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• Feathers and Folly
  E.J. Dionne Column on Obama: If you get a chance, check out this terrific column from E.J. Dionne regarding Obama, and the fantasies those on the right have created to denigrate him.…
  2012.02.22 20:38
  
  
• The Decorum Forum
  Four seconds that changed everything...: …
  2012.02.22 20:14
  
  
• South DaCola
  Events Center Parking Ramp: It has often baffled me that the EC plan never included a parking ramp. Everybody knows that one will eventually have to be built, but it seemed before the EC vote, mums the word. Well there may be a …
  2012.02.22 18:02
  
  
• Pure Pierre Politics
  First Senate primary is a mile high: As in state Senate, of course… In Lawrence County, there’s a showdown shaping up for the Republican nomination for the District 31 Senate seat. Bob Ewing of Spearfish has filed his papers to challenge…
  2012.02.22 16:41
  
  
• DakotaWomen
  Interview: Holly Sortland of Project Respect.Org: After recently becoming aware of the new Rapid City-based nonprofit Project Respect.Org, we wanted to find out more about their…
  2012.02.22 15:27
  
  
• Constant Conservative
  Live Slaved or Defenseless: Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as New Hampshire’s original motto, does it? Unfortunately, it would appear that the new motto is more accurate for Dennnis Fleming: A New Hampshire man who fired…
  2012.02.22 10:22
  
  
• interested party
  Holy war: hey, it's good for GDP: Is the United States at war with itself again? Or, still? Is it a religious or holy war? A class or culture war? A drug war? Gang war?A smoldering war of indigenous resistance to occupation?Violent an…
  2012.02.22 09:11
  
  
• Mount Blogmore: A Rapid City Journal politics blog
  Baby don’t you wanna go?: By David Montgomery (@rcjMontgomery) You can love or hate his politics, but you can’t deny Barack Obama’s got some pipes. First the president unleashed a little Rev. Al Green at a fundraising event. N…
  2012.02.22 09:00
  
  
• The Displaced Plainsman
  Lewis Black Helps Teach Irony: Lewis Black shows the irony of a woman with the surname of Grace having nearly a total dearth of that quality.  Like a good teacher, Black extends the lesson to show that other news celebrities have e…
  2012.02.22 06:22
  
  
• The Right Side Blog
  Napoli on SD Legislative Leadership Abuse of Power: Retired South Dakota State Senator Bill Napoli speaks frankly about the abuse of power by the Republican leadership in the South Dakota Legislature.      ***Ed Randazzo, is a nationally syndicated aut…
  2012.02.22 05:00
  
  
• Northern Valley Beacon
  Sign of the time: Ought to sell well at tea parties.…
  2012.02.21 16:38
  
  
• Sibby Online
  South Dakota War College promoting RINO lies to defend Lust and Rausch, while SDGOP proceeds to implement Obama's healthcare and education agenda: SDWC, the SDGOP Establishment blog started by Pat Powers (currently a director in the Secreatary of State office), goes to deception in order to defend the RINO leadership of the South Dakota House: T…
  2012.02.21 12:34
  
  
• Great Plains Tar Sands Pipelines
  Texans Fighting Eminent Domain Land Grab: The Toronto Star reports that in the Texas stretch of the proposed Keystone XL route, farm manager Julia Trigg Crawford has sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the company, TransCanada, fr…
  2012.02.21 11:24
  
  
• South Dakota Politics
  Climate Science Shenanigans: The phrases "climate change" and the older, still serviceable "global warming," both indicate two different things: a scientific argument and a political controversy. Folks on each…
  2012.02.21 00:16
  
  
• South Dakota War College
  Conservative leadership by anyone else’s standards: This past legislative session has been an interesting one to say the least. There is a striking rift between certain members of the legislature and different “conservative” factions across the state. …
  2012.02.20 22:27
  
  

Greater South Dakota Blogosphere

• shelboese.org
  Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has ordered the last two officially registered churches holding Friday Farsi-language services in Tehran to discontinue them.: Churches Forced to Stop Farsi Worship in Tehran, Iran Ministry of Intelligence issues halt to services, which attracted converts. By Compass Direct News February 19, 2012|7:13 pm Iran‘s Ministry of In…
  2012.02.22 17:09
  
  
• a story
  The Library, finished: “Wow,” they said in unison as they walked in the room. Their eyes were big and moving fast to absorb it all. This was for them. In about a month and a half, two-dozen dirty boxes from New Hampshire we…
  2012.02.22 14:49
  
  
• Dennisranch's Weblog
  Ash Wednesday: This is the first day of our Lenten season. We are called to do more, with less, for ourselves and others, to broadly sum it up. I used to always just give something up that I really enjoyed, as a sac…
  2012.02.22 12:08
  
  
• Gadgetopia
  In the End, Amazon is Gonna Win: Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller: This guy calls BS on the whole “let’s save the independent bookstore” lament and instead praises Amazon.  In the process, he slaughters quite a few sacred cows. As…
  2012.02.22 10:00
  
  
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  Current Issue: March/April 2012 Questions of Nature: Solving South Dakota's outdoor myths and mysteries. Changing Pace: Kayaking Black HIlls lakes can be life-changing. The Spirit Behind the Tragedy: Memorializ…
  2012.02.22 02:00
  
  
• An Inland Voyage
  The Evidence Is In: Scientists Say Science Is Under Attack: When I was growing up, I thought I was going to be a scientist. I watched a documentary (probably an installment of “Nova” on PBS) about quarks and supercolliders, and I was convinced I wanted to be a…
  2012.02.21 19:46
  
  
• Dakotagraph
  Frost on a wire: One subject matter you're pretty much guaranteed to find on a frosty morning, no matter where you are in South Dakota, is barbed wire.…
  2012.02.21 14:57
  
  
• A Progressive on the Prairie
  Book Review: The Commandant by Rudolf Hoess, edited by Jürg Amann: War crimes trials are a 20th Century invention. Although a vehicle for punishment and, perhaps, the reestablishment of the rule of law, one has to wonder the extent to which individual defendants trul…
  2012.02.21 07:49
  
  
• Tramplingrose
  A Stay-At-Home Monday: Sunday was absolutely gorgeous for a February in South Dakota. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come, or if we’re going to get a rude awakening next winter, when things go back to normal. Kind …
  2012.02.20 21:10
  
  
• Take It Outside
  BUI bill up on plane in South Dakota Legislature: By KW Ever been drunk at the wheel – of a boat. Tsk-tsk. I was so buzzed up once on Mountain Dew that I almost capsized a canoe. But BUI?  Loopy in the Lund? Blitzed in the Boson Whaler? Smashed in th…
  2012.02.20 13:30
  
  
• Jazz Note SDP
  Miles, Trane, & Stitt: One Miles box set that doesn't get nearly the recognition it deserves is Miles Davis in Stockholm 1960 Complete with John Coltrane and Sonny Stitt.  This covers two concerts, several months apart…
  2012.02.20 03:21
  
  
• Black Marks on Wood Pulp / by Corey Vilhauer
  I’m beginning to think she doesn’t even really CARE about basketball jersey rules: SCENE: SIERRA and COREY watch basketball, just after SIERRA has woken up from a nap. SIERRA: “What are the names of these teams, daddy?” COREY: “These are the Knicks and the Mavericks.” SIERRA: “Which…
  2012.02.19 14:43
  
  
• Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
  Rural Ledge-ucation #44: Punkish Songwriters: This morning's show is admittedly a bit schizophrenic. What started out as a look at the singer/songwriters of the punk and post-punk era ended up expanded into the quieter moments of not only th…
  2012.02.19 11:56
  
  
• Black Hills Monitor
  Love, marriage, and politics: By Lorraine CollinsSince we've been celebrating Valentine's Day, I've been in a sort ofromantic mood, remembering the only poem my soon-to-be husband wrote meconsiderably more than half…
  2012.02.19 01:30
  
  
• Big Stone Bounty
  “Compromise” Language on Local Control is No Real Deal–Calls Needed Before Feb. 22: Below is LSP’s full action alert regarding the latest attack on township and county rights. This issue is especially timely here in Big Stone County with the proposed Strata granite quarry, and Ortonv…
  2012.02.18 17:23