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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Okay, I’ve got a poli sci degree, I was a political reporter and I stay fairly up to date. But I evidently have grown or remain blindly (or perhaps happily) ignorant to much of politics. For the first time in my 36 years as a registered voter, I voted Tuesday as a registered Republican. The [...]            Tim June 9th, 2010 | Tags: Dave Knudson, elections, Politics, South Dakota politics | Category: Politics, State and local matters | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostThere are events in everyone’s life that affect our views and attitudes even if we are not personally or even indirectly involved. One of the events that impacted the course and development of my political views happened 40 years ago today — the shootings at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard that left four [...] Tim May 4th, 2010 | Tags: history, Kent State shootings, Politics | Category: Personal/Family, Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostSeems a California man’s appointment as a special assistant attorney general by South Dakota AG Marty Jackley is causing a bit of stir in California politics. California’s FlashReport blog reports that when Republican John Eastman formally filed as a candidate for California Attorney General yesterday, the former law school dean listed his occupation, which will [...] Tim March 18th, 2010 | Tags: Law, Politics | Category: Law, Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThere’s been tons of commentary on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which the Supreme Court said the government can’t restrict corporations from spending money to support or oppose individual candidates in elections. Yet there’s been meager discussion on one issue the decision raises — judicial activism. For years we’ve heard the GOP rallying [...] Tim January 25th, 2010 | Tags: Law, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court | Category: Law, Politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostHow pervasive is the power of politics? About as pervasive as you can get, as evidenced by word that Sarah Palin is going to be at the local B&N for a book-signing on December 6. Palin is unquestionably the highest profile “author” to hit the local B&N. At least in my memory (which admittedly gets [...] Tim November 10th, 2009 | Tags: Books, Culture, Politics | Category: Culture, Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWith the Cold War being waged for more than half my life, I was among the many millions fascinated with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years ago today, the East German government — intentionally or not — opened up its borders. For most, it is also perhaps the most substantive symbol of the [...] Tim November 9th, 2009 | Tags: foreign affairs, history, national issues, Politics | Category: Politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostRanging a bit far afield from the usual topics of this blog but dealing with a subject of professional interest, a couple recent items reinforced this country’s problem with immigration. It isn’t illegal immigrants — it’s the fact our immigration system is broken. Our immigration law labyrinth is not only a factor in illegal [...] Tim October 29th, 2009 | Tags: immigration, Law, national issues, Politics | Category: Law, Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostPerhaps ironically apropos for Banned Books Week is the following: “When author J.K. Rowling was proposed as a recipient for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, [President George W.] Bush nixed the idea because Rowling’s Harry Potter series ‘encouraged witchcraft.’” Truly a WTF??? moment. Now whether Bush himself canned the idea is open to debate. The [...] Tim September 28th, 2009 | Tags: Books, Bush administration | Category: A Reading Life, Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostDo you feel it? We South Dakotans have the most personal freedom in the country, at least according to a new study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Technically, we are third but the two political science professors who authored the study say South Dakota is in “a virtual tie” with New Hampshire [...] Tim May 15th, 2009 | Tags: civil liberties, Politics | Category: Politics, State and local matters | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostI try to stay away from politics. But sometimes I can’t, such as when its sanctimony is on display in adjoining headlines on two local front page stories in this morning’s local daily. Headline 1: “Thousands protest federal spending” Headline 2: “Water project reaps windfall” That’s right. We held a tea party to haughtily throw [...] Tim April 16th, 2009 | Tags: Politics | Category: Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |       The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. 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