President Bush’s failure to deliver sufficient drought aid to South Dakota was considered a key factor in John Thune’s 2002 loss to Sen. Tim Johnson. News that South Dakota was left out of a federal drought relief program will likely rekindle the issue in the Thune-Daschle race. I find interesting Thune’s comment that “I […]
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Peter Bergen is CNN’s terrorism analyst and wrote an account of bin Laden and al Qaeda that even the National Review Book Service calls “definitive” and “essential reading“. In light of Dubya’s assertions that “the American people are safer” because of the Iraq war, check out Bergen’s recent article about the impact of the […] More details regarding the teen page on the South Dakota State Library web site raises more questions about the propriety of Gov. Mike Rounds’ decision to yank the page. Contrary to Rounds’ initial assertions, it turns out this wasn’t a page developed by just two people at the State Library. Instead, the page was previewed […] The South Dakota State Library has now totally pulled down a teen section on its web site. The dispute started following complaints it contained a link to a Planned Parenthood site. The complaint that seems to have brought the most attention is when Robert Carlson, bishop of the Sioux Falls diocese of the Roman Catholic […] I was working on a variety of posts, the inadvertent destruction of pertinent military payroll records of Dubya’s, the sorry state of reading in America, and the GOP’s appalling efforts to preserve one of the Patriot Act’s more offensive provisions. But while surfing I came across a site that made me think, “Screw it.” Feel […] |
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