“As caravan approaches, Trump warns he’ll cut aid to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,” reports Fox News this morning. Immigrant hordes have no right to force themselves into any country. The president should also begin taking steps to…
“Words are the most powerful weapon in today’s society. Words are more powerful than guns and bullets. They are more powerful because they allow us to spread ideas and concepts that can destroy and establish entire nations,” said James Thompson…
Rightly or wrongly, the demise of indoor malls across America has been well chronicled in the last couple of years. Rushmore Mall in Rapid City, South Dakota, which is being threatened by a nearby one–a more trendy, outdoor shopping venue–is…
“Which political party is better at managing taxpayer dollars? The latest ranking of states’ fiscal condition offers an unequivocal answer,” reports IBD in “What Do The Worst-Run States Have In Common? They’re Run By Tax-And-Spend Democrats.” South Dakota is on…
by Duke Doering On October 5, 1918 near Bois de Bantheville, France, the 89th Division, of which the 147th Field Artillery was a part, fought farther into the country as the war with Germany was nearing an end. It was…
In her memoir The Endless Steppe (1968), Esther Rudomin (later Hautzig), a young Jewish girl, describes how her whole comfortable, middle-class family was rounded up by the authorities in 1941, then forced to starve and shiver in filthy cattle boxcars…
The South Dakota Veterans Forum continues to showcase the first-person stories of noteworthy military veterans, called the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group when it began in 2005. On September 8, two World War II experts from Rapid City will share…
“Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people almost beyond recognition,” says mathematician-novelist Arthur C. Clarke in Childhood’s End right after the end of World War II. “All that is required for the task…
Establishment politicians rely upon local machines to keep incumbents in office. Fundraising is taken care of by a few well-placed calls to those who want a piece of the power-and-influence pie. It always feels nice to be able to pick…