The press gave some attention to some protesters who interrupted President Obama's speech at the University of Colorado in Denver Wednesday by raising a banner and shouting for him to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project. The President…
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Dr. Newquist and Mr. Wiken offer their perspectives on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together they posit that the Occupiers are not dirty hippies (I certainly didn't see any Occupying Rapid City) but citizens responding to the dangers of undemocratically…
Bob Ellis wants to convince you that America is more disunited than ever, but I say nuts to that. The blogosphere is full of signs that Americans of divergent views can still find common ground: Sicangu Lakota writer Vi Waln…
I sniffed around at 6th and Main yesterday for lazy jobless Rapid City hippies. I didn't smell any. A new online survey on the main Occupy Wall Street website suggests that you might have a better chance of finding slackers…
My daughter and I went to Rapid City to engage the capitalist beast with our dollars. Several of our neighbors were at 6th and Main engaging the beast with their First Amendment Rights. Let's hear from five of our neighbors…
Double pol treats for breakfast! First Frank Kloucek wakes me up with advocacy for his redistricting amendment; then I find Gordon Howie blowing smoke from his Black Hills hookah to obscure Republican chickenness with charges of Occupiers unruliness. The failed…
If I didn't know Steve Hickey better, I might think he was trying to draw me in to a blog trap. Several days ago the pastor and legislator took a swipe at the Occupy movement, calling it little more than…
These Occupiers are out standing in their field: Steph Larsen and Brian DePew stake rural America's claim to membership in the 99% with their occupation of a pasture near Lyons, Nebraska. Lyons... hey! Isn't that a French name? They must…