One day not enough time for stray ordinance

By the Journal Editorial Board

One day. Twenty-four hours.

Nov 20, 2009 | 2:45 am | (0) Comments

A rogue's place in the women's movement

By Ellen Goodman

BOSTON - You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don't mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for "Going Rogue."

Nov 20, 2009 | 2:45 am | (0) Comments

Guarantee taxpayers a real return

By Jerry Steinley

Money makes the world go round, so it's no wonder "return on investment" is a new catchphrase leading efforts for an expansion in early childhood education and other programs.

Nov 20, 2009 | 1:45 am | (0) Comments

Familiar tune at state budget time

By the Journal Editorial Board

The worst-case scenario for the state budget will be facing the Legislature in January - state expenses are going up; revenue is going down.

Nov 19, 2009 | 2:15 am | (2) Comments

Trying terrorists in U.S. is risky business

By Cal Thomas

The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen t…

Nov 19, 2009 | 2:15 am | (7) Comments

Bowing to world opinion

By Thomas Sowell

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accu…

Nov 18, 2009 | 3:05 pm | (4) Comments

Deer, ducks and lions on tap

LIVE CHAT WITH:  Jeff Vonk, state Game, Fish & Parks secretary.

Nov 18, 2009 | 3:00 pm | (0) Comments

Central plans must move forward

By the Journal Editorial Board

An embarrassing oversight in the Central High School expansion project could mean the end of the project.

Nov 17, 2009 | 3:15 am | (2) Comments

Mikhail Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount

By Robert Scheer

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." That biblical quotation certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set and whose past practices and recent cautions about Afghanistan should be heeded by Barack Obama.

Nov 17, 2009 | 2:30 am | (3) Comments

David Rooks: We are what we speak

David Rooks

On Sunday morning in Rapid City, in neighborhoods large and small, souls drawn by the gravity of prayer gather in various churches. So, too, those whose meditations prefer a walk beside Canyon Lake or down the path beside Rapid Creek. Against the muck and dreck of the week, they seek a cl…

Nov 17, 2009 | 2:00 am | (3) Comments

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Medicalizing mass murder

By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON - What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood mas…

Nov 16, 2009 | 2:30 am | (9) Comments

Resistance grows against increase

By the Journal Editorial Board

Six weeks ago Black Hills Power announced it was seeking approval for a 26 percent rate increase for its electric customers in 20 South Dakota communities.

Nov 16, 2009 | 2:15 am | (0) Comments

Energy policy stuck on stupid

By Randy Rasmussen

It was only a brief in the Journal a couple of weeks ago, but it caught my attention.

Nov 16, 2009 | 2:00 am | (10) Comments

Bill is too costly

By David Broder

WASHINGTON - While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You've left the job half done.

Nov 15, 2009 | 1:45 pm | (0) Comments

A picture can lie

By George Will

NEW YORK - The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatant…

Nov 15, 2009 | 2:15 am | (0) Comments

A different kind of candidate?

By Kevin Woster

B. Thomas Marking has constructed a pretty simple campaign platform. It's based on four words: What do you want?

Nov 15, 2009 | 2:15 am | (0) Comments

Terrorism or tragedy?

By Bill O'Reilly

It's somewhat disconcerting, but the Obama administration continues to dance around the terrorism question. While a new Rasmussen poll shows 60 percent of Americans want the Fort Hood massacre investigated as a terrorist act, the president sees the mass murder as a "tragedy" and a violent…

Nov 15, 2009 | 1:45 am | (3) Comments

Health care reform is a shared responsibility

By Dr. Nancy Babbitt

The phrase "Health Care Reform" really isn't about care as much as it is about the access and affordability of health care. Because our dysfunctional health delivery system affects nearly every patient I see daily, I have asked myself, "Who is responsible for health care reform?" From my …

Nov 14, 2009 | 1:45 am | (8) Comments

Veterans guaranteed all freedoms

As a veteran of 66 years and counting, I still stand proud whenever honors and expressions of appreciation for veterans are rendered, participating in these events wherever possible.

Nov 14, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments