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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 Efforts In Energy

This report from Scientific American touts the potential of switch grass as an energy source. Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with...

Romney promotes secular humanism

Most would say that Mitt Romney?s religious views are Mormon, but Joseph Farah makes the argument that Romney is more secular humanist than Mormon based on his answer to a Tim Russert question: Asked by the host for clarification on...

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

The Huckabee candidacy should serve as a warning to Republicans. Huckabee, whatever problems he may have as a candidate, is touching a nerve among the GOP electorate that is both anti-government and anti-corporation. As Cory points out, many Republicans have...

Impeachment: Last Word

The difference between Prof. Blanchard and me is that he sees "high crimes and misdemeanors" as defining actual crimes as the basis of impeachment while I see it as a common law term of art. As this short article explains,...

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,...

On The Religious Right...And Left

Joe Knippenberg has some thoughts on the essentials that divide the religious right and religious left. Joe sees the religious conservatives as wishing to use public policy to strengthen the family and the institutional church (making the essential public policy...

What's New with the Blogs

One brave woman

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Outrage of the Week: Canadian Publisher Persecuted for Mindcrime

Political Progress in Iraq

Operation Phantom Phoenix, Operation Marne Thunderbolt, Operation Iron Harvest

South Dakota Blogs

Tax Reform Coming To The Legislature

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

Populism versus globalism

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

McGovern on Impeachment

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

Headlines Worth Noting

The why's and wheretofores of the upcoming changes at the SDWC.

SD Regents go anti-gun

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

American Blogs