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Greetings.

Welcome to the launch of The South Dakota Standard! Tom Lawrence and I will bring you thoughts and ideas concerning issues pertinent to the health and well-being of our political culture. Feel free to let us know what you are thinking.

Spare me the faux outrage over President Biden pardoning his son, who was unfairly targeted for prosecution

Spare me the faux outrage over President Biden pardoning his son, who was unfairly targeted for prosecution

Oh, the angst of it all! 

What an unpardonable hypocrisy!

Fuel on Donald Trump’s claims of politicized justice!

Everybody just shut up.

Hunter Biden would never have faced this crap to begin with if he had been anyone else.

Here we are looking at a future of unprecedented nepotism at the federal level. And Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and Stephen Bannon have already been pardoned by DJT for real crimes against the USA. And he’s planning on pardoning hundreds, if not all, of those who participated in outright insurrection against America.

And only the dimmest among us cannot foresee that he will also pardon Rudi Giuliani ... and himself.

Trump denounced the pardon as a “miscarriage of justice” Republicans fume, MAGA goes into full meltdown, others say Joe Biden “destroyed his legacy.”

Hunter Biden (seen above directly behind Joe Biden in a public domain photo posted on wikimedia commons) was the victim of selective prosecution.

Everybody just shut up.

Van Carter of Sioux Falls is a retired broadcast journalist and environmentalist who published a green website for 15 years. This essay originally appeared on the Change Agents of South Dakota website.


Larry Rhoden would be the third S.D. lieutenant governor to move up. The first two did not remain in their new office

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