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Currently ReadingRecently Read | In today’s sound-bite world, it is easy to forget that cogent maxims can be more than buzzwords and arise from more substantive expressions of thought. Although they may encapsulate a principle or theme, they aren’t necessarily designed to be a 15-second snippet. Wisdom of Progressive Voices, compiled and edited by Joanne Boyer, is a good [...]            Tim August 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Book Reviews, nonfiction, Politics, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostYears ago the professor in my political ideologies class laid out a view of the political spectrum that I’ve never forgotten. It does not, he said, resemble a line with a far left, a far right and a center. Instead, it is a nearly closed circle where the extremes of the spectrum are turning back [...] Tim October 6th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, nonfiction, Politics | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostConspiracy theories abound, many of which involve the federal government acting alone or in conjunction with others. Now I admit I love to read about conspiracy theories. My bookshelves contain plenty of works on this or that theory (the JFK assassination or 9/11, for example) or compilations of them (Everything Is Under Control or The [...] Tim June 18th, 2010 | Tags: 9/11, conspiracy theories, modernity, Politics | Category: Modern Life | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostOkay, 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 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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