Senator John Thune tells national talk radio that he's not running for President in 2016. Thune is smart: if he ran for President, he'd have to figure out how to get all those non-white folks to vote for him. Why…
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There are eager readers, and there are really eager readers. A friend of the blog cogitates on the GOED/EB-5/NBP scandal and decides to place the affair in recent historical context. In this essay, our friend reminds us that South Dakota…
Just when it looks like Washington is starting to work again with Congress passing a no-drama budget deal, Senator John Thune stinks up the joint with another threat to take the global economy hostage... just to free the Keystone XL…
The EB-5 visa program that is blowing up in South Dakota was supposed to end last year. But Congress and the President extended it through Fiscal Year 2015 last year with Senate Bill 3245. The Senate passed it by unanimous…
State Senator Dan Lederman got his friends Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem to join him in his hyperbolic, government- and environment-loathing lie that the perfectly sensible Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs conservation area plan is a dangerous federal…
Speaking of paychecks, our South Dakota delegation to Washington appears to be doing the right thing and declining to take their paychecks while their fecklessness leaves 800,000 other federal workers scrambling to cover their bills without their usual pay. The…
Press-release puppet Pat Powers makes himself and his sponsor Senator John Thune look like an idiot with today's repost of a letter from Senator Thune and 16 Republican Senate colleagues. These hardy Republicans are calling for Health and Human Services…