An eager reader asks what I think John Thune will do in 2016: run for re-election to the Senate or run for President? Assuming he runs for anything, I say Senate 2016, then President 2024. First, Thune himself says he's…
Posts published in July 2014
Following our extensive discussions of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, and amidst the heat and bother over Gordon Howie's statement that life begins before sperm meets egg, Larry Kurtz sent me an essay by the Guardian's Jessica Valenti arguing…
KELO notes Google's claim that the search giant helped generate $55.6 million in economic activity in South Dakota in 2013. According to Google's nationwide economic report, that's the third-lowest amount of Googly economic activity, behind only Alaska and North Dakota.…
If there are racists in South Dakota, Larry Pressler is taking a dig at them. The Independent Senate candidate today announced that his first action if elected would be to sponsor legislation to create an international North American indigenous holocaust…
If an omnipotent God is under attack by mortals, isn't the proper response a shrug?
Did I miss a memo from the political science department declaring issues irrelevant to U.S. Senate campaigns? I check the websites for our four contenders—Marion Michael Rounds, Rick Weiland, Larry Pressler, and Gordon Howie—and find that not one of them…
Here's a low ranking in which South Dakota can find relief: South Dakota is among states with low participation in the white-supremacist hate forum Stromfront. Stephens-Davidowitz found 12 South Dakotans participating in Stormfront's particularly vile community of loathing of "the…
An Orange County, California, judge has ruled the state's death penalty unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney says California's death penalty inflicts cruel and unusual punishment, not because state-sanctioned killing of captive convicts is abhorrent, but because California…