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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Obama's Minister Of Hate

As I wrote here, Barack Obama's Chicago church has some beliefs that are not, how shall we put it, mainstream. It is not clear precisely what the "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness" means, but in the context of the...

Things are going well.....

Progress in Iraq

The Iraqi National Assembly passed one of the two most critical benchmarks that the American government had pressed for Baghdad to adopt, the de-Baathification reform that will allow Sunnis to enter government jobs and take Iraq forward in national reconciliation:...

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What is a Nanny State?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Technical Note: Javascript Overhaul

"Dishonor"??

The end of Mike Huckabee

South Dakota Blogs

Change is nearly upon us....

New Blog Added

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

Should this bother us? RC Council votes to give Cabela's a carrot. A really, really expensive carrot.

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

SB 67 UPDATE

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

B. Hussein Obama Update

VDH & McCain

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

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

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

Pierre Nannyism Strikes Again!

We're All Keynesians Now

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Education is breaking the bank

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