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Obama's Failed Middle East Policy 25 Aug 2013 | 10:49 am
Mr. Obama returned from his recent vacation just in time. News had just broken of a possible chemical weapons attack in Syria’s capital, almost a year to the day after the President drew his infamous...
NPR v. South Dakota 24 Aug 2013 | 10:23 am
Here is my recent column for South Dakota Magazine. In October 2011, National Public Radio aired a scathing critique of South Dakota’s child protection policies. It alleged that the state is removi.....
When You’ve Lost Eugene Robinson… 15 Aug 2013 | 11:04 am
Eugene Robinson is about as reflexive a liberal and as defensive a defender of Mr. Obama as one can imagine. Yet he even he has come to understand how little the President's words mean. President Oba...
SD Legislature is right to favor reinstatement of Glass-Steagall Act 14 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
Here's my latest in the Pierre Capital Journal. A snippet: If we don’t like bailing out banks, then we can’t let banks get so large. Presently, five banks hold “assets equal to 56 percent of the cou...
South Dakota Slandered by NPR 11 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
Here's a bit of real South Dakota Politics! From John Hinderaker at Powerline: In October 2011, NPR aired a three-part series of programs on its investigation of foster care for Native American child...
Hoodwinked About Fort Hood 11 Aug 2013 | 11:41 am
When a lone gunman shot U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eleven others in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people, the New York Times was quick to jump to conclusions. T...
The Man Who Isn’t There 4 Aug 2013 | 11:44 am
I occasionally listen to the New Yorker Political Scene podcast to find out what liberals say when they think they are talking only to one another. In a recent podcast on Obama's speeches, including t...
Summer Travel 1 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
The Pierre Capital Journal has posted my comedy stylings on traveling with kids.
Pacific Rim (2013) 18 Jul 2013 | 09:49 am
Holy Buckets, but this one was a lot better than I expected. Given that movie making these days seems to have been reduced to choreographing action sequences (see Star Trek) and allowing for the fact ...
Zimmerman, Self Defense, & Stand Your Ground 16 Jul 2013 | 09:52 am
What follows is my column for South Dakota Magazine. I think that Dr. Schaff and I have no significant disagreements. Carrying a gun, like driving a car, involves a very heavy moral and legal respons...
