Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman? (Via Discourse.net). From a reader e-mail, here’s an interesting concept I plan on studying a bit closer: What would it mean for both the state and our individual pocketbooks if we replace all current South Dakota taxes with a state income tax? The Guardian takes a look […]
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Last night, I was listening to To The Best of Our Knowledge, about the only radio program I make an effort to catch every week. (Airs at 10 p.m. every Sunday on the MPR news stations.) In a program called Blame Canada?, they interviewed an individual named Michael Adams. Adams wrote a book exploring the […] A public service announcement offered solely for informational purposes without comment pro or con: Grassroot Democrats is sponsoring “A Blue Party in a Red State” the night of the inaugural. It will be held from 7-10:30 p.m. January 20 at the Downtown Holiday Inn in Sioux Falls. There is a $10.00 cover charge per person. […] The WaPo reports U.S. charities have raised more than $337 million so far for the Indian Ocean tsunami but notes that is far less than the $2 billion raised for the families of the roughly 3,000 people killed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. At the same time, in an op-ed piece for the […] Here’s the NY Times version of a story making the rounds nationally: Armstrong Williams, a prominent conservative commentator . . . acknowledged yesterday that he was paid $240,000 by the Department of Education to promote its initiatives on his syndicated television program and to other African-Americans in the news media. *** The disclosure about the […] |
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