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  • Sacrificial lamb or somebody who had to go?

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    By Kevin Woster Last week I wrote that President Barack Obama hadn’t asked American’s to sacrifice in finding a solution to our financial crisis. My guess is that Rick Wagoner would disagree. Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors for the last nine years, has been booted by the Obama Administration for failing to [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 8:27am EDT
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  • Technological gag order in effect until Monday

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    By Kevin Woster The people here at the Journal who actually understand the computer system (that wouldn’t be me) are fixing up the blogs this weekend. They’ll be easier to operate after the fix. But they’ll also be down for the weekend. So if you try to post and don’t get approved, it [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 9:26am EDT
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  • Sleepless in the White House? Who wouldn’t be?

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    By Kevin Woster Seriously, how does the guy sleep? If I were Barack Obama, I’d be lying in bed every night, staring at the ceiling. Wait, I already do that, and that’s just from thinking about my deflated retirement accounts and the repair bill on the ‘91 Miata. I don’t even carry the [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 8:28am EDT
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  • Herseth Sandlin plays political cards close to the vest

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    By Kevin Woster Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin tells a Gannett reporter in Washington, D.C., that she will decide her next political move by the end of summer. Say what? Maybe it’s just me, but that seems like a long time to wait - if you’re, say, Scott Heidepriem. Heidepriem, a state senator from Sioux [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 1:04pm EDT
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  • It seemed like a pretty good question to me

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    By Kevin Woster NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd has taken some criticism over his question last night to President Barack Obama: Where’s the sacrifice? Since this is the equivalent of a financial war, what are U.S. citizens being asked to sacrifice? I think Todd asked a good question. It’s not quite as good [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
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  • ‘A better day will come’

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    By R.R. President Obama’s opening remarks for tonight’s news conference: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary EMBARGOED UNTIL 8PM March 24, 2009 EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT’S OPENING REMARKS AT TONIGHT’S NEWS CONFERENCE [W]e’ve put in place a comprehensive strategy designed to attack this crisis on all fronts. It’s a strategy to create jobs, to [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
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  • Cooking the books

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    By Randall Rasmussen President Barack Obama speaks to the nation tonight about his proposed $3.6 trillion budget in a televised address. The Congressional Budget Office, meanwhile, released its estimates on Friday that Obama’s budget would generate deficits totaling $9.3 trillion over the next decade. That’s a number that’s four times the [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
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  • Cabela’s asks for lower assessment

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    By Scott Aust Less than six months after opening its brand-spankin’ new store in Rapid City, outdoor outfitter Cabela’s is appealed its $13 million property assessment to the local board of equalization Thursday morning. Shannon Rittberger, Pennington County’s director of equalization stands by his department’s assessment and noted it is actually [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 5:34pm EDT
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  • Have another hit - of CLEEEEEEEAN air

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    By Kevin Woster OK, I owe Guggeheimer a buffalo burger. The governor signed HB1240, which would extend the ban on smoking to bars, casinos and restaurants with liquor licenses That’s just what public-radio’s Paul Guggenheimer predicted Rounds would do, as he dared me to bet otherwise. But becamse I’m a gambler, a risk taker, [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
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  • Whipping up outrage over AIG

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    By Randall Rasmussen The newest public whipping boy has to be AIG, the giant insurance company that plans to give $165 million in bonuses to its executives. The insurance company said it was obligated to hand out the bonuses by contracts that predate the $170 billion in bailout money it received last [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 11:48pm EDT
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  • I’ll see your buffalo burger, and raise you a pack of candy cigs

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    By Kevin Woster Soon, the buffalo burger will be mine. Unless, of course, it’s Guggenheimer’s. We could find out tomorrow, when Gov. Mike Rounds meets with reporters in person and by telephone in his post-Legislature news conference. In it, he could say what he decided to do with HB1240, the bill approved by [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 1:19pm EDT
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  • A matter of conscience

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    By Randall Rasmussen Thirty-six senators this week signed a letter to President Obama condemning the proposal to rescind the rule giving conscience protection to health care professionals. Before President Bush left office in January, the administration issued a conscience protection rule, granting health care professionals to right to follow their own [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
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  • NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED: T Woo is pretty cool

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    By KW Had I been there myself, I’d have been beaming like an idiot. I wasn’t there. But capital newshound Bob Mercer did some beaming on my behalf, caught on public television, as the South Dakota Legislature honored my brother, Terry, with House Commemoration No. 1027. Today is Terry’s last day of covering [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 2:39pm EDT
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  • A bad earmark? I know one when I see one - in another state

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    By Kevin Woster Question: What’s the difference between a good earmark and a bad one? Answer: The good ones come to South Dakota. The bad ones go everywhere else. OK, it’s not that simple. And I agree with earmark advocates - including, near as I can tell, EVERY member of Congress who has [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
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  • Life is so-so

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    By Scott Aust All we need now is a guy in a white beard and robe standing on a street corner with an “End is Near” sign. According to numbers available today Rapid City’s new unemployment rate is now at 5.8 5.1 percent, up from last month’s 4.4 percent. And those [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 4:35pm EDT
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  • Johnson takes rain check on card check vote, for now

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    By Kevin Woster Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson said today that there isn’t enough support in the Senate to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. “There are not enough votes to support this legislation, so far,” Johnson said during his weekly telephone conference call with reporters. Right now, the act doesn’t even have his [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 2:51pm EDT
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  • Man wants to pay at the friends of Obama rate

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    By Randall Rasmussen The following letter to the editor of the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times Record News (www.timesrecordnews.com) was read by Glenn Beck on his radio show Tuesday. Dear IRS, I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
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  • Free choice for union organizing or loss of democratic rights?

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    By Kevin Woster Former Sen. George McGovern isn’t so fond of the Employee Free Choice Act, which he says would “effectively deny millions a right to a private vote” on whether to form a union. In the advertisement by the Employee Freedom Action Committee, McGovern says he has alwyas been a champion [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
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  • Thune turns up nose to global warming

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    By Randall Rasmussen In what must be blow to global warming alarmists, Sen. John Thune introduced a bill last week that would prevent the government from regulating bovine emissions. The legislation would prevent the EPA from imposing what Thune sarcastically called a “cow tax.” Thune said in a release that EPA’s tax [...]
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    Posted: March 07, 2009, 10:39pm EST
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  • Star of the West shines brightly in state prison skies

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    By Kevin Woster It’s not that we’re bad folks. We just end up in prison a lot. As, say, compared to people down in Sioux Falls. State Corrections Secretary Tim Reisch told a legislative committee Friday that Pennington County has the highest number of prisoners per capita of any county in the state. [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 2:15pm EST
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  • Awl-right, Hamilton!

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    By Scott Aust Doug Hamilton continues to have trouble with his crumbling real estate empire. The latest blow: a circuit judge ruled against him in foreclosure actions affecting $1.6 million in buildings and properties. Business reporter Jeremy Fugleberg has the story here. I wonder what kind of impact Hamilton’s current financial [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 6:52pm EST
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  • Enjoy your freedom

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    By Scott Aust Holocaust survivor Jack van der Geest passed away Thursday morning, two days removed from the 66th anniversary of his escape from the Nazi’s Buchenwald concentration camp. I had the chance to hear van der Geest talk a little bit about his experience this past Monday and it was [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 6:12pm EST
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  • Meaner than a junkyard chairman? We’ll see

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    By Kevin Woster As the new state chairman for the Republican Party, Sen. Bob Gray of Pierre has some predictable goals: * Hold onto the governor’s chair, which Republicans have held since 1979, and the U.S. Senate seat that John Thune took from Tom Daschle in 2004. * Regain the U.S. House seat, [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 1:09pm EST
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  • It’s a like a tracking poll, on a ski slope, covered with ice

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    By Kevin WOster It made sense to me at 6:15 this morning, when I was plugging away on one of those torture machines at the YMCA, watching the news on my own little TV set. Barack Obama said we’re worrying to much about stock-market swings, and pointed out that it’s a great [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 2:59pm EST
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  • “Am I behind him? Absolutely. Hey, how about them Bulls!”

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    By Kevin Woster So, just how good of a cabinet nominee was Tom Daschle? So good it took two people to fill the jobs he was going to handle himself. At least, that’s what Barack Obama seems to be saying by nominating Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for U.S. Health and Human Services [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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  • Can Obama fail and the country succeed?

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    By Randall Rasmussen Can you wish for the president to fail and at the same time for the country to succeed? Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has created a stir by stating he hopes Barack Obama fails. He spoke to at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday in Washington. [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 9:51pm EST
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  • Chew it well before you take another bite, please

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    By Kevin Woster Somewhere between the Afghanistan invasion and the Iraq invasion, I started to wonder if we really knew what we were doing. As a nation., I mean, under the leadership of George W. Bush. That’s not intended to be satire, or to promote the easy personal attacks on Bush that sometimes [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 11:39am EST
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  • Speaking of handouts

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    By Scott Aust You’ve probably seen them. Stumbling drunk, reeking of malt liquor as they ask for spare change. Downtown business owners this week aired their concerns about panhandlers and public intoxication as you can read here. But the issue isn’t limited to downtown. You can see the same thing going [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 12:44pm EST
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  • When Obama speaks …

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    By R.R. I had to work Tuesday night, so I missed President Obama’s first address to Congress. My name has somehow fallen into the clutches of the White House press office and they have e-mailed me a copy of the speech which I’ll read tomorrow when I get the time. In the [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 12:03am EST
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  • Son of Sally says Stephanie soon to say 2010 plans

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    By Kevin Woster You heard it here second. Or maybe third, depending on what Dave Kranz has written in his columns the last couple weeks. (Sorry, Kranzman, I got caught up in Cormack McCarthy’s “The Road” and the latest issue of Gray’s Sporting Journal - I know, odd combination - and got [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 2:38pm EST
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  • Showing class is a pretty good way to start, on anything

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    By Kevin Woster The McCain thing? Pretty cool. In calling on his past campaign adversary, Arizona Sen. John McCain, for the opening comment in the closing session of his “fiscal responsibility summit” Monday, President Barack Obama showed he has both political IQ and class. The president’s gracious acknowledgement of McCain’s history of budget [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 11:24am EST
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  • The retro economy

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    By Randall Rasmussen It never fails. Every time President Obama talks about the economy, the Dow Jones industrial average drops like a stone. While Obama and congressional lawmakers were busy Monday coming up with a plan to implement fiscal restraint -– quick, someone, anyone, come up with a plan! -– the Dow [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 8:01pm EST
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  • Who’s afraid of the big, bad race discussion?

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    By Kevin Woster Who’s afraid? We are, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. In calling America “a nation of cowards” for failing to do enough to engage each other on the race issue, Holder got what he surely wanted: a reaction. If he’d been more careful, and fairer, in his choice of words, [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 9:39pm EST
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  • Sure you can get it, it’s getting out that’ll be tough

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    By Kevin Woster A sign much like that headline always made me chuckle when I’d stop at Kone’s Korner up south of Watertown and check out the guns. They had a great gun selection up there, in a little old building that didn’t have the latest in security systems. But the staff [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2009, 2:24pm EST
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  • One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more…

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    By Kevin Woster The hearts of Mount Blogmore go out to Sen. Tim Johnson and his family today for the loss of the senator’s 88-year-old mother, who died Thursday evening in East Lansing, Mich. It’s easy to say that Ruth Johnson, a native of Platte, lived a good, long life and that [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 4:28pm EST
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  • SCI plant to shut down

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    By Scott Aust Citing the recession and economy, Sanmina-SCI announced today it will close in June, putting 275 people out of work. Business reporter Jeremy Fugleberg will have a story in Friday’s Journal, but here’s what an e-mailed statement from the company said: “The company understands and deeply regrets the hardships this [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 5:36pm EST
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  • Taxing tourists to save the arts council, other stuff

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    By Kevin Woster Talk about a traveling troupe of tourism taxers, and odd legislative mates. Black Hills tourism guru Bill Honerkamp and House Democratic leader Bernie Hunhoff agree: A half-penny hike in the summer tourism tax should be used to save the South Dakota Arts Council and help plug other leaks in [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 2:02pm EST
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  • A little too much government in the gun case?

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    By Kevin Woster A bill to prohibit public universities from restricting gun possession on campuses died in the state Legislature in Pierre today, again. HB 1257 fell in the House Education Committee on an 11-3 vote. If proponents can’t revive the idea, the Board of Regents and their individual university presidents can [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 3:57pm EST
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  • The only thing we have to fear

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    By Randall Rasmussen During the debate in Congress over the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, President Obama repeatedly warned the country of “catastrophe” — which the dictionary defines as a “sudden disaster” — if the bill wasn’t passed immediately. Members of Congress were in such a hurry to pass the 1,000-page legislation [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 10:52pm EST
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  • The political co-efficient of economic dispersion, times 2010

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    By Kevin Woster Sum total, a winner or loser for Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and John Thune? Good question. I’m glad I asked. (Pardon me, while I talk to myself.) Herseth Sandlin and Thune are both up for reelection next year. And they both had to vote on Barack Obama’s $787 billion - yes, [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 12:43pm EST
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  • Hillary in flight under the radar? Who would have figured

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    By Kevin Woster Hey, what’s Hillary Clinton up to these days? Apparently, she’s over at the State Department, operating in relative calm. Who woulda figured? I mean, Richardson, Geithner, Daschle, Killefer and Gregg all churned up some rough water for the Good Ship Obama. And Clinton? Heck, it’s been smooth sailing for her. Could you have [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 3:38pm EST
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  • Inmates, inmates, who gets the inmates?

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    By Kevin Woster Nobody wants a prison in their backyard. Or across the street. Or up the boulevard a block or two. “Not in my backyard” becomes “not in my neighborhood, or anywhere near my neighborhood” in cases like this. And this “case” is the proposed minimum-security prison in Rapid City, which would end up [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 3:44pm EST
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  • It floats! Or maybe not

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    By Randall Rasmussen South Dakota’s U.S. senators split their votes Tuesday on the $838 billion economic stimulus bill. Sen. Tim Johnson voted for the bill and Sen. John Thune voted against it. In a release, Thune called the bill a “business-as-usual Washington spending spree.” “The last thing struggling American families and small businesses need [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 9:32pm EST
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  • It’s more about personality than politics with Daschle

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    By Kevin Woster The question hit me right after sundown up in the Pactola Basin, under a nearly full moon hung in a sky shading from pink to blue to gray. Was I was unfair to Daschle? I hadn’t thought about my Sunday column all day Saturday, until that moment under the moon. [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 12:02pm EST
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  • $5,000 here, $10,000 there and pretty soon you’re talking…

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    By Kevin Woster Consider this an open e-mail to John Thune: $10,000 to me and my wife? Seriously? Now we’re getting somewhere. I mean, our new fly rods - courtesy of the $1,200 George Bush stimulus check in 2008 - are really nice. But if your amendment could get Mary and me - and [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2009, 10:49am EST
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  • The Thune Plan

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    By Scott Aust Sen. Thune offered an alternative to the proposed stimulus package, one that would put money into the pockets of the middle class through tax rebates. According to a press release: The amendment would result in a tax rebate of $5,143 for single filers and $10,286 for married couples who [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 3:35pm EST
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  • I’ll see your cloture and raise you a filibuster

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    By Kevin Woster I could be wrong, and often am, but I thought the deal was floor votes. I thought the Republicans in the U.S. Senate wanted a chance to submit, debate and vote on amendments to legislation submitted to that body by the majority party Democrats. Am I halllucinating, or just [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 2:59pm EST
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  • To dream the impossible dream, to fix the unfixable town

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    By Kevin Woster I kinda like what Bill Janklow says: There was only one perfect human being, and he never ran for office. Over the ages since, the rest of us have been decidedly imperfect, to degrees large and small. Where does Tom Daschle rank on that scale? Depends on how you felt about [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 11:58pm EST
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  • Limousine liberal

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    By Randall Rasmussen Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle is beginning to feel the heat from both sides as he met in private with the Senate Finance Committee Monday. He apologized to everyone in earshot for not paying all of his taxes. Is it enough to save his nomination to become Health [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 12:36am EST
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  • Taxing Mr. Daschle

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    By Randall Rasmussen Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle has become the second Barack Obama Cabinet nominee to have a tax problem. You can read the story here. According to the story, Daschle paid $128,203 in back taxes for 2005, 2006 and 2007 plus $11,964 in interest. He failed to report [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 12:04pm EST
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