Dakota Voice

Idaho became the first state to fully pass a measure protecting its citizens from the unconstitutional government health care plan Democrats in congress are hell-bent on passing. Some 37 other states are also working on similar legislation. One has to wonder if the rogue socialists in Washington D.C. give a whit about what the American people think anymore.

Amid the uproar over Glenn Beck’s recent comments about the church and social justice, theologian Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. says that while Beck’s comments were lacking in context, the social gospel is one that redirects Christian emphasis on salvation through Jesus to using politics to create heaven on earth. “The urgency for any faithful Christian is this – flee any church that for any reason or in any form has abandoned the Gospel of Christ for any other gospel.”

Colorado tax-and-spend Democrats thought they had a ripe prize: bring in another $5 million in taxpayer loot by taxing internet sales. But internet bookseller giant Amazon.com showed them they aren’t easy meet for their hungry fingers. The online mega-seller has pulled out of partnerships with their affiliates in Colorado, leaving affiliates and consumers in the lurch.

C-FAM reasserts their story that Planned Parenthood distributed explicit sex guides to Girl Scouts at a recent UN conference, including information that debunks denials from Girl Scout leadership that the event happened.

According to the British Telegraph, President Barack Obama is encouraging Democrats in congress to vote “No” on the government takeover of health care.

Tea Party groups in New Jersey have been trying to recall Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for his support of unconstitutional efforts to implement government health care, but they have been blocked by state officials who have ruled that the state constitution–which allows for recalls of officials–is unconstitutional. (Yes, you heard right.) But now an appeals court has ruled in favor of the citizens of New Jersey that the state must accept a recall petition.

While more than 30 states are considering passing legislation to block government health care from being forced on their states, Virginia has become the first state to get such a bill to the governor’s office. On an 80-17 vote, the Virginia legislature has sent their bill to the governor, who is expected to sign it into law.

The new “Coffee Party” movement–if you can call the tiny, sputtering gatherings by these liberals a “movement”–wants people to believe it is a “civil” alternative to the Tea Party movement, and that they want limited government, too. But when you take the lid off the cup, you find that they don’t want less government, they just want less input from the people into our government.

Where will this cavalcade of corruption lead? Detroit is a picture of America’s future. After decades of control by Progressive Democrats what was once one of the greatest manufacturing cities in the world has degenerated to the point where banks are paying people to take abandoned houses and the best idea they have is to downsize the city by converting empty lots into farmland.

The South Dakota Legislature held its last full week of session last week and it was described by one legislator as the “week in Hell.” That is because most of the week was centered around the state’s budget for the next fiscal year. Will Governor Rounds veto the budget, or parts of it? Will the legislative body override any vetoes?