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When heard on the radio this morning driving to the school where the Chief currently teaches, there was a sudden need to focus on not driving off the road! Somebody up at Pierre needs a good sharp whack upside the head with a cluebat. Nanny State alert: SB 67 - Mandatory applications for college PP at [...]

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The Anti-Christ button is between Popcorn and Fresh Vegetables Soft. Idaho man sees "mark of the beast," cuts off and microwaves hand Obviously they should have booked a flight with Rumors. Rumors fly over more 787 delays First Hilliary Wins...

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...

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

First let me do my best Jon Schaff imitation: headphones are no good for the young and the legislature should scrap all plans to distribute them to innocent school children. Gee, that did feel good! Anyway, I decided I wanted...

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...

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

My favorite website is Arts & Letters Daily, a very literate Readers Digest for the web. It's my homepage on my home computer. Now they have created a second website dedicated to the global warming issue called Climate Debate Daily....

The Villany You Teach Me, I Will Execute

In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Shylock the Jew, in his famous "If you prick us do we not bleed" speech, asserts that the Jew is the same as the Christian: when wronged he will seek his revenge. With this in...

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...

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Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Thursday Evening Linkaganza

The Congress we pay for

Democrat attacks Treasury Secretary?except he?s the Fed chairman

South Dakota Blogs

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

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

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

The Democrats, Race, & Honest Talk

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

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

Kranz Blunder

I do face paint very well, thank you.

The Ides of Michigan

Progress in Iraq

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

Snow in Baghdad

Archeology Find Matches Nehemiah Account

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

B. Hussein Obama Update

New Blog Added

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

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