporter/commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard will do nothing to calm your economic nerves, but then again, it looks more and more like it’s time to be as alarmed as we have sense to be. This is only the [...]

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...

Tax Reform Coming To The Legislature

As I indicated recently, property tax reform is going to headline this year's legislative session in Pierre. See this article from the American News for some background. You can ignore the bit about Jim Hundstad's threat of an income tax...

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...

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?

Paulians Say: Ignore LGF

An odd and unhelpful thing

Reid, Pelosi beg Bush: Please don?t let us be irrelevant

South Dakota Blogs

Headlines Worth Noting

Blognote

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Iowa Interpreted 2

Impeachment: Last Word

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

Populism versus globalism

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

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

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Juno: The Best Movie in Years

Vehle running for Senate

Government accounting fraud

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Glowbull Warming Notes

The Dead Shall Rise Again

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

American Blogs