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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...

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...

I do face paint very well, thank you.

Was this about the headphones joke? Geese. Ouch. I surrender. And it's just the Claremont Institute for Clowns now. The other circus programs lost their academic standing. So I call Lifeline and my call gets directed to an operator in...

Much ado... Much ado...

Glowbull Warming Notes

THere’s been more and more coming out…from the scientific world…in the nature of inconvenient truths that, contrary to AlGor et al, climate is being driven by the sun…and, global temperature seems to have peaked in 1998! SOMEBODY…ANYBODY… PLEASE HIT ALGORE WITH A CLUEBAT & SHUT HIM UP! Firstly, from the Boston Globe (not exactly a bastion [...]

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

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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...

What's New with the Blogs

What is a Nanny State?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Steyn: The Canadian 'Human Rights' Sham

Bylines of brutality

Hugo Chavez is a coca-head

South Dakota Blogs

The New York Times' Jaundiced Reporting on Veterans

Taxpayer funded baby-sitting

The South Dakota Constitution & Redistricting

Social Services and Education are being hogs

Money In Reserve

Why should we be surprised?

Clinton, Romney Win Nevada

SB 67 UPDATE

Militants Overrun Pakistan Fort

The Sacred Fire Of Liberty

VDH & McCain

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Obama's Minister Of Hate

Defending The Nanny (Sort Of)

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

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

Education is breaking the bank

American Blogs