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McGovern, Impeachment, and The Constitution

I have a mild disagreement with my colleague Prof. Blanchard over the meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors" when it comes to the impeachment of presidents. Prof. Blanchard reacts to George McGovern's call to impeach President Bush. Prof. Blanchard writes:...

Things Fall Apart for Ms. Clinton

As I write this post, the long arc of midnight has since passed over the tiny New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch, home to 17 stout voters and, until moments ago, many more employees of the various news networks. It...

Look Out Barack

Peggy Noonan: Between sobs she is going to try to destroy Mr. Obama. She is going to try to end him. She will pay a price for it--no one likes to see the end of a dream, no one likes...

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...

ELECTION NOTE

Yada yada yada. Choose your own talking head, and you can hear all you want (and more) about the Hawkeye Cauci, and the NH primary. What to say? Nothing CAN be said that hasn’t already been said. The Chief favors Gov. Romney, but ANY of the GOP is preferable to B. Hussein Obama, or another [...]

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 [...]

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Governor Rounds made his plutocracy clear yesterday: Gov. Mike Rounds enthusiastically outlined South Dakota energy opportunities in a State of the State message Tuesday and hammered again at growing reserves in public school budgets. The proposed TransCanada crude-oil pipeline from...

New Blog Added

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

Obama on Hillarycare for housing: Me, too! Me, too!

South Dakota Blogs

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

McGovern on Impeachment

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Glowbull Warming Notes

Graves not decided

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

Clinton, Obama, 08

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

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

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

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

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Much ado... Much ado...

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

American Blogs