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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...

Cyberattacks Hitting Powergrids

This seems like a big story (via Slashdot): "The CIA on Friday admitted that cyberattacks have caused at least one power outage affecting multiple cities outside the United States."

Branson?s Private Spaceflight: Update

Virgin Galactic Unveils Suborbital Spaceliner Design The Chief has previously noted with interest, Sir Richard Branson has been developing plans, and more to the point, technology to press ahead with Virgin Galactic - a venture into private suborbital spaceflight. The SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier will begin initial tests this summer to shakedown the novel spaceflight [...]

Fred Thompson Withdraws His Bid

Via email from the Thompson campaign: "Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be...

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

Anyone who is honestly trying to assemble a respectable jazz library, as I am, will be torn, with each selection, between the classics (works recorded more than, lets say, thirty years ago) and contemporary jazz. The former have one distinct...

SB26, SB154, and liberal fascism

Jon Schaff has an enormous book review of Jonah Goldberg?s hot book, "Liberal Fascism". Excerpt: Goldberg is on firmer ground when he discusses the ways modern Progressives use "the children" as the equivalent of war, an organizing principle to which...

Hyperion to turn SD into a dump site?

From the Argus Leader: The head of a group opposing the planned Hyperion oil refinery in Union County suggests it might really be a front for a series of landfills to bury trash from the East Coast - information that...

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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

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

Abortions Down 25%

Emotion versus thinking

The Gray Lady and Vets

New Blog Added

Hildy in the WSJ

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

VDH & McCain

Graves candidacy on hold

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Plutocrats to met in Davos

The Florida Contest

Hillary?s pre-K Nanny-statism

Anti-Americanism

Minor Correction

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

Taxpayer funded baby-sitting

Change is coming....

American Blogs