The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Global Warming & Healthcare Coverage Linked by Playground Activities; Rapid City Government Spiraling Out of Control; Keith Olbermann: Surrounded by Faces Like His Own; Textbook in India Features Beer-Drinking, Smoking Jesus; Global Warming Myth Buried Under Snowstorm of Hubris; World Trade Center Government Incompetence; Rep. Ryan Cuts Through Health Care Summit Fog; and more!

Citizens for Liberty, the Rapid City Tea Party group, hosted the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit today at the Best Western Ramkota in Rapid City. Tea Party and other limited groups from all over South Dakota came together to strategize on how to best promote limited government, to share ideas and develop better communication between groups. South Dakotans are joining thousands of other energized patriots across the country who are determined to return government to the control of the people, and return government to its constitutional boundaries.

On February 22, 2010, nine months after President Obama signed the legislation, new credit card rules designed to protect consumers from the unscrupulous and manipulative tactics of credit card companies went into effect. It didn’t take long, however, for consumer advocacy groups and others to point out that, in addition to making it more difficult for card companies to gouge their customers, the Credit CARD Act will make it a lot more difficult and a lot more expensive for everyday Americans to get, and keep, a credit card.

I have seen the new face of America, and it is troubling. According to an expansive study by the Pew Research Center, the Millennial generation is the so-called “new face of America.” This study raises some provocative questions about this up-and-coming generation and what it bodes for the future of our nation

Poor folks don’t need socialism or green jobs. They need green money. They’ll get more of it being free, going to school, getting married and going to work.

Apparently the Tea Party movement has spread from the United States where it was born a year ago to the United Kingdom. The universal human yearning is for freedom, and is obviously not confined to one nation or people.

In March of 2000, the UK Independent ran this headline, “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.” Fast forward ten years and the UK Express headline for 23 February blares, “UK Braced For Yet More Snow Storms.” God is not the author of confusion; Al Gore holds claim to that title.

Dr. James Dobson is saying his final farewell to the ministry he founded 33 years ago. His last day at Focus on the Family is Friday.

An open letter to Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) on the fiscal insanity in Washington D.C….and their complicity in it.

Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) cuts through all the double-talk and snowstorm of blather at President Obama’s health care summit.

You probably weren’t anyway, but in case you were waiting and hoping Rapid City Mayor Alan Hanks would veto the despicable council censure of Alderman Sam Kooiker, you can stop holding your breath.

The Rapid City Tea Party group Citizens for Liberty will host the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit tomorrow, Saturday February 27 at 6:30 pm at the Ramkota Best Western Rushmore Room in Rapid City. Come join patriots from across South Dakota at this historic, electrifying event.

New research shows that patients on anti-depressants are more likely to experience improvement if they believe in a “concerned God.” The study, released on Tuesday by Rush University Medical Center, found that patients with strong beliefs in a personal and concerned God were 75 percent more likely to get better with medical treatment for clinical depression that other patients.

Both a husband and wife who are clients of this insurance agency visited our office and each seemed so excited and upset that either of them could have had a heart attack or stroke right in our office.

External factors are only symptoms and not the causes of evil engineering. Uncivility in people, as well, is just a symptom of a deeper problem. The causes have to do with spiritual depravity and degeneration in those who turn away from God, and those who never seek to know Him in the first place.

It’s apparently obvious to the President and his handlers that people have seen through the hype and are mobilizing to excise them and their Progressive aberration from the body politic so they’re relying on their tried and true playbook, misdirect, mislead, mislabel and conquer.

Here we are, going on nine years after the 911 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and the effort to rebuild (and shake a defiant fist in the face of the evil dirtbags who destroyed them) has been stymied by the usual government bumbling.

President Obama’s support among born-again Christians has decreased after a year in office, a new survey shows. Among all born-again Christians, 35 percent are satisfied with the job the president is doing, according to a survey conducted by The Barna Group.

Something tells me Keith Olbermann has never been to a Tea Party!

A Christian legal group announced Saturday its intention to sue a Florida county school district in an attempt to restore the rights of faculty to pray. The decree bars school officials from “promoting, advancing, endorsing, participating in, or causing Prayers” and from “orally express[ing] personal religious beliefs to students during or in conjunction with instructional time or a School Event.”

An illustration of Jesus holding a can of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other has sparked outrage among India’s Christian community. What’s worse is that the image was published in a textbook for primary school children.

The mention of global warming nearly always takes me to thoughts of the healthcare issue being played out on the Washington, DC playground.  A playground that seems to have more than its fair share of bullies strutting around.  Bullies that seem to think we are simply to take their word for whatever the issue, but especially global warming [...]

The slow-motion circus that has become the Rapid City Council has been going on for several years. The censure of Alderman Sam Kooiker last week, and revelations of inaction over fraud at the city landfill, are only the latest installments of a government that is imploding.

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: America’s best-kept secret of 2009: Michael Savage and His Ban from Britain; Is Sarah Palin as Dumb as Diane Feinstein?; American Colleges: The Liberal Factory; Birth of the Tea Party Movement; Crow Indian Tea Party holds first rally; Rain, Snow or Shine, Global Warming is Fine…For an Excuse; and more!

Jim Allen, one of the eight American volunteers freed from jail in Haiti, said he believed the team had all the paperwork necessary to take Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.