Yesterday I mentioned America's declining teen birth rates and wondered how that improvement squares with the cries of moral decline that we hear from our alarmist right-wing neighbors. That improvement is relative. Compare birth rates in the U.S. with our…
Posts tagged as “morals”
You folks consider me about as trustworthy as a rapist. Science says so: ...[A] team of psychologists at the University of British Columbia and University of Oregon... conducted a series of six studies with 350 American adults and 420 university…
Against my advice, Judge Bradley Zell sentenced confessed killer Eric Robert to death yesterday. South Dakota is thus doing exactly what the killer wants: succumbing to the fear and anger he uses to control others. [Judge Zell] said Robert's positive…
Confessed killer Eric Robert is trying to hold South Dakota hostage. During his sentencing hearing before Judge Bradley Zell yesterday, Robert threatened to kill another man and tried to shift the blame to us: He also told Zell that failure…
In his usual (and in my book, admirable) sprawling fashion, the good Dr. Newquist reads in the two recent suicides by cop here in the Black Hills a snapshot of America's perilous moral state as the plutocracy rises, the serf…
Bob Ellis returns to writing about real South Dakota politics... but alas! He does so only to peddle hate, deception, and his persecution complex. Ellis crows about the pink flyer being circulated by his fellow fundagelicals to damage Ritchie Nordstrom's…
Let's mingle the secular and the sacred on the budget today, shall we? HB 1230 comes before Senate State Affairs this morning. This bill permanently diverts 22% of the contractors' excise tax to corporate welfare, handouts to wealthy businesses that…