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The Catholic Church, Gov. Rounds and “balance”

The South Dakota State Library has now totally pulled down a teen section on its web site. The dispute started following complaints it contained a link to a Planned Parenthood site. The complaint that seems to have brought the most attention is when Robert Carlson, bishop of the Sioux Falls diocese of the Roman Catholic […]

South Dakota political notes

The Diedrich-Herseth race draws the attention of the The New York Times. My favorite quote comes from Diedrich: “She [Herseth] has done a very good job of running as a Republican.” Unfortunately, he is all too accurate.

The NY Times also reports that 48 Roman Catholic members of Congress have written a church representative objecting […]

Crossing Stephanie Herseth off my list

The Argus Leader editorial board met Wednesday with Stephanie Herseth and Larry Diedrich. The article on that meeting leads me to conclude I can no longer support Stephanie.

The “jump” headline from the article reads, “Candidates: Agree on War, PATRIOT Act.” The article itself says

• Knowing what we know now, would you support the […]

Whisper, innuendo and slime

On the “gay marriage” front, a couple months ago I mentioned the possibility of Stephanie Herseth facing a “she’s a lesbian, you know” whispering campaign. Well, it has started. I don’t claim or have any reason to believe the Diedrich campaign is behind this. The fact is, though, there’s plenty of sotto voce talk about […]

A circle of navel gazers

I occasionally check out some of the conservative (more accurately, anti-Daschle) blogs in South Dakota. (I won’t provide links. If you want can’t live without knowing, e-mail me.) Lately, it seems at least three love staring at each other’s navel.

First “X” erupts in indignation about some nefarious thing Tom Daschle, Stephanie Herseth or Dave […]