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From the Mitchell Daily Republic: Mitchell residents will have to wait two more weeks to hear if Superintendent of Schools Joe Graves will run for the state Legislature. In an unexpected action Monday, the school board amended its agenda and...

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...

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...

Liberal Fascism: A (Really Long) Review

Yesterday I completed Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism. This book is something of a sensation, rising to #1 on Amazon (as of this writing it is #5) and spawning considerable discussion. You can follow some of that discussion on Goldberg's Liberal...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the most influential men in American history. The son of a reverend born in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began the campaign for civil rights in 1953 by helping to...

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

Bush administration goes anti-gun

From WorldNetDaily: A Second Amendment advocacy organization is asking the Bush administration to withdraw a legal brief that leaders fear could be used to support "any gun ban ? no matter how sweeping," as long as some court somewhere determines...

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

What's New with the Blogs

Emotion versus thinking

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Blood Ritual in Queens

Coming soon: Power Line Book of the Year

Mystery in Brooklyn: Bomb factory at Columbia University professor?s home

South Dakota Blogs

Michigan: The Election Without Meaning

Archeology Find Matches Nehemiah Account

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Caused by Design Flaw

What is a Nanny State?

Plutocrats to met in Davos

B. Hussein Obama Update

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

When Did the History Channel Stop Doing History?

SDP@The Movies: Coverfield

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Cyberattacks Hitting Powergrids

Herpes, Right Wing Rants, and Todd Epp

Glowbull Warming Notes

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

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

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

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

Change is coming....

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