Once the video of this forum is up on the web, I will link it, should be in a few days. I did not attend, so all I know is what was in the Gargoyle;
“I’m fresh. I’m the new person. I’m the person that hasn’t been involved in [...]
Once the video of this forum is up on the web, I will link it, should be in a few days. I did not attend, so all I know is what was in the Gargoyle;
“I’m fresh. I’m the new person. I’m the person that hasn’t been involved in [...]
There is a box of malted milk balls on the table by my desk. Lynell’s candy jar is filled with leftover Halloween candy, and will be constantly half-full – like an optimist’s sweet tooth – for the rest of the season. Boxes arrive daily with summer sausage, crackers, spreads, chocolates, [...]
Erik Rush goes after the Progressive movement:
Those of us whom some would crown with tinfoil hats are not any more intellectually gifted than our fellows; we simply possess a broader perspective. For example: Progressives claim to corner the market on (among a multitude of other things) understanding and insight [...]
Lt. Gov. Dennis Daugaard, a candidate for next year's Republican gubernatorial nomination, has undertaken what I consider to be an ingenious campaign tactic: He's traveling around to small towns and offering a free supper to anyone who shows up to hear his campaign pitch.
His campaign sent us a [...]
Joe Schimmel points out those who foster convenient lies:
The sordid revelations discovered in recently leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit further confirm what many of us have long suspected regarding the global-warming hoax: that elitists are cherry-picking data, rigging peer reviews, ignoring pertinent facts [...]

I caught the latest proposal from Scott Heidepriem…..
Eliminate the practice of the State granting millions of dollars in “no-bid” contracts which stifle competition and create a culture of cronyism in which State contracts too often are awarded to political friends potentially at inflated amounts of state [...]
Jack Cashill tells us about another conspiracy
Dr. Richard Sternberg knows all about the kind of abuse global-warming skeptics have endured at the hands of the Climatic Research Unit in the brewing "Climategate" scandal.
Five years ago, Sternberg challenged the most vulnerable of the science establishment's paradigms, namely Darwinism and [...]
From An Exercise in Futility,
In a sense, eco-religion is a proto-religion. It illustrates why religion is the way it is. Everybody is capable of, and to a certain extent desires the chance, to engage in this kind of thinking – blind devotion to something in hopes that it will [...]

I’m sure this might incite a flame war with another blogger, but I couldn’t help myself when I noticed it was up for grabs.
If you were reading the SDWC last election, you’ll get the joke.
[...]Joseph Farah also believes in being honest:
I am sometimes accused of believing in and promoting "conspiracy theories."
To this charge, I must plead guilty.
For a long time, I have warned of a massive conspiracy to persuade the American public, in fact the population of the entire world, that [...]

It’s a mayoral wanna-be showdown for Sioux Falls.
Smoke at Sanford Underground Laboratory caused brief concern.
Game Fish and Parks keeps pheasant death sentences at old level.
Thune interested in very old wars as well as new ones.
[...] For the next couple of weeks I will be featuring paintings I have FOR SALE. I will be selling them for BEST OFFER unless otherwise noted You can leave your bid in the comments section, and if your bid wins, you can email me.
MAKE AN OFFER: ‘SINGAPORE’ From the Tom Waits series [...]
Yet ANOTHER set of reports on this…am going for the Q & D listing & minimal summary. Go to the header links for more details.
Former NASA climate scientist pleads guilty to contract fraud
A former top climate scientist who had become of one the scientific world’s most cited authorities on [...]
The reforms include:
Capping state spending at 3 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower, something Heidepriem has long pushed for in Pierre. Heidepriem contends that South Dakota cannot sustain its current average growth of 5.5 percent over the past eight years.
The implementation of across the board cuts in [...]

I have written about Jeff before, this is a must attend. I have to work late that night, but hope to catch up to the group later. Please convince him to come down to Touch of Europe to jam.
[...]
Herseth Sandlin Not Even Trying to Hide Support for Tax Hikes
Democrats Slam Families and Businesses Once Again with Permanent Death Tax Extension
Washington- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and her fellow Democrats have given up all attempts to hide their enamor with tax hikes, voting today to permanently extend the Death Tax and [...]
Difficult times seem to bring out the best in people. The economic stress of the past year has not changed that, according to officials of the Watertown Salvation Army.
More than 500 boxes of food are expected to be handed out to those in need. It’s estimated 35 percent of the [...]
I realize that the Supreme Court is generally considered about as staid a place as one could hope to visit. Nonetheless, I must applaud (if I may do so with reverential equanimity) Justice Thomas’ response to Justice Stevens on the latter’s belief that allowing people to stay on death row [...]
