Big Oil lapdog Mike McDowell says that, in my opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, I'm in league with sheiks and dictators. He throws around his same stale wishful thinking that increased oil prices from Keystone XL are "not a…
Posts published in December 2011
...maybe they'd like to buy the Masonic temple... Rod Goeman brings to my attention an effort to establish Madison's first mosque (or perhaps more accurately, musalla... but more on that below). No, we're not talking fancy domes and minarets and…
...however, constant anti-abortion activism might.... Last September, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court issued a mostly bad ruling on South Dakota's 2005 anti-abortion law. The only bright spot was the Court's rejection of South Dakota's attempt to force…
You folks consider me about as trustworthy as a rapist. Science says so: ...[A] team of psychologists at the University of British Columbia and University of Oregon... conducted a series of six studies with 350 American adults and 420 university…
The Environmental Integrity Project finds Basin Electric, source of much of the electricity used in South Dakota, is one of the leading generators of toxic air pollution. Their new report on the dirtiest power plants in the nation finds that,…
Yesterday I discussed the political angles of a letter from six legislators accusing the GOP House leadership of using the Legislative Research Council to snoop on its own members. Today, let's look at the more important issue of what those…
Hey, all you conservatives! Want me to leave the country? Here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is! My French students here at Spearfish High School are holding a French Toast Feed Saturday (tomorrow!). We'll be serving…
Oh, the myopia! In his Thursday article on the battle over a proposed 7000-head dairy in Hanson County, intrepid reporter Tom Lawrence gets mega-dairy operator and South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Walt Bones on the record as "puzzled": Bones said…