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A new poll out today shows some interesting developments for tomorrow's New Hampshire primaries. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, both seen as front-runners in the state early on, are being challenged by John McCain and Barack Obama, respectively. USA Today...

Clinton, Obama, 08

While my colleague is right that both he and I were skeptical about Ms. Clinton's early demise, I won't pretend that I saw this one coming. Nor, I think, did anyone else, including the Clinton, Obama, and Edwards campaign staffs....

Say one thing and vote another

That was what Senator Dave Knudson did yesterday. SB 59 was a request from the Board of Regents to increase the Opportunity Scholarship amount to $6,000. Knudson said this: Republican Sen. David Knudson of Sioux Falls said perhaps additional value...

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...

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

The Golden Globes award show is reportedly being canceled due to the writers' strike. Could this happen to the Academy Awards? I dare not even dream something so delicious.

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

This week the New York Times started a series called "War Torn: Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles." Their first 6,253 word installment creates a negative impression of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and, by extension, the mission they...

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

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....

What's New with the Blogs

Elections without issues

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

The 2007 Fiskie and Fallaci Winners!

A letter to the editor of the Times

McCain booed in Michigan?twice; Update: Video added

South Dakota Blogs

Change is nearly upon us....

McGovern embarrasses again

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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

Bad News In Aberdeen

Clinton by a Nose in New Hampshire

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

New Efforts In Energy

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

No politics in this post...

Romney promotes secular humanism

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Impeachment: Last Word

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

Things are going well.....

Progress in Iraq

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

American Blogs