A South Dakota Moderate

Just another in endless examples of just how effective the troop surge in Iraq is working.
A military airplane carrying four members of the U.S. Congress came under fire over Iraq on Thursday but the plane was not hit and no one was hurt, a spokesman for one of the lawmakers said on Friday.
The C-130 cargo [...]

It has now been over a month since the Argus broke the $100,000 embezzlement scandal at Hildebrand Tewes (and hasn’t mentioned it since) and almost as long since Steve Hildebrand confirmed the theft and named the person responsible but what has happened since then? Last week I asked someone in the MSM if they had [...]

With the proliferation of video sharing web sites, copyright infringement has become much easier but sometimes those searching out and reporting of those stealing content gets a little out of hand.
A North Carolina man made a somewhat goofy campaign ad last year which he uploaded to YouTube as part of his attempt to win a [...]

After months “testing the waters” and one FEC complaint later, Fred “Law and Order” Thompson appears to finally be ready to officially declare what everybody already knew, he is running for the White House.
Fred Thompson will formally announce his candidacy for president next Thursday September 6th, via a webcast, political director Randy Enwright just told [...]

Yesterday Tim Johnson Communication Director Julianne Fisher denied that Johnson has made up his mind about running next year calling any claims of that “unfair” and “exaggerated”. If indeed Johnson had already made up his mind and was going to run in 2008, why would Fisher so vehemently deny ABC reports to the contrary?
I [...]

That is Senator Tim Johnson’s message given at today’s welcome home ceremony. He looked great considering all he has been through and though his speech was notably affected, his sense of humor was not as he cracked several jokes some of which were aimed at himself.
“I believe I have an unfair edge over my [...]

If you can’t attend Tim Johnson’s first campaign stop, err, I mean homecoming today at the Convention Center, it will be streamed on the internet as you can see below (h/t - SD Watch) and if you want some real fun, The Argus’ Voices blog will be live blogging the event starting just about any [...]

The Rapid City Journal editorial board is again pulling no punches as this morning they put the Tim Johnson media spin machine on notice.
We appreciate that the Woodruff piece is expected to be a non-political story chronicling Johnson’s recovery from head injury, and not the launch of a re-election campaign.
We hope so, otherwise the months-long [...]

According to a Voices Blog post by Dave Kranz, the latest tactic being considered to get an abortion ban passed would bypass the Governor completely. This bill would contain all the exceptions, rape, incest, mother’s health, etc. and once it makes it through the various committees and then the House and Senate it would head [...]

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Tim Johnson will be returning to the Senate next week and that he is determined to seek re-election in 2008
Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., will talk about his nearly fatal brain hemorrhage in an exclusive interview with ABC’s Bob Woodruff. Here’s the news: Johnson plans to return to the U.S. [...]

I have never been a Michael Vick fan, as a matter of fact I have always considered him to be one of the most over rated players to ever come into the NFL. So the whole dog fighting thing with Vick, while disgusting, didn’t come as a shock to me.
So imagine my surprise today as [...]

One thing that the Navy loves is to take photos. Quite often when battle groups are on their way home after a long deployment, the ships that are part of the battle group form up so that aerial photographs can be taken. I took this from the USS Kitty Hawk during one such operation as [...]