The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. that license plates are government speech, not open public forums. The…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard has said there’s no way South Dakota could set up a state-run health insurance exchange in time to save the premium tax subsidies that the…
Gordon Howie knows how to get attention. Shout “Too Many Mexicans” in a blog headline (without even the blog-dodge question mark), and folks will click to watch…
The Washington Post features research that indicates Sesame Street may have done more to improve education than any elected official in South Dakota in the last five…
A roving Dakota Free Press correspondent caught the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Minneapolis yesterday. The Sanders campaign advertised coffee and bagels at 9:30 a.m. with a…
An eager reader helps me bounce not too far from Bartlett and Howie’s fact-free Christian exceptionalism to this Slate article about the willful ignorance of creationists. Columnist…
Senator Rand Paul kept Senator Mike Rounds from making his maiden floor speech yesterday afternoon. That might be enough reason to nominate Paul for President. Senator…
In a battle between Baptists and bankers, I should just run for cover. But the Southern Baptists get me to cheer them on by joining a right–left nationwide…
The Hill columnist Brent Budowsky declares “Karl Rove Surrenders to Obamacare“: …now comes Rove, on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal and the…
P&R Miscellany and I have a fundamental disagreement about what to do about the poor. We both agree that citizens can and should work together…