A South Dakota Moderate

The Argus Leader lost another round in the Dan Scott libel case brought against the paper by the Sioux Falls Development Foundation president over a column published last July.
A Minnehaha County judge Friday denied a motion by the Argus Leader to dismiss a libel lawsuit brought against it by Dan Scott, president of the Sioux [...]

I have often wondered how someone could write about the general lack of importance of most political blogs while running a blog that touches on politics themselves like one of our more popular bloggers David Newquist does from time to time on his blog. Being someone that blogs about political news but in no way [...]

Lowell over at Badlands Blue posts on our Democratic representation’s position on a bill currently making the rounds in Congress that would force pharmacist’s to fill prescriptions even if they have moral objections for doing so. Being the mouthpiece of the Democratic party he prints statements from both Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s camps [...]

A lot is being made of Tim Johnson’s health and whether he would be able to serve the people of South Dakota for another 6 year Senate term. But one thing can’t be debated. When your chief challenger has 1/10th of the campaign war chest of another party member that hasn’t run for anything in [...]

If you were hoping to get a break from the abortion ban battles that we seemingly deal with every year, you are going to be disappointed as the latest attempt was announced this evening.
Supporters of the new petition now must gather 16,776 signatures of registered voters by April 1 to add an initiated measure [...]

This isn’t a post that seeks to get into the global warming argument, I will post about that later I am sure, but instead details what Religious Right leader Pat Robertson thinks could be the cause behind the latest ice storm to hit the Midwest. Believe it or not it has nothing to do with [...]

On the road a lot this week but just got a shipment from Amazon that contained a CD that I had been looking to locate for quite a while. In my high school days I fancied myself a trumpet player and at the time a version of “Hey Jude” from Maynard Ferguson was just about [...]

A post over at Dakota Voice about a Time Magazine article on waterboarding deserves some more thought. He does his best to justify the use of waterboarding because it could help in the fight of terrorism.
Sometimes it takes tough measures to stop the bad guys and protect innocent people. Waterboarding does no serious and certainly [...]

Even though the numbers say the Democrats have the majority, most of the time they don’t because of no-shows and illness. This past year of Democratic control has been a comedy of errors, absence, and lack of backbone for the party that promised change to get elected. Senator Tim Johnson missed 100% of the votes [...]

Real Clear Politics at one time believed that Tim Johnson’s Senate seat was in play because of his health problems. Unfortunately for the Republican’s, the only candidate of note they seem to be able to muster to challenge him is Joel Dykstra.
South Dakota, where Sen. Tim Johnson is still recovering from a stroke, should be [...]

Another provision of our Constitution that is hanging on even now because of our love of killing things is getting set to be debated by the Supreme Court during the upcoming session when they look at the Constitutionality of Washington DC’s  gun control law. Whenever talk of limiting someone’s access to guns comes up, the [...]

Ok, maybe I am showing my age here but when I heard that the Wachowski brothers, you know the guys that brought us the Matrix movies, were going to bring a cartoon from my youth to the big screen, it peaked my interest. Speed Racer was one of the few early anime productions from Japan [...]