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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...

Leader Of The Pack

Today the Argus Leader profiles NSU Men's Basketball coach Don Meyer. Last night coach Meyer won his 879th game as a head coach, tying Dean Smith for #2 all time. Just a couple snippets from the article: "Contrary to popular...

Tax breaks for the wealthy few?

Cory Heidelberger is agreeing with legislation sponsored by Joel Dykstra: There's still no way I'm voting for an Oral Roberts University graduate for Senate, and I remain suspicious of anyone who has made a living working for Big Oil, but...

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

Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code The Chief previously noted a potentially significant re-discovery of information relating to the historic development of the Koran as the keystone of Islam. Here’s some more commentary on the situation from Asia Times’ Spengler - one of the Chief’s favorite commentators. Andrew Higgins’ Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record [...]

The South Dakota Constitution & Redistricting

I write in support of my colleague, Professor Schaff's recent post on this topic. A bill has apparently been introduced that would create an independent commission to redraw South Dakota's election districts after every census. I agree with Professors Newquist...

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,...

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...

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

What's New with the Blogs

Senate passes SB26

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Hizb Ut-Tahrir Sets Up Shop in West Bank

Bipartisanship: Possible After All!

Mother Jones hearts John McCain

South Dakota Blogs

Towards an Islamic Reformation?

The Gray Lady and Vets

Emotion versus thinking

SDP@The Movies: Coverfield

Money In Reserve

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

Much ado... Much ado...

United Way, Planned Parenthood and Preschool

Beltway Insight From David Broder

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

SD MSM riding shotgun on pre-K bill

Change is coming....

Anti-Americanism

Clintonism

Graves candidacy on hold

The Florida Contest

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

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

American Blogs