Kristi Noem just appointed Cooter Secretary of Education! Yeeha! Oh, possum on a gumbush—wrong Ben Jones. Dr. Benjamin F. Jones will take six months off…
Tag: history
President George H.W. Bush died last night at age 94. Lower your flags, please. NPR just had Christopher Buckley, who wrote speeches for Bush during his…
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Carpenter v. Murphy, in which a Native American on Oklahoma’s death row contends that he was convicted…
Wait a minute—co-executive directors of the Democratic Party? In 1992, the South Dakota Democratic Party evidently had co-execs. Steering the party with Erpenbach was his…
A slightly more fun political item from the Herb Jones history file comes from the October 6, 1992, Huron Plainsman, which reports on page 5…
A friend of the blog (who actually rang the Blog Tip Jar! Thank you!) told me that my “dislike for organized religion” probably prevents me…
Back in July, Brookings writer Phyllis Cole-Dai offered me an early copy of her new historical novel, Beneath the Same Stars, if I would just write…
The easy visuals, homey narratives, and riveting horserace of the Noem/Sutton gubernatorial contest crowded every other race out of the media consciousness. Dusty Johnson thus…
My morning paper earns its subscription fee this morning by dedicating a full page to data: The Aberdeen American News heralds tomorrow’s big pheasant opener with historical…
Among the hogs Senator Jim Bolin was washing on public radio this noon was his contention that Amendment X, his effort to raise the popular…