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From the Mitchell Daily Republic: Mitchell residents will have to wait two more weeks to hear if Superintendent of Schools Joe Graves will run for the state Legislature. In an unexpected action Monday, the school board amended its agenda and...

Defending The Nanny (Sort Of)

Pat Powers goes on a rant against Sen. Sandy Jerstad for a bill to require those who "sell, distribute, or use obscene material or provide obscene material" to be licensed by the state. I have not considered the full implications...

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Pat Powers has a post on a Gordon Howie proposal that would replace 35% of Property Taxes with an additional 2% Sales Tax. Excerpt: That seems to not be much more than a shift. So would his bill also shift...

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

Animals torn to pieces by lions in front of baying crowds: the spectator sport China DOESN’T want you to see You’ve got to read this to believe it. Great shades of the Roman Circus! The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears. Some of the more [...]

Soros Funded Lancet "Study"

Sunday Times: A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros. Soros, 77, provided almost half the Ł50,000 cost of the research, which appeared...

Change is nearly upon us....

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Municipalities can’t ban people from owning handguns, court rules San Francisco’s ban on handguns, blocked by a legal challenge since voters approved it in November 2005, suffered a possibly fatal blow Wednesday when a state appeals court ruled that local governments have no authority under California law to prevent people from owning pistols. The First District Court [...]

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

From Keloland: The Sioux Empire United Way set the bar high with an $8.6 million goal for 2008. The organization did better than that, surpassing $9 million. Campaign Chair Ray Trankle says it can only mean good things for the...

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Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

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Kranz Blunder

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Get out of Sioux Falls way.

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

Things are going well.....

The New Masterpiece

Heil MicroSSoft!

Government accounting fraud

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

One brave woman

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Progress in Iraq

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Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

Why should we be surprised?

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