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As South Dakota Board of Regents recommend banning guns on postsecondary campuses, Judge Roy Moore explains how wrong that would be: The right to keep and bear arms was considered by our Founding Fathers to be one of the most...

Sibby for Senate to Serve you

Pat Powers has given out some political advice regarding my last post on issues and elections: In our imperfect world, people base their votes on several factors. And the truth is, whether they know a candidate or not is the...

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....

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...

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

State proposes to take control of home temps The California NAZI’s are at it again! California utilities would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards. Customers could not override the thermostats during “emergency events,” according to the proposal, part of [...]

Things are going well.....

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...

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

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?

Iowahawk: Bylines of Brutality

A second opinion for Glen Johnson

Step away from the thermostat

South Dakota Blogs

The Villany You Teach Me, I Will Execute

Dems Battle It Out Over Race

Bills Before The Legislature

Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

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

B. Hussein Obama Update

I do face paint very well, thank you.

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Caused by Design Flaw

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Glowbull Warming Notes

Jewett Drug closing

No politics in this post...

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

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

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