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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...

New Efforts In Energy

This report from Scientific American touts the potential of switch grass as an energy source. Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with...

ELECTION NOTE

Yada yada yada. Choose your own talking head, and you can hear all you want (and more) about the Hawkeye Cauci, and the NH primary. What to say? Nothing CAN be said that hasn’t already been said. The Chief favors Gov. Romney, but ANY of the GOP is preferable to B. Hussein Obama, or another [...]

The New Masterpiece

A revamped Masterpiece Theater (now simply Masterpiece) debuted last night with a production of Jane Austen's Persuasion. This film represents the first installment of Masterpiece's promised "complete Jane Austen." Unfortunately, I was disappointed in the production. First, they shoved the...

Bills Before The Legislature

Bill Napoli thinks he made a mistake when pushing for legislative term limits. Now he wants them repealed. Legislators will tell you that the legislature is suffering from a lack of institutional memory and experience. Sen. Moore is almost certainly...

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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...

Snow in Baghdad

Some of us have been hopeful about the surge strategy in Iraq. But no one expected that, in addition to defeating Al Qaeda, it might also prevent global warming. Yet here is evidence! From AFP: Light snow fell in Baghdad...

What's New with the Blogs

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Romney Wins Michigan

War by other means

Wanted: A Suck It Up candidate

South Dakota Blogs

Glowbull Warming Notes

Look Out Barack

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Progress in Iraq

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

Social Services and Education are being hogs

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Say one thing and vote another

Education is breaking the bank

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Regents against gun rights and freedom

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

More News We Don't Want To Hear

The Democrats, Race, & Honest Talk

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

Things are going well.....

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

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