A South Dakota Moderate

I normally don’t blow my own horn, probably because I never have a horn to blow when compared with the other fine South Dakota Blogs but this caught me a bit off guard last night.
BlogNetNews is a feed aggregator on steroids that also uses some kind of super secret algorithm to rank the “influence” of [...]

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Chad Schuldt, of Clean Cut Kid fame, was charged with Grand Theft for stealing $200,000 from Obama campaign political consultant Hildebrand Tewes Consulting Inc.
Chad Schuldt, 37, stole nearly $200,000 from his former employer by overpaying himself, misusing a company credit card and causing federal tax penalties, according to a Sioux Falls Police affidavit for [...]

On my way out the door to the airport but this post caught my eye.
Yesterday, we got a mention from Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post , who wrote an article asking for the best state political blogs. Lo and behold, Badlands Blue got named as the best political blog in South Dakota.
Badlands Blue??? [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

As the onslaught towards Steve Kirby by the SDDP funded website Badlands Blue continues despite the fact he hasn’t announced his candidacy, maybe the real question behind the smear campaign should be why are they dedicating so much time and energy towards him in the first place?
- Why is Virginia based blogger Lowell Feld one [...]

Has the South Dakota Democratic party made a mistake by hiring a Virginian to write the official party blog? I always wondered why it was farmed out to someone out of state and now my blogging buddy Cory is also questioning the decision after the latest flap involving Steve Kirby and the ripping of local [...]

Are smear campaigns becoming an accepted tactic in South Dakota? If you go by the results of an unscientific poll run over at SD Watch you might think so. According to Epps’ poll, 59% of those responding think that the smear campaign being run by the Tim Johnson spin machine is fair while only 38% [...]

Continuing on my catchup mode, I received an email while I was gone announcing a new blog that is now up and running in the South Dakota blogosphere. School Of Thought is an education themed blog written by Watertown School Board member Fred Deutsch. Fred’s description of his blogging endeavor.
There are so many pundits, politicians, [...]

After 2 weeks in the land of fruits and nuts and after a remarkably uneventful return flight that included no delays and empty seats next to me on both legs of the trip home (can the airlines make the seats any smaller?), I am back and catching up on all the news I missed. Besides [...]

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 [...]