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Yada yada yada. Choose your own talking head, and you can hear all you want (and more) about the Hawkeye Cauci, and the NH primary. What to say? Nothing CAN be said that hasn’t already been said. The Chief favors Gov. Romney, but ANY of the GOP is preferable to B. Hussein Obama, or another [...]

Kranz Blunder

On Monday, Argus Leader political columnist Dave Kranz wrote: Sen. Tim Johnson decided not to support anyone for the nomination. He said he had four Senate colleagues running for the job and thought it was best for South Dakota if...

Regents against gun rights and freedom

As South Dakota Board of Regents recommend banning guns on postsecondary campuses, Judge Roy Moore explains how wrong that would be: The right to keep and bear arms was considered by our Founding Fathers to be one of the most...

McGovern embarrasses again

The landslide loss of George McGovern in 1972 should have been the biggest embarrassment of his life, but he out did himself with an Op Ed in the Washington Post: Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses....

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

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...

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...

Social Services and Education are being hogs

The Argus leader has another State department asking for more money: A $3,000 bump in starting pay is needed to stem a high turnover rate in the state's child protection staff, Social Services Secretary Deb Bowman says. Bowman pitched the...

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Elections without issues

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What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Ron Paul Supporter Kills Conscience to Survive

Rolling out the unwelcome mat for Bill Kristol

Rudy: ?I?m asking for your prayers?

South Dakota Blogs

New Blog Added

Things Fall Apart for Ms. Clinton

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

New Efforts In Energy

The Dead Shall Rise Again

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

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

No politics in this post...

Populism versus globalism

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

Why should we be surprised?

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

Things are going well.....

Impeachment: Last Word

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

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