“What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.” — Hansell B. Duckett Overheard at coffee: Waitress: “Hower you guys doin’?” Customer: “Doin’ good.” Waitress: “Whatcha havin’ this mornin’?” Customer: “Just coffee. Headin’ out soon.” Now,...
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke Today’s history quiz: — How many amendments does the Constitution have? — What is the economic system in the United States? — The Federalist Papers...
Without words, without writing and without books, there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hess William Kent Krueger is a rarity. He speaks as well as he writes. Dressed in a pink golf shirt and blue jeans, Krueger wears a small...
“The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.” — Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist and editor Forty years ago, the executive director of the South Dakota Newspaper Association called me and said he...
“The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.” – Yakov Smirnoff It felt like I was in a time machine, but it was really just Sioux Falls. The gasoline nozzle clicked off, and...
Verbal tic: A word or phrase that someone frequently says without intending to. – Merriam Webster Call them verbal tics or language fads, but if you listen closely, you’ll hear certain words repeated over and over during our public conversation. One of Sen....
World Series: A series of baseball games played in the fall of each year between the pennant winners of the major leagues to decide the professional championship of the U.S. – Webster’s Third New International Dictionary So there was this American couple eating...
Blue Ribbon Task Force — A task force or committee, generally a group of people brought together to solve or advise on some important topic. — Answers.com The telephone rang about 6:45 p.m., so I knew there was a good possibility it was a telemarketer....
Social conservative: Observes traditional social values. Dedication to family and community. Celebration of country. Responsibility, self-reliance, initiative. The sort of mainstream values sometimes dismissed by the intelligentsia as “Norman Rockwell’s America.”—...
Grant: An amount of money that is given to someone by a government, a company, etc., to be used for a particular purpose, such as scientific research. – Merriam Webster Dictionary. The headline trumpeted that Mitchell would receive $20,000 for mosquito control, along...
