You are also invited to hear the US Army’s 9th Armored Division soldier Paul Priest and military historian LTC George Larson (USAF ret) present to the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group on Saturday, November 8 at the Western Dakota Technical…
by Dean Muehlberg Our country is now the theater of the absurd. The people in Ferguson, MO want the county prosecutor to recuse for possible conflict of interest for something back in the sixties. Meanwhile, the chief…
An upcoming demonstration in Rapid City, South Dakota, will have marchers run and walk through town to protest the barbaric practice of killing babies in the womb. Apparently some young women who have babies out of wedlock like to repeat…
(Homestake Production Room and liquid storage tanks) by Duke Doering World War II had a great influence on the community of Lead, South Dakota. The local National Guard unit, Company E, 109th Engineer Battalion was mobilized for…
The books have been warning us for decades with titles that usually start with something like “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” with subtitles such as “Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists” (Joel Best), “The Manipulation of Public Opinion…
The Ferguson debate has been deliberately framed by mainstream media through the eyes of Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, but now another celebrity source, basketball’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, is weighing in to say that the race issue is a distraction to…
Instant Internet messaging is so commonplace today that the younger generation might forget when the nineteenth-century telegraph revolutionized our ability to quickly send messages over vast distances. Commenting on the arrival of telegraph in 1844, Thoreau remarked that “We are…
The mainstream media remains behind riot-like demonstrations as the instrument of choice for fomenting social change. Can we forget their role in the so-called Arab Spring, perhaps imagining a hip democracy fueled by liberal news shows and enabled by handheld…
Is was bad enough when upscale and subsidized athletes could buy high-tech gear to break old sports records in baseball and golf. It was even worse when players started using performance-enhancing drugs to transcend the bounds of natural ability. …
Schools and colleges might serve the social need of keeping kids off the streets and out of gangs. Both parents can leave the home for self-fulfillment at work, beefing up discretionary income. Yes, kids in college bring the unemployment…