A South Dakota Moderate

Recent events both locally here in South Dakota and nationally have had me wondering what the heck is going on in the Democratic Party? The Republican Party seems to moving farther and farther to the extreme right on many issues and the Democratic party seems to be just spinning their wheels.
Bush’s approval rating is at [...]

Came across an interesting article in today’s NY Times that highlights John Thune’s previous job as a lobbyist for the DM&E railroad and some of his activities as the junior Senator from South Dakota. These activities bring into question the roll lobbyist’s can play if they get elected to a Congressional post in regard’s to [...]

The latest CBS News poll shows President Bush’s approval rating has dipped to an all time low of 34% just as dissent over the war in Iraq has climbed to an all time high. To make Bush’s week even worse, 7 of 10, including 58% of Republicans have expressed their disapproval of the Dubai owned [...]

If anyone is really wondering why South Dakota is a predominently Republican state, you only need to look at our Democratic Party’s strategy after? Democratic candidate for Governor Ron Volesky withdrew.
When asked for comment on why a new candidate has not been selected from the party virtually assuring Mike Rounds will be running unopposed, the [...]

Our wonderful state legislature had no problem working to get the abortion ban debated, passed, and on the Governors desk but for some reason educational funding is still yet to be decided with only 3 days left in this years legislative session.
There are currently 3 different funding options on the table for next years budget [...]

The Army is going to pay a Haliburton subsidiary almost all of the $2.5 billion no-bid contract even though a Pentagon auditor has identified $250 million in potential excessive charges.
The contract has been under scrutiny since 2003 when it was discovered the company, which is connected with Vice President Cheney, was given the job without [...]

US auto makers are going retro more and more with the popularity of the Ford Mustang, Dodge is joining the fray with their Challenger Concept car. I for one love this trend. Nothing like a car with the old muscle car looks and all the goodies today’s technology has to offer. Can you say Hemi!
Technorati [...]

With all the posts here lately regarding the serious issues of abortion and terrorism I thought is was time for a little break. I was browsing though my favorite webmaster forum this morning and came across this post and thought I would share it with you
George Bush has a heart attack and dies. Obviously, he [...]

Survey USA’s recent survey shows that 61% of South Dakotans do not agree with the Legislature’s passing of HB1215 completely banning abortion except for life threatening situations for the mother. Again our legislature is not listening to the people that they were supposed to be representing.
Also gaining momentum is a proposed boycott on South Dakota [...]

The on-going debate over the takeover of 6 US ports by a Dubai company is still raging even after the company announced it was postponing it’s takeover until at least next Thursday while company lawyers worked on a way to separate the US operations in an attempt to sway concerns over port security.
President Bush, who [...]

My main internet activity involves running several shareware download sites and several weeks ago I had a program submitted to one of my sites that seemed quite interesting to me as a fairly new blogger. Post2Blog is a neat little blogging tool that let’s you write your posts without having to login to your blog. [...]

The South Dakota House today approved the legislation completely banning abortion in South Dakota except for extreme cases where the mother’s life is threatened which now leaves the Governor’s signature as the final hurdle in South Dakota’s attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade. The house vote was 50-18 which now means Governor Mike Rounds has [...]