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The South Dakota Constitution And Apportionment

How's that for a sexy title? Pat Powers takes Rep. Bill Thompson to task for submitting a bill (pdf alert) that requires South Dakota legislative districts be drawn by an independent commission rather than by the Legislature. Pat thinks this...

Clinton, Romney Win Nevada

Media outlets are calling the Nevada caucuses, giving Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney victory. With about twenty percent of precincts left to report in, Hillary edged out Obama and Edwards 50-45-3%. Romney won with 52% of the vote. Battles over...

The Florida Contest

Next Tuesday, we'll be heading into the Republicans' first closed primary in Florida, where we'll see if McCain can hold his advantage over Republican-only voters, whether Romney can win in a state not predisposed to support him, and whether Giulani's...

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Mike Huckabee Is the Campbell's Sea Salt Chef. Not.

But he darn sure looks like him. Back in December I pointed out that the actor who plays the chef on Campbell's sea salt commercials looks astoundingly like Mike Huckabee. I just found a blog from South Carolina (what a...

SD MSM riding shotgun on pre-K bill

Bill Harlan has this report on yesterday?s Senate Education Committee hearing On SB26, a bill: The South Dakota Department of Education would get the power to regulate and accredit pre-kindergarten schools under a bill a legislative committee approved Thursday. The...

A challenge from Stan's employee

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 [...]

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

Bipartisanship: Possible After All!

Stimulation-palooza moves forward: Pelosi, Boehner reach agreement

South Dakota Blogs

Much ado... Much ado...

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

Leader Of The Pack

What is a Nanny State?

Things are going well.....

VDH & McCain

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

Hillary?s pre-K Nanny-statism

HRC and the Economy

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Fed Takes The Bait

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

Towards an Islamic Reformation? - Update, with Nazi connections!

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Photographing the 1930s and 1940s

Abortions Down 25%

Tax breaks for the wealthy few?

Branson?s Private Spaceflight: Update

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