A South Dakota Moderate

Whoever said it never rains in Southern California must never be here when I am as it seems that everytime I come out here it rains. This time around is no exception as the whole week has been damp and cold (cool for those in South Dakota). Of course it is still better than cold [...]

I had heard of this the other day but more details have since come out.
A Sioux Falls couple that was born on the same day has died on the same day. Diana Kraft and her husband, Kent, both 67, died together Saturday of separate illnesses. Both were born on Sept. 2, 1941, and they’ve been [...]

A couple of days back I wrote on how South Dakota’s senior Senator, Tim Johnson, voted along with 17 other Democrats to give our government almost free reign to spy on us without needing to have warrants. As expected, the Democratic Party mouthpiece blog, Badlands Blue, was eerily silent on that vote though they did [...]

I know I said posting would be light but I just had to comment on this before leaving
One Tim Johnson press release you probably won’t be reading on Badlands Blue is in regards to his vote yesterday to gut the Fourth Amendment and allow the government to invade our privacy. Johnson was one of 18 [...]

Super Delegates are getting a lot of press lately because of the closeness of the Democratic primaries and the fact that these "special" delegates could possibly determine who gets the nomination despite who gets the popular vote. Along those lines I decided to see who holds that power in South Dakota.
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As you might have noticed, posting has been real light lately and based on current circumstances it will continue this way through at least the beginning of March due to work concerns. I will be heading to Los Angeles  this weekend for 2 weeks and will try to check in as time allows but I [...]

It seems that Mitt Romney’s decision to suspend his campaign wasn’t because of his poor showing last Tuesday but instead was to save us from terrorists.
Romney: ”If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator [...]

As our legislature debates whether to allow our college students to bring guns on to colleges, the Brady campaign report card shows just how bad our gun laws already are in South Dakota as far as letting the bad guys get a hold of guns.
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Last week I got on my “Bully Pulpit” to rag on my local cable company about not carrying our local Fox station’s hi def feed. It really sucked that I had this nice expensive HD set all ready for the Super Bowl and wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it. Somebody must be reading [...]

First it was Caroline Kennedy coming out in support of Barack Obama, and now another prominent name from the Kennedy clan has come out and supported Obama’s run for the White House.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to be a fly on the wall in the Governor’s mansion in California?

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Jason Heppler over at South Dakota Politics links to a Glenn Reynolds piece about our legislature’s attempt to allow guns onto South Dakota universities (HB1261). Following the usual NRA talking points Reynolds proclaims that being able to carry guns into the classroom could have saved lives at Virginia Tech, you even got to love Reynolds [...]

Cory over at the Madville Times is asking just that question based on the myriad of conflicting reports coming at us from all angles regarding our economy. It all came to a head when the jobs report came out and showed a hefty loss of over 17,000 jobs in January which was the first decline [...]