Societal collapse is a staple of the evening news. It’s happening now, all over the world, especially in Third World countries. But happy, middle-class people in the First World can suffer the same fate. Just ask any Europeans left over…
Living in rural states like South Dakota is a blessing. People have a political compass that is wholesome. We haven’t forgotten the survival lessons of the Great Depression and our frontier heritage. One challenge, however, comes from not having…
by Duke Doering On April 4, 1937, Hot Springs native Leslie Jensen was both the governor of South Dakota and commander of 2nd Battalion, 147th Field Artillery, making him the only political figure in the state to be both commander of…
Rapid City authors Ray and Josephine Cowdery will present the World War II story of Leonel Jensen, son of a Danish immigrant, a western South Dakota homesteader and later a large-scale rancher at Wasta. Jensen’s War is the Cowderys…
It’s good that Donald Trump is in the White House during these darker days when print and broadcast journalism seem to have only one goal: to overthrow the democratically elected national government. Listen to television news on any free-and-in-the-clear station…
South Dakota has little clout when it comes to national politics. States aren’t equal anymore, as they once were under the Articles of Confederation during the first heady eleven years of the United States of America. Our members of congress…
The Business Directory defines accountability as “The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. It also includes the responsibility for money or other…
The ancient art of blacksmithing developed long before there was any electricity or power anything. Things were made by hand in the “backroom” but using techniques that could still be replicated tomorrow if our future was “off grid” and we…
President Trump warns about two national crises that we must address immediately. One is the lawless and porous 2,000-mile border with Mexico between Brownsville on the Gulf and San Diego on the Pacific. The other is our deteriorating US electrical grid. …
Just minutes ago a friend of mine who fought in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive emailed to share a personal insight about the President that he hasn’t seen reported by the mainstream media: “Have you noticed…