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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Ranging 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 PostAlthough I strive to stay away from the political, the events of recent weeks, the presidential election and the focus of this year’s Blog Action Day force me to a brief diversion. Recently, I am almost daily reminded of what many call Franklin Roosevelt’s proposal for a “second Bill of Rights.” I think it [...] Tim October 15th, 2008 | Tags: Politics | Category: Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIt should come as no surprise but, at least according to Amazon, South Dakota reads red. Not red as in my younger days (you know, them Commies). No, red as in the red state-blue state divide. Amazon has an Election 2008 map tracking political book buying. According to it, during the last 60 days a [...] Tim September 10th, 2008 | Tags: Books, South Dakota politics | Category: A Reading Life, Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI missed it when it was published last Friday but the NYT gave Jon Stewart some well-deserved love in a lengthy article asking, Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?. He is in my book and the article makes clear I’m not alone. It notes that in a 2007 poll by the Pew [...] Tim August 20th, 2008 | Tags: Daily Show, Media, Politics | Category: Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostPolitics are undoubtedly a primary topic of debate in bars around the country. It is extremely rare, though, when a political issue becomes a formal topic of debate and discussion for the South Dakota Bar Association. Yet that will be the case when a resolution dealing with the impeachment of Bush and Cheney will be [...] Tim June 6th, 2008 | Tags: Bush administration, Law, Politics | Category: Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostJust a couple items that came up during and since my NYC trip. First, the day I left South Dakota Moderate took note of the fact that the Virginia blogger at the Democratic Party-funded Badlands Blue blog was among those protesting the narrow selection of designated state bloggers for the party’s national convention. I do [...] Tim May 27th, 2008 | Tags: Politics | Category: Politics | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSo the Democratic National Committee has announced the bloggers from each state who will get floor credentials to cover this summer’s Democratic National Convention. And the pick from South Dakota: Badlands Blue. Guess that shows what the DNC thinks of South Dakota bloggers or South Dakota. As noted a while ago, Badlands Blue was actually [...] Tim May 14th, 2008 | Tags: blogs, Politics | Category: Politics, SD Blogosphere | 9 comments - (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. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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