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What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

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...

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Government accounting fraud

From WolrdNetDaily: The real 2007 federal budget deficit was $4 trillion, not a previously reported $163 billion, an economist contends, based on data from the Treasury Department's annual financial report. "The federal government's fiscal woes continue to careen wildly out...

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

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

In the past few days we have seen the Financial Times and Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post arguing that unless the United States makes significant reforms to entitlement programs it faces economically devastating deficits. The amount of money spent...

Britain Off-limits - to the Brits!

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims Somehow this cannot be what they fought for in “their finest hour”. Islamic extremists have created “no-go” areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England’s most senior bishops warns today. The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester [...]

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's New with the Blogs

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

South Dakota Blogs

Look Out Barack

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

Headlines Worth Noting

Soros Funded Lancet "Study"

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

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

Social Services and Education are being hogs

The Democrats, Race, & Honest Talk

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

The Dead Shall Rise Again

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

Jewett Drug closing

American Blogs