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…
Posts tagged as “morals”
The very conservative P&R Miscellany sees the untrustworthy Annette Bosworth starting to implode. Starting? tweet-muses the very Democratic Ryan Casey. As I hope serious press scrutiny will end the Bosworth campaign, a friend of the blog writes, "I don't hope…
Today's quote from the Wayback Machine comes from Sioux Falls reporter Peter Harriman, who in 2008 tagged a quote from South Dakota's EB-5 coordinator Joop Bollen with this uncomfortable heading: Bollen leaves ethical considerations to others. "The U.S. federal government…
My wife and I used a long drive across the state yesterday to read Steven Brill's journalistic magnum opus, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us." (Erin read aloud while I kept my eyes on the road.) We gagged…
Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) does not like the idea of the state banning minors from using their cell phones while driving. (I'm assuming that Rep. Nelson has had the good sense to tell his daughters not to do it but…
We the people of South Dakota will kill a restrained, unarmed man tonight. At 10 p.m. in Sioux Falls, we will stick poison in a killer's veins and watch him die. You know I find the death penalty a moral…
I had a nasty public pornography experience last night. While my daughter perused the books on CD at the Grace Balloch Memorial Library here in Spearfish, I turned and glanced at the cluster of computers next to us. One young…