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• The Displaced Plainsman
  Quotation Of The Day: Reading Literature Helps One Deal With Ambiguity Edition: From this Tom Jacobs piece at Salon: Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It’s a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that unease can inspire snap judgments, rigid …
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• Constant Conservative
  Amnesty: Breaking it Down: While people may and will disagree over whether amnesty is appropriate, it is far more disturbing that some, such as Paul Ryan, will argue that the proposed immigration reform package is not amnesty. …
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• Political Smokeout
  Noem's father-in-law hurt in farming accident: Rep. Kristi Noem’s father-in-law broke his leg Monday in a farming accident. Al Noem, the father of Noem’s husband Bryon, is a farmer near Lake Norden, S.D. On Monday, he got caught in an auger and br…
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• South Dakota War College
  Weiland can’t raise funds, so challenges Rounds to be as bad as he is.: I always thought Rick Weiland was inauthentic, but he just had to go and prove it. Rick Weiland asked former Gov. Mike Rounds if the two could jointly limit their campaign finance contributions Monday…
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• Fast for the Earth
  It's Official: Fast Will Send Representative to Tar Sands Healing Walk: It's official: At least one representative of Fast for the Earth will participate in the Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on July 5-6. Fort McMurray is among the communit…
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• Pure Pierre Politics
  Highway hall of fame to add two: South Dakota’s highway system in the Black Hills improved in many ways during the many years that Dennis Landguth spent with the state Department of Transportation as the top official in the Rapid Cit…
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• The Right Side Blog
  Questionable Legacy: Funerals give us opportunity to consider someone’s legacy. If we are at all introspective, it’s also a time to consider what kind of legacy WE are building with our own lives. The only thing that will…
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• Dakota Today
  *** Dirty Money, Dirty Votes, Congress bought and paid for: This interesting little story turned up in a Moyers and Company discussion with Lawrence Lessig while discussing the problems with Congress and big money, Citizens United, etc. BILL MOYERS: The former…
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• SoDakLiberty
  Americans are losing confidence in the medical system, but gaining confidence in banks: On June 13, 2013, Gallup released the poll results of American confidence in 16 societal institutions. Their big story with that was Congress being reduced to a confidence level of 10%; this is the lo…
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• South DaCola
  Another episode of “Shut up and listen”: I attended the neighborhood meeting today at 85th & Audie, and I will have to give MMM credit, he was dropped into a hornet’s nest, and of course, patted himself on the back for being one of the f…
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• The Lone Independent
  Then And Now: Obama the candidate versus Obama the President.…
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• Feathers and Folly
  Horny, Egotistical, Older White Men Demographic Takes over Sioux Falls: I had the pleasure of taking my son out for breakfast this morning, before bringing him to a summer pottery class. The class was in downtown Sioux Falls, so we ate at the “Diner”, a popular, retro, ch…
  2013.06.14
  
  
• David Lias' Blog
  Law Enforcement Seeks Public’s Help in I-90 Assault: PIERRE, S.D – South Dakota Law Enforcement Officials are seeking the public’s help into locating an individual in connection with an assault that occurred on I-90 near mile marker 401, which is betwee…
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• P&R Miscellany
  President Forced to Think Seriously About Syria: The president has admitted that the government of Syria has used chemical weapons on the rebels.  He said earlier that use of such weapons constituted a "red line" that, if crossed, would co…
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• South Dakota Politics
  Illiberal Liberals: When I arrived at Northern State University in the late 80's, my department consisted mostly of folks older than myself and well to my left on the political spectrum. I liked all of them but when…
  2013.06.13
  
  

Greater SD Blogosphere

• Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
  The Walking Rock Alphabet: N: A few weeks ago, I finally broke down and subscribed to Spotify. I didn’t really want to do this, as I’m not much of a playlist person and I (obviously) have a pretty substantial library. I was kind o…
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• The MinusCar Project
  Helmet Skills 101: Do you wear your helmet backwards? I'm looking at you well known local Tour daKota rider from a few years back.What if the local news were to do a story about some neat cycling thing and there yo…
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• A Progressive on the Prairie
  Rereading trepidation: I’ve been an evangelist for Maria Doria Russell’s The Sparrow since I first read it in 1996. Although using science fiction as a vehicle, it is a thought-provoking look at philosophy and spirituality.…
  2013.06.17
  
  
• a story
  Morning Assembly: The school day starts off with assembly every morning. The students line up, boys on one side and girls on the other, and recite the following, in order: the Lesotho national anthem, a scripture readi…
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• shelboese.org
  What Obama’s Actions in Syria Mean for My Brothers & Sisters: The Dhimma Returns to Syria from http://markdurie.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/the-dhimma-returns-to-syria-dr.html The following report comes from Martin Janssen in Amman, Jordan (original in Dutch). The p…
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• Big Stone Bounty
  New Farm. New Projects.: As many of my readers will know, my fiance John and I purchased a farmstead in Prior Township, Big Stone County back in March, and started the process of gutting and remodeling the place in early Apri…
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• Gadgetopia
  Examining the Separation Between Presentation and Content: The idea that content should be separate from presentation is so central to content management that’s it’s become a cliché – one of those things you say to sound like you know what you’re talking abou…
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• Dakotagraph
  New patriotic shirts for July 4: Just in time for the Fourth of July, check out the new patriotic daredevil-inspired shirts available now in the Dakotagraph CafePress store. The shirts are available in short and long sleeve in a vari…
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  Photo of the Week: Oahe Dam, as seen by Bob Grandpre.…
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• Tramplingrose
  Tubetti with Toasted Breadcrumbs: The weather today was absolutely gorgeous. I walked home for lunch this afternoon and walked home from work, so Jay could take the bambino up to the pool (I can’t swim, and I’m just not quite ready to…
  2013.06.13
  
  

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