Jonathan Ellis catches another example of South Dakota Republicans' use and abuse of state statute to serve their partisan purposes instead of the public welfare. In 2002, Republicans passed a law that forbade individuals running for President or Vice-President to…
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Need help figuring out your 2014 federal tax return? Don't count on the Internal Revenue Service. The National Taxpayer Advocate's latest report to Congress says the IRS lacks the staff and funding to serve taxpayers: The IRS will be able…
Texas blogger Juanita Jean notes with dismay Senator John Thune's choices for subcommittee chairs on the Senate Commerce Committee that he chairs: Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), from a small state with no primary…
Senator John Thune is promising sanity in Washington. Not only does he say "We're not going to shut the government down" in the GOP's ongoing attacks on President Obama, but he offers the home folks (i.e., Dennis Daugaard) some cover…
Senator John Thune is laying the rhetorical groundwork necessary to rationalize the shift he and Mike Rounds will have to make to lift the embargo against Cuba and boost donor Jeff Sveen's chances to sell Hutterite turkey in Havana. Senator…
In February,Senator John Thune told Mark Twain Elementary second-graders he wasn't running for President. In April, Senator Thune said nope, not running for President. This week, Senator Thune tells The Hill pretty much the same thing—never say never, but right…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, like South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, continues to build his radical conservative brand for the next election by wasting the people's time by futilely bashing the President. During the Senate debate on the stopgap spending…
America tortured detainees. We tortured human beings. The world is rightly outraged. We have it coming. We call ourselves the exceptional nation, and I'm fine with that if we can live up to that claim. We should be a beacon…