Senator Tim Johnson made his farewell speech on the floor of the Senate this morning. CSPAN webcasts Senator Johnson's speech, along with (starting at 13:55) Senator John Thune's subsequent tribute. Offering what he says has become a hallmark of Senate…
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America tortured detainees. We tortured human beings. The world is rightly outraged. We have it coming. We call ourselves the exceptional nation, and I'm fine with that if we can live up to that claim. We should be a beacon…
If Senator Tim Johnson was planning to engage in the climax of the campaign to replace him, I thought he would simply match Senator John Thune's pro-Rounds pitch with a warm, fuzzy pro-Weiland ad. This evening, an hour before the…
Mr. Ehrisman wonders why we haven't seen a big Governor Dennis Daugaard endorsement ad for Mike Rounds for Senate. Well, Senator John Thune is on the air telling folks to send him Rounds to join him for No Theater: Be…
In a symbolic committee vote Wednesday, Senator Tim Johnson had the good sense to reject rank Big Oil propaganda and vote against the Keystone XL pipeline... sort of. The Senate Energy Committee approved Senator Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) pro-Keystone XL bill…
Jonathan Ellis has a treasure trove of documents from the U.S. Customs and Immigrations Service exposing the corruption in South Dakota's EB-5 visa investment program. Last week Ellis found the connection between EB-5 and Keystone XL. Yesterday, Ellis revealed similar…
Following the Republican be-rilement over Senator Tim Johnson's vote to confirm rejected Obama assistant AG nominee Debo Adegbile, I served up a question about whether hiring a lawyer who represents scum should have any impact on our assessment of the…
South Dakota's lone U.S. Representative, Kristi Noem, seems to be faced with more and more reasons to regret being named to the as yet ineffectual Farm Bill Conference Committee. What at first gave Noem and her supporters reasons to crow…