“Open Up Society Now, Say Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi,” California MDs “who have 40 years of hands-on experience in dealing with viruses and respiratory infections.” Hard science and medical history are the best guides for dealing with…
Author: Brad Ford
California Stigmatized As Brimming with Democratic Party Failures
No longer the Golden West at the end of westward trekking, our once-proud Manifest Destiny is in shambles. California is now presented as the symbol of America’s welfare society led by rich Democrats out-of-touch with the Third World squalor they’ve…
Social Distancing Doesn’t Help Society Build Up Herd Immunity
“While social distancing is helping to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, it is also preventing the development of the ‘herd immunity’ needed by the public to resume their normal lives before a vaccine is developed,” cautions immunologist Dr. David Katz. He…
South Dakota’s Noem Outshines Michigan’s Whitmer
Their stands on staying at home couldn’t be more different, one being a GOP conservative, the other a liberal Democrat. So who could have guessed that the Republican Governor Kristi Noem would be the more measured and self-assured while being…
World in Crisis on April 12, 1945, but Journalism Has Gone Down Hill
Lots of Easter snow greeted us this morning. Our pandemic in South Dakota seems to pale in comparison to what the world was witnessing just 75 years ago today. The whole globe was also in turmoil that day. I…
Move “Unemployed” Workers into US Agricultural & Meat Processing Industries
The politicized media hue and cry about high unemployment surging through society goes hand in hand with stimulus checks being handed out without any quid pro quo. Surely companies can find some menial jobs that can be done, even at…
Coronavirus Is Profound Opportunity to Let America Take Stock of Itself
The routine and humdrum of everyday life doesn’t stimulate social or personal renewal. There are too many comforts and distractions taking away incentives for change. Churches and schools simply have become too mechanistic, not up to the task. Moral…
Stanford M. Adelstein: A Jewish Life in South Dakota
As a Jew in South Dakota, Stan Adelstein “has long encountered certain questions like ‘How did you end up there?’ or ‘There are Jews in South Dakota?’” says author Eric Steven Zimmer, who worked with the Rapid City politician in…
12 South Dakota Soldiers Killed by Land Mine in 1943
by Duke Doering On April 1, 1943, an investigation continued into the cause of the Land Mine tragedy which killed 12 soldiers from Company A, 109th Engineer Battalion on March 30, 1943. When Company A, 109th Engineer Battalion, Madison, SD,…
Country Road Districts Overlapping Sometimes a Revenue Challenge
People are heading out of the cities to surrounding subdivisions, a diffusion from higher to lower concentrations that has paralleled the growth of cities, to escape dangers, noise, taxes, and pandemics. Those in rural developments soon confront the financial burdens…