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From WorldNetDaily: Was Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care plan really a proposal for broad, unprecedented, sweeping, centralized control over a sector of the economy as critics called it back in the 1990s? Yes, according to a June 18, 1993, internal memo...

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

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...

What is a Nanny State?

Pat Powers responded to my previous post on the pre-K legislation and the Nanny State. Excerpt: When I look at things and quantify them as being part of the nanny state, one of the key things I look at are...

Things are going well.....

Pierre Nannyism Strikes Again!

When heard on the radio this morning driving to the school where the Chief currently teaches, there was a sudden need to focus on not driving off the road! Somebody up at Pierre needs a good sharp whack upside the head with a cluebat. Nanny State alert: SB 67 - Mandatory applications for college PP at [...]

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...

Photographing the 1930s and 1940s

A number of color photos from the Great Depression and World War II (via Instapundit).

What's New with the Blogs

Senate passes SB26

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Iowahawk Document Dump

One Out of Three Ain't Bad

The Louisiana GOP caucuses

South Dakota Blogs

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

Waiting for Reagan

Cyberattacks Hitting Powergrids

Romney Takes Michigan Gold

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

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

Minor Correction

HRC and the Economy

Obama's Minister Of Hate

Inflation, not Deflation

Bush administration goes anti-gun

Fred Thompson Withdraws His Bid

The Florida Contest

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

Leader Of The Pack

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

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

SB26, SB154, and liberal fascism

American Blogs