Senator John Thune is laying the rhetorical groundwork necessary to rationalize the shift he and Mike Rounds will have to make to lift the embargo against Cuba and boost donor Jeff Sveen's chances to sell Hutterite turkey in Havana. Senator…
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Small sacrifice to fight Putin and jihadis? Bob Mercer notes that county emergency responders lack the training and resources to deal with oil train accidents. County emergency management officials don't even get updates on what sort of toxic train materials…
Saudi Arabia gave a Black Friday gift to the world oil market. The Saudis have persuaded their OPEC partners to sustain OPEC's current oil production rates (30 million barrels per day) rather than cutting production to pull oil prices out…
Amidst the mind-boggling complexities of the Governor's Office of Economic Development/EB-5 visa/Northern Beef Packers/Richard Benda/Mike Rounds scandal, I find this small kettle of stinky fish. During the first year of construction, Northern Beef Packers made at least three wire transfers…
Last weekend's New York Times had a wonderful story about creative cultural development in Perm, Russia. Perm was one of the Soviet Union's "closed cities." Westerners couldn't go there; Perm didn't even appear on Soviet maps. The Soviets built tanks…
There are no signs yet that the 2011 South Dakota Legislature will revisit the ill-conceived Blog Control Acts that died in the 2010 session. I suggest our legislators not touch any other legislation until they have a working budget in…