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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...

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

Gov. Romney dominates collecting vote of REPUBLICAN party conservative core. Donks & Independents prefer McCain as their fave candidate for GOP. Hello!? It IS the Republican party! ’nuff said.

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...

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 [...]

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:...

Minor Correction

Prof. Blanchard and I seem to agree on the constitutional issues regarding apportionment of South Dakota's legislative districts. I just offer one minor correction to Prof. Blanchard's post. He writes: I disagree with Professor Schaff only in so far as...

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...

Money In Reserve

The Aberdeen American News reports on the amount and percentage various school districts have in reserve. This, of course, is controversial as the governor has criticized school districts for baying for more money while have plentiful reserves. Aberdeen district has...

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