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Dakota Voice: Shocker: Summit in Copenhagen Says Warming Due to Solar Activity

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:20:26 -0500

Number of comments: 1
In a shocking development, a group of scientists meeting in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Change Conference have found that the recent warming on earth is due to solar activity. Professor Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, said the last time the world experienced [...]

Dakota Voice: Suing Your Saviors: The Need for Tort Reform

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:10:08 -0500

Number of comments: 1
When people like Shanna Hiles get drunk and hurt themselves, only to sue those who saved their lives, we should have no trouble figuring out how to reduce health care costs. Hint: it has nothing to more government bureaucracy.

Dakota Voice: Exposing the pernicious lie [...]

Constitutionally Speaking: Legitimate Questions Deserve Nothing Less Than Legitimate Answers

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:55:11 -0500

For over a year now, the Hawaiian officials have refused to release the information by which they have come to their conclusion that Obama is a ‘natural-born’ citizen. Obama himself has never claimed this status, he clearly states at his site that he is a native to the soil, but never [...]

South DaCola: What I don’t want for X-mas

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:43:00 -0500

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Black Marks on Wood Pulp / by Corey Vilhauer: The similarity of last names

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:32:11 -0500

No.

No, I’m not related to any Vilhauers in Aberdeen.

I’m not related to any Vilhauers in Mobridge or Winner. I don’t know any Vilhauers in Madison. Or Mitchell. Or Milbank.

Yes, I understand that Vilhauer is an original last name. It’s easy to remember (even if it’s apparently difficult for marketers to [...]

The Decorum Forum: I turned on the news for a while

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:25:00 -0500

Tiger Woods got dropped by Gatorade.

Mike Rounds, appointed Tiger Woods, er, his best friend’s daughter to a state senate seat. “Fischer had a daughter?"

Tiger, er, Harry Reid said the Democrats would drop all objections to any bill titled “Health Care Reform,” no matter its content.[...]

Northern Plains Anglicans: When good things happen to bad people or something like that

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:38:00 -0500

In the last week, two really, really annoying/painful things have hit me. But in both cases, they caused me to walk face first into blessings way bigger than the annoyances.

I wish God and I could communicate more directly and pleasantly sometimes, but I'm just thankful that He's got' [...]

Behind Govt Lines: My favorite thing about the governor's budget address

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:29:18 -0500

...is his pronounciation of years the way they should be — "twenty-ten" or "twenty-eleven." The cumbersome "two thousand and three" style was passable for the first couple years of this decade, but there's no reason we should pronounce years in the third millenium AD any differently than we do dates [...]

Madville Times: Ann Arbor Online Media: Future of Journalism in South Dakota?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:15:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Doug Wiken wrote a really good post yesterday about Jim Lehrer's guidelines for good journalism. Bloggers, take heed!

Doug's post sent me looking through the new website for the PBS NewsHour, which is revamping as the 75-year-old Lehrer promotes a new integration of TV and Web [...]

Reimagine Rural: Look out Rural! Gen Y’s on the move

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:45:12 -0500

In an article titled “Green Acres is the Place to Be,” Gwendolyn Bounds of the Wall Street Journal hints that we might expect to see a movement of Gen Y to rural places. Motivated by an uncertain economy, the young people Bounds describes in her article are [...]

The Decorum Forum: Senate Health Care Bill Public Option Gone

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:40:00 -0500

The Wall Street Journal has just posted a story on how Senate Democrats are close to having enough votes to advance sweeping health care legislation without a public option. Read it here. Senate Dems are embracing things that were discussed here for months. Here. Here. Here. [...]

Constant Conservative: Willis Eschenbach Does Yeoman’s Work on Climate Data

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:04:17 -0500

Number of comments: 2

I do not know the gentleman whose name appears in the title–but I would like to. He starts out with an intro with which I think we can all agree:

People say “Yes, they destroyed emails, and hid from Freedom of information Acts, and messed with proxies, and fought to keep [...]

Dakota Voice: Your Government: It’s ‘Morally Correct’ to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:18 -0500

Number of comments: 1
While Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) may believe the morality of murder is something determined by majority vote, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is not encumbered with such moral ambiguity. Senator Feinstein knows it's cool to bilk the taxpayers for money to kill children.

Dakota Voice: Exposing the pernicious lie [...]

Dakota Voice: True Believers Hold Revival in Copenhagen

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:50:07 -0500

The anthropogenic global warming "true believers" have gathered in Copenhagen to hold a revival, to shore up each other's faith while trying to get disbelievers to repent of their sins and come back to the socialist fold. Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal examines the GroupThink fantasy of AGW [...]

The Decorum Forum: The Heisman

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:41:00 -0500

We don't discuss sports much on this blog. But this year we have something unique in the Heisman Trophy race...a defensive player: Nebraska senior defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.

Other defensive players have been nominated before, but to have one win is extremely rare. In fact, it has only happened' [...]

Dakota Voice: Movement to Nullify National Health Care is Growing

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:40:21 -0500

Number of comments: 3
In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn’t represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care program that may be coming from Washington. In 2010, residents of Arizona [...]

Dakota Voice: New release from Lloyd “Tea Party” Marcus: “2010″

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:32 -0500

Number of comments: 1
A new release from lloyd Marcus of Tea Party fame will encourage and lift the spirits of Patriots everywhere. It puts new lyrics to a favorite tune and is performed flawlessly with full professional orchestration. It also makes me eager for the next Tea Party Express, coming this spring where [...]

Dakota Voice: Health Care Abortion Funding Ban Killed in Senate

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:20:29 -0500

Number of comments: 1
The Senate on Tuesday rejected an amendment that would ban federal funding of abortion under the health care bill. After days of debate, the Senate voted 54-45 to table the amendment, effectively killing the proposal that Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced to keep taxpayer dollars from [...]

Dakota Voice: Report Finds 2/3 of Abortion Clinics Closed Since 1991

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:10:30 -0500

Number of comments: 1
More than two-thirds of the abortion clinics in the United States have closed since 1991, according to a new report by a pro-life activist organization. There were nearly 2,200 abortion clinics in 1991, estimates Operation Rescue. Today, there are just 713 clinics.

Dakota Voice: Exposing the pernicious lie [...]

Constant Conservative: The Cold, Hard Facts

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:43:50 -0500

If you have read the stories of royalty in time gone by, particularly European royalty, you are aware of the conspicuous consumption which marked gatherings of such peoples for hundreds of years. Indeed, it was that very wastefulness which led directly to the rise of republican feeling in France. Well, [...]

Advocates for Agriculture: Don't Blame Cows

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:01:00 -0500

Don’t Blame Cows for Climate Change
December 7, 2009
UC Davis

Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate change, says a University of California authority [...]

Advocates for Agriculture: The Real Story on Food Safety

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:55:00 -0500

The unusual suspects
As food production and preparation moves farther afield, tainted items become hard to avoid
By Arthur Allen
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

If you were planning to serve shrimp during the holidays, you might not want to talk to Michael Doyle, director [...]

Advocates for Agriculture: EPA Ruling Could Devastate Ag

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:49:00 -0500

NCBA: EPA Greenhouse Gas Ruling Could Be Devastating To Agriculture
12/08/2009 01:59PM
CattleNetwork.com

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is extremely concerned about the potential impacts that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent greenhouse gas (GHG) ruling could have on agriculture operations. EPA’s decision, announced yesterday, claims that GHG [...]

Sibby Online: Common sense, Marxism transfers wealth, not create it

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:43:00 -0500

Thomas Sowell explains:

President Obama keeps talking about the jobs his administration is "creating," but there are more people unemployed now than before he took office. How can there be more unemployment after so many jobs have been "created"?

Let's go back to square one. What does it take to [...]

South DaCola: First Sioux Falls Mayoral Forum (but not a debate)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:05:50 -0500

Number of comments: 7

Be warned, the volume sucks, so you will have to crank it up. Of course I have punk rock ears, so who knows.

BTW, when you go to the link, click on the RIGHT ARROW to get to the video.

Not sure why we don’t have debates anymore when city elections [...]

Madville Times: Mr. Movies Closing; LAIC Goals Turning to "Backward Madison"

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:46:00 -0500

Number of comments: 7
So a local businessman makes a financial decision that puts a perfectly good company out of business and six employees out of work at Christmastime. Do we call that teamwork?

The Madison Daily Leader reports that video/game-rental store Mr. Movies is going out of business. I had to [...]

Sibby Online: From "global warming" to "climate change"

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:38:00 -0500

Now that the truth is out, the Progressvies our changing the labels. Joseph Farah blows the wool off that wolf too:

The United Nations banned the news agency most critical of "man-made catastrophic climate" hysteria from coverage of the Copenhagen convention billed as a major leap forward for global governance. [...]

Voices Carry: Sen. Tim Johnson was shown mercy, but is still merciless to the most vulnerable

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:07:08 -0500

In 2008, South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson voted FOR a pro-life amendment that prohibits government funding for abortion in the Indian Health Service. Yesterday however, he voted to table the similar Nelson/Hatch/Casey amendment which was intended to prohibit government funding for abortion in the Hellthcare bill. Remarkably, Senator Johnson is [...]

Middle Border Sun: Hello Siouxland From The Sioux Empire!

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:58:00 -0500

Who is this guy from Harrisburg? Isn't that in the Sioux Empire and not Siouxland?

I've added my blog, the Middle Border Sun (f/k/a South Dakota Watch) to the Sioux City Journal's Siouxland Voices page.

And [...]

Newsmonger: Authorities tight-lipped on Lufkins’ death

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:46:48 -0500

An autopsy has been performed on Michelle Lufkins, the 38-year-old teacher who was found dead Dec. 1 near Sisseton.

Authorities say they are looking for tips, but that they believe the public is not presently at risk.

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Dennisranch's Weblog: Just sorta coolish

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:45:47 -0500

Number of comments: 3
“Baby, it’s cold outside” as my Mom used to say! 9 below out there as I write this at a quarter to 8 am. I plugged the tractor and the pickup in, tho’ I should go harness the team and pitch some hay on or unroll a bale as they will run [...]

South DaCola: Guest Cartoonist Hector Curriel

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:44:00 -0500

Hector used to submit toons to the Gargoyle Leader around the same time I did, and I think he stopped submitting for the same reasons I did, or something like that. I met him the other night for the first time. Hector, Chris Browne, John Daiker and [...]

South DaCola: IRS Auctions off Sioux land to pay back taxes

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:26:21 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Okay, I know this story is a few days old, but it amazes me that this day in age we are still taking things from the Indians . . .

Posted by Ahni on December 4, 2009 at 4:01pm www.intercontinentalcry.org

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [...]

South Dakota War College: We don’t need no education – Quote of the day

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:22:26 -0500

Number of comments: 20

From my comment section:

“What most call education is really free job training for special interests in the private sector…tech schools included.”

- Steve Sibson

Read it here.

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Madville Times: Rounds Budget: Boost Physical Plant Pay by Cutting Chicoine's and Knowlton's?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:22:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Governor M. Michael Rounds pitched his state budget proposal yesterday for fiscal year 2011, the last such proposal of his administration (well, last, assuming he doesn't need a do-over budget as he did last time around). The new Madville Times poll (see the left sidebar!) asks what you think' [...]

South DaCola: War in Afghanistan: Neither Good Nor Affordable (Guest column)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:21:14 -0500

By Michael McConnell, Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee

For OpEdNews: Michael McConnell – Writer • December 3, 2009

If you were head of the U.S. government how would you spend $1 million of tax money?

You could send one soldier to Afghanistan. But that [...]

Sibby Online: Climategate is just the tip of the iceberg

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:18:00 -0500

We now have scientific confirmation that unlike man-made global warming, Climategate is for real:

The Colorado scientist described by the Washington Post as "the World's Most Famous Hurricane Expert" says the "ClimateGate" e-mails from the United Kingdom that revealed possible data manipulation are evidence of a conspiracy among "warmists," those [...]

Constant Conservative: Morning Shots | December 9, 2009

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:00:32 -0500

School funding freeze at state level.

Crop insurance deadline adds to the harvest chill.

Cheaper food sells better in recession. Who would have thought it?

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Sibby Online: I'm with stupid

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:49:00 -0500

This represents what we learned when both political parties went against Initiated Measure 10:

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Dakota Voice: Does ‘Sexual Liberty’ Trump Religious Liberty?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:00:22 -0500

Number of comments: 1
Does "sexual liberty" trump the Constitutional right to religious liberty? Chai Feldblum, President Obama's choice for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, believes so. This week a senate committee will vote on her nomination to this important commission that rules on issues of "discrimination" in America's workplaces.

Dakota Voice: Exposing [...]

Dakota Voice: CBO: Millions Will Lose Employer Coverage Under ObamaCare

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:30:15 -0500

Conservatives who aren't drinking the Socialism Kool-Aid have been saying since summer that the current plan for government health care would, rather than spurring healthy "competition," end up knocking people out of health care coverage they currently have (and usually like) and onto the rolls of government largess. Now even' [...]

South DaCola: People of Walmart picture of the day

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:56:33 -0500

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South DaCola: Found Photo

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:52:38 -0500

Number of comments: 2

I have always loved this photo. Rocco Tchetter doing a stationary jump in the alley behind the Hamburger Inn.

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South DaCola: South Dacola’s big frickin’ art auction

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:10:58 -0500

Number of comments: 1

For the next couple of weeks I will be featuring paintings I have FOR SALE. I will be selling them for BEST OFFER unless otherwise noted You can leave your bid in the comments section, and if your bid wins, you can email me.

MAKE AN OFFER: ‘BETTIE IN A BIND’ (Aprox: 30 [...]

South DaCola: South DaCola’s classic toon of the day • September 25, 2007

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:08:31 -0500

A little explanation on this one. Verle was caught f’ing a hole in a street sign pole in Sioux Falls. Verle also was flashing people in the middle of winter and jumping behind snowbanks, and his best theatrical performance was video taping himself getting it on with the crack between [...]

Northern Plains Anglicans: OK, I grew up in L.A. So I gots to represent.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:00:00 -0500

Like a Lakers' fan, I show up late.

Other religion blogs and even MSM have been hyperventilating about the election of a non-celibate lesbian as an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, where I was born & baptized at the end of the 50s, confirmed in 1978,' [...]

RadioActive Chief: Palin in Washington Post

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:04:15 -0500

Copenhagen’s political science

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have [...]

Red, Blue & Purple: Advances on Senate Health Care Talks

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:55:33 -0500

It appears the Senate may be making progress on health care reform. From the Huffington Post:

The discussion has focused on abandoning or greatly narrowing the public health insurance option. In exchange, people 55-64 would be able to buy in to Medicare and Medicaid eligibility would be expanded to people [...]

RadioActive Chief: Glowbull Warming Disarray Continues

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:49:59 -0500

Not only does Climategate deflect the lemming-like flow of Glowbull Warming worshipers at Copenhagen, but the leakage of draft agreements (linked here) have come as a rude awakening to the developing world that was expecting to line up at a liberally supplied trough of 1st world assistance.

Copenhagen climate summit [...]

RadioActive Chief: Candidate M.I.A.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:29:20 -0500

George McGovern’s grandson decides against U.S. Senate run — this time

The grandson of former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern has decided not to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps. At least, not yet.

Matt McGovern of Sioux Falls said Tuesday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat held by [...]

South DaCola: Hilarious animation about global warming

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:14:26 -0500

I think I watched this 10 times in a row, my gutt hurts.

Click here to view the embedded video. [...]

South Dakota Politics: Blogging & Freedom

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:55:17 -0500

The advent of blogging is one of the most significant events in the history of modern journalism. This is not because blogging can replace traditional journalism. Many critics of blogging (including our esteemed Keloland colleague David Newquist) point out that bloggers are heavily dependent on [...]

RadioActive Chief: Dirty Harry Keeps it Going

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:48:14 -0500

Reid doubles down on slavery analogy

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday defended his remarks from Monday comparing congressional Republican opposition to healthcare to the 19th-century debate over slavery, accusing his GOP critics of “distorting” his intent.

“At pivotal points in American history, the tactics of distortion and delay [...]

RadioActive Chief: Air bin Laden? TSA Security has Crash!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:04:33 -0500

The High-Flying Bin Ladens — 12 Osama Kin Hold FAA Licenses

At least 12 members of Osama bin Laden’s family currently hold Federal Aviation Administration pilot’s licenses that make them eligible to fly aircraft anywhere in the United States, including three who received their licenses just this June, according to [...]

Middle Border Sun: Sitting Uncomfortably Under The Birthday Bodhi Tree

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:09:00 -0500

Fifty-one years ago in a small town in Nebraska via a non-miraculous birth, I was born.

Some 2500 years ago under a bodhi tree in India, the Buddha achieved enlightenment.

A [...]

robbinsdale radical: Global Liars strike again

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:41:00 -0500

Number of comments: 3
A letter to the RCJ from the excellent Perry Rahn, geology / geologic engineering professor at SDSMT.

Liars.

Home / News
31,000 dispute global warming? Not really

Posted: Friday, December 4, 2009 3:50 pm

On July 4, Don Kopp wrote an opinion letter about [...]

Madville Times: "The Age of Stupid" Plays Saturday at Brookings Public Library

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:15:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1
No, it's not a movie about Finals Week.

Dakota Grassroots Democracy, South Dakota Resources Coalition, and the SDSU Sierra Club are hosting a showing of The Age of Stupid on Saturday, December 12, at 1 p.m. at the Brookings Public Library. Pete [...]

South Dakota War College: Tom Daschle in the news again.

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:14:21 -0500

Number of comments: 5

Tom Daschle is in the news again for his service to the US Senate:

But the potential conflict of interest is just the latest chapter of Baucus’ complicated love life on Capitol Hill.

In 1999, Baucus fired then-Chief of Staff Christine Niedermeier, who in turn accused Baucus of sexual harassment. Baucus, who [...]

South Dakota War College: NY Times on propriety of Brendan Johnson Appointment to US Atty

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:59:41 -0500

Number of comments: 17

We must not be in South Dakota anymore. Why? Because a major metropolitan newspaper actually examined the propriety of the Brendan Johnson appointment:

It is routine for United States attorneys to have strong ties to politicians, and the latest crop is no exception. Mr. [...]

South Dakota War College: McGovern -Rowen backs out of Thune Challenge

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:26:52 -0500

Number of comments: 6

According to the Rapid City Journal, Matt McGovern -Rowen has decided against challenging Republican US Senator John Thune:

The grandson of former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern has decided not to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps.

And…

Matt McGovern of Sioux Falls said Tuesday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate [...]