One of my Twitter friends was grousing about the President’s decision not to mention in his State of the Union address the “crisis” of Iran’s detention of…
Category: national
Mike Maciag of Governing posts this really instructive chart on the share of state revenues borne by individuals and corporations paying state income taxes: Back in 1950,…
Here’s the first bill of 2016 for Rep. Kristi Noem, Senator John Thune, and Senator Mike Rounds to oppose: H.R. 1927, the Fairness in Class…
What is it about doctors turning out to be sham candidates? Just like Dr. Annette Bosworth when she ran for Senate in South Dakota in…
The data-based and hence attention-worthy FiveThirtyEight posts charts on what it calls the “Endorsement Primary,” tallies of endorsements of the Presidential candidates by governors and members of…
The Falcon has landed. Wow! USA—darn right! In a brilliant display of engineering and recycling, SpaceX launched a two-stage rocket from Cape Canaveral last night, placed eleven OrbComm…
The South Dakota Democratic Party may face organizational challenges, but the Republican Party nationwide faces demographics and death: The Republican Party—relying on a core base of support…
In last night’s Democratic Presidential debate, Senator Bernie Sanders explained that the fear to which the Republicans are playing with fascist xenophobia really stems from economic anxiety created by…
South Dakota Democratic Party chair Ann Tornberg has been ringing the fundraising bell with a twelve-day holiday e-mail push. But post-Citizens United, do state political parties…