Public education advocate Sabrina Stevens infiltrates a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council and hears Indiana State Representative Cindy Noe urge ALEC to tackle the content we teach. "If we're not careful," says Rep. Noe, "we will end up…
Posts tagged as “military”
Alas, like Pat, I'm not in Tampa to live-blog the GOP convention. Of course, my humble family doesn't even have cable, so we cannot entrance ourselves with the great wall of crap. But I hear the Republicans put up a…
Gordon Howie's propaganda machine gripes and moans (again, linklessly! Why does South Dakota's right-wing blogosphere have to suck so badly?) that healthcare is a privilege, not a right attested in the Declaration of Independence. Maintaining a military presence in other…
In our discussion of the odd policy decision by the Daugaard Administration to scale back the portfolio of the Lieutenant Governor position based on a personal decision by the current holder of the job, a minor kerfuffle erupts over Dennis…
So how about we require that all candidates for Governor be teachers? A full month after I broke the news of Bill Cissell's candidacy for South Dakota's lone House seat, the Sturgis Republican gets his first mention from the mainstream…
...and other vaguely videographical notes... I feel dirty, downright filthy, running the same press release as Bob Ellis. But as Ellis's newly rebranded American Carrion reports, Rep. Stace Nelson is in the movies! Nelson is a featured expert in The…
Still think green power is for sissies? Don't say that to the Marines. America's best butt-kickers are using solar power to save money, save troop backpack weight, and save lives. Outside tells of one Marine unit's experience operating in a…