A South Dakota Moderate

Some sure signs of spring continue today. In South Dakota we shovel another round of heavy heart attack snow from the latest March snowstorm and my team, the Cleveland Indians begin their 60th season since their last World Series triumph with high hopes. As witnessed by my previous prognostications in regards to Cleveland sports, what [...]

Power Line thinks the loud chorus of boos that greeted President Bush last night at the Washington National’s opener is just more proof that liberals have no class.
It’s a constant effort to remind oneself that not all liberals are jerks.
My question to Mr. Hinderaker and anyone else that feels that way is with Bush’s approval [...]

Somebody didn’t get the memo.
A former Corvallis city councilman has died from injuries sustained when rockets pounded Baghdad’s U.S.-protected Green Zone on Easter, according to a story in the Corvallis Gazette Times.
Dick and Leona Converse of Corvallis said they learned Sunday that their son, Paul Converse, had been injured and likely wouldn’t survive. On Monday, [...]

I may not be as edumacated as my esteemed blogging professor colleagues from the north whom seem to think that passing FISA reform without Telcom immunity is a compromise that will weaken the legislation. Nor am I as smart as those that consistently blame the Democrats for holding up this legislation and are in turn [...]

Badlands Blue has a post calling out Mt Blogmore for a negative post in regards to Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s vote on FISA that specifically didn’t include Telcom immunity.
In other words, according to the Rapid City Journal’s blog, Mt. Blogmore, Rep. Herseth Sandlin is an extremist, Bush-hating, terrorist-loving librul because she voted against granting immunity to [...]

I missed this a few days ago due to my raw sewage issues but our esteemed Senator Tim Johnson was quoted, actually as is normally the case lately, one of his his mouthpieces, Steve Jarding, was quoted as saying that Johnson supports Barack Obama but will vote for Hillary Clinton at the convention if she [...]

How’s this for an Easter message?
Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg’s response when asked about the Uniting American Families Act which would give same sex couples the same access to green cards and visas as is currently afforded to traditional partners.

(emphasis below mine)
We oppose this bill because it is, although it may be at the margins, [...]

Will you please give it a rest! Hypocrisy I do not believe is a sin but isn’t jealousy?
All the back and forth used to be funny, now it is just sad…

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I had hoped to use the weekend to catch up on the happenings in South Dakota politics these past few weeks but again other commitments have gotten in the way. Unlike with the past few weeks where work has taken me away, this past weekend and the days following have seen my basement filling up [...]

The busiest lawyers in the nation would have to be those tasked with legalizing after the fact justifying George Bush’s forays into areas outside of his authority.
As a consequence, administration lawyers hustled to craft new legal justifications for the weakened standard.
Bush is at it again, this time he has stepped in and weakened the EPA [...]

Is this all it takes? To steal a line from the SDDP website Badlands Blue whose primary author recently asked this question of the Argus Leader when they changed a headline. They evidently caved because the right leaning blog SDWC called them out for not mentioning Tim Johnson’s horrible power ranking in the sensationalized headline [...]

For all the mudslingers that spent a large amount of time and resources smearing Steve Kirby in anticipation of his running against Tim Johnson, it’s a good thing mud washes off easily.
“My family and I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and encouragement from many of our South Dakota friends in recent weeks [...]