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Municipalities can’t ban people from owning handguns, court rules San Francisco’s ban on handguns, blocked by a legal challenge since voters approved it in November 2005, suffered a possibly fatal blow Wednesday when a state appeals court ruled that local governments have no authority under California law to prevent people from owning pistols. The First District Court [...]

Jewett Drug closing

From Keloland: One of Aberdeen's oldest businesses is closing its doors. Jewett Drug was family owned for more than a hundred years. San Francisco-based McKesson bought it a year and a half ago and has decided to close it at...

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

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 [...]

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:...

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

The South Dakota blogosphere's very own Dave Newquist and wife are chairing the 62nd South Dakota Snow Queen Festival. Congrats. (The following is a parody) What are the chances the professor makes a contestant cry? "That dress represents a malicious...

Turnaround is fair play?

Not sure if this is a good way to handle this, but it does send a point to the Cultural Marxists: A school district following Maine's Human Rights Law and providing special accommodations to a 10-year-old with "sexual orientation or...

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

Social Services and Education are being hogs

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Bad Idea Surfaces in Israel

Mark Falcoff: Code Pink lends a hand to Hugo Chavez

Poll positions

South Dakota Blogs

New Efforts In Energy

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

One brave woman

Change is nearly upon us....

SD Regents go anti-gun

Soros Funded Lancet "Study"

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

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

B. Hussein Obama Update

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

McGovern embarrasses again

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

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

Education is breaking the bank

ELECTION NOTE

American Blogs