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The deficit reduction plan proposed by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles rouses our man Hunter to comment on duty, shared sacrifice, and brin...

Bonus! Compare this amazing acoustic rendition of the best American anthem from the 1980s. Mellencamp performed this song in his Cougar days...

I love the Fourth of July. Even as I criticize the various injustices and foibles of our polticial and economic system, I can celebrate the ...

It seems like we get an awful lot of orders from Governor Rounds to fly the flag at half staff. Today's grief: remembering the 15th anni...

I love it when bloggers work together to make the same point. David Newquist doesn't blog as obsessively as some of us—obviously a sign...

Add John Warner to Bob Ellis's axis of evil enviro-whackos conspiring to destroy America. The former Senator from Virginia is another v...

Madison resident and "Fellow Patriot" Jason Lee Bjorklund buys a quarter of page 6 in tonight's Madison Daily Leader to send ...

My friend Jackie points me toward this instructive interview of Frank Schaeffer on MSNBC . I've previously cited Schaeffer's apology...

Worth noting, especially for those of you sporting "God Bless America" stickers on your gas-guzzling SUV's: Pastor Shel featur...

Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin dubs the Greenpeace protest at Mount Rushmore " outrageous ." Outrage? I'm having tro...

When I was a kid, there could be no greater summer disappointment than a cloudy, drizzly 4th of July. How can you enjoy a cool dip in Lake H...

Mr. Powers is kind enough to extend an invitation to all taxpayers to attend the Grand South Dakota Tax Day Tea Party, April 15, noon to 13...

I don't drink the Jesus juice much. But given good preaching like the benediction offered by Reverend Joseph E. Lowery from the Inaugur...

Oops—must have excited the wrong base.... In the face of boorish, booing "supporters" in Minnesota, Senator John McCain proved he ...

The Brookings Register covers the work of Robb Rasmussen, owner of Sioux River Bicycles and Fitness , to establish a Safe Routes to School ...

It's Constitution Day , so here's my visual contribution to teaching what America is about. I don't know the full context of thi...

"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's." —Senator John McCain, address to the Republican Nati...

Becky Akers wonders in the Christian Science Monitor asks a question my resident theologian and I have also considered: what's the Am...

Avenue of Flags, Lake County Courthouse, Madison, South Dakota, Memorial Day, 2008.05.26 Memorial Day brings the Avenue of Flags display to ...