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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 [...]

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

Clinton, Obama, 08

While my colleague is right that both he and I were skeptical about Ms. Clinton's early demise, I won't pretend that I saw this one coming. Nor, I think, did anyone else, including the Clinton, Obama, and Edwards campaign staffs....

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,...

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...

McGovern embarrasses again

The landslide loss of George McGovern in 1972 should have been the biggest embarrassment of his life, but he out did himself with an Op Ed in the Washington Post: Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses....

Obama, McCain Ahead in New Hampshire

A new poll out today shows some interesting developments for tomorrow's New Hampshire primaries. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, both seen as front-runners in the state early on, are being challenged by John McCain and Barack Obama, respectively. USA Today...

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...

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

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

Romney Takes Wyoming

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

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

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

SD Regents go anti-gun

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

Change is nearly upon us....

No politics in this post...

Why should we be surprised?

New Efforts In Energy

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

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

On The Religious Right...And Left

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

American Blogs