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Huckabee’s Nutty Flip-Flop One of the most vivid incidents in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer was the inimitable fence-painting incident (commemorated annually in Twain’s boyhood home of Hannibal, MO - but I digress) in which Tom managed to present the job in such a light to his passing friends that they ended up “bribing” him to do [...]

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One vote on deck for South Dakotans' view on immigration, Herseth Sandlin votes NO.

Jewett Drug closing

From Keloland: One of Aberdeen's oldest businesses is closing its doors. Jewett Drug was family owned for more than a hundred years. San Francisco-based McKesson bought it a year and a half ago and has decided to close it at...

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...

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...

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Robert Samuelson has a must read piece from yesterday's Washington Post. Read the whole thing, but here is the gist: The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take...

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Graves candidacy on hold

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Muslim Who Filed Human Rights Complaint is Charged with Discriminating Against Women

That didn't take long

Let?s make fun of Mao

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What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

New Efforts In Energy

Things are going well.....

More Holiday Cheer!

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

Clinton, Obama, 08

B. Hussein Obama Update

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

The Sacred Fire Of Liberty

Bills Before The Legislature

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

Say one thing and vote another

McGovern embarrasses again

Sibby for Senate to Serve you

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

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

Change is nearly upon us....

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