One moment Rep. Charlie Hoffman is crazy; the next moment he talks perfect sense. Rep. Don Kopp and some of his colleagues want to give pistol packers a pass by making carrying a concealed weapon without a permit a secondary…
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Kristi Noem's effort to repair her reputation among Black Hills Teabaggers is failing. After a year of signals from impatient right-wingnuts that Red Dog Kristi isn't measuring up to their most fervid fantasies, the gloves are coming off. Ed Randazzo,…
Here's why Democrats have a 50-50 shot at knocking off incumbent freshman Rep. Kristi Noem in 2012. She has a chance to delight conservatives by saying she's cutting government, and instead she tells them to get on board with more…
My blog neighbors Jennifer Holsen and Scott Ehrisman have been waging war against the big event center that goes before Sioux Falls voters on November 8. I naturally sympathize with Holsen and Ehrisman and other event center opponents, if for…
Representative Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) gets the highest score of any South Dakota legislator on the shadowy SDFC's Freedom Index. Voicing her support for Governor Dennis Daugaard's two-year moratorium on acquisitions of land by the state Game Fish and Parks…
The Tea Party House GOP-wienie roast burns on.... I do not listen to the Mark Levin Show, but some of my readers do. One eager reader forwarded a clip that deserves its own little slideshow. Just under thirty minutes into…
I confess: I want to gloat over the Tea Party's failure to gather enough signatures to refer Senate Bills 38 and 43 to a public vote, especially when contrasted with the South Dakota Dems' successful submission of nearly 23,000 signatures…