The difference I hear Libertarians wheeze about, that the United States is a Republic Not a Democracy™, is practically irrelevant. My conservative friends and I should agree that the much greater problem is that we are not a democracy but…
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The South Dakota Legislature listens to constituents, respects local control, and sends a message that texting while driving is irresponsible, dangerous behavior. What's not to like? David Montgomery reports that, after declaring failure just a couple days ago, legislators have…
My crazy cousin Aaron is going off on Facebook about how a democracy is so much worse than a republic. I generally finds such semantic hair-splitting a useless exercise in poseur-stroking semantics. But if any conservatives want to go there,…
Thank you, Madville Times readers, for your enthusiastic response to my grassroots legislative project. On Christmas Day, I opened the comment section to your suggestions for practical bills for the 2014 session of the South Dakota Legislature. You've responded with…
You've unwrapped your presents, the ham is about to go under the knife, but don't let the Christmas giving end. Give your legislators the gift that keeps on giving: legislation! Madville Times readers are full of good ideas (and some…
You know the Madville Times is South Dakota's real liberal media. But the Yankton Press and Dakotan and Mitchell Daily Republic are cruisin' for a conservative bruisin' by having the audacity to call the impasse in Washington D.C. what it…
I'm not sure Bob Mercer is fully recovered from his recent stay in the hospital. He declares that Kevin Schieffer, the latest GOP crony appointed to the South Dakota Board of Regents, "brings perhaps the widest experience of the nine…
Want a vote? Want a raise? Vote Democratic! Once again the South Dakota Democratic Party is demonstrating its belief in workers and small-d democracy. This morning, Dems interim exec Zach Crago joined the South Dakota AFL-CIO and the Teamsters in…