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Punishment for Considering Abortion: Pushing Lies of Fake Clinics

Why do supporters of South Dakota's atrocious new abortion law, HB 1217, keep lying to us that the bill is just about informing women? Because lying is par for the course in the War on Women. To understand, please, please,…

HB 1230: Would Corporations Get Welfare from Jesus?

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…

Muslims, Democracy, and Madison’s Bigotry

Bigotry check, everyone! The following "joke" has been circulating on various conservative fora. Madison City Commissioner Nick Abraham posted it on his Facebook wall yesterday. This morning the Muslim Brotherhood warned the United States that if United States meddling in…

Legislature Asking for Court Injunction with Anti-Muslim Crusade

South Dakota's legislators don't pay much attention to history... not even recent history. Our legislators---who still haven't written a budget---are considering three measures that would fight the scourge of Islam that has driven South Dakota into its structural deficit, deprived…

Keep Your Girls Away from Muslims, Says SD Legislator

The South Dakota Legislature becomes a bigger embarrassment every day. At a crackerbarrel in Rapid City yesterday, Rep. Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) declared it a problem that American women marry whom they want: In the Western world... Muslim men are…

HJR 1004 to Judges: Don’t Read Your Bible, Torah, Common Law…

I have a problem with House Joint Resolution 1004. Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City), Senator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center), and many of my favorite conservatives (Haggar, Hickey, Hubbel, Munsterman, Stace Nelson, even my gal Stricherz) want to submit to us…

South Dakota Ranks 39th for Tolerance

Loose on Religion, Uptight on Homosexuals ThePostSD.com alerts us to another reason we might have trouble convincing some young people to stick around on the prairie. The Daily Beast spent Martin Luther King Day calculating how tolerant the states of…