by Duke Doering On December 21, 1945, Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, died from injuries suffered not in battle, but in a freak car accident. He was 60 years old. For a few months…
The beginning of Peter Coates’ classic American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land dares to reveal the never-challenged assumptions about humans and other forms of animals in our world. Political correctness always works best when it’s…
A highly paid international software troubleshooter from Silicon Valley was a Thanksgiving visitor in my home. He was able to fix several long-festering problems on my computer very quickly. His technical confidence was impressive. The only…
A Veterans Day speaker at Ellsworth Air Force Base’s South Dakota Air and Space Museum focused on the US military cemeteries scattered throughout Europe, providing resting places for American soldiers from both world wars. World War…
About five years ago, I wrote that “You don’t have to be a Darwinian realist to know that most people will adopt bad lifestyle choices when given the chance. Go for maximum taste, cheap thrills, and mindless entertainment, they say.…
Listening to Longmire novelist Craig Johnson at Black Hills State University last Thursday evening reminded me that it is still cogent to “Base Freedom and Equality on Land Mass, Not Head Count.” Liberals and immigrants may be bottled up in…
David Cameron certainly lived up to the Vucurevich Foundation’s goal of giving Black Hills couples a chance to actually lay eyes upon a person most have only seen via the media. It was fun mixing with local people who had…
Both LCDR John Charles Waldron and BMG George Armstrong Custer graduated from America’s elite military academies, the one from Annapolis, the other from West Point. Both are heavily associated with South Dakota. Both led units they commanded against a superior…
Las Vegas and Puerto Rico are places of catastrophic tragedy in recent days. News from around the world reflects widespread suffering and devastation as well. The Rohingya people know firsthand. Terrorist and lone wolf attacks in the US and Europe…