While the Korean War raged during 1952, the movie High Noon hit theaters with a potent message about what it means to be a man, providing a moral compass for both men and women. All of those fighting in…
South Dakota is a two-party state. Not the Republicans and Democrats, but the liberals and conservatives. All blended into the Grand Old Party. In the 2016 election, Wyoming gave President Trump the highest percentage of victory in America. South Dakota…
The more political ground it loses, the more the Democratic Party retreats into its ideological stronghold in the drugs-corrupted 1960s. Posters of Che were seen everywhere on college dorm walls back then. Too bad that this leftist hero couldn’t be…
Every historical treatise on the Art of War agrees that “knowing your enemy” is the most important. So why is the common foot soldier taught the opposite: to ridicule, scorn, disdain, and otherwise sneer at the “gooks” and “krauts” on…
by Duke Doering On January 30, 2003, the 665th Maintenance Company shelved its tool boxes and took on a homeland security mission as Military Police. They were mobilized for Federal Active duty. These Guardspersons were called to active duty under…
America was founded on the example of high-caliber immigrants forming a social melting pot during the Colonial Period, the time when the Constitution was crafted. Nobel prize winning physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence from Canton, South Dakota, could have served as…
“Outsiders tend to know South Dakota for two things: Mount Rushmore, which is carved with the faces of four US presidents; and Laura Ingalls Wilder, who moved to the state as a girl and wrote the Little House on the…
Founding Father President John Adams instinctively knew that Independence Day would always remain America’s most important holiday: “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated…
When President Trump chose SDSM&T President Heather Wilson to become Secretary of the Air Force in 2017, he was already convinced that a US Space Force was absolutely necessary to allow America to compete with China’s aggressive, anything-goes economy. Trump…