Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, patriotic champion of 9/11 first responders... unlike Senator John Thune. Or, Note to Cons — when attacking check your facts first.Tyler Crissman steps to the conservative mic this afternoon and gets mom's spaghetti all…
Posts tagged as “politics”
Mr. Feser alerts us to the guff Senator John Thune is rightfully catching for his opposition to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010. What's this bill? Oh, just a little compensation for men and women who…
Someone please unspin this for me: Kristi Noem, soon to be South Dakota's lone Representative in the U.S. House, for all her supposed pull with the new Republican majority, fails to land a seat on the House Agriculture Committee. The…
KJAM reports that early voting has begun in the $16.98-million new gym and high school renovation bond issue placed before us by the Madison Central School District. (Worth noting: one of KJAM's main media personalities, Matt Groce, is also leading…
Speaking of lobbyists, Hillary Clinton isn't to be trusted, either.Via Great Plains Tar Sands Pipelines, I learn that Friends of the Earth is alarmed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn't one of them. Apparently, one Paul Elliott was national…
Matt Hildreth of The Independent Local takes Kristi Noem to task for her opposition to the DREAM Act: You call the DREAM Act "amnesty," you even say it "rewards those who have broken the law." Representative elect, to say that…
Screen cap, Washington Post front page, 2010.12.15. Dang: I usually love it when South Dakota makes the papers. Hat tip to Dr. Newquist! Monday I noted some out-state bloggers seeing through Kristi Noem's Tea Party image. Now a more prominent…
South Dakota faces a projected budget deficit of $74.8 million, about 6% of our projected FY2010 general fund expenditures. But asking South Dakotans to pay, say, a half-penny sales tax increase to cover our expenses is deemed "the nuclear option."…