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Todd thinks James Madison, warning us of the effect of war on the polity, was predicting George Bush. One wonders why Todd doesn't pick more obvious examples such as Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. During war both of these presidents...

Heil MicroSSoft!

Microsoft seeks patent for office ’spy’ software This is just too creepy. We now know it for sure - Bill Gates IS Satanic!

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

One brave woman

We have one brave woman who has taken extreme measures to prevent the government from taken over her children: A trial date for a homeschooling mom from Utah who fled the state when a judge threatened to take away custody...

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...

Progress in Iraq

The Iraqi National Assembly passed one of the two most critical benchmarks that the American government had pressed for Baghdad to adopt, the de-Baathification reform that will allow Sunnis to enter government jobs and take Iraq forward in national reconciliation:...

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....

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Maybe Mitt Romney needs to cry.

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?

Romney Wins Michigan

Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, and the Election of 2008

Fidel Castro: Real or wax?

South Dakota Blogs

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

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

Headlines Worth Noting

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

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

Education is breaking the bank

Jewett Drug closing

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

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

Government accounting fraud

Regents against gun rights and freedom

New Blog Added

Defending The Nanny (Sort Of)

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

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

American Blogs