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Amity Shlaes, author of the excellent and thought-provoking book The Forgotten Man, says that Ben Bernake should be worried about inflation, not deflation. Excerpt: Ben Bernanke is spooked. That's one explanation for the Federal Reserve chairman's decision to lead the...

The Republic & Nevada

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,...

Graves candidacy on hold

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...

Archeology Find Matches Nehemiah Account

First Temple seal found in Jerusalem A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem’s City of David, a prominent Israeli archeologist said Wednesday. Photo: Edwin Trebels courtesy [...]

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...

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 [...]

Towards an Islamic Reformation?

The Lost Archive Missing for a half century, a cache of photos spurs sensitive research on Islam’s holy text On the night of April 24, 1944, British air force bombers hammered a former Jesuit college here housing the Bavarian Academy of Science. The 16th-century building crumpled in the inferno. Among the treasures lost, later lamented Anton Spitaler, an [...]

Hillary?s pre-K Nanny-statism

I see Todd Epp is happy that we are debating the definition of a Nanny State. Here is more that supports my premise that the move to government controlled preschools are the height of nanny-statism: Last May, just as the...

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

Chelsea Clinton and America Ferrera: Dumbing down politics

South Dakota Blogs

Plutocrats to met in Davos

Change is nearly upon us....

The Fed Takes The Bait

Branson?s Private Spaceflight: Update

A challenge from Stan's employee

HRC and the Economy

The South Dakota Constitution & Redistricting

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Emotion versus thinking

Leader Of The Pack

Heil MicroSSoft!

Bush administration goes anti-gun

SB26, SB154, and liberal fascism

Beltway Insight From David Broder

We're All Keynesians Now

Why should we be surprised?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

American Blogs