Senator John Thune chirps mindlessly over Senator Chuck Schumer's supposed regret over the push for the Affordable Care Act. The only thing we Democrats have to regret about pushing for the Affordable Care Act in our best window of opportunity…
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Keenly interested rural observer Don Carr smells bull-fudgery in Senator John Thune's faint signal of sensibility on climate change. Carr says Senator Thune should get serious about science for the sake of agriculture: If Senator Thune actually believed what scientists…
John Thune is running for President. How else can we explain our soon-to-be-senior Senator's seemingly sensible statement on climate change on Fox News Sunday? Asked about the overwhelming agreement among experts on the cause and trajectory of global warming, Thune…
Mr. Ehrisman wonders why we haven't seen a big Governor Dennis Daugaard endorsement ad for Mike Rounds for Senate. Well, Senator John Thune is on the air telling folks to send him Rounds to join him for No Theater: Be…
Not quite 5,000 people have died in this year's Ebola outbreak. One of those deaths has taken place in the United States. In response, Senator John Thune is advocating bigger government, specifically in the form of banning travel to the…
An eager reader asks what I think John Thune will do in 2016: run for re-election to the Senate or run for President? Assuming he runs for anything, I say Senate 2016, then President 2024. First, Thune himself says he's…
Jonathan Ellis notes that Senator John Thune's leadership PAC, the Heartland Values PAC (aw, what a sweet little name!) is raking in more cash . The nearly $1.3 million Senator Thune has raised to sprinkle on other candidates tops the…
David Newquist knows how to bum me out. His pessimism about South Dakota's political landscape makes it hard to keep up hope for liberal democracy in our fair state. Hearing my complaint about the difficulty of finding good candidates to…