“South Dakota” on The Daily Caller

Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, Biznet…the list of social and business networking sites go on and on and on.  It is hard to imagine how we made it through the day just a few years back without all of these sites to write about our daily comings and goings.  How could we have gotten along without knowing that Facebook Friend X just drove across the country with her three cats and two dogs, ate in five diners and had a flat tire in South Dakota?  Or that Facebook Friend Y’s little three-year old daughter Cody just threw up on the living room couch while her two-year old brother Jackson pooped on the floor?  Life would not be the same without knowing that these events occurred. (more)

A driver who told police he was distracted because he was looking for a lighter crashed into a Sioux Falls fire station. (more)

Top Republican party officials are questioning the health of the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) finances following an announcement that the RNC will have $12 million less to spend on “get out the vote” efforts for November’s midterm elections than anticipated in previous budget projections. (more)

Debrahlee Lorenzana recently filed a lawsuit saying she was fired from her job at Citibank for wearing clothes that were too sexy for the office.  Citibank has countered that the suit is “without merit,” and that she was fired for other reasons.  Lorenzana begged to differ, arguing that her outfits were perfectly acceptable. (more)

In terms of old geezers, this Congress is setting all kinds of records. (more)

Senate Republicans on Tuesday were cautious about demanding the release of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s paper record from her time in the Clinton White House, despite the fact that her paper trail is otherwise uniquely thin. (more)

Day 1, 8:22 p.m: (more)

In keeping with White House tradition, the president and vice president publicly released their returns on Thursday for national Tax Day. It turns out Republican George Bush opened his wallet substantially wider than Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden while residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (more)

The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 18 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorney generals. (more)

The public doesn’t trust Washington politicians—and those politicians don’t trust each other. Those two truths could doom President Obama’s health care bill even if it weren’t an unaffordable behemoth. (more)

Whether it’s a correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll. (more)

The Obama administration’s health care bill still hasn’t passed Congress and may never do so. Even if it does, it probably won’t work as advertised. Like most government endeavors, it’ll likely cost more and cover less than planned. Ironically, it is in the government’s power to substantially improve health care outcomes in the United States by passing a relatively simple piece of legislation, then getting out of the way. If the government is serious about reform, it should allow national health insurance mutuals to form and to offer individual, prenatal, noncan, participating policies linked to a life insurance policy. That’s a mouthful, but easy to grasp when broken down into bite-sized bits: (more)

A New Party is Brewing (more)

The teaching of climate change is under attack in some U.S. public schools. This week, South Dakota’s legislature passed a resolution calling for the “balanced teaching of global warming.” (more)