Most seniors in engineering programs across America work with professors on a final research design project to apply what they’ve learned to a real life situation. Faculty can choose a topic, but so can a student. A…
Plagiarism won’t likely be documented in universities and the military because the disease is too far spread. Montana’s US Senator John Walsh apparently copied about 79% of his Master’s thesis for the US Army War College. Was he…
Line up all the millionaires in South Dakota, and some poor soul (sob sob) will come in last. The same goes for teacher salaries from state to state. Being last, as South Dakota teachers are paywise, doesn’t mean that there’s…
The tragedy of lost lives and personal anguish in Gaza has been well-documented in the US mainstream media’s nightly account of the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu asks Americans to imagine what they would do if a steady…
Not much has changed over the centuries as national propaganda machines use “news” to account for what triggers provocative incidents that heighten warlike tensions. Posturing and grandstanding are always one-sided, never giving the others the benefit of the doubt. …
The world has changed dramatically during the 40 years since Rapid City’s Convention Center got its start. Today the Don Barnett Arena, LaCroix Hall and the Fine Arts Theater couldn’t be built for $12.7 million. Rather, the local newspaper has…
It happened yesterday in Florida when a father interrupted the sexual abuse of his 10 year old son. He did what responsible fathers have always done: he instinctively punished the assailant before calling 911. “He is nice and knocked out…
Securing America’s southern border is more about stemming the tide of illegal immigration today. Many insist that the military could easily deal with the problem, including the protection of indigenous population from gangs and cartels, if only there were political…
Wayne Allyn Root’s new book Protecting the American Dream: The Murder of the Middle Class makes the case that being in the “middle” these days is synonymous with innocent defeat and a slow cancer-like death. The middle is the…
The European aristocracy at one time ruled almost absolutely from within a narrowly defined world of elitism and privilege. Being wealthy, they had the best of everything. They kept to themselves and intermarried with other royal families. In…