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As reported in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Forbes Magazine has for the third straight year rated Sioux Falls, SD as the best small city (under 345,000 population) to start a business or a career. Rapid City, on the other end of South Dakota, ranked sixth.

Sioux Falls is a very, very nice town. Sadly, it's too cold for Snookums, however.

It's been something I've been meaning to do for a while . . . the Medary.com Position Paper. You can look at it by clicking Where We Stand up above the blue masthead bar at the top of Medary.com pages.

Please feel free to comment on Where We Stand in the Comments section of this article.

CBS News aired part of an interview with Ken Starr (yes, Whitewater/Clintongate investigator Ken Starr) where CBS reported:

Many conservatives consider the fight over judges their political Armageddon, but conservative icon and former federal judge Ken Starr says it has gotten out of control, reports CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger.

"The confirmation process has not only become ugly and has become a shouting match," he said. "This is a radical, radical departure from our history and our traditions and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government."

Only problem is that Starr wasn't talking about the conservatives, as the quote implies, but about the Democrats stonewalling of judicial nominations.

Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review e-mailed Starr, and got this response:

"In the piece that I have now seen, and which I gather is being lavishly quoted, CBS employed two snippets. The 'radical departure' snippet was specifically addressed — although this is not evidenced whatever from the clip — to the practice of invoking judicial philosopy as a grounds for voting against a qualified nominee of integrity and experience. I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong. I contrasted the current practice . . . with what occurred during Ruth Ginsburg's nomination process, as numerous Republicans voted (rightly) to confirm a former ACLU staff lawyer. They disagreed with her positions as a lawyer, but they voted (again, rightly) to confirm her. Why? Because elections, like ideas, have consequences. . . . In the interview, I did indeed suggest, and have suggested elsewhere, that caution and prudence be exercised (Burkean that I am) in shifting/modifying rules (that's the second snippet), but I likewise made clear that the 'filibuster' represents an entirely new use (and misuse) of a venerable tradition. . . .

Snookums wonders why I will not watch "60 Minutes." Well, at this point, anyone who trusts anything coming out of CBS News is at best a dupe. Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" has more news credibility than CBS News.

Approximately 4,500 more ballots were cast than were registered voters in the Presidential election last November in Milwaukee.

The mainstream media awakens from their slumber:

Washington Post: Possible Voter Fraud Found in Milwaukee
San Francisco Chronicle: Investigators Find Evidence of Voter Fraud
Oshkosh Northwestern (editorial): Doyle losing more ground on ballot fraud problems
Indianapolis Star (editorial): Show your ID and avoid this mess

Powerline is more blunt: Was Wisconsin Stolen?

So, in the face of this as well as the ongoing Washington State gubernatorial controversy, why is the ironically named Democratic Party opposing the common-sense solution of presenting identification before being allowed to vote?

P.S. Anybody remember the incident where twenty (20!) Republican get-out-the-vote vans had their tires slashed the night before the election? "Isolated incident," the Democratic machine leaders say, "nothing to see here, no conspiracy."

Yeah, right.

P.P.S It will be amusing now to see the Google ads (over to the left) go nuts with bash-Bush pro-Democrat ads, now that I've posted an article which dares to use the D-word three times in a single article. Sheesh.

Comcast and Time Warner are talking about trading customers in Kansas City and Houston.

This Kansas City Business Journal gives the details--if it goes through, the swap will happen in mid-2006, leaving Comcast the dominant cable comany in Kansas City.

Previously reported here, Marquette University has apparently heard the cries (and web sites) of astonishment and outrage at their committee's attempt to change their tepid "Golden Eagles" nickname to the even more lame (or would that be lame'?) "Gold."

Frighteningly, Marquette president Robert Wild set the tone for a continuing debacle when he said in a written statement:

A small plane headed towards the heart of Washington, D.C. was turned back by fighters, but then turned back again towards the Capitol and the White House, causing both buildings to be evacuated. Fox News Channel now showing footage of F-16's banking sharply above Washington.

Mozilla Foundation announces bug in Firefox.

I'm awaiting the patch and will link to it when it comes out.

One workaround is to go to Tools>Options>Web Features, and unclick "Allow Web Sites to Install Software." (via SANS Internet Storm Center).

I stepped away from the blog for a couple of days, but I'm back now. Here we go again . . .

Now that Marquette has now managed to offend everyone in their struggle to offend no one by renaming their athletic teams after an inert metal, Tom Oates of the Wisconsin State Journal has suggested some appropriate color-nicknames for Big 10 schools.