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J.A.I.L. Lies – Part 1

As promised in the last post, this is the first in an ongoing series of posts examining the arguments made by promoters of South Dakota’s Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) and how they misrepresent, misconstrue and even lie in an effort to sell the public their bill of goods.

The first few posts will focus […]

Ask and ye shall receive

A reader passed along to PP at South Dakota War College and me the homage paid us by Bonnie Russell, “publicist” for South Dakota’s Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.). PP has posted his reaction to the honor. I’m just jealous that he got the nod as the blogger “most critical” of J.A.I.L.

Bonnie seems to […]

Trying to change the signs at J.A.I.L.land

Go read PP’s latest on the latest efforts of the South Dakota Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) to get away from the national organization as Bill Stegmeier resigns from the national group and his position with them as the South Dakota’s “JAILer-in-Chief. ”

I want to add one thing to PP’s post. Most of us […]

Ahh, the power of blogs – Part 2

The South Dakota Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) and its “publicist” are awfully busy at their new website. Among other things, they’ve updated its FAQ and it actually made me feel good.

In explaining why the J.A.I.L.ers hired a publicist, they now note that “opponents to Amendment E sent reporters to California, which is also […]

Linkage and dicta

New York magazine takes a look at a “new generation of conspiracy theorists” drawn to the events of 9/11. (Via Arts & Letters Daily). The Online Computer Library Center has posted its 2005 list of the 1,000 books most owned by its member libraries. (Via boingboing). The shortlist for the 2006 Hugo Award for best […]