Mr. Gerlach's first guest column this week drew an argument from one of my fellow beneficiaries of white conquest and privilege that Indians raped and killed us and each other, so we conquerors need not feel bad for raping and…
Posts tagged as “history”
[Commenter turns columnist! The spirit moves friend and frequent blog conversationalist Shane Gerlach from Yankton to contribute his thoughts on South Dakota's American Indian population. Yesterday I published Part 1 of his essay, listing many of the grim statistics on…
...too bad four out of five people don't know him yet. Respected number-cruncher Nate Silver runs some numbers that finally put South Dakota Senator John Thune within sight of the top of the Republican Presidential heap for 2012. Silver compares…
Father Tim reports the clever devils who don't want to confront the inconsistency of their "family values" with their support for family-wrecking payday lenders are scrambling to kill House Bills 1223 and 1224: My sources say that opponents got the…
The South Dakota Legislature killed all sorts of bills yesterday. Among the big No's: The full House killed HB 1152, which would have required drug testing for TANF recipients. Rep. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) gave a pretty good speech on…
Hat tip to Northern Valley Beacon! Rep. Hal Wick (R-12/Sioux Falls) and the co-sponsors of House Bill 1237, the personal firearms mandate, must have thought they were pretty clever proposing a bill that would never pass but would make some…
The House Education Committee took up House Bill 1153 yesterday. Prime sponsor Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) stepped forward to confirm my suspicion that the plan to forbid the Department of Education from participating in developing Common Core history standards bears…
I have a problem with House Joint Resolution 1004. Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City), Senator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center), and many of my favorite conservatives (Haggar, Hickey, Hubbel, Munsterman, Stace Nelson, even my gal Stricherz) want to submit to us…