The Displaced Plainsman did not vote for Obama in 2012. He feels even more justified in voting Libertarian now that we learn the Obama Administration has a court order allowing it to snoop on every phone call made by every…
Posts published in June 2013
From right to hard right? After appointing Paul Ryan true believer Joseph Schartz as student regent, Governor Dennis Daugaard reached out and pulled Tea Party faker R. Blake Curd back into the Legislature. Ah, yes, because Sioux Falls doesn't send…
Speaking of Republicans inspired by Communists, Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem's commitment to expanding the socialization of risk through crop insurance (the product her husband Bryon sells) will increase taxpayer costs and encourage bad farming practices. If we…
Arizona education advocate Edward F. Berger sees through the selfishness of the wealthy masquerading as education reformers and calls them to a very Christian notion of serving the community: If those who have great wealth can stop believing that because…
Dr. Annette Bosworth is a smart, independent physician. But she's too independent to run for U.S. Senate or any other office and win as a Republican: Some of my conservative friends would assert that only a Democrat would wear a…
My friend, former student, and now law school graduate Patrick Weber has left the Board of Regents to work for Governor Dennis Daugaard as a policy analyst. As his replacement as student regent, the Governor has chosen Joseph Schartz, a…
Pat Powers gives Brendan Johnson and that Sioux Falls paper grief for throwing U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson softballs and not wallowing sufficiently in inside baseball. He completely ignores the difficult and valuable work that Johnson does fighting terrible crimes in…
An eager reader points me toward a USDA analysis that should distress anyone interested in economic development in South Dakota: for the first time, non-metro countries in the United States have experienced a net population loss. 46.2 million of us…