When Corinna Robinson announced her intention to challenge Rep. Kristi Noem for South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat, SDSU poli-sci prof emeritus Bob Burns predicted she'd draw carpetbagger flak: Bob Burns, a professor emeritus of political science at South Dakota…
Posts tagged as “Pat Powers”
Pat Powers pauses the press-release parade to go ape over an impending wave of anonymous animal rights "terrorism" that's going to crash into South Dakota any moment now. Reality check: cutting a fence to release farm mink sixteen years ago…
Pat Powers gets it wrong—I could fill pages with posts starting with those words. But what fun would that be? Still, in his Joe Graves flog-prep, Powers throws up another fallacy in his discussion of whether the Mitchell school superintendent…
Five weeks after mocking me for my willingness to reach across the aisle and assist South Dakota Tea Partiers in their crusade against Common Core, Pat Powers again addresses the political opposition to the newest wave of education policy busywork…
Hypocrisy must be the hot new buzzword in Results Radio's business model. They've invited Pat Powers to write a weekly column for KSOO Radio. Says Powers: ...you could say that my brand of conservatism is one of fairness, individualism, opportunity,…
This is journalism in Pat Powers's world. He takes a photo of Rep. Kristi Noem and Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas holding forth at the State Fair and declares the meeting "packed to the gills!" (yes, exclamation point included). Let's count…
Dan Willard goes to court in Lake County tomorrow for making Russ Olson feel bad with some critical anonymous robocalls last year. It is worth noting that the statute under which the state is prosecuting Willard no longer exists, and…
Pat Powers promotes Annette Bosworth for two reasons: Giving Bosworth any positive attention fosters the notion that she is a serious, viable candidate, further divides the anti-Mike Rounds vote, and boosts the chances that Pat's guy Mike wins the primary.…