Republicans don’t want to count all the people in America, but South Dakota Republicans want to make sure every embryo counts. House Bill 1248, sponsored…
Month: February 2021
Right-wing extremist Rep. Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) seems interested in nothing but the culture war his party uses as a distraction from practical problem-solving. His…
Kristi Noem fired up the hot air in her private Fox News studio to try diverting blame for the rolling blackouts hitting Texas and points north…
Yesterday the Legislature sent to the Governor’s desk Senate Bill 3, an extension of the Department of Health’s emergency pandemic-prevention enforcement powers for another year.…
The Gorsuch Court blew up the anti-LGBT efforts of Republican leaders last summer when it ruled that the plain text of the 1964 Civil Rights…
Understanding Kristi Noem’s priorities requires looking at just two bills, House Bill 1282 and House Bill 1279. HB 1282 proposes the $5 million our Governor…
A lot of hogwash was hollered in House Health and Human Services last week as Rep. Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) and his yackadoodle friends grandstood…
While anti-government right-winger Rep. Steven Haugaard proposes big-government intrusion in family affairs, pragmatic Democratic House Minority Leader Jamie Smith proposes state government intervention in the…
The war on initiative and referendum continues, and Republicans are winning. Senate Bill 77: Thinking Go Big or Go Home, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) upped his…
As we’ve learned from Reagan to Thune and Janklow to Noem, Republicans only hate big government when they are campaigning; once they are in power,…