A South Dakota Moderate

Murray Waas, National Journal
Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush’s 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove [...]

A very high profile class action lawsuit here in South Dakota is getting even more attention now that our Republican Senator John Thune’s name is involved. Bankrupt auto Dealer Dan Nelson, whom has a close personal relationship with Thune, is involved in a suit that claims his customers paid too much for their vehicles, many [...]

Talk of boycotting South Dakota is nothing new and has been going on since Governor Rounds signed the abortion ban March 6th. The idea first became public even before Rounds signed the bill when a group from Wisconsin called “Women’s Medical Fund of Madison” announced their intentions to promote a boycott if the bill became [...]

The constitutional change by South Dakota that allows residents to vote on laws enacted by the legislature, which has been constantly ripped by Right Wingers, shows an interesting trend as reported by AberdeenNews.com
The premise is that lawmakers may not always adequately represent voters and that people should be able to pass laws they desire and [...]

David Kranz of the Argus Leader is reporting that Governor Rounds might be considering a run against Tim Johnson in the 2008 Senate Race. This question is sure to come up in Rounds’ campaigning for this years governor race so it will be interesting to hear how he responds especially considering he would have to [...]

Seems right wing Republican media darling Ann Coulter has a memory problem. It appears Coulter used the address of a local realtor to register to vote and then voted in that precinct last month. Unfortunately she actually lives in a different precinct and even tried initially to vote in that precinct but hurried out when [...]

Dawnne over at CCK beat me to it but lately our “Great Moderate Hope” John McCain has been experiencing a case of the double speaks. As far back as 2000 McCain has been quoted as saying in regards to Religious Right Wingnut Jerry Falwell that he is ”an agent of intolerance” who was “pandering to the outer reaches of American politics”. [...]

Members of Congress whom normally have no problem weighing in on conservative issues are strangely mum on the South Dakota Abortion Ban. The trend of politicians not having the “balls” to publically come out with their opinions on controversial issues continues. Are you listening Mr Thune?
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The FEC voted to not regulate political activity on the internet with the exception of paid political advertisements which will have to use money raised under the limits of current federal campaign law.
Perhaps most important, the commission effectively granted media exemptions to bloggers and other activists using the Web to allow them to praise and [...]

Under pressure from Congressional Republicans, the director of national intelligence has begun uploading thousands of boxes of documents captured by US troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The first batch of approximately 600 documents and video/audio files, most of which are in Arabic,? have been uploaded to date and already a few conservative bloggers have broken [...]

The evening news is full of stories about the obvious casualties of Bush’s war in Iraq but being lost in the headlines are the 1000’s of reservists coming home to find that they no longer have the civilian jobs they left to serve their country.
The Chicago Sun Times did an in depth story on [...]

For the past few days all 3 major networks have been giving the Bush Administration a pass in regards to their “outrage” over the prosecution of the Afgan man on trial for converting to Christianity.
The Bush Administration has issued numerous statements expressing outrage over the trial but not once has the media mentioned how back [...]