KELO did an “Eye on Keloland” bit Thursday night about the Governor’s race and their thoughts on trying to cut/contain the state budget. They profiled each candidate and gave them the opportunity to say why they would be best, a fairly typical news piece. So, I thought I’d comment and [...]
David Limbaugh points out another intolerant from teh secular left:
It seems the mainstream media's favorite pastime is to ridicule Sarah Palin. Of all the screeds I've read, I don't think any are snarkier than the Washington Post's Sally Quinn's "On Faith" blog post "Sarah Palin's 'rogue' Christianity."
Do we [...]
Looks like many of today's scientists are more political than factual:
Officials at a key global warming research center in the United Kingdom have authenticated a series of e-mails and other documents apparently taken from their computer system by a hacker, but they cannot explain what scientists in internal exchanges [...]
Cory Heidelberger will not accept the truth of Natural Law as applied to economics. Ilana Mercer presents it to argue on behalf of "property rights"...a natural right that Cory has a hard time understanding:
Going against the GOP grain, fleetingly, Dick Armey took on a former Clinton lackey named David [...]
Just some random thoughts about He Who Blessed the Waffle.
President Obama went to China. He said lots of nice things about Chinese Civilization. He spoke to a small group of Chinese students, which event was blacked out on Chinese TV. He got nothing in terms of agreements or cooperation [...]
VIRUS in the VOTING MACHINES: Tainted Results in NY-23
The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any [...]
Reported by that bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy called the New York Times!
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists [...]
In light of President Obama's recent incident of bowing to the Emperor of Japan, here's a cartoon for today:
From the Watertown Public Opinion:
And….
And…
Read the entire article at the Watertown Public Opinion.
What have I been saying? The Wind Companies are now literally left twisting in the wind with all this generating capacity, [...]
Larry Elder makes a great point with a history lesson you will not get in the Progressive's government schools:
"The political risks of failure are pretty high."
A former congressional aide offered this ominous assessment following the House of Representatives' passage of "health-care reform." Warning to the Senate: President Obama [...]
Todd Epp over at Middle Border Sun (AKA SD Watch) suggests that his party takes it’s bad, bad blue dog out and give it a swat on the nose with a newspaper:
My former colleagues at South Dakota Public Radio give our poor, maligned sole United States Representative a bully pulpit [...]
From the Argus:
Sen. John Thune will receive the Charles Dick Medal of Merit by the National Guard Association of the United States.
and…
The Charles Dick Medal of Merit recognizes public servants at the state and federal level who demonstrate support for the National Guard.
[...]
(For Republicans only!)
What’s your read on the Congressional Race? Do you like Blake Curd’s position on Obamacare? Do you appreciate Chris Nelson’s track record as SOS? Or do you want to send Pork Bellies to North Korea? Take a moment, and give us the pulse of popular [...]
I’m starting to wonder if there’s any Republican political philosophy behind GOP Congressional candidate Thad Wasson other than throwing stuff against the wall and seeing if anything sticks.
I love an underdog, but there’s a difference between being an underdog, and barking at the moon.
Recently on the candidate blog he’s [...]
On the issue of global warming this morning, we have this:
So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory – a scandal that is one of the greatest [...]
Ann Coulter points out the silliness of the diversity nuts, and has a solution, if we still have a separation of powers in DC:
Among the worst aspects of America's "diversity" is that liberals' reaction to a heterogeneous population is to create a pecking order based on alleged victimhood – [...]
Owner of juice bar squeezed by state law.
Habitual DUI gets 5 years in the can.
Everyone running for governor in South Dakota from the two major parties is (or was) a Republican.
Love coffee? Slurp it.
Because of hard economic times, the state government can no longer afford to increase economic activity by selling products made in South Dakota:
The Made In South Dakota Internet site is about to become window shopping only.
The Rounds administration is removing the shopping cart function.
When the [...]
Work site arrests of illegals fall dramatically
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday.
Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show [...]
Let’s see…B.O.’s had the information and proposals from HIS selected commanding combat General since August. It’s now November. Meanwhile the conduct of the war continues to stagnate, our local allies hold their breath as they wait to decide whether and/or when to jump ship, and any potential local allies take [...]
As more information comes out over time, the self-affiliation of the terrorist assassin Hasan as an Islamic jihadi continues to thicken.
Major Hasan’s E-Mail: ‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife
American Official Says Accused Shooter Asked Radical Cleric When Is Jihad Appropriate?
United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told [...]
No. An internet rumor circulating to that effect, and it landed in my email. There is an interesting footnote here, but so far as I can tell there is no evidence at all that Nidal Malik Hasan had any connection to the Obama campaign or to the Administration.
Here is [...]
Because spending money on actual disease control and prevention would be so . . . plebian:
More than a decade after Congress cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another federal health agency has been spending millions of dollars to study such topics [...]
The most anti of the anti-Americans has to be the ACLU:
Eric Holder called his decision to try the suspected plotters of 9/11 in New York City “the toughest decision I’ve had to make as attorney general.” It was unarguably the most controversial one. In my opinion, it was also [...]
Walter E. Williams also understands that both political parties favor big government:
Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being master of ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington, D.C., that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Founded in 1981, the [...]
Jesse Jackson has been established as a leader of the Black/Negro/African-American community by . . . by . . . well, himself–and the media who are there to catch his every word:
Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We [...]
Watch out for Medicare scams. (Seems like I should be saying this to Congress.)
OSHA to see if anyone needs to pay penalties to government for worker’s death in wall collapse.
South Dakota unemployment now at 5 percent.
Everything old is new again: school to use wood-fueled boiler for [...]
The Pew Center has this interesting study:
South Dakota's state government might be in relatively better shape financially than most states throughout the nation, but a new national report indicates South Dakota is in worse shape than all but one of its neighbors.
The financial-health report distributed earlier this [...]
Using more expensive forms of energy will injure an economy. Such is the case with renewable fuels:
Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is has reduced its cellulosic ethanol production cost during the past year from $4.13 per gallon to $2.35 per gallon.
The Sioux Falls-based company plans [...]
