Subversion and hooch afoot! Unapologetic liberals are gathering for libations at Wiley's Tavern at 330 North Main in Sioux Falls after work today, 5 p.m., as they reconstitute the Sioux Falls chapter of Drinking Liberally. Among topics that may stir…
Posts tagged as “civil discourse”
"Howie! America! Freedom! Horses! Raaaarrr!" I write Gordon Howie's Independent Senate campaign slogan, then discuss what seems to be our mutual desire for civility and policy-based political debate: Curious: in the South Dakota blogosphere, who's civil, and who's trading on…
Rep. Kristin Conzet (R-32/Rapid City) favored me with a Tweet yesterday. Yesterday she was one of three Republican legislators who voted against killing House Bill 1183, Rep. Steve Hickey's (R-9/Sioux Falls) failed attempt to repeal South Dakota's death penalty. During…
I wake to this neighborly fun and frivolity on Facebook this morning. Fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth hilariously duckspeaks her overwhelming campaign debt as "reinvesting our contributions into getting our message out" (because in Annette's world, nothing matters more…
Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer and Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman sat down yesterday to talk about exploitative alcohol sales at Whiteclay, just across the NE–SD border from the Pine Ridge Reservation. It didn't go well: According to accounts from…
With Spearfish electing a Christian fundamentalist mayor, with Rapid City and Meade County insisting on unconstitutional public prayers on the taxpayers' dime, and with Rapid City school superintendent threatening to take Rev. Hickey up on his invitation to teach Bible…
Rep. Kristi Noem finally gives GOP bloggers something irreproachably positive to crow about her. After a long series of closed, barely announced events, she's hosting real town halls... and she's giving us more than one day's notice! Update 16:00 MST:…
David Newquist thinks hard and writes big. His latest analysis of anti-intellectualism and the decline of progressivism in South Dakota deserves your attention. Permit me to focus on just one interesting element of his essay, an example of how our…