I make plenty of editorial decisions about which stories deserve blog attention. But to determine the most interesting stories of 2014, I like to look at what you readers spend your time reading and discussing. Below is a table of…
My friends on the far Right have a thing for threat-maximization rhetoric. When they want to criticize a problem, they don't just say, "Hey, here's a problem." They say, "Great God! This problem is the greatest threat to American Freedom!"…
In the Department of Non-Responses, one Leonard Heckel of Ethan responds to my upbraiding of the Mitchell Daily Republic for publishing a letter to the editor last month from John Shaw that fabricates statistics and repeats proven lies. Mr. Heckel…
If you're conservative, you've got to keep people scared of something. Conservative Gordon Howie is trying to bring back the Red Scare, but in logic that can only come from the far right wing, the real bogeyman is not Vladimir…
Last Saturday was the 13th anniversary of my wife and I's engagement. We got married five months later, but from the moment I took the knee, we viewed our engagement as the point of no return. And we haven't returned.…
On Friday, U.S. Judge Karen Schreier rejected the bulk of the State of South Dakota's arguments for dismissing the challenge to its same-sex marriage ban. Judge Schreier's ruling says the two main cases on which the state leans to call…
Josie Weiland just graduated from high school. She's headed for Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Her uncle Rick is running for U.S. Senate. Josie Weiland made her own political news last February, when she stood up at a crackerbarrel and…
Last week we discussed Dell Rapids coach and Augie grad Nathan Alfson's announcement that he is gay. This week we get the news that his announcement will not cost him his job. Catholic school Dell Rapids St. Mary's will continue…
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