I write that headline and hear bigots cheering. I have exerted myself online and in numerous face-to-face conversations to defend Lutheran Social Services from the absurd conspiratorial…
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I don’t want to ride Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) too hard. He wasn’t scheduled to speak at last night’s ballot question forum in Sioux…
Who showed up to speak in favor of unlimited interest rates for payday lenders last night? Nobody from the payday lending industry deigned to appear…
The most crushing, crowd-pleasing comeback of last night’s ballot question forum in Sioux Falls came from Amendment V campaign chairman Rick Knobe, just seconds after…
Two more ballot question committees have formed since my last review of the Secretary of State’s campaign finance records. Sioux Falls lawyer Jason Adams has organized…
Good Republican blogging is not impossible. But since his failed stint in the Secretary of State’s office, Pat Powers has wallowed in lazy mediocrity, blindly…
Lisa Furlong lied in her official proponent statement for Amendment U, the payday lenders’ fake rate cap. Secretary of State Shantel Krebs wants to respond…
Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill shamed her colleagues yesterday by pointing out that, with talk of recessing again after a seven-week summer break and only a couple weeks…
David Newquist agrees with Hillary Clinton and with me that the reasons many people support Donald Trump are deplorable. Masses of people stood up and cheered…
The only good thing about the state waiting to bring its former EB-5 czar Joop Bollen to trial until next February is that I have time to review…