If you're conservative, you've got to keep people scared of something. Conservative Gordon Howie is trying to bring back the Red Scare, but in logic that can only come from the far right wing, the real bogeyman is not Vladimir…
Posts tagged as “history”
P&R Miscellany echoes a position voiced by Fox News and Senator Rand Paul: Eric Garner, the New York man who died last July after a physically forceful arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes, was killed in part by the nanny state:…
According to Wikipedia, U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rounds was born on October 24, 1954. The Legislative Research Council says that's true. Rounds's birthday this year falls on a Friday. Bob Mercer received a flyer indicating that someone on Team Rounds…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has declared October "Archives Month" in South Dakota: “Archival institutions have a responsibility to collect, organize, preserve and make available records that document the history of the state of South Dakota and the plains region for the…
In this guest column for the Madville Times, actual live Native American Tasiyagnunpa Livermont weighs in on Watertown's cultural misappropriation, football, war, and racism: Nobody likes to be told they are wrong. Let alone racist. I get it. You feel…
Senator John Walsh dropped out of his re-election race in Montana when the press discovers he plagiarized a research paper. Nebraska Lt. Gov. Lavon Heidemann resigned and withdrew from the ballot when a court issues his sister a protection order.…
An Exclusive Madville Times Interview Somewhere in my piles of stuff is a photo of Senator Larry Pressler with me and a nice girl from Vermillion, Angeline Wilson, at the U.S. Capitol on a muggy June day 25 years ago.…
Independent candidate Larry Pressler sends out a campaign video that refers to him as a Republican: "Listen to the words of South Dakota Republican Senator Larry Pressler...," intones Walter Cronkite, reminding us that on February 4, 1980, Pressler was a…