by Duke Doering Gen. Edwin S. McCook died of wounds on September 11, 1873, after being shot in Yankton, Dakota Territory. General McCook was Secretary of the Dakota Territory in 1873 and lived in Yankton, the capital. The territorial capital…
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” observed Founding Father President John Adams. “Remember,” he warned, “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders…
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right,” wrote H. L. Mencken in his Notebooks in 1956. America’s two-party rule…
“China is pursuing the same goal that the American Left pursues: full governmental control of all citizens,” points out “Why Pay Attention to Hong Kong?” in an American Thinker article today. “The Left in America is powerful, and loud, and…
Education is returning more and more to the home. Homeschooling is on the rise. Self-education is making a comeback in the lives of people of all ages. Many no longer believe that learning is just for kids. The internet is…
Conservatives tend to counter what is obviously Democratic Party hate and anarchism with yet more humor and satire. Five different people forwarded this email today: When one tries to “reason” with a lefty Democrat, remember you are dealing with a…
The word trump derives from triumph, implicit in Ivanka Trump’s book a decade ago, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life. It was “written as a self-help book aimed at helping women achieve success in work and…
Backyard gardening remains a central hobby and therapeutic pastime throughout South Dakota. A large part of our personal motivation in this rural state stems from families connecting to their farming roots and little by little getting back to the land…
by Duke Doering On June 28, 1968, South Dakota National Guardsman Spec. 4 Dick Green, who played in three World Series, was playing professional baseball for the Oakland A’s. Besides being a star athlete he was also a member of…
by Duke Doering On June 25, 1937 at South Dakota National Guard’s Camp Rapid, there was boxing at Kennedy Stadium. Kennedy Stadium was built in 1936 at a cost of $4,700. It was built on a hillside east…