Though the August recess is over, the American people are no less fed up with socialist takeovers of health care and trampling of our Constitution than they were back then. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) had a bumpy town hall meeting recently that showed the American people are still outraged.

Leaders in the U.S. House plan to slip the hate crimes bill into the 2010 Defense Authorization bill that could be voted on as early as Thursday, a conservative public policy organization warned. In a move similar to the Senate, the House leadership reportedly wants to add the difficult-to-pass amendment to the high priority defense budget, according to Family Research Council.

What do you think 44 tons of rotting, liquefied meat would smell like in the downtown area of your town? In Bridgewater, South Dakota, residents got to find out…the hard way.

Only 18 percent of white Protestant evangelicals support the current health care bills in Congress, a new report indicates. The figure is sharply down from March when 48 percent of white evangelicals expressed support for the idea of extending health insurance to every citizen, reported The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Lt. Governor Dennis Daugaard, who declared his candidacy for the GOP nomination for governor of South Dakota Monday, has responded to a Dakota Voice questionnaire sent to all GOP gubernatorial candidates on the issues facing our state.

As with so many appointments by President Barack Obama, the bad news on Education Department appointee Kevin Jennings keeps coming. Now we learn that he advocates teaching kindergartners that homosexual behavior is normal and healthy, and that children are “being aggressively recruited to become heterosexual in this country.”

A senior aid to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) says Reid will “likely” hid the senate’s socialized health care bill inside an unrelated bill that already passed the House in order to force it on the American people.

Obama’s inner-circle is shaping-up like the bar scene from Star Wars. It’s a swollen throng of unaccountable czars and policy advisors comprised of some of the most bizarre fringe leftists imaginable. As mom always said, you’re known by the company you keep and Obama keeps some downright creepy company.

Sarah Palin remains the brightest star on the GOP roster, but another figure has emerged to galvanize America’s conservative base. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, 53, was elected in 2006 in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, which includes the suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul, not the friendliest territory for a pro-life, pro-drilling, anti-tax increase critic of President Obama’s “economic Marxism.”

In his September 9 speech to Congress, Obama criticized private insurance companies for not covering certain things. Obama is ignorant of the fact that the federal Medicare system won’t cover certain things, either.

When the government pays 4x too much for a wheelchair, 12x too much for an oxygen concentrator, and overpays on many other medical supplies, expanding government health care even more as President Obama wants will be a huge ripoff for the American taxpayer.

Part of the discussion in the TEA Party movement has been centered on how to deal with people whose playbook is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Some think the answer is to throw Alinsky’s and ACORN’s tactics right back at them. There is only one real way to deal with a bully, either on the playground or in the government.

A homosexual couple ‘married’ in Massachusetts now want a divorce in Texas, where such unions are not recognized. Says Austin R. Nimocks with the Alliance Defense Fund: “The government cannot consider issuing a ‘divorce’ for a ‘marriage’ it doesn’t recognize.”

Either you’re working to make life better, you’re reaping where you haven’t sown or you’re planting weeds in the neighbor’s garden. Believing in volunteerism and trying to help make my local community a place where neighbors know each other, a place where people gather to share common experiences and where good clean fun is part of life, recently I devoted many hours to what I will call my local MegaFest.

If your heroes are villains, or if your heroes have heroes who are villains, you have a problem, right? What do we make of a highly-placed education official whose hero advocates homosexual pedophilia?

Eighty-three churches from 30 states and the District of Columbia participated in the Alliance Defense Fund’s second annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Sept. 27. Pastors at those churches preached biblically-based sermons about the positions of electoral candidates and current government officials.

Religion and religious expression have been objects of censorship in the public schools for quite some time. However, the intolerance of anything related to religion has taken a turn for the absurd in recent years. It makes no difference that the material in question does not proselytize, or that it was presented to people who by and large do not know that it was religious, or even that it is not meant to be religious. What matters is what school officials consider to be religious.

Dakota Voice has sent a list of issues-oriented questions to all declared GOP candidates for South Dakota governor. The first one to respond to these questions was Scott Munsterman, chiropractor and former mayor of Brookings, South Dakota.

The efforts of a transsexual man seeking ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been documented on film, which is set to release next year. “Thy Will Be Done: A Transsexual Woman’s Journey Through Family and Faith” follows Sara Herwig, who transitioned from male to female and is seeking to “fulfill God’s call.”

This month cities, schools and faith-based groups across the country are drawing attention to domestic violence, which some are calling a pandemic. Violence in the home affects millions of women and children, including those in the church, yet some say the pulpits remain silent on the issue.

Robert says that he first became aware of his “disability” at age 10.  It became a disability “that would rule [his] life.”  It robbed the enthusiasm of his youth and kept him from enjoying relationships, male and female, during that time of life when he should have been playing sports, interacting with peers in common [...]

Liberals just don’t seem to grasp (or claim they don’t grasp) why average Americans recoil from these many worshipful videos–especially of children–singing praises to The One, the Obamessiah. This walk down history lane should help.

These are the best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Whoopi Goldberg: Apologist for Rape; Susan from Glendale Unloads on Rush Limbaugh Show; Big Bird Asks for the Birth Certificate; Missouri ‘Judge’ Lets Admitted Child Molester off with Probation; Global Warming Profiteers Exposed: AGW Is Not and Never Was a Crisis; America Goes Red for Communist China; Obama Education Appointee: The Fox Guarding the Hen House; and more.

Support for abortion is slipping among most demographic and political groups, a new poll revealed this week. In 2007 and 2008, pro-choice Americans clearly outnumbered pro-lifers 54 percent to 40 percent, but not anymore.

After an eight-year court battle, two Christian fertility doctors who refused to inseminate a lesbian woman have privately settled their case for an undisclosed amount of money.