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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...

Change is coming....

SD Regents go anti-gun

HB 1086 is being proposed for the 2008 South Dakota legislature at the request of the Board of Regents. Here is the content: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to extend to postsecondary campuses certain protections relating to the possession...

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.

Much ado... Much ado...

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...

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

Animals torn to pieces by lions in front of baying crowds: the spectator sport China DOESN’T want you to see You’ve got to read this to believe it. Great shades of the Roman Circus! The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears. Some of the more [...]

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

First let me do my best Jon Schaff imitation: headphones are no good for the young and the legislature should scrap all plans to distribute them to innocent school children. Gee, that did feel good! Anyway, I decided I wanted...

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?

And Now for Some Donald Fagen

Mark Falcoff: Code Pink lends a hand to Hugo Chavez

Poll positions

South Dakota Blogs

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

Why should we be surprised?

One brave woman

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

McGovern embarrasses again

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

ELECTION NOTE

Populism versus globalism

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

McGovern on Impeachment

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

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

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Say one thing and vote another

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