We all remember the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, but only a few today realize how dangerously monopolistic media companies have become. It was bad enough in 1983 when only 50 companies owned 90% of US media. …
The annual ride, from Ellsworth to Sturgis, will conclude at a military appreciation event where two Rapid City WWII veterans will be honored by leadership from the SDNG and EAFB, followed by a B-1 flyover. Lt.…
When nationally known warplane artist John Mollison of Sioux Falls turned his hand to creating historical military documentaries for South Dakota Public Broadcasting, he made studies of men like US Navy and Sioux aviator Lt. Commander John Waldron, who died in…
“We got the highest vote count in the history of the Republican Party,” about 13.3 million primary voters, Donald Trump announced at the convention. His defeat of the GOP establishment has been a modern miracle. He simply outmaneuvered the party’s familiar…
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota has a solution to the lethal violence lately associated with racial identity. There is no equal opportunity posturing when tribal police are hired, none at all. It goes without saying that…
The populations of men and women are almost equal in countries across the globe. In 2010, for example, the US had 157,244,385 women and 153,139,563 men. OK, there were a few more women than men. But the…
Tourists love tropical paradises in Central America, from Mexico to Panama. It’s also the perfect place to grow food. American consumers have actually already decided to get future food from Latin America. It’ll happen the…
Migrants are on the move across the globe as images of a more pleasing consumer life come to even the poorest families on television. Western Europe watches helplessly as the Third World pushes past the little defended borders of the European…
Max Boot is a military historian of guerrilla warfare (I have two of his books in my home library) but more recently he’s tried to make the tie-in to terrorist shootings. His recent Wall Street Journal article…
Agricultural workers in California’s Central Valley are welcomed by the American public. Food prices are kept down and abundant vegetables and fruit promise healthy eating. Cheap manufactured goods, made possible by lower wages in China and the Third World, likewise allow…