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Representative Roger Hunt needs to be in a jail cell for conspiracy to swindle the 2006 election on the abortion ban, and not in Pierre writing laws for others to follow. Perhaps he and fellow Nanny-gating Moral Majority NeoChrisCon Republican legislator Ted Klaudt could share a [...] 
Big Spender Governor Mike Rounds’ failure to grow the state’s economy very much in the last six years is coming home to roost with a massive failure to generate revenues for the current and next fiscal years’ budgets and now with a growing spike in South [...] 
The Bush-Cheney White House will go down in history as the most subversive and corrupt administrations in our nation’s history with power-mad ideologues violating their oaths of office to ruin our nation. Today, one of the biggest bastards in the old regime Karl Rove got subpoenaed [...] 
Conservative website The New Majority reports that the Republican National Committee misinformed the public as to what they would do with $180,000 worth of high-end wardrobe that was used by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the ’08 campaign. The RNC, after the news media learned that [...] 
South Dakota's state budget is in bad, bad shape. Mike Rounds' first budget speech saw the captain realign the deckchairs on the Titanic as his official response to the proverbial iceberg. Rounds' Do-Over Budget finds the captain waking up to the realization that the ship's bow [...] 
Today marks a major shift in America and American politics, and it doesn't have as much to do with race as how we (elected leaders and the people who elect them) approach public service. It's about people in office serving the public, and not the other [...] 
The Mike Rounds administration and everyone associated with it must go. Whoever becomes the next Governor of South Dakota needs to fumigate the State Capitol of the “Klingons” who’ve long outstayed their usefulness and welcome in state government. The latest example of why Rounds and his [...] 
American voters really only have one point of access for deciding the direction of our nation and the results of taking that path – Election Day. For those who don’t vote, sit down and shut up. For those who did, it’s wise to remain vigil and [...] 
Our good friend Pat Powers on South Dakota War College posed some interesting questions about Mike Rounds' do-over budget. Here’s the gist of his presentation:
On my way to lunch today I listened for as long I could stomach it to Gov. Mike Rounds smarming over his budget mess on South Dakota Public Radio, explaining he needs to get presentations again from all of the departments in state government so he [...] 
Is former Republican state senator Lee Schoenbeck sounding more like the current Democratic Leaders Scott Heidepriem and Bernie Hunhoff? And why isn’t this guy running for Governor? He dropped last month.
Remember Mike Rounds? He is the Governor of South Dakota. It was his job, as required by the State Constitution in early December, to deliver a budget proposal to the S.D. Legislature. He has a large staff of people who get well paid to work on [...]
Do the economy news stories coming from Washington and Wall Street drag you down? Does it feel as though the hole keeps getting deeper? And the news from Pierre, do you get the feeling as though nobody is in charge? I mean, Mike Rounds just recently learned about [...]
A while back I mentioned that I considered Senator George McGovern among the 10 most important American statesmen in history who had never served as President and I got back a couple remarks, including one who wanted to know who else was on my list. That’s [...] 
CHANGE led from an Obama White House will dramatically improve the quality of life for South Dakota in the renewable energy sector, as seen here in the news story on the Keloland website, which you can see by clicking here. Brian Jennings, executive vice president [...] 
The Associated Press Reporter Frederic J. Frommer reports former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman [seen here in his hippie liberal Democrat days] is frantically whining to the press that U.S. Senate Leader Harry Reid reneged on a deal to allow his Senate staff members to continue working [...] 
KLUNK!!!! That’s the sound of the other shoe dropping today as Gov. Mike Rounds figured some truth-telling was needed to soften the blow for the reality of state government finances. 
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