American Minute from William J. Federer Educated at Oxford, James Oglethorpe joined the Austrian army at age 17 and helped free Belgrade from Muslim Turks.  Returning to England, he unintentionally killed a man in a brawl and went to prison. Upon release, he followed his father’s footsteps and served in Parliament. He opposed slavery and, [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Jennifer Riley Christian Post Reporter Mon, Jan. 12 2009 01:22 PM EST The majority of American adults pick and choose their religious beliefs to create, in essence, a “customized” religion rather than adopting the set of beliefs taught by a particular church, a new study found. By a [...]

Apparently President-elect Barack Obama angered too many of his ultra-liberal supporters when he picked Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church to offer a prayer at his inauguration.   Many homosexual activists went ballistic when they heard this, since  Warren is a little too Biblical when it comes to homosexual behavior.  After all, he has repeated [...]

The season premier of Fox’s 24 last night was as great as I expected. While previous seasons of 24 have taken place in Los Angeles where the former CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) was based, this season moves to Washington D.C. CTU has been disbanded after saving America from terrorists countless times, and hero Jack Bauer [...]

 Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Ethan Cole Christian Post Reporter Sun, Jan. 11 2009 11:41 AM EST Half of the Catholic adoption agencies that the Roman Catholic Church threatened to shut down in the United Kingdom if they were forced to work with gay couples have decided to comply to the new [...]

Rapid City Journal editor Mikel LeFort at Typos & Tribulations says a reader got upset today because the paper published a picture of a dead mountain lion killed by a local hunter–and on the front page, no less! LeFort’s blog post at Typos acknowledges that such images can be “disturbing” to some readers, and as the [...]

Thanks to the South Dakota War College and South Dakota Watch, we now know about a fairly new conservative blog in the SD blogosphere: “Fastidious (I am difficult to please.)” It’s published by a female conservative who describes herself as  “”Young, married, female right-winger who drinks too much coffee and reads more books than she [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Eric Young Christian Post Reporter Mon, Jan. 12 2009 08:22 AM EST President-elect Barack Obama has been without a worship community for about a year now and throughout that time, he says, it’s been difficult. “Now, I’ve got a wonderful community of people who are praying for [...]

We knew before Barack Obama was elected that he liked socialists and socialism, so the latest news out of the Washington Times should come as no surprise. Unless we had our heads buried in the sand (which many Obama voters actually did), we know that Obama has worked with unrepentant Marxist terrorist Bill Ayers.  Obama and [...]

By Marie Jon’ In Southern California, we have one of the largest county fairs, where there is always someone demonstrating a miracle knife that slices and dices. As people watch the demonstration, it looks pretty good. Look at all the fruits and vegetables that knife can cut. We’ve all seen the guy on TV who [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” This famous quote was from British statesman Edmund Burke, who was born JANUARY 12, 1729. Considered the most influential orator in the House of Commons, Burke stands out in history, for, as a member [...]

  Here at the end of the first day for the new new Dakota Voice, things are looking good! Though the initial launch was a smidge rocky, things have gone pretty smooth after leaving dry dock behind.   I’ve added a few of those bells and whistles during the day that I ran out of [...]

Terrorism expert Steve Emerson points out that the New York Times and other media outlets side with terrorists, specifically the terrorists who continually attack Israel and intentionally kill civilians. He uses the very apt analogy of a media obsessed with giving both sides between the arsonist and the fireman. Do we seriously expect any country [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer Grandson of Princeton president Jonathan Edwards, he could read at age 4 and entered Yale at 13. He was a chaplain in the Continental Army until his father died, when, as the eldest of 13, he worked the family farm to pay off debts. He was in Massachusetts’ first [...]

After much consternation, Dakota Voice is back up. Good grief, have you ever gone through one of those periods where it seems everything you touch turns to dung?  The last week feels that way.  Earlier this week when it became apparent that the platform I moved DV to on Jan 2. just wasn’t cutting the [...]

By Jennifer Riley Christian Post Reporter Sat, Jan. 10 2009 12:44 PM EST Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post. Physical abuse by one’s spouse is not a biblical reason for divorce, says Pastor Rick Warren, who rose to fame with the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life and was recently selected to give the [...]

BY STAR PARKER   Star Parker FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION The first Gallup poll out on President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan shows a divided country, with Republicans in a distinct minority and in opposition. Democrats support the $750-billion plan (67 percent to 19 percent) as do Independents (54 percent to [...]

Don’t you love it when a member of the “mainstream” media comes out of the closet about their Leftist bias?  I mean, isn’t it just so refreshing? So it was to hear Tavis Smiley from PBS on Joe Scarborough’s show talking about how he “works for” Barack Obama and how he wants to do his [...]

This report from ABC accounts for a lot in our morally-adrift culture.  The headline: “Adult Women Play House With Fake Babies.” According to this report, adult women are buying baby dolls at $100 to $1,000 and taking them to the park, throwing birthday parties for them, etc. No wonder we live in a society that [...]

They point to Panetta’s utter lack of experience in the intelligence field and question the sanity of such a pick. These know-it-alls just need to lay off!  After all, Panetta is just as qualified to head the CIA as his boss is to head the country. From our friends at Americans for Limited Government.

  Northern Plains Anglican first brought this to my attention yesterday. By now most of us have heard about V. Gene Robinson, the open and unrepentant homosexual priest who was made bishop of New Hampshire a few years ago despite his open sin. Though it’s not a surprise, Northern Plains Anglican links to a post atStand [...]

By Eric Young Christian Post Reporter Thu, Jan. 08 2009 04:25 PM EST  Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post.  Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill in both the House and Senate to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, a policy abolished more than two decades ago for its alleged [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer He lost his first presidential race to John F. Kennedy by the smallest margin to that date. A Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during WWII, he was a Congressman, Senator, and Vice-President under Eisenhower. His name was Richard Milhous Nixon, born JANUARY 9, 1913. He was the 37th U.S. [...]

I wonder what someone of 50-60 years ago would think if you could go back in time and bring them forward with you to 2009. Someone–especially in the West–from the 1940s or 1940s would have had an outlook on the world shockingly different than the one becoming prevalent today. Even if they were not a [...]

I saw the headline in the Argus Leader this morning and I had to just shake my head.  It was so…it was so…well, it was so liberal.  It reeked of that liberal elitist mindset that regular Americans have become so unpleasantly familiar with in the last 30 years or more.  You know, the one that implies those who [...]