Spearfish developer Rand Williams has yet to start pouring footings for his giant statue of Jesus on top of the Thoen Stone monument or Lookout Mountain or anywhere else around Spearfish. City administrator Joe Neeb is wisely keeping city government…
Posts tagged as “First Amendment”
Theocracy marches on: South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is throwing in with 23 other AGs with a Christian persecution complex to advocate further violation of the separation between church and state: Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that South Dakota…
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…
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…
The good folks of Chamberlain held their high school graduation ceremony yesterday. Students sat through the standard White/Western formalities organized by the majority culture inside the high school. After that ceremony, students received a second ceremonial recognition from members of…
A South Dakota ex-pat friend cheers the Minnesota House's vote for marriage equality and says he's glad to call Minnesota home. I suggest that perhaps my ex-pat friend and Governor Dennis Daugaard's other targets should bring their respectful debate and…
That's encouraging: after a lot of chest-thumping and genuflecting (if you're doing both at once, you're probably doing something wrong), the Rapid City city council has backed away from establishing an official policy on prayer at its meetings. Rapid City…
The Black Hills Pioneer seems to run a new photo each week of hysteria in the Lead-Deadwood school district. We see teachers tackling mock gunmen in active shooter training. We see officers with weapons drawn stalking down the school hallways…