Kristi Noem runs hot and cold on the economy. In April, she said South Dakota’s economy is “stagnant“: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth,…
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We should learn not to take Donald Trump’s words seriously. Not one word from his mouth has any reliability or mooring in fact. But his…
An Alabama economist goes roadtripping through South Dakota and finds us growing steel and aluminum in our corn fields… Imagine, for example, that someone invented…
In his constant pursuit of distraction, Donald Trump proposes matching his election-buying welfare for farmers with more election-buying welfare for the rich: The Trump administration…
Farm Forum editor Stan Wise is glad the Trump Administration is making taxpayers shell out welfare for farmers to pay for the trade war, but……
While Trump gets ready to hand out welfare checks to buy the farm vote, perhaps he should throw some money toward the Americans whom he’s…
You know how Republicans like to say that we Democrats created the welfare state to trap an entire class of Americans permanently poor and dependent…
My local paper keys in on one dire phrase that our Congressional delegation used in its please-stop-the-beatings letter to Donald Trump, “the brink of economic collapse” facing…
A friend of the blog introduces me to John Stockwell, who served in the Cold War CIA for thirteen years in Congo, Vietnam, and Angola…
If Maria Butina was working for the Russian government under Alexander Torshin’s direction, she and her boss hid their effort to infiltrate American decision-making apparati…