The scenic valley that runs westward from Rapid City to the Wyoming border cradles I-90 between ponderosa-forested hills on each side. The building of the interstate and nearby US Air Force base were made possible by quarry materials from open…
When Washington Post writer Nick Anderson recently reported “SAT scores at lowest level in 10 years, fueling worries about high schools,” he generated a firestorm of comments (about 1700 so far) that reveal how our trusted reliance on statistics can…
(2015 immigrant ship, not a Middle Passage slave ship) It’s easy to look down on the Greeks for wanting early retirement and lots of government benefits. Can we blame them for wanting to vote down corrective austerity measures?…
It’s not surprising that yesterday’s Rapid City Journal would begin its headline article with a statewide problem about the teaching of history: “In many South Dakota public schools, there is a three-year gap in U.S. history.” Finally, attention to a…
Well, it sounds worse than it is. Most people know that human life is short, though a bit longer than for dogs, cats, and horses. As Hobbes once observed, “The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” If…
The problem is that few people seem to know what their neighbors pay for services. Perhaps it’s rude to come right out and ask. What did the lawyer charge for drawing up a simple will? What did the plumber charge…
When terrorists brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon in 2001, few news commentators made the comparison to kamikaze suicide pilots of World War II. Since the kamikazes, however, suicide bombings have become…
by Duke Doering On July 28, 1945, Saturday, William Franklin Smith, Jr., was piloting a B-25 Mitchell bomber on a routine personnel transport mission from Bedford Army Air Field to Newark Airport. Smith asked for clearance to…
Donald Trump is gambling that large portions of the US population are fed up with politicians who are easily cowed by the liberal media monopoly. “Give us someone who has the guts to fight back,” they seem to say. …
Long before radical federalists toppled America’s first government in 1789, the United States of America was ruled by the Continental Congress, the third phase of which was the Congress of the Confederation. Yes, revolutionary governments tend to be full of…