Great Plains Observer

Noem Needs A History Lesson

BW Schwartz — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:47:05 +0000

It appears Kristi Noem should do a little studying on Presidential history before opening her mouth. Earlier this morning Noem posted on her Facebook page about President Obama’s recess appointments. She seems to think that what he did was not only a miscarriage of power but a move unprecedented in our history. President Obama’s appointments yesterday were a shocking abuse [...]

Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

BW Schwartz — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:46:52 +0000

Christopher Hitchens, brilliant author and skeptic to the end, has died at the age of 62 after losing his battle with esophageal cancer. Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote [...]

Perry Preaches To His Base

BW Schwartz — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:58:34 +0000

Rick Perry continues his slide into obscurity with his latest campaign ad that I guess is meant to appeal to what is left of his eroding support base…the religious zealots and homophobes. In it he does what these folks do the best, he blames gays for some imaginary problem facing Christians in America this time [...]

Political Purity Tests

BW Schwartz — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:08:06 +0000

It would seem that the big tent has become a shoe box if one is to believe that Republican’s in South Dakota actually think that Stace Nelson’s…er South Dakota GOP’ers… GOP purity test actually means anything in the grand scheme of things. For those living under a rock in the Black Hills somewhere, a new site [...]

Penn Jillette Discusses Religion And Politics

BW Schwartz — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:42:29 +0000

Penn Jillette offers his “slapping my forehead and wondering why I didn’t say this” take on religion and the 2012 Presidential candidates.

Is This Really The Best Group To Be Doing This?

BW Schwartz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Who better to partner with schools to educate the public about child sex abuse in the wake of the Penn State scandal than the organization that perpetrated the biggest child abuse scandal of our time? Yep the poster child for child rape, the Catholic Church, wants to help. The Roman Catholic Church is willing to partner [...]

Apparently $6.2 Billion Doesn’t Go As Far As It Used To

BW Schwartz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:45:00 +0000

Having been stationed on 3 different aircraft carriers during my time in the Navy I can remember when $6.2 billion would buy US taxpayers a ship that had toilets that usually worked at least somewhere. True we had many issues in isolated areas of the ship often caused by clothing or some other type of foreign object [...]

Hot Coffee

BW Schwartz — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Tort reform has been a buzz word in our political landscape for quite some time. Who couldn’t be against getting rid of frivolous lawsuits right? Susan Saladoff, director of the HBO documentary Hot Coffee, explains that tort reform isn’t the silver bullet that we have been led to believe. http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:400684 The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert [...]

Supposed Family Oriented Hate Group Gives 100% Rating To Rep That Refuses To Pay Child Support

BW Schwartz — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:10:00 +0000

The South Dakota War College recently made a big deal over the Family Research Council’s (FRC) 0% rating given to South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson. So with that in mind I figured I would add some perspective and show what exactly someone must do to gain the approval of the group which made the Southern Poverty Law [...]

Milking The Gullible Continues To Be Profitable

BW Schwartz — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:40:00 +0000

You would think that selling yourself as the doomsday prophet and then having the date of your prophecy come and go without incident would be bad for your reputation but what about 3 times? Harold Camping, the Family Radio preacher who predicted the end of the world for the first time way back in 1994, has apparently left [...]