The gargantuan Senate Finance Committe’s “Baucus Bill”, or S. 1796, has been posted online, coming in at a whopping 1,502 pages. What would the founders say about such a voluminous and complicated attempt at law? We don’t have to guess.

One of the key lessons about Marxism from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was that the rulers will always be “more equal” in such systems. We see that played out in every Marxist country in the world throughout history. And a new report from Great Britain shows it’s still happening: government health care system staff get private health care at taxpayer expense so they can jump to the head of the line around the UK’s infamous waiting lists.

While it’s pretty mind-boggling that our president and congress would want to jeopardize the health insurance of the 84% of Americans who have no crisis, it’s even worse than that.

What began a few weeks ago as an alleged effort to “strengthen” South Dakota’s ban on human cloning has now started to come out into the open about its real purpose: to undermine South Dakota’s ban on embryonic stem cell research.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders finally gained entry to Great Britain after being turned away as a “security” risk in February. Wilders is one of the few voices in Europe unapologetically sounding the warning about the Islamization of Western nations and the threat to freedom this poses.

Today, with our economy on the ropes mired in wars we refuse to win, with our industry exported or government-owned, people ask “Who won what?” The Soviets also said our own grandchildren would raise the red flag from the White House. They may not have raised a flag but the place is now filled with Marxist advisors and a media-made messiah president who listens to them.

Lord Monckton: “If the environmental left were really serious about saving the planet from a huge CO2 footprint (which I will show doesn’t matter at all) then the first thing they would do is pursue policies that would not, as the extinction of five sixths of your economy would do, make you poor. They would be trying to make everybody rich.”

These are 18 of the top videos of protests around the country over the “mainstream” media’s biased coverage for big government and against Americans who want a return to constitutional government.

So is it easy to despair? Sure. Is there reason to hope that anything will change? Can the tide of immorality, paganism, and general debauchery that threatens to swamp us even be arrested, much less reversed? Can the moral character of the nation—once rooted in a vigorous Christian faith—be recovered?

An estimated one million people participated in a rally in Madrid Saturday to protest a proposed new law that would expand permission for abortion. While abortion is currently only allowed in the cases of rape, fetal abnormality, or when the mother’s physical or mental health is at risk, socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has proposed a law allowing abortion for any reason during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

The new film, “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” premiers today. The documentary is to dispel the hysteria and hot air fostered by Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth. Citizens for Liberty will be having a public showing of the film at the Elks Theater in Rapid City on October 28 at 6:30 pm.

These are the best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: White House Communications Dir. Anita Dunn Praises Communist Mao; Taking Action Against Anthropogenic Global Warming; The Sacking of Rush Limbaugh; Nationwide Push to Overturn State Bans on Embryonic Stem Cell Destruction; History: Much Warmer in the Past Without Human Activity to Blame; Adult Stem Cells Used to Regrow Boy’s Cheekbones; Obama Tries to Thwart Border Control in Arizona; and more!

Just a few days ago, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a speech about the UN Climate Change Treaty at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. The UN Climate Change Treaty is a treaty that most world governments–including the US–are expected to sign in Copenhagen next month…and it is a great threat to our sovereignty.

Yesterday, Bo Snerdley, Rush Limbaugh’s call screener, the Official Obama Criticizer for the EIB Network, wanted to interject his analysis on the recent controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams football team, and the storm of lies hurled against Limbaugh which falsely claimed Limbaugh was a racist.

True to his promise to bring about “change,” Mr. Obama is aggressively pursuing a comprehensive policy of social engineering designed to do just that. And he is using America’s schools as an instrument to produce that change

Al Sharpton blocked Limbaugh like Governor Orval Faubus tried to block black children from entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. We see today that if Al Sharpton does not like a man, and he pulls circumstantial evidence to claim he is a racist, he can get that man’s rights to freely operate and do business in our society abrogated.

The Heritage Foundation has an analysis of how Obamacare would hit federalism and state’s rights hard. Congress’ plans would essentially make the states mere administrative arms of federal policy.

Glenn Beck has become a media phenomenon. The radio DJ-turned-television host has attracted a remarkable following, resulting in a popular radio show, three New York Times best-selling books and a television program that has made him the object of scorn and praise alike. Welcome to the “fear chamber” or “doom room.”

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

Scientific American reports doctors in Cincinnati have replaced a boy’s missing cheekbones using stem cells from fat tissue from his own body. That puts the successful adult stem cell therapies somewhere between 70 and 80, while there has yet to be a single success from the human life-destroying embryonic stem cell research.

Human Events reports the socialists in congress have gone to Defcon 1, with the missiles fueled and ready to go “nuclear” on their plan to push socialized health care on America.

The ban on Bible verse banners at a Georgia high school’s football games was upheld by the Catoosa County Board of Education Tuesday night. Board Chairman Don Dycus said the resolution they adopted earlier this month that the signs violated the First Amendment still stands.

Today Glenn Beck showed video of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising the Chinese communist thug Mao Tse Tung, credited with ending freedom in China and killing somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 million of his own people.

A federal judge rejected on Wednesday a request to throw out a lawsuit challenging Proposition 8, California’s amendment banning same-sex marriage. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled to allow the case to move forward, saying significant questions remain about whether the measure violates the fundamental rights of gays and lesbians.

The case of a former kindergarten student whose art project with Jesus was censored by his New York school will be heard in an appeals court Friday. Antonio Peck, the student, had drawn a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world,” for an art project that had to show understanding about the environment. Antonio meant to express his belief that God is the only way to save the environment, according to his legal representative Liberty Counsel.