South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem should leave well enough alone, given the fallout over an anecdote in her new book about shooting a dog she later deemed to be a danger to her children. Instead, the governor has pushed ahead on a media tour plugging No Going Back, and to suggest that it has been a disaster is an understatement. With a passage about a supposed meeting with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un reportedly being scrubbed on reprints and the audio and ebook editions, the Republican politician cannot...

Newsmax host Eric Bolling asked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem whether her book editor could have been “a liberal plant” intent on making her look bad after Noem received backlash over several passages from her new memoir. Reacting to the controversies surrounding Noem’s book – including an extract which detailed the governor’s decision to kill her 14-month-old dog Cricket after it proved “less than worthless” as a hunting animal – Bolling said: I’ve also written a couple of books and I know how the process works. You write some chapters,...