By now you have no doubt heard ad nauseam that Rush Limbaugh is an evil man (who may just be Satan incarnate) because he said he hopes President Barack Obama fails in his plans to socialize the United States. Liberals have put on their Indignation Hats and feigned shock over Limbaugh’s hopes that Obama will [...]

SB 191, the preschool bill, was killed in the South Dakota House Education Committee this morning by a vote of 9-6. According to Concerned Women for America South Dakota,  the following representatives voted to kill the bill: Van Gerpen, Bill Bolin, Jim Brunner, Tom Hamiel, Noel Hunt, Roger Olson, Ryan Schlekeway, Todd Sly, Jacqueline Vanneman, [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lawrence Jones Christian Post Reporter Mon, Mar. 09 2009 10:57 AM EDT The Department of Health and Human Services will begin accepting comments from the public this week on a proposal by the Obama administration to completely rescind federal regulations placed into effect by former President Bush [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Katherine T. Phan Christian Post Reporter Mon, Mar. 09 2009 09:10 AM EDT The percentage of people who claim no religion has nearly doubled since 1990. Meanwhile, the percentage of Christians is on the decline, according to a new study on American religious life. The 2008 American [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lawrence Jones Christian Post Reporter Sat, Mar. 07 2009 08:15 AM EST President Obama is expected to sign an executive order reversing a ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, according to administration officials. The officials said the president will announce the move at a [...]

Update 3/9/2009 For the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays scheduled bill activity of note… Bill # Bill Desc Activity SB 144 require certain contracts to be retained and made available by a publicly accessible internet website or database. Hearing: House State Affairs SB 191 establish eligibility criteria, community planning processes, and quality benchmarks for state-supported [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer Battle between Monitor and Merrimac ironcladsThe Confederate iron-plated ship Merrimac destroyed two Union boats during the Civil War. The Union responded with the ironclad Monitor. Dedicating a statue to the Monitor’s designer, John Ericsson, May 29, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge stated: “When the ironclad Merrimac went out on the [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer The three-masted frigate USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat. It fought the Muslim Barbary Pirates of North Africa in 1803, sailed against the British in the War of 1812, and caught slave traders off the coast of Africa in the 1850′s. The U.S.S. [...]

The Foundry, the Heritage Foundation’s blog, has a stunning item on this global warming “cap and trade” malarkey being pushed on the American people. You might recall that a couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama announced his intent to see a “cap and trade” system imposed on the United States.  Ostensibly this would be [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer On MARCH 7, 1774, the British passed the Boston Port Act, closing the harbor to all commerce to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Surrounding towns rallied by sending food. William Prescott, who later commanded at Bunker Hill, wrote: “Providence has placed you where you must stand [...]

STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Blacks are not given enough credit for being trendsetters in America. Blacks started playing the blues, jazz, and R&B, then the rest of America started playing them. Blacks discovered the politics of victimhood, then the rest of America started catching on. Black women got [...]

You know the case for embryonic stem cell research is weak if even a liberal publication like US News & World Report is starting to come clean on the issue. For those who may not be knowledgeable on the issue–or who may have been misled by the massive amounts of propaganda out there–there are several types [...]

Daily Recap 3/6/2008 From the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays activity on bills of note… Bill # Bill Desc Activity HB 1081 make an appropriation for operation costs of the 24/7 sobriety program and to declare an emergency. House of Representatives Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 61, NAYS 1. HB 1149 allow a person or [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter Fri, Mar. 06 2009 10:40 AM EST Traditional marriage supporters are optimistic that Proposition 8 will stand after oral arguments were heard Thursday by the California Supreme Court. “Of course, we can never be certain how a court will rule until the decision [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Jennifer Riley Christian Post Reporter Fri, Mar. 06 2009 11:59 AM EST Religious groups in America disagree on a wide range of issues, but one thing they readily agree on is that the government’s current top priority is to fix the nation’s economy, according to a recent Pew [...]

When Americans examine socialized medicine and government health care systems, the two systems most frequently mentioned are the ones in Great Britain and Canada.  They are, after all, English speaking countries and their societies are the most like ours here in the United States. Much to the chagrin of socialists, the evidence has gotten out [...]

The Democrat-led Congress and White House are dismantling many of the pro-life advances of the past decade and are working to spend your tax dollars on abortions. Stuart Shepard gets an update in the video below from Ashley Horne and Dawn Vargo on what’s happening and how you can speak into the process. President Barack [...]

25-year-old Colonel Henry Knox unbelievably moved 59 cannons 300 miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. On the night of March 4, 1776, with wagon wheels wrapped in straw to muffle the noise, the cannons were strategically put on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston Harbor. The next morning, British troops were shocked. On MARCH 6, 1776, General [...]

Update 3/6/2009 For the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays scheduled bill activity of note… Bill # Bill Desc Activity HB 1081 make an appropriation for operation costs of the 24/7 sobriety program and to declare an emergency. Hearing: House SB 155 provide for the revision of certain offensive geographic place names. Hearing: House     [...]

The mediocre (at best) state of America’s public education system is no secret. Many have argued for years in favor of educational vouchers as a tool for improvement. Vouchers would provide funds for parents to send their children to the private school of their choice if they wish.  Parents do, after all pay taxes which [...]

“we have a blueprint for landslide electoral success. Reaganism. We tried it the way our ‘moderates’ demanded: John McCain. They got the candidate and the campaign they wanted. And we got creamed. So it is time for the party to realize that if they want to win elections it cannot be accomplished with Democrat-Lite.” – [...]

Even the people sounding the alarm over global warming have to admit there’s a lot we just don’t know yet. In his Stoplight® commentary, Stuart Shepard explains why it’s a bad idea to base policy decisions on uncertainty. We recently launched a $275 million dollar satellite to study the fantasy of anthropogenic global warming…only to [...]

Daily Recap 3/5/2008 From the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays activity on bills of note… Bill # Bill Desc Activity HB 1240 prohibit smoking tobacco or carrying lighted tobacco products in certain places and to require certain persons to inform violators of the prohibition. Senate Reconsidered, Passed SJR 3 Proposing and submitting to the electors [...]

From our friends at Americans for Limited Government.

Fox News, WorldNetDaily and several other media outlets are reporting the disturbing incident at Central Connecticut State University where a professor called the police on a student who merely gave an oral presentation in class arguing in favor of Second Amendment rights on campus. From the Fox News article: Last October, John Wahlberg and two [...]