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Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

Governor Rounds made his plutocracy clear yesterday: Gov. Mike Rounds enthusiastically outlined South Dakota energy opportunities in a State of the State message Tuesday and hammered again at growing reserves in public school budgets. The proposed TransCanada crude-oil pipeline from...

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...

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:...

I do face paint very well, thank you.

Was this about the headphones joke? Geese. Ouch. I surrender. And it's just the Claremont Institute for Clowns now. The other circus programs lost their academic standing. So I call Lifeline and my call gets directed to an operator in...

B. Hussein Obama Update

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam This is the latest in a tit-for-tat argument between Daniel Pipes, and Media Matters for America. Based on the prima facie evidence, Pipes has the point, which raises an interesting point that he passes on: All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a [...]

Social Services and Education are being hogs

The Argus leader has another State department asking for more money: A $3,000 bump in starting pay is needed to stem a high turnover rate in the state's child protection staff, Social Services Secretary Deb Bowman says. Bowman pitched the...

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 [...]

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

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?

Technical Note: Spinoff Links Click Counter

"France responds to its friends"

Shamnesty birds of a feather?

South Dakota Blogs

Change is coming....

Graves candidacy on hold

Militants Overrun Pakistan Fort

Things are going well.....

Sibby for Senate to Serve you

Soros Funded Lancet "Study"

Rounds: For Economic Growth

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Caused by Design Flaw

Education is breaking the bank

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Populism versus globalism

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

When Did the History Channel Stop Doing History?

Snow in Baghdad

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

Defending The Nanny (Sort Of)

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

Say one thing and vote another

American Blogs