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By: Constitution Cat My fellow Republicans were fond of telling me during the primary election season that their vote was going to the “candidate who can win”. They were less interested in the candidate’s record on the issues, commitment to…
(October 1918: Medical Trench on Western Front) by Duke Doering Near Bois de Bantheville, France the 147th Field Artillery fought farther into the country as the World War 1 battle with Germany was nearing an end. It was…
Gordon Howie will host a town hall meeting in Pierre on Thursday evening. The public is welcome to attend. Paid for by Gordon Howie for Senate
Faculty often have their minds made up about what is good and bad. Thus teaching often involves the illogical comparison of best-case treatment of one side versus the worst-case representation of the other. We can’t forget that those we find…
(Americans on Wake Island marched into captivity in 1941, later executed) Beheadings are a savage throwback to an aspect of war that has become more “civilized” today. The intent to cause “shock and awe” through isolated acts of excessive violence…
A long-established custom for many teachers has been to ask students to count the number of books in their homes, then report back the next day. In most cases, the number of books is directly proportional to how well or…
“Day after day, the wide expanses of Russia pass by. There are harvested fields as far as the eye can see, and in between some huge barns and farmsteads,” notes young Günter Koschorrek late in October 1942, as his unit…
The children of working-class Americans embraced rock ‘n roll during the 1950s because it offered maximum emotional satisfaction with fewer intellectual demands. No need to bone up on academic learning when feel-good “rhythm” had no prerequisite. Did…
Saturday in Spearfish Paid for by Gordon Howie for Senate, PO Box 866, Rapid City, SD 57709
by Eric Sloane In early days, the word discipline did not refer to punishment as it now does, and it seems a pity that a respected word has become ugly and dreaded. Classroom discipline meant classroom rules,…