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Boy did she ever win the expectations game! Fox just called it for Senator Clinton, by about 3%. McCain over Romney by about 5%.

No politics in this post...

Government accounting fraud

From WolrdNetDaily: The real 2007 federal budget deficit was $4 trillion, not a previously reported $163 billion, an economist contends, based on data from the Treasury Department's annual financial report. "The federal government's fiscal woes continue to careen wildly out...

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Maybe Mitt Romney needs to cry.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Yesterday I noted Robert Samuelson laying out some harsh but needed truths: entitlement programs, especially Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, are growing at an alarming rate and will soon come to push aside other necessary spending. These programs represent an...

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....

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...

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

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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

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B. Hussein Obama Update

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

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

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Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

Why should we be surprised?

SD Regents go anti-gun

McGovern embarrasses again

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

A challenge from Stan's employee

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Things are going well.....

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

The Dead Shall Rise Again

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

Much ado... Much ado...

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