Julie Rovner follows up on a report she did for NPR in 2012 noting that Hobby Lobby and other corporations who want to deny women coverage for birth control are still discriminating on the basis of sex and pregnancy under…
Hi, I'm Toby. And I'm new here. Sort of. You see, I am from South Dakota, so I'm part of the community the Madville Times seeks to both serve and foster. I've read this blog for most of its existence,…
Bob Mercer and Donald Pay both expressed skepticism about my report Thursday on the status of South Dakota's pension fund. They were right to be skeptical. A conservative think tank called State Budget Solutions issued a report assailing all state…
Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) spoke mostly extemporaneously at his Senate campaign announcement in Alexandria yesterday. He returned to the podium to read from prepared text only toward the end of his speech. That prepared text was his "Contract with South…
I blipped Senator Lindsey Graham's doubt about the First Amendment rights of bloggers yesterday. Ken Santema gives Graham's Constitutional nincompoopery much fuller treatment in this post on bloggers, journalists, and freedom of the press. This discussion happens in the context…
And now a hypocrisy softball, from our Congresswoman Kristi Noem: This all comes down to one fundamental question. Do we want to live in a world where the government tells us what to do? That is not the kind of…
Mr. Mercer notes (linklessly, alas) on the South Dakota Board of Regents' Academic Freedom Report. This annual report fulfills a non-statutory requirement that the Regents annually detail "the steps that each of our universities is taking to ensure intellectual diversity…
The freedom-, law-, and woman-loving blogosphere has raised quite a ruckus over the 72-hour waiting period South Dakota wants to impose on women seeking abortions, a law quite sensibly blocked Thursday by Judge Karen Schreier. Imagine the outcry if the…
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