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Stalzer Defends Stalling Education Funding, Says Hasn’t Had Time to Study...
Rep. Jim Stalzer, we’re ready to help… post those amendments! Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) is feeling the heat for leading the Republican stalling of the Governor’s sales tax plan to fund...
View ArticleTerry Woster: Democratic Discourse Is About Learning, Not Winning
Terry Woster finds a social media acquaintance reposting Trumpy hyperbole challenging readers to name one thing Hillary Clinton has done. As a Sanders Democrat, I won’t exert myself too hard on that...
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Williams Says Thune Dodging Responsibility to Debate
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jay Williams says Senator John Thune “has told Dakotafest sponsor IDEAg Group that he has no plans to debate this year.” The way Williams words that sentence, he...
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Jay Williams Taking All Questions on Reddit This Morning
Senator John Thune invites us to give him our feedback “if our paths cross this summer,” but he doesn’t tell us when those paths will cross. Jay Williams Thune of course is trying hard not to cross...
View ArticleVideo: Ron Branstner’s People Get Mad When I Explain Aberdeen Workforce...
Looks like Pat Powers is catching the lying bug from Ron Branstner. Powers says I was an uninvited guest at Branstner’s Two-Hour Hate last night here in Aberdeen. Powers is incorrect: all materials...
View ArticleSantema Sees Me Talking with an Aberdeen Voter, No Punches, No Name-Calling
In today’s lesson in civil discourse, Libertarian blogger Ken Santema posts a photo of Joop Bollen talking with me in front of the Brown County Democrats’ booth at the Brown County Fair Thursday...
View ArticleHowie: Democrats Civil, Trumpists Intolerant Name-Callers
While working the Democratic booth at the Brown County Fair, I had a Trump supporter come up to me unbidden and, without preface, call me an “f—ing idiot.” When I offered a question, he repeated the...
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Clinton Opponent Lacks Courage to Put Name to Nasty Note
An eager reader submits this note, left in the mailbox of a Hillary Clinton supporter proudly displaying a Clinton campaign sign in his Rapid City yard: Anonymous note left in Rapid City resident’s...
View ArticleCook-Lynn Critiques Social Media; Blogger Defends Tools of His Trade
Writer and retired professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn swears off and swears at social media: This invention was not the Utopian Dream whose purpose, some suggest, get’s rid of the gatekeepers of the...
View ArticleBoycott, Emigration, or Armed Revolt: When and How Do Patriots Respond to...
When do we take up arms against an oppressor? Such is the troubling question our Founding Fathers answered with muskets in April 1775 and in the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. Such is the...
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New Legislative Cyberbullying Rule Redundant, Sloppy
…Would Trump Survive This Rule? In other action today, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee amended its “Professional Conduct and Civility” rule (Joint Rule 1B-3) to include a cyberbullying...
View ArticleRegents Consider Unnecessary Inflation of Free Speech Policy
At its meeting next week at the School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, the South Dakota Board of Regents will discuss seven draft policies that it says deal with free speech. The second draft...
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Local Facebook: 97% Rants
I need to shut off Facebook. It tries too hard to dominate my mind with its response-time rat lever (and doesn’t even give me a nice crunchy rat pellet). However, every now and then, Facebook provides...
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