Veteran reporter Tom Lawrence looks at the spate of self-defense-gone-berserk shootings in our gun-nutty country and wonders if it’s safe for him to go door-to-door…
Tag: First Amendment
I was talking with an acquaintance with a fair political background but no knowledge of South Dakota politics or my own political activity. I mentioned…
Last Thursday, Senator Tom Pischke warned his colleagues that suspending Julie Frye-Mueller over Boobgate (did you know, Tom?) would lead to lawsuits. Thinking a lawsuit from…
The Bolsonaro insurrection of January 2023 joins the Trump insurrection of January 2021 as empirical evidence of the danger of lying about the results of…
The United States Supreme Court today heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by Christian web designer Lorie Smith against the state of Colorado. Smith claims…
One thing Attorney General Mark Vargo isn’t changing about South Dakota government is its inability to separate church and state. In announcing the impending hire…
The proposed Hillsdale curriculum standards for South Dakota’s K-12 social studies classes don’t just violate good pedagogical practice; they also violate the law. Standard K.SS.1.N…
Russia requires outside religious groups to register with the government. Now so does the Oglala Sioux Tribe, although it has backed away from a more…
Last night’s peaceful Phillips Avenue march protesting the Alito Court’s overturning of women’s freedom was no riot. That was clear to anyone watching the event,…