Actually, I DON”T hate bicycles. (contrary to what some people have suggested) I also DON”T hate people who ride them. I have actually RIDEN a bicycle. I can even ride a bicycle backwards. What I don’t like are unsafe highways…
Why I Hate Bicycles
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Move Over Stupid
Move over or go to jail! Not the bicycle… the driver of the truck! The South Dakota Department of Transportation wants to force drivers into the lane of oncoming traffic, to accommodate bicycle riders. The SD House transportation committee unanimously…
News That Isn’t News
Reporters of the news have now BECOME the news. That’s not necessarily good for the daily dispensation of the truth. Since the advent of 24 hour news, there is a mad scramble to fill every minute, every hour, every day…
Should Veterans Be Treated with Reverence or Pity?
During World War II, most nations wouldn’t allow the media to focus on casualties as a way of stoking an anti-war or enemy-assisting movement, but Vietnam changed all that, leaving the public demoralized and troops at the front supported less…
WW2 B-17 Pilot Remembers School Days during Great Depression
Chuck Childs was born in 1920 in Arnegard, North Dakota, but now lives in Rapid City with wife Grace. Later in life he wrote about his experiences growing up during the Great Depression. Each of his teachers was special in his book The…
A Hero Goes Home
You won’t find many pictures of Roger Erickson on the internet. His memory will remain, however in the minds and hearts of tens of thousands of men and boys from Rapid City, South Dakota. Roger left this earth last…
About The Crusades
Like many of you… I had some serious concerns about our President comparing Christianity to ISIS 2 days after the horrific burning of a Jordanian pilot. I know Obama has an agenda. Most of us do, even we who are…
Obedience Or Rebellion
Years ago… I heard a preacher make the following statement about our relationship to a “commandment”; a directive given by someone in authority, whether it be God or anyone else: “A commandment is an order about which there is no…
Trust The Media
In our never-ending quest for the truth, we were compelled to share this historic photo…
Juvenile Justice
I recently read… … in the local newspaper the article that Governor Daugaard had written about the Juvenile Justice system and his plans to revamp the system and reduce costs within the system. I applaud the Governor in his work to…