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From the Mitchell Daily Republic: Mitchell residents will have to wait two more weeks to hear if Superintendent of Schools Joe Graves will run for the state Legislature. In an unexpected action Monday, the school board amended its agenda and...

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

From Keloland: The Sioux Empire United Way set the bar high with an $8.6 million goal for 2008. The organization did better than that, surpassing $9 million. Campaign Chair Ray Trankle says it can only mean good things for the...

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 [...]

Elections without issues

Dave Kranz covers the latest developments in District 20: State Rep. Mike Vehle, a Mitchell Republican, has cleared some of the air on what is going on with the District 20 Senate race that includes Aurora and Davison counties. With...

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...

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

Change is nearly upon us....

When Did the History Channel Stop Doing History?

Tune your television to the History Channel for about fifteen minutes and you'll see advertisements for shows on Big Foot, conspiracy theories and 9/11, some show on the universe, life after people, and their new show, Monster Quest, and the...

What's New with the Blogs

Clinton and centralized control

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Lionheart Drops the Mask

Bobby Fischer, RIP

Jerk update: Guilty troop-hating lawyer Jay Grodner to serve probation, donate to Semper Fi Fund

South Dakota Blogs

Sigh

SD MSM riding shotgun on pre-K bill

Bills Before The Legislature

Jewett Drug closing

Pierre Nannyism Strikes Again!

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

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Mike Huckabee Is the Campbell's Sea Salt Chef. Not.

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

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

SB 67 UPDATE

One brave woman

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Caused by Design Flaw

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

Change is coming....

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Abortions Down 25%

Heil MicroSSoft!

American Blogs