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Robert Samuelson has a must read piece from yesterday's Washington Post. Read the whole thing, but here is the gist: The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take...

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....

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

I recall leaving the movie theater after seeing the fantastic Almost Famous and remarking to a friend, "I don't know what I just saw, but I know I just saw something really good." I had a similar reaction after having...

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...

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims Somehow this cannot be what they fought for in “their finest hour”. Islamic extremists have created “no-go” areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England’s most senior bishops warns today. The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester [...]

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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...

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 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?

CODEPINK Gets a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Mark Falcoff: Code Pink lends a hand to Hugo Chavez

Poll positions

South Dakota Blogs

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Another Good Night for Public Opinion Polls?

Obama, McCain Ahead in New Hampshire

Look Out Barack

McGovern embarrasses again

Plutocracy, the Farm and Energy bills

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

Headlines Worth Noting

Snow in Baghdad

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

Whither The GOP

Rounds: For Economic Growth

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

Things are going well.....

Government accounting fraud

Say one thing and vote another

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