While Republican M. Michael Rounds rides shotgun and kinda-Republican Annette Bosworth sprinkles confused policy notions atop her narcissistic references to herself as a Gen X David against Goliath (or is she the next Stace Nelson, or the next Che?), Democrat…
Posts tagged as “corporation”
Rick Weiland posts "Why I'm Running" on Down with Tyranny. His main raison de se présenter: fighting for fairness against big money: Republicans think they have a lock on the red states, but we are going to give them a…
I was curious as to whether the South Dakota Fusion Center (no, not the secret lab at Mines where the grad students brew moonshine with cold fusion) had gotten corporate-fascist briefings from TransCananda on potential Keystone XL protests. The Canadian…
Hey, kids! How would you like your local law enforcement, at the behest of our foreign corporate overlords, to brand you as a terrorist threat? Here are some quick and easy "suspicious activities" you can do to make yourself the…
Regular readers know I don't go for conspiracy theories. But give me three instances of the powers that be portraying anti-Keystone XL activists as terrorists, and I can't help thinking we face an orchestrated corporate PR campaign. First public officials…
Student learning depends twice as much on family characteristics as on anything that happens in school. Income inequality has more to do with how well our kids do in school than standardized tests or teacher evaluations. So why does the…
My response to Dakota War College's derision of Dakota Rural Action as a "liberal" activist group drew a predictable dodge in which Mr. Powers said he should call DRA "a lot worse" for opposing corporate farms and criticizing John Thune.…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune explains how the failure of Rep. Kristi Noem to pass a real Farm Bill is just one more Republican cave-in to the rich and powerful: A truer and more alarming way to view the one-year extension…