In Tom Lawrence's readworthy series on big dairies in South Dakota, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer claims he finds no evidence of illegal immigration arrests at South Dakota dairies. This kind of incompetence and falsehood from a government official…
Posts published in December 2011
No one should be surprised that I would like to see the GOP majority in the South Dakota Legislature weakened and ultimately overthrown. I see the tension between the GOP leadership and some John-Birchy conservative activists like Rep. Stace Nelson…
Ron Paul, who surprisingly has more of a shot at winning delegates than a majority of the GOP presidential candidates*, issues this ad for his young Red-Bull-slamming libertarian parroters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCZVmQ74OA Grist thinks the video "borders on self-parody." But Ron Paul…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's budget address put Doug Wiken to sleep. I made it through the replay, but it didn't contain a lot of big waker-uppers. That's good and bad. We heard no jarring whackings of the meat ax that decimated…
On the heels of state approval of Wharf Resources' expanded mining near Terry Peak, state officials are now talking with Valentine Mining about gouging out another chunk of the Black Hills. Miners would like to make the Ragged Top Mountain…
I prefer not to let my blogging be molded by party headquarters, but the South Dakota Dems notice that, in the unlikely event of its enactment, Congresswoman Kristi Noem's smokescreen anti-EPA dust bill will cost taxpayers $10 million. But don't…
Holy cowpies! Tell me Rick Perry isn't spouting theocracy... and homophobia... and sheer baloney. Kids can't openly celebrate Christmas? Obama's war on religion? America isn't strong, and needs to be made strong again? I missed all three of those memos.…
I should be analyzing Governor Daugaard's budget proposal instead of chasing Republicans chasing bogeymen. (CenturyLink had an Internet outage for over six hours yesterday afternoon and evening; Steve! Fix it!) Stay tuned: I'll watch the video and offer some thoughts…