Jim River Report: Your Window to South Dakota Politics

Featured Articles

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...

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

I do face paint very well, thank you.

Was this about the headphones joke? Geese. Ouch. I surrender. And it's just the Claremont Institute for Clowns now. The other circus programs lost their academic standing. So I call Lifeline and my call gets directed to an operator in...

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 [...]

Dems Battle It Out Over Race

This story chronicles the combat between Hillary Clinton over the issue of race. Let me suggest that this works for the short term benefit of Hillary Clinton in a general election she might have exposed herself to criticism. Clinton is...

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

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Pat Powers has a post on a Gordon Howie proposal that would replace 35% of Property Taxes with an additional 2% Sales Tax. Excerpt: That seems to not be much more than a shift. So would his bill also shift...

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

This piece from the American Thinker gives some useful background on Barack Obama's radical past. As to his present, the author points out that Obama's church recently gave an award to Louis Farrakhan, the proto-fascist head of the Nation of...

What's New with the Blogs

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Worst Person in World Finds Home, Family

North Star Rising

To Michigan and beyond

South Dakota Blogs

Headlines Worth Noting

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Populism versus globalism

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Change is coming....

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

More Holiday Cheer!

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

The Democrats, Race, & Honest Talk

Impeachment: Last Word

Government accounting fraud

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

The Sacred Fire Of Liberty

Kranz Blunder

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

SD Regents go anti-gun

Jewett Drug closing

American Blogs