A South Dakota Moderate

I just finished up a long day behind the wheel so I don’t have much time but I did come across a few interesting tidbits besides the Shell Oil poverty post below.
It’s been a good week for Conservative Republican scourge John McCain who not only picked up the endorsements of Rudy Giuliani earlier this week [...]

The next time you are searching for the money needed to put gas in your tank between your couch cushions, try to remember just how rough that $3 plus a gallon gas is on our big oil companies.
Royal Dutch Shell reignited anger over excessive profits today after revealing it made $27.6 billion (£13.9 billion) in [...]

Barack Obama has released a statement in regards to John Edwards quitting his bid for the White House.
“John Edwards has spent a lifetime fighting to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the struggling, even when it wasn’t popular to do or covered in the news. At a time when our politics is too [...]

Most expected that Rudy Giuliani would be dropping out if he didn’t do well in Florida, he didn’t and he is, but John Edwards future seemed to a least include Super Tuesday. It won’t as according to various reports, Edwards will be dropping out of the race with an announcement in New Orleans this afternoon.
Early [...]

To be honest, with my readership numbers bully pulpit might be the wrong term, but a recent announcement has again got me going against my local cable company. Earlier this winter I wrote a rant over the NFL Network being the exclusive carrier of several NFL games including the season ending game between the Patriots [...]

Even after 7 years of lies, “1984” type breaches of our civil liberties, and outright mismanagement of our country, a totally bogus State of the Union still gets the few remaining Bushie’s hearts a fluttering.
America is blessed - very blessed. We have had an amazing leader who believes in the wisdom of ‘we the people’. [...]

The bill (SB98) that sought to put the screws on adult oriented business was killed by the Local Government committee yesterday because it could have lead to long court battles but not before they got in a few digs on the business as a whole.
Sen. Arnie Hauge, R-Canistota, said he agrees adult-oriented businesses are [...]

The Argus Leader’s Randell Beck, of fake editorial fame, is patting several in our legislature on the back this morning because they are working to open our state government.
That our Legislature would seriously debate the extent to which the inner workings of government should be transparent is a victory for those who have long believed [...]

Now that the deadline for introducing new bills has come and gone, the details of the 5 bills making the rounds this year that deal with increasing teacher salary are discussed in this morning’s Argus and are linked to below.
HB1214 - Creates minimum salary for teachers in districts that get state funds. $28,000 minimum in [...]

Vending machines are just about everywhere and nowadays you can almost anything being dispensed by one somewhere. Soda, chips, candy, marijuana? In California at least, the answer is yes.
The World’s first “Weed ATM’s” as they are being dubbed should be available for use in LA and elsewhere in the land of fruit and nuts on [...]

A new study reports that women who used the birth control pill for extended periods of time not only reduced unwanted pregnancies but also greatly reduce their chances of getting ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it.
“Not only does the pill prevent pregnancy, but in the long term, you actually get less cancer [...]

The nasty rumor that has Mike Rounds running for Senate has re-appeared. Badlands Blue speculates on just that possibility based on a Real Clear Politics story which hints that several Republican “heavyweights” could soon be getting into the Senate races in Iowa and South Dakota.
Do we have any GOP “heavyweights” left in South Dakota [...]