A handful of Republican legislators want to recognize the end of slavery in the United States (or maybe just lay down lazy cover fire against…
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Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022 has a lot to analyze. But let’s start with the slide she tucked into the bottom…
Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names has proposed naming a creek south of Pierre Arikara Creek, in recognition of the…
The powers that be of South Dakota’s one-party regime would never talk to longtime marijuana advocate and practical satirist Bob Newland. Heck, South Dakota’s powers…
In a commentary this morning on MSNBC, Tom Brokaw says that South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck saved many lives during the influenza epidemic of 1918…
George H.W. Bush was able to tank Michael Dukakis’s 1988 Presidential campaign by arguing that he was soft on crime because he vetoed a bill…
I was a Republican once. I saw merit (and still do!) in professedly Republican values like capitalism, legislative and executive restraint, and local control. The…
Because Kristi needs a campaign slogan to get more national attention, our Governor is soliciting donations online to festoon our Capitol dome with recastings of…
I don’t need to watch my dog poop to know that I need to clean up his crap. I didn’t watch the crass campaign speeches…