It’s primary day in Michigan and our legislature continues its assualt on our wallets and civil rights in Pierre.  Here’s today’s “Must Reads” to make you smarter.

SOUTH DAKOTA RELATED CONTENT:

Bill Removes Birth Dates From Voter List
15/01/08 14:34 from South Dakota Media Club
The South Dakota Senate is considering a bill that would remove a person’s birth date from the list of all registered voters in the state. Secretary of State Chris Nelson says many candidates, political parties and others buy the list from…

Bill Would Remove Ban On Cameras in Court
15/01/08 14:23 from South Dakota Media Club
Six senators and three House members have co-sponsored Senate Bill 77 in the South Dakota Legislature. It removes the legal ban on allowing cameras and broadcast coverage into lower courts. South Dakota already allows electronic coverage…

Celebrating those bills who tried, and failed: Vanity plate repeal
15/01/08 12:21 from South Dakota War College
  (insert arm pumping here). It was a minor victory in the big scheme of things, but a victory nonetheless. The South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles had brought a measure to outlaw vanity license plates , bemoaning that they felt they…

NON-SOUTH DKAOTA CONTENT:

Don’t Be Hating on North Dakota, Fool!
15/01/08 13:27 from Culture & Society from Newser
National Geographic is under fire for an article perceived as (gasp!) anti-North Dakota. Headlined “The Emptied Prairie,” the piece refers to the state’s “irreversible decline” and  “sense of things ebbing.”…

Hillary’s Race to the Bottom
15/01/08 13:19 from Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily
There’s only one thing that makes sense of the Clinton campaign’s clumsy and classless injection of race into her primary battle with Barack Obama. And that is that her victory in New Hampshire — impressive though it was…

Filipino Monkey strikes again?
15/01/08 12:44 from WE Blog
It’s not reassuring that World War III could have been caused by a ham radio prankster . The tense incident on Jan. 6 involving Iranian speedboats buzzing U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz almost erupted into armed conflict when…