In today's exercise in faux patrio-piety, Rep. Hal Wick presented House Bill 1150, to require all K-12 students in South Dakota to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily, to House State Affairs this morning. Rep. Wick said his bill came…
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Rep. Kristi Noem voted for more bad legislation yesterday. Joining a nearly unanimous Republican caucus against a just slightly less unanimous Democratic caucus, Rep. Noem voted for the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act. Two reasons Noem voted wrong:…
Want to know who's un-American? Jerks who call Sioux Falls school board members and threaten to kill their families: Some board members and their families say they’ve received threats after a Nov. 12 vote that requires middle schools to recite…
Tuesday night the Sioux Falls School Board invited controversy by expanding its policy to require middle school students to recite the socialist flag-marketing slogan known as the Pledge of Allegiance along with elementary students. But the board declared that high…
The Sioux Falls School Board declined last night to require high school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in class. The board's reasoning: the high schoolers are too busy! “At the high school level, there isn’t always…
The flag is a sign of patriotism, a sign of pride in America, a sign— A flag is a sign, period, says the Deadwood Planning and Zoning Commission, and First Gold's sign was too darn big: Deadwood Planning and Zoning…
David Montgomery is providing the best live online coverage of the Dan Willard robocall trial, tweeting prolifically and usefully from the Lake County Courthouse. Amidst yesterday's flurry of keystrokes, in one retweet of colleague John Hult and four tweets of…