NPR’s social science feature on today’s Morning Edition discussed research showing that people who practice a ritual, even newly learned, seemingly meaningless ritual, show more trust for people who perform…
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Ten candidates have filed for four Aberdeen City Council seats. Running in the southeast district against incumbent councilman Clint Rux is political newcomer Kaleb Weis. His campaign…
In suffering judicial suspension of its second Muslim immigration ban, the Trump Administration may be learning that words matter. Specifically, Donald Trump doesn’t get to spend over…
The Senate put a cork in Senator and paid Trump consultant Neal Tapio‘s pro-Trump/anti-Islam grandstanding yesterday. After allowing Watertown’s Trump spokesman his eight minutes of pathetic…
Our Legislature’s mother-son duo, Lana and Brock Greenfield, evidently don’t understand the word discrimination. UNESCO defines discrimination as “the selection for unfavourable treatment of an individual or individuals…
Several Sioux Falls Muslims and neighbors of other faiths attended a prayer service at the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls yesterday to protest Senate Concurrent Resolution…
I skipped church again today, so I’ll understand if you discount my claim that neither Donald Trump nor his policies are Christian. But maybe you’ll give…
Senator Phil Jensen’s crackerbarrel-roiling likening of LGBT South Dakotans to pedophiles extended the offensive diversionary tactics he and other Republicans took in pushing Senate Bill 149, the discrimination-in-adoption bill,…
Sioux Falls chef and family man Bill Mawhiney offers his take on Senate Bill 149, the Legislature’s latest attempt to dress up discrimination as “religious freedom.” Mawhiney…
I’m no expert on Islam. I thus yield the floor to Senator Al Novstrup, who portrayed himself as an expert on Islam as he responded…