Was it something I said? KJAM reports Congresswoman Kristi Noem canceled a visit to Madison, where she was going to talk flooding with local officials. Nertz! She could have come to our county water quality committee meeting tonight, where I'm…
Posts tagged as “health care”
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin saw this coming last year, and said so on the campaign trail: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does patient protection but needs a lot more work on the "affordable" side. The f... f... f... friendly…
In floor debate yesterday, Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) gave the most compelling argument against South Dakota's abortion-oppression bill, HB 1217. Rep. Gibson deserves a blog post of her own. I paraphrase extensively her courageous rebuttal to the woman-hating, big-government hogwash…
I guess when the government gives you gold-plated health insurance, you don't have to worry about other women getting affordable health care. So goes the thinking of Congresswoman Kristi Noem. While we taxpayers cover all of the cancer screenings, birth…
Even my lovely wife says I have too many tabs open on my browser (current count: 19). Time to clear the queue! Here's the South Dakota news I'm reading about: David Chicoine, president of my noble alma mater South Dakota…
The South Dakota State House continues not to trust women. Yesterday the House failed to pass HB 1061, which would finally allow midwives to operate as licensed, regulated professionals in South Dakota. Representative Roger Hunt's bill got 36 Yeas versus…
I rode herd on Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) last week for the seemingly inconsistent and unnecessarily Tea-flavored advocacy of HB 1153, a bill that opposes the adoption of national Common Core history standards for K-12 education. The bill passed House…
O.K., now the yahoos are just teasing me. Representatives Wick, Brunner, and Greenfield and Senators Rampleberg and Begalka have introduced HB 1237, a measure requiring every South Dakotan over 21 to purchase or otherwise acquire a firearm for self-defense. They…