As a footnote to Toby's post on Chamberlain's persistent apartheid, consider this segment of the river city's cultural DNA, a 1954 letter from Mayor Herschel V. Melcher to Washington officials explaining local opposition to a proposal to move the Indian…
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Fascists and Communists are supposed to be a fiercer ideological grudge match than Republicans versus Democrats. But Che Guevara disciple Annette Bosworth is winning the endorsement of Nazi-loving white supremacist Jason R. Baran. Baran tweets Fox News's Megyn Kelly and…
Remember Crow Creek Sioux tribal chairman Brandon Sazue's call to boycott Chamberlain in response to that school district's continuing refusal to allow a Lakota honor song at its high school graduation? It's on... at least for Sazue: Crow Creek Sioux…
I can spot a Brad Ford headline a mile away. "Is Rapid City's Art Alley Just Another Form of Ghettoizing?" writes Gordon Howie's resident racist non-sequiturist. In Brad Ford's world, Art Alley is really just a trick used by progressives…
Veterans Adminstration Midwest Health Care Network director Janet Murphy put an end to the Confederate-flag flap at the Hot Springs VA this week. She overruled local director Steve DiStasio, ordered the traitor flags removed from public display, and apologized to…
A couple weeks ago, two veterans at the Hot Springs VA noticed two Confederate flags in the hospital's "Freedom Shrine," a display put up by the Rapid City Exchange Club in 1995. The two veterans complained that the flags sent…
Once again, I find myself wanting to respond to wingnut conservative blogger Brad Ford. Alas, since Ford is as bad a writer as Secretary of Agriculture Walt Bones, it's hard to formulate a coherent response. Both Bones and Ford appear…