Daily Recap 2/17/2008 From the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays activity on bills of note… Bill # Bill Desc Activity SB 126 revise certain provisions regarding school attendance. Education Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. For more information check the bill list at the South Dakota Legislature website.

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lawrence Jones Christian Post Reporter Tue, Feb. 17 2009 08:32 AM EST The American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group which specializes in constitutional law, said Monday it is preparing a litigation strategy to combat the Fairness Doctrine should it return. For months, Christian ministries and [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Elena Garcia Christian Post Reporter Tue, Feb. 17 2009 08:59 AM EST A conference hosted by a creationist ministry to help Christians defend their faith against evolution drew over 4,500 people during its opening evening on Sunday. Ken Ham, founder and president of Answers in Genesis, which hosted [...]

Gerald Warner has a great new Battle Hymn of the Republic at the British Telegraph. The new song is entitled “The Battle Hymn of the Obama Nation”: Mine eyes have been bedazzled by the coming of The One: He is doling out the dollars that the suckers’ toil has won; He is doling out the [...]

  by Carrie K. Hutchens I was reading, “12-Year-Old Stuns Pro-Choice Teacher and School with Pro-Life Presentation” by Kathleen Gilbert (LifeSiteNews.com) and found myself admiring this young girl.  How impressive to see someone so young be so informed and determined.  How impressive to see someone so young refuse to back down.  Someone willing to lose [...]

S. Michael Craven Center for Christ & Culture In the wake of our current financial crisis, the most popular scapegoat is quickly becoming the wealthy in America, inspiring class warfare reminiscent of Marxist socialism. One popular blog writer expressed this sentiment, probably more clearly than intended, when he wrote: The super rich can only be [...]

LifeNews reports on yet another success for adult stem cell research (unlike embryonic stem cell research, which has yet to achieve a single success). UCLA researchers published their results in February issue of the Bentham Open Stem Cell Journal which outlines the long term results of the trial. “We have documented the first successful adult [...]

This video details Barack Obama’s opposition to the Republican-engineered welfare reform of the mid-1990s. This reform drastically reduced welfare rolls across the country and ended a great deal of the generational dependence on government handouts that went back 30 years. Tucked away in the porkulus “stimulus” bill, though, was a provision to scuttle the 1996 [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer  A baseball star, Billy Sunday played for the Chicago White Stockings (Sox) in the 1890′s. Born during the Civil War in a log cabin in Iowa, his father, a Union Army soldier, died of pneumonia when Billy was a month old. At age 15, he struck out on his [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lawrence Jones Christian Post Reporter Mon, Feb. 16 2009 10:40 AM EST A Christian student is suing a speech professor at a California community college, alleging the teacher discriminated against his beliefs when he censored a classroom speech on God and marriage. Jonathan Lopez, a student at Los [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lawrence Jones Christian Post Reporter Mon, Feb. 16 2009 02:52 PM EST A Christian schoolteacher’s lawsuit over a UC Berkeley website on evolution has been appealed to the Supreme Court. Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute, which is representing Jeanne Caldwell, a Sacramento parent, announced in January that it had [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Maria Mackay Christian Today Reporter Mon, Feb. 16 2009 05:57 PM EST LONDON – The offices of a conservative Christian political organization were vandalized following the launch of a new bus advertising campaign proclaiming that there is a God. “I’m disappointed more than shocked,” said the Rev. George [...]

  Update 2/17/2009 For the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays scheduled bill activity of note… Bill # Bill Desc Activity SB 126 revise certain provisions regarding school attendance. Hearing: Senate Education For more information check the bill list at the South Dakota Legislature website.

It took him awhile, but Stoplight® host Stuart Shepard finally found a way to put the Democrats’ economic stimulus plan into perspective. Could it have anything to do with the billions of dollars in the bill that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy?  Or the $13 a week in tax relief for the [...]

Crowder, a conservative comedian, was raised in Montreal and knows that of which he speaks. And he does so hilariously!

After several decades of generational dependence, we were finally able to return some semblance of sanity to the welfare system in the United States when Republicans took control of Congress in 1994. It seems all the porkulus bill is about to undo all of that…and perhaps send us reeling farther down the river of government [...]

If you are alert to the dangers presented to the West from radical Islam, you might be aware of Dutch politician Geert Wilders and his film Fitna.   You might also possibly be aware that last week the British government refused him entry at Heathrow Airport because his presence in the country might upset Muslims [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Katherine T. Phan Christian Post Reporter Sun, Feb. 15 2009 09:15 AM EST A widely respected evangelical Christian theologian said that while some Christians try to reconcile evolution with their faith, Christianity and Darwinian evolution are incompatible. “If you understand Christianity or even Theism – the belief of [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli”-the Marine anthem recalls when Muslim Barbary Pirates of North Africa committed terrorist acts on American ships, selling crews into slavery. Tripoli demanded tribute and a treaty was attempted, but it was not honored as the Koran prohibited friendship with [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lawrence Jones Christian Post Reporter Sun, Feb. 15 2009 08:50 AM EST Two TV stations have pulled from their lineup a television special on the “homosexual agenda” that they deemed too “controversial.” WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., and WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio, both canceled the paid television program [...]

It’s going to be a busy week for me (even more so than normal), so posts will be reduced and comment moderation might take a little longer.  Your patience with both is greatly appreciated. Dr. Theo and Carrie will probably be filling in a little more and taking up my slack as they are able [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer  Slave trade in Cuba began earlier and lasted longer than anywhere else in the Americas, 1521 to the late 1870′s. In 1868, a Creole farmer began a revolt for racial equality, freedom of speech and association. Spain spent ten years putting down the insurgency. The independence movement grew and [...]

Both Mr. Ellis and I have written recent posts (…here, here and here) about a subject that most Americans are, at best, only vaguely aware, but which will change the way medical care will be delivered for many years to come.  I am referring to electronic medical records (EMR), also called computerized medical records in [...]

If you’re going to be in Lead, South Dakota Saturday evening February 21, treat your honey to dinner and a movie at the Roundhouse Restaurant. All aboard for the Roundhouse Restaurant!   Showing Fireproof, the movie that can help save your marriage if you’re in trouble, or strengthen it no matter what.   Saturday February [...]

In an interview with CNSNews.com, author Ann Coulter said the left hates the idea of the nuclear family. Why, you might ask as a sane person, would the Left hate the idea of the nuclear family? Well, it makes a twisted sort of sense if you’re a socialist who wants to grow government, and a [...]