Senator Max Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee has released a draft proposal on health care “reform” and it contains huge taxes for individuals who don’t play their health care game, huge incentives for employers to push people onto the government system, and taxpayer-funded abortion.

Liberals have tried to deny the massive impact of the cap and trade global warming tax already passed by the House and going to the Senate, but CBS News reports the Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers an extra $1,761 a year.

How can we reasonably estimate the size of the crowd at last Saturday’s D.C. Tea Party with no official tally and so much misinformation floating around? The Heritage Foundation has produced some good estimates based on other events and use of the D.C. Metro system.

The Christian Medical Association sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday notifying him that over 10,000 health care professionals and individuals have signed a petition calling for changes to be made to current health care bills in Congress. Signers of the Freedom2Care petition urged the president and Congress to protect conscience rights and to stop abortion mandates.

You know you’re on track when liberals think you’re doing a horrible job. So it is when a liberal blog points out that Senator John Thune votes with Republican values more than any other Republican in the Senate. What’s next: denigrating Thune for showing respecting the Constitution more than any other senator?

Liberals had the daylights scared out of them over last weekend, with one of the biggest protests in history in Washington D.C. So in their desperation to salvage their socialist agenda, they are playing the “race card” like a bad poker player who’s had too much to drink.

South Dakota GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Scott Munsterman commends the U.S. Constitution on Constitution Day, along with the values it is founded on and the values it engenders in American life.

What Obama and the liberals are suggesting is that we adapt the military triage system for civilian use not for winning battles but for reducing costs. In either case, it is necessary to set priorities and ration available services for purposes that benefit the collective, but not necessarily the individual; winning battles or saving money.

Is it really no big deal to have the federal government force you to spend your hard-earned dollars on a health insurance policy, whether you need or want it? Is it really just like the requirement for car owners to have car insurance? Not even close.

South Dakota GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Munsterman calls for the state to change from “business as usual” practices, and for the state to live realistically within its means.

The “sustainability” movement is everywhere. Sustainable education teaches redistribution of wealth and class envy and warfare. We need a uniting, not collectivization, of parents to take back the school boards and the classrooms from the teachers unions and the Department of Education.

Kanye West recently made an idiot of himself and ruined a woman’s moment as she received a music award. Now President Barack Obama has weighed in on the matter, and a staunch conservative finds himself agreeing with a liberal president.

This Gallup poll finds most Americans would advise their congressional representative to vote against government health care, and an overwhelming majority of them say how their representative votes will be a “major factor” in how the vote next year.

Despite the foolish attempt of socialists to make the world a fair place, the imperfect nature of our fallen world ensures such attempts will always fail, and artificial means to ignore that nature will usually make things much worse. In order to be “fair” to the majority, institutional systems of redistribution must determine where resources would be wasted and take draconian steps to stem that waste where possible. That means “stemming” care to those with the least practical value to the state: infants, the disabled, and the elderly.

Usually an American president gets a good–even if temporary–bounce in the polls out of a major speech. But according to an ABC-Washington Post poll, President Obama’s government health care speech only got him 2 points…within the margin of error.

This is a great song from a band called Due South called “We the People.”
The song has gone viral on the internet in the wake of Saturday’s 912 Tea Party in Washington D.C. The song definitely has the right attitude and the right words.

Reason.tv went to Saturday’s 912 Tea Party and found found out these people weren’t the freakazoids and obscene names the “mainstream” media calls them; just ordinary patriotic Americans who have had enough of seeing their Constitution trampled, their livelihoods wasted, and their freedom go down the drain.

There has been a growing awareness among the American people for the past 15-20 years of media bias toward liberalism. Many people have known about it for far longer than that, going back to the 1960s, but it has only become widely acknowledged since the rise of talk radio, the internet and other avenues of information.The lasted from Pew shows the number of Americans who see the media as biased has doubled in the last 25 years.

Barack Obama is lying. And there is no need to apologize for telling it like it is, as Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) did after he shouted “You lie!” as Obama spoke to the joint session of Congress on Wednesday. He’s a liar. Let us review a few of his “clarifications.”

Much like the colonists who dared to stand up to Great Britain in 1776, we too must confront the massive machinery of government. They brought about a revolution because of their courageous tenacity. Likewise, if we are to pull through these trying times with our freedoms intact, it will take the dedication of each and every one of us.

Soon to be a new reality series starring James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles and featuring those zany madcap ladies of ACORN; each week we’ll be taken to different locales across the country for sometimes heart breaking but always exciting episodes in which a young couple pursue their dream and seek help in establishing their own house of prostitution. You’ll be amazed at how adeptly the ACORN ladies clear away obstacles and leap hurdles in their eagerness to help the young entrepreneurs.

In 2007 Candidate Barack Obama promised ACORN that they would be called in, even before his inauguration, to help shape his administration’s policy. Let’s take a look at ACORN and what kind of advice they may be giving.

A mass email carried a message from President Obama after his address to Congress. He asked people to contact their representatives urging them to support his healthcare plan. Since the Democrats have the votes in both houses to pass any legislation they agree upon why does he need our help to convince anyone of anything? Was he speaking to the nation or was he trying to rally his Democrat troops to toe the line and pass his bill?

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: The Left Pulls Out the Stops to Fight Tea Party Express, Tea Party Express in Indiana, Washington D.C. Tea Party Express a HUGE Success!, President Obama Brazenly Lies to Congress, American People, Cass Sunstein Supports an Internet ‘Fairness’ Doctrine, Petition to Congress on Health Care Has Over 1 Million Signatures, Socialized Medicine Leaves Premature Baby to Die, Christianity and American Government and more.

There is much consternation over the state of marriage today. The institution itself has suffered serious social diminution—so much so that same-sex marriage appears inevitable. But the blame for this lies less with the culture at large than with the church in America. How so, you ask?