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Is Bob Ellis trying to lure me in? Yesterday I grumbled about President Obama's continued abuse of the Fourth Amendment and wondered wh...

Teabaggers, 9-12ers, tricorner hatters, whatever the heck we're supposed to call this seething mass of predictable socialism criers, kee...

Teabaggers are a motley lot. The very Brownian movement includes a lot of people bouncing around in their own world of conspiracy theories ...

I used her , she used me , But neither one cared -- We were getting our share .... [Bob Seger, " Night Moves ," 1976] And you thin...

President-Elect Barack Obama met with his erstwhile opponent , Senator John McCain, this afternoon. The two men spoke privately for an hour ...

Barack Obama beat John McCain in 17 of South Dakota's 66 counties. Among them: Lake County, my home turf, where Obama beat McCain by 40 ...

At the bottom of Dr. Blanchard's shamanism on the U.S. Senate races (the NSU swami says seven new Senate seats for Dems; your DSU divin...

...and Joel who? Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic gets hold of an internal poll from Senator Tim Johnson's campaign (papers do just float ...

I've said it before, I'll say it again: We are all socialists. We are all redistributionists. We all believe in sharing the wealth. ...

More of South Dakota in the national press: NPR's Morning Edition today covers the retread abortion ban . So does the Los Angeles Times ...

The McCain-Palin ticket knows their victory and their partnership isn't meant to be, say Chuck Todd and Brian Williams (courtesy TPM...

Politico.com posts Roger Simon's assessment of Colin Powell's Sunday endorsement of Barack Obama. He notes that our man Tom Brokaw...

That blogger emeritus Professor Jon Schaff would deem Senator Barack Obama unworthy of your vote is no surprise. That Schaff, a pillar of So...

NBC moves South Dakota from its "Likely McCain" to "Leaning McCain" column, meaning we have shifted from red to pink. N...

Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama is still the big news (and the by-turns hilarious and pathetic repudiations by diehard con...

Former general and Secretary of State Colin Powell has just endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President. Powell says: Obama is a "tran...

Hat tip to, of all people, David Letterman .... Voting issue : a fact, policy, or moral position (or a set of several such things) that dist...

Did you catch that last night, ladies? In response to Bob Schieffer's question about abortion and the Supreme Court (Bob! I'm disapp...

It's church night for the kids. Let's make a teachable moment out of the election: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign...

("He"? both of 'em!) "Poll: Dykstra within striking distance of Johnson" — Pat Powers , 2008.10.09 , describing the ...