A South Dakota Moderate

Just kidding, but I can hear the boycott calls from the Religious Right now. DC comics is re-introducing the popular Batwoman character in a weekly series that will run for one year. What’s the big deal you ask? Well the re-incarnation of Batwoman has a twist, she is a lesbian.
More boycott information surely coming soon [...]

A few days ago I wondered what would happen to the VA employee that had taken home the personal data of over 26 million vets and their dependants and today we finally found out.
In an announcement by Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, several personnel changes have taken place including the firing of the data analyst [...]

With all the talk and backlash by Conservatives over Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks’ criticism of President Bush, one would think that they were committing career suicide. Country Music has long been dominated by a hugely Conservative fan base and the first release from the Chicks since their unpopular comments about the President was [...]

In response to Cecelia Fire Thunder’s attempt to open an abortion clinic on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the Oglala Sioux tribal council has suspended Fire Thunder and banned all abortions on the reservation
It was unauthorized political activity,” said Will Peters, a tribal council representative from the Pine Ridge district. “It’s just a matter of failing [...]

In response to the reaction in Congress and the lawsuit filed in District Court by Democratic Congressman William Jefferson over the FBI’s search of Jefferson’s office, the Justice Department is vigorously defending the search.
The Justice Department has revealed that Jefferson’s attempted to hide documents while searching his home in New Orleans last year.
It is my [...]

The recent battles here in South Dakota over the abortion ban signed by Governor Mike Rounds in March is a fine example of how the religious right’s no tolerance attitude in our country is doing more harm than good for their cause. The right’s hope was to pass the ban and put South Dakota in [...]

Democratic candidates for governor were quick to release statements regarding the news yesterday that the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families had gathered almost 38,000 petition signatures to force a referendum on the abortion ban.
Both had already come out saying they would have never signed the bill in the first place and an Argus story [...]

2 proposed ballot initiatives for this November’s election were taken off the ballot because Attorney General Larry Long interprets a 1995 State Supreme Court ruling as saying an initiated measure cannot be used to repeal existing laws, and the two measures at issue seek to repeal the video lottery and the tax on cell-phone companies [...]

Looks like much of the communications in the Bush White House only runs down hill, either that or they just don’t read the reports from the rest of the government.
Last November US Marines were involved in an incident in the western Iraqi town of Haditha that resulted in the deaths of 24 innocent civilians [...]

The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families has just released the total number of signatures they collected on the petitions to refer the abortion ban and to say they blew by the 16,000 plus they needed would be an understatement.
For those that are on the pro-life side and believe that any vote to overturn the [...]

Dennis Wiese answers a few questions in today’s Argus and he says his first move if elected would be to fully fund education using the more than $1 billion the state has in trust fund reserves. He also says Governor Rounds’ plan to give laptops to all high school students is a bad idea and [...]

The Quality News Network has posted an in depth interview with Democratic candidate for Governor Jack Billion as part of their “candidates in their own words” series.
According to its website, QNN is doing the series "to help challengers in federal, gubernatorial and other select races level the playing field against incumbents." The site also notes, "The [...]