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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...

Say one thing and vote another

That was what Senator Dave Knudson did yesterday. SB 59 was a request from the Board of Regents to increase the Opportunity Scholarship amount to $6,000. Knudson said this: Republican Sen. David Knudson of Sioux Falls said perhaps additional value...

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...

Education is breaking the bank

There were two events yesterday by Democrats that promoted more taxpayer funding of education. Senator Tim Johnson was in Mitchell covering the federal government?s role: U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson said during an education roundtable Wednesday in Mitchell that money being...

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

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

Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

The results last night in Michigan, a Romeny win over McCain and a Clinton victory over no one, mean this: almost nothing. On the GOP side it means Romney is not dropping out, but other than that the candidates continue...

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 [...]

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Saturday Morning Linkatorium

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Middle Eastern election observers in Nevada?

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One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Sigh

The New Masterpiece

Sen. Johnson In Aberdeen

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

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

One brave woman

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

Pierre Nannyism Strikes Again!

The Ides of Michigan

Militants Overrun Pakistan Fort

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Change is coming....

Beltway Insight From David Broder

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

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