“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” – Samuel Adams

Does Quran-Burning Pastor Have a Point?

Does Quran-Burning Pastor Have a Point?

I have mixed feelings on the related matter of a planned Quran-burning by a pastor in Florida. On one hand the act seems petty and unnecessarily vindictive, especially for a clergyman. On the other hand, it has already served to expose a shameful and even dangerous hypocritical double-standard on the part of pop culture and our leaders. Apparently, offending Christians and the loved ones of nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamic terrorists is to be celebrated and defended, the freedom of expression while burning private property on private property is to be roundly condemned.

All Aboard the Pelosi-Herseth Sandlin Global Warming Tour

All Aboard the Pelosi-Herseth Sandlin Global Warming Tour

The South Dakota Republican Party unveiled a new video today highlighting yet another aspect of the close relationship between Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The web video zeros in on a trip Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin took with Pelosi in 2007 to Greenland and Northern Europe to inspect the melting ice caps on the taxpayer dime.

Let's take another look at that pesky 2nd Amendment--Dems

Let’s take another look at that pesky 2nd Amendment–Dems

Dems find a solution to their waning political power. They will simply do away with the Second Amendment and then do whatever they like with little fear that Tea Party groups and other patriots might have other thoughts. Big complicated words like “shall not be infringed” and “Congress shall make no law” will no longer vex them when they can invoke the greatest trump of all, the “commerce clause.”

Poll: 68% Support Central Tea Party Agenda

Poll: 68% Support Central Tea Party Agenda

Democrats are in a panic and are desperately trying to ratchet up the fear-mongering about the Tea Party to new and greater heights. Yet a new poll shows more than two-thirds of American voters agree with the core Tea Party agenda of fiscal responsibility and limited government.

Marriage and the Battle for Language

Marriage and the Battle for Language

The term “homosexual marriage” is an oxymoron, signifying something that is impossible. Marriage is the conjugal union of a man and a woman in sanctified commitment; two men or two women are biologically incapable of forming this conjugal union, for they lack one of the essential parts. Words mean things, and we cannot escape reality by attempting to redefine them.

Color Film of World War II London Blitz Found

Color Film of World War II London Blitz Found

Some rare color film taken after an air raid in London during World War II has been found, literally stored away for years in someone’s attic. Carolyn Keen’s grandfather was an air raid warden and filmed these scenes both as a training film and historical documentation. I used to spend hours and hours talking to [...]

Watching the Midichlorian Rhapsody

Watching the Midichlorian Rhapsody

Have you seen the latest internet sensation? It’s some Star Wars footage and creative lyrics set to the tune of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

New South Dakota Blog

New South Dakota Blog

The folks at Bighorn Canyon Ministries in Rapid City have launched a new blog which has the same name as their publication, On the Right Side. As the blog indicates, primary topics will include politics, the pulpit and the press.

Islamic Tolerance Displayed in Call for Beheading Politician

Islamic Tolerance Displayed in Call for Beheading Politician

Amidst plans here in the United States by Muslims to build a Ground Zero Victory Mosque on the site where Islamic terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans on 911, the tolerance and commitment to dialog by Muslims is being displayed overseas by Australian Muslim preacher Feiz Mohammad and his call for the beheading of a Dutch politician.

Latest Poll: Repubs over Dems by 12 Points on Generic Ballot

Latest Poll: Repubs over Dems by 12 Points on Generic Ballot

More good news for the American people=more bad news for Democrats. The latest from Rasmussen finds that on the generic congressional ballot, Republicans have a 12-point lead over Democrats–closely matching a recent Gallup poll which found a 10-point lead for Republicans.

Labor Day Celebration of Union Activity

Labor Day Celebration of Union Activity

On Labor Day, the day set aside in America to ostensibly celebrate labor, we are reminded me of what the labor movement has devolved into. Since the Left will be pulling all the stops out this election year in a desperate attempt to stop Americans from veering our nation back on course to constitutional government, it behooves us to remind ourselves of what they are really all about.

Second Gulf Oil Platform Explosion a Stunning Coincidence?

Second Gulf Oil Platform Explosion a Stunning Coincidence?

Back in May, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion occurred under suspicious circumstnaces. Now last Thursday another oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has exploded, a day after a federal judge in New Orleans refused the Obama administration’s demand that he throw out a lawsuit filed by a number of oil drilling companies against the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. I don’t believe in coincidences.

It’s Easy Being Critical

It’s Easy Being Critical

When you are bleeding to death the first thing you must do is stop the bleeding. When you are trapped in a hole the first thing you must do is stop digging. There are answers that encourage freedom and enhance liberty. There are answers that preserve our position and protect or independence.

Dakota Voice Week in Review, Ending Sept. 4, 2010

Dakota Voice Week in Review, Ending Sept. 4, 2010

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Thinking Christianly about Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero Mosque; Herseth Sandlin Chief of Staff Busted for DUI; Man’s Best Friend in Shariah’s Cruel Crosshairs; More Bad News for Democrats; Young Guns: Kristi Noem; Another Man Behind the Mosque Unmasked; British Press Smacks IPCC Over Junk Science, Hysteria; and more!

 Thinking Christianly about Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero Mosque – Part 2 of 3

Thinking Christianly about Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero Mosque – Part 2 of 3

Islam is more than mere religion in the recently secularized Western sense—i.e., private beliefs that are largely irrelevant to public life. In contrast, Islam is an all-encompassing socio-political-religious ideology in which more radicalized Muslims emphasize jihad and the more troubling social/justice positions that to them are consistent with a faithful rendering of the Koran. When taken to these extremes, this interpretation of Islam promotes violence and conquest as legitimate means of faithful expression.

Military Judge rules on the 'Question that won't go away'

Military Judge rules on the ‘Question that won’t go away’

Army Col. Denise R. Lind ruled last week that LTC Terry Lakin, MC “will be denied access to any of Obama’s records as well as any testimony from those who may have access to the records.” Lakin, a career officer and medical doctor has refused orders for a second deployment to Afghanistan on the grounds [...]

Deja Vu All Over Again

Deja Vu All Over Again

It’s deja vu all over again in Washington as the midterm elections rapidly approach and all signs point to an electoral route of the party in power. What remains to be seen, however, is whether the American people will finally get the change they are seeking, or merely more of the same.

Withdrawing from reality

Withdrawing from reality

It’s interesting why behavior that we readily recognize, on an individual level, as undesirable, we routinely promote and accept as government and social policy. What rational person would suggest that being detached from reality is a good thing? But increasingly we live in an environment, created by government driven policies, in which the picture of reality we have is false.

Lady Gaga and the Pornification of America

Lady Gaga and the Pornification of America

Pop music star Lady Gaga admits that “the last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.” Yet the content of Gaga’s music and videos is far from kid-friendly, and the impact on her young female fans is particularly troublesome. Her own performances constitute a foray into porn culture.

Herseth Sandlin Racks Up the Cash from Pelosi PAC

Herseth Sandlin Racks Up the Cash from Pelosi PAC

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) has received significant campaign contributions from Speaker of the House and San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi’s “PAC to the Future” Political Action Committee, to the tune of $35,000 over the past several elections. This is the same PAC Pelosi has used to pay her husband and his company $100,000.

New Website Digs for Tea Party ‘Racism’

New Website Digs for Tea Party ‘Racism’

The socialist apostles of a Leftist status quo are having such a hard time digging up any real racism in the Tea Party movement they so loathe, they’re actually launching a new website with an appeal to videographers and bloggers to help them come up with some “racism.” You know the agenda stinks when those promoting it have nothing up their sleeve except lies and deception.

America's Christian Heritage in the U.S. Capitol

America’s Christian Heritage in the U.S. Capitol

Historian David Barton takes a group of pastors on a tour of the U.S. Capitol building, citing the rich Christian heritage of America, especially as seen right inside the center of American government. Secularists with an agenda have worked hard for decades to bury and erase America’s Christian heritage, but people like Barton are determined to help Americans reclaim this nearly-lost and important aspect of our history.

SOS: Speaking of Seniors: Avoiding the Scam

SOS: Speaking of Seniors: Avoiding the Scam

Scammers are trying something new on senior citizens: a call from a relative who supposedly is in jail in a foreign country and needs money wired right away. If you are contacted with this scenario, report it to your local police or attorney general.

Freedom Coming to the Pulpit Sept. 26

Freedom Coming to the Pulpit Sept. 26

The third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday is coming on September 26, 2010. This nationwide event, also known as the Pulpit Initiative, is sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund to promote the religious freedom America’s pastors and churches enjoyed throughout our history until it was curtailed in 1954. The IRS is caught between a rock and a hard place in trying to enforce this unconstitutional tax code provision, and freedom will eventually win out.

Young Guns: Kristi Noem

Young Guns: Kristi Noem

Reps. Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy have a new book out called Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, and they have a video to promote it. South Dakota’s own GOP candidate Kristi Noem is among these young conservatives ready to return America to constitutional government.