Author: Brad Ford
Netanyahu’s Victory Harbinger of More Liberal Defeat in the West?
AP’s Daniel Estrin was surely correct when he wrote that “Israeli liberals woke up after national elections with a demoralizing feeling: Most of the country, in a deep and possibly irreversible way, does not think like they do.” …
Good Opportunity to Think about Ancestral Roots on St. Patrick’s Day
The Sioux in western South Dakota are militantly attempting to preserve what’s left of their ancestral past. With only a few of the elders speaking the old language, Lakota is being taught in schools so that young people, adrift in…
South Dakota Governor Broke 1935 Morrell Strike with Troops
by Duke Doering The involvement of the National Guard began on March 8 when a state government official called Adjutant General Edwin C. Coffey, alerting him about a possible problem in Sioux Falls. The following day, the Adjutant’s…
IS Beheadings, Cruelties Have Always Been a Part of War Itself
(Tokyo’s Sumida River during idyllic past) IS beheadings and other cruelties continue to shock comfortable moderns unaccustomed to atrocities, but they’ve always been a part of war. Underdogs hope to terrorize the timid into submission, thus ending conflicts earlier rather…
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
by Dean Muehlberg Isn’t it a shame that we find again that the Islamic extremists are destroying the very foundations of the region’s past, religions, and culture? It is a formidable tale of what the Muslims involved…
South Dakota Troops Deployed to Mexican Border in 1916
by Duke Doering On March 3, 1917 the 4th South Dakota Infantry Regiment was completing its last full day of duty from the seven month deployment to the Mexican Border War. Their official release date was March…
Libraries with Handful of Books, Television without Real Choices
You walk into your local library only to find largely empty shelves. On closer inspection, the books appear to be dumbed down, and with identical messages. The same is true for what’s available on television. Libraries appear to…
SDNG Units in Vanguard of 1991 Desert Storm Invasion
by Duke Doering On February 24, 1991, two South Dakota National Guard Transportation units entered Iraq at the start of the ground war in Desert Storm. At approximately 1800 hours on the invasion day the…
No Hard Right Anywhere in US
Sure, we hear about the “Far Right” now and then in Europe, and a Far Left party recently won in Greece, but there’s nothing like it in America, it seems. Conservatives and liberals in the US are apparently all moderates…