For a savvy politico, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) is remarkably forgetful. The Senate Republican whip can’t remember for sure if he registered as a Democrat……
Tag: history
Funny how using a question mark, coincidence, and an anonymous “friend” make crazy talk acceptable. Gordon Howie reads Luke 21: 25–26— 25 There will be signs in the…
The C-SPAN Cities Tour has spotlighted the literary life and history of over 120 American Cities. Next week, the bi-monthly broadcast project finally comes to South…
Retired Sturgis history teacher Charles Rambow often speaks about the dark history of the Ku Klux Klan in the Black Hills. His master’s thesis on…
While covering the continuing corporate/computer co-optation of Dakota State University, that Sioux Falls paper proferred this historical nugget about Madison’s Regental campus: It wasn’t always…
Roger McKellips, the last Democrat to lead a majority in the South Dakota Senate, died this week at the age of 94. The former Alcester…
Looking for the proper response to the specious “what-aboutism” that Donald Trump is aping to defend statues to swiftly toppling traitorous Confederates? You don’t have to…
Amidst his rambling, resignation-worthy reversion to racist absurdity yesterday, Donald Trump ran interference for the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other white-supremacists rallying futilely around Confederate monuments.…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian reads the responses of Congresswoman Kristi Noem and Senator John Thune (we still can find comment from Senator Mike Rounds in…