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Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

My SDP colleague, Professor Schaff, has a reply to my post on George McGovern and his call for the impeachment of President Bush. I think in fact that we are largely in agreement on the matter, but I try to...

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...

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Mr. Powers and Mr. Sibson both seem to agree that South Dakotans are taxed too much and our government is too big. Is this true? Let's look at the numbers. When one looks at state taxation, as I have reported...

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Glowbull Warming Notes

THere’s been more and more coming out…from the scientific world…in the nature of inconvenient truths that, contrary to AlGor et al, climate is being driven by the sun…and, global temperature seems to have peaked in 1998! SOMEBODY…ANYBODY… PLEASE HIT ALGORE WITH A CLUEBAT & SHUT HIM UP! Firstly, from the Boston Globe (not exactly a bastion [...]

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Our friends over at Power Line note that New Hampshire precincts are reportedly running out of Democratic ballots. Possibly bad news for Hillary, who polls well among the party's base but Obama carries support among independents and young voters. If...

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

On this day of the New Hampshire primary The New Republic publishes a piece describing comments on race that appeared in various iterations of a newsletter put out under Ron Paul's name. Pajamas Media helpfully lists the most explosive quotations....

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,...

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?

Ron Paul Supporter Kills Conscience to Survive

The case against John McCain, Part Two

Poll positions

South Dakota Blogs

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

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

Snow in Baghdad

McGovern embarrasses again

One brave woman

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

There's A Tear In My Beer

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

Obama, McCain Ahead in New Hampshire

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Blognote

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Progress in Iraq

American Blogs