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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 Now he wants them repealed.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...

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:...

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Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

The results last night in Michigan, a Romeny win over McCain and a Clinton victory over no one, mean this: almost nothing. On the GOP side it means Romney is not dropping out, but other than that the candidates continue...

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 [...]

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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...

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

The Lancet is a very well-respected medical journal, based in Britain. In 2006, three weeks before the American election, Lancet published a report on "excess mortality" in Iraq. The report put forth numbers of civilian Iraqi deaths directly due to...

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?

Breaking: Ex-Congressman Indicted in Terror Fundraising Case

Remembrance of embarrassments past

Where in the world

South Dakota Blogs

Elections without issues

Change is coming....

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

Say one thing and vote another

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

Much ado... Much ado...

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

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

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Does South Dakota Tax And Spend Too Much?

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

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

Change is nearly upon us....

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The Democrats, Race, & Honest Talk

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