By John A. Tures
Virtually the entire American political sphere is talking about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s book “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” where she talks about shooting a dog and a goat. And those are certainly issues worth talking about. But I think we’re missing something equally disturbing among these passages that should be discussed, as well.
It is a curious thing to hype a book by talking about killing a 14-month-old dog named “Cricket” who made her mad by disrupting a pheasant hunt by being “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.”She did claim that it killed a neighbor’s chickens and growled at her, so she made the choice to take the dog to a gravel pit and shoot it. She also did the same thing to a goat …