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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...

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...

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...

Beltway Insight From David Broder

In the Washington Post today, David Broder discovers what the rest of us have already been talking about: none of the leading Democratic candidates for President have executive experience, putting them at a serious disadvantage to their Republican counterparts: It...

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 [...]

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

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...

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

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?

Vlaams Belang Joins with BNP, Other Eurofascists in New Anti-Islam Group

Mac is back in South Carolina. . .but why?

An anniversary bumper sticker

South Dakota Blogs

Militants Overrun Pakistan Fort

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

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

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

Snow in Baghdad

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Headlines Worth Noting

Pierre Nannyism Strikes Again!

B. Hussein Obama Update

SB 67 UPDATE

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

Jewett Drug closing

The New Masterpiece

Bills Before The Legislature

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

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

American Blogs