Facts and good sense managed to beat back the one ugly outburst of anti-refugee paranoia that cropped up in this year’s Legislative Session. Now I’m proud…
Tag: politics
KELO-TV commits another headline error, saying that Senator John Thune “weighs in” on the 2016 Presidential race. “Weighing in” means you step on the scale…
Bob Ellis continues to construct his own reality, alleging that Democrats have an “infatuation with Marxism and anti-Americanism.” (For the record, I am infatuated with pizza rolls,…
How do we govern at the end of the world? A couple weeks ago, Dale Bartscher of Family Heritage Alliance blogged about his disappointment with the…
Stu Whitney gives District 9 Democratic House candidate Michael Saba the kind of press every candidate wishes for. World traveler, development consultant for the Avera McKennan…
Among the unsolved mysteries of South Dakota’s EB-5 scandal is how $167 million in state subsidies and private capital, including $95 million in EB-5 visa…
Suppose you were a Republican Senator who wanted to make it look as if you respected American Indians Suppose you wanted to push a bill…
Yesterday I noted Western Dakota Technical Institute financial aid director Starla Russell’s assertion that the school is letting her and her two assistants go in retaliation…
If I stretch, I can find two hopeful signs for Sioux Falls-area Democrats in Tuesday’s non-partisan municipal election. First, long-time agitator Theresa Stehly won a City…
The McClatchy-Marist poll released last week finds some instructive results in among voters’ preferences for the remaining Presidential candidates. 25% of Bernie Sanders voters say they will not…