A letter from 156 conservative and constitutional cause leaders urges the Senate to reject Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. They cite evidence that her judicial philosophy exceeds the authority granted by Article III of the Constitution.

In the latest ruling from the South Dakota Supreme Court on the school funding lawsuit, the court has essentially ruled that the people, the taxpayers are subservient to government departments that may demand the taxpayers cough up more cash on demand. The court sees government schools–not the people–as the beneficiaries of K-12 education funding that the taxpayers themselves provide.

Dr. Patti Giebink says Planned Parenthood is continuing to disregard the 2005 South Dakota law requiring abortionists to provide full information to women seeking an abortion. The language of the information was settled in court last year, but Planned Parenthood has continued to defy compliance for over 10 months.

A Catholic nurse was forced to assist in a late-term abortion in contradiction to federal law. Though the hospital told her it as an “emergency,” documents indicate the procedure was actually not an emergency and was not classified as one.

In Part 4 of The Great Global Warming Swindle, we learn about the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age of a few hundred years ago, and the correlation between solar activity and global temperature. Also demonstrated is the role the sun and cosmic radiation plays on cloud formation. We also begin a look at how the religion of anthropogenic global warming got started.

Christians United for Israel held a conference in Washington D.C. this week which drew more than 4,000 people, most of them Evangelicals. The event was a show of support for Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the crowd via live satellite.

Remember all the junk we found out about in the stimulus bill and the cap and trade global warming tax–after the fact? The Economic Policy Journal got a look at the proposed bill and cataloged dozens of bad ideas contained therein. This is a look at just 16 of the multitude of wasteful, freedom-robbing egregious provisions in the government health care bill.

Current government health care proposals could open wide the door for taxpayer funding for abortion. Even many Democrats are concerned about this and have told Speaker Pelosi they can’t support any health care proposal that doesn’t explicitly exclude abortion coverage.

Americans all over the country, in groups and individually, are standing up to challenge publicly those who would force socialism on our free nation. It is a wonderful sight to behold, seeing patriots defend their country and their freedom!

In Part 3 of The Global Warming Swindle we find that ice core data actually points to natural sources of climate change, and that temperature drives CO2 levels and not the other way around. We also find that solar activity drives global temperatures (imagine that?).

As we get more time to examine the monster 1,400+ page cap and trade global warming tax bill passed by the House recently, more and more government intrusions and taxpayer thefts come to light. Here are some of the latest.

AIDS is disproportionately transmitted through homosexual behavior in the United States, but AIDS activists have long claimed that it is primarily heterosexual in Africa. A new study published in The Lancet now finds that in many African countries, the homosexual AIDS transmission rate is 10x that of heterosexuals.

Last week it was reported that a staffer from Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill’s St. Louis office had flipped off some health care Tea party protesters. McCaskill says she has investigated and found that the flipper actually worked in an ad firm that works in the same building above her office.

Apparently there are a few people left in the United States who know what it means to be an American. Robert Broadus of Maryland took socialist Senator Ben Cardin to task for treating him like a serf. Are you an American of Robert Broadus’ caliber?

“Let Freedom Ring” has appealed to all 535 senators and congressmen to sign a pledge not to vote for a health care bill without having read it first. Yet only 73 have made that pledge, most of them Republicans. Since when is it too much to ask an elected representative of the people to read legislation before voting it into law imposed on the people?

Many in the medical community have sold out to the socialized medicine push in hopes of securing scraps from the table, but not the Mayo Clinic. The renowned hospital says “The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.”

A Christian doctor in England was removed from an adoption panel because she refused to endorse applications by gay couples. Men and women, she explains, bring different characteristics to parenting. But there is apparently no longer any room in our PC world to put children’s welfare first.

Part 2 of The Global Warming Swindle, a devastating rebuttal of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” propaganda. Highlights: The “Little Ice Age” two hundred years ago, warmer periods in earth’s past, incongruity of temperatures with human activity and CO2 production.

Videos of Dr. Don Van Etten on socialized health care at the Rapid City Independence Day Tea Party.

The simple “candy dish principles” can teach us that socialism is a flawed philosophy. Why do we kid ourselves that it can work for important things? Maybe because we aren’t the ones who keep the dish supplied, but are the ones who like to raid the candy dish?

Our government apparently thinks we’re so stupid that we need bureaucrats to tell us the difference between men and women. While this is highly insulting, has society given the government elites a valid reason to think we no longer know the difference?

This expertly produced film featuring a host of renowned scientists–including some from the IPCC–reveals the story of how a theory about climate turned into a political ideology. It shows that the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been re-made into a religion and a vehicle socialists use against development and progress. Watch it if you dare…

The South Dakota legislature is looking for a “painless” way to increase funding for the state’s highways and bridges. Is there a “painless” way to do that which doesn’t cause pain to the taxpayer and pain to the elected representative’s re-election chances? Don’t hold your breath.

Today’s culture–including the church–seems to have forgotten that we are to think the best of one another. Sometimes this belief can be misplaced, but that is the position from which we are to start and, short of compromise on clear moral issues, we shouldn’t allow minor differences to divide us.

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: an anti-American “Science Czar,” updates on President Obama’s birth certificate, a black red Green Czar, a study that rocks confidence in global warming models, a supreme court nominee who doesn’t see a right to self-defense, the institutional insanity that is socialized medicine, government extravagance on the taxpayer’s dime, the South Dakota smoking ban, euthanasia in the hands of strangers, and Congress living under the health care plan they create.