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This just in, from correspondent Casca: Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen...

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

From the Argus Leader: The head of a group opposing the planned Hyperion oil refinery in Union County suggests it might really be a front for a series of landfills to bury trash from the East Coast - information that...

Jewett Drug closing

From Keloland: One of Aberdeen's oldest businesses is closing its doors. Jewett Drug was family owned for more than a hundred years. San Francisco-based McKesson bought it a year and a half ago and has decided to close it at...

Dave Newquist: Snow Queen Chair

The South Dakota blogosphere's very own Dave Newquist and wife are chairing the 62nd South Dakota Snow Queen Festival. Congrats. (The following is a parody) What are the chances the professor makes a contestant cry? "That dress represents a malicious...

Why should we be surprised?

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...

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

This week the New York Times started a series called "War Torn: Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles." Their first 6,253 word installment creates a negative impression of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and, by extension, the mission they...

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

What's New with the Blogs

Taxpayer funded baby-sitting

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Huckabee and the Fried Squirrels

Norman Podhoretz in his own words

Step away from the thermostat

South Dakota Blogs

One brave woman

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

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

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

The Argus goes after State Government. Again.And the evil part of me hopes they succeed.

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

A challenge from Stan's employee

Change is coming....

Bills Before The Legislature

New Blog Added

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

There's A Tear In My Beer

Graves candidacy on hold

Archeology Find Matches Nehemiah Account

No politics in this post...

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

American Blogs