Senator Al Novstrup is attacking Planned Parenthood with a campaign speech—or maybe a lawsuit—disguised as legislation. Monday the Aberdeen Republican filed Senate Bill 110, which…
Tag: First Amendment
Rep. Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) removed one First Amendment problem from her silly state seal bill, but she exposed another First Amendment problem in her…
Forget the $33.7 million our current budget is missing: “Under God the People Rule” is missing from some state seals on legislators’ jackets, so let’s…
House Bill 1073 purports to protect free speech on South Dakota’s public universities and vo-techs. However, the roster of arch-conservative sponsors suggests HB 1073 is…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) has one initiative on the 2018 ballot. Yesterday Secretary of State Shantel Krebs certified his petition to put to…
I’m trying to figure out which is the bigger story, that South Dakota Republican Party chairman Dan Lederman was still as of this afternoon registered to…
I don’t watch pro football or any other major league sports. I don’t find millionaires beating each other up that interesting. I guess I have…
Republican U.S. House candidate was campaigning at the SDSU Beef Bowl yesterday: Yes, it is nice to see Dusty on campus. However, we in the…
The U.S. District Court of South Dakota’s Western District just threw out a lawsuit that white-supremacist crank Rudy Stanko filed against Big D Oil Company…
Mr. Ehrisman notices a little homegrown racism making the South Dakota Secretary of State’s webpage: One of the rotating banner images on sdsos.gov right now…