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The Republic is a collective person, formed from the decisions of voters as they coalesce into groups, and focused by elections and by constitutional bodies like the President and Congress into images called policy. We can see this process work,...

New Blog Added

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?

HRC and the Economy

New York Times: "Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy to address what she called the excesses of the market and of the Bush administration."...

SDP@The Movies: Coverfield

Giant monsters had their celluloid moment in the 1950's. The grandfather of them all was Godzilla, a super-sized dinosaur whose radioactive breath expressed the all too real terrors of the atomic age, but whose slow pace as he flattened some...

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

The Negative Side of Affirmative Action

My Keloland colleague, Todd Epp has a piece on his primary web site calling for more minority lawyers. It is a serious argument, and I sympathize with the premise: that more minority lawyers (doctors, computer technicians, etc.,) would be in...

What's New with the Blogs

SB26, SB154, and liberal fascism

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Blood Ritual in Queens

At least he didn't take it personally

Hillary and Barack: The photo album

South Dakota Blogs

Money In Reserve

A challenge from Stan's employee

Herpes, Right Wing Rants, and Todd Epp

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

Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

SDP Jazz Note: Brad Mehldau & The Art of the Trio

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

Elections without issues

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

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

Sibby for Senate to Serve you

The Florida Contest

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

California: Big Brother Alive and Well!

The Ides of Michigan

When Did the History Channel Stop Doing History?

Social Services and Education are being hogs

Taxpayer funded baby-sitting

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