While the EPA continues to feed its insatiable appetite for power and new regulations, it is killing American jobs in the process. From its neglect in the cleanup efforts of the oil spill devastating the fishing industry in New Orleans, to its fight for a six-month moratorium to be placed on drilling in the Gulf, people are now without jobs and can no longer provide for their families.

A new study by the Rand Corporation finds the legalization of recreational marijuana use in California could sharply reduce prices for the drug…and the tax revenues touted by proponents of drug legalization. The study also found that consumption rates could go up 50-100%…or more. Do we really need more stoned people stoned more of the time?

President Barack Obama has made it clear he plans to appoint Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over the congressional recess, upsetting Democrats as well as Republicans. But with a nominee as controversial and pro-socialist as Berwick, that may be the only way to place his nominee without doing considerable damage to vulnerable Democrats this election year.

There is little in the world of liberalism that could be more hilarious than watching Leftists actually defend membership in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and attempt to rehabilitate the image of this rabidly racist organization. Yet that is exactly what Slate has attempted to do in the wake of the death of Democrat U.S. Senator and former Klansman Robert Byrd.

Amidst growing reports that Israel is working with other nations in the Middle East to prepare for a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Yousef al-Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States, says it would be worth it to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent them from achieving nuclear weapons.

“Senator Coburn, um…” That was all Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan could muster in response to what should have been a simple question from Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. He was asking of Kagan, “Do we have the power to tell people what they have to eat every day?” It’s actually a good question.

You’d think Democrats would have only to recite their accomplishments between now and November to assure a seamless continuation of their policies into 2011 and 2012. By making Speaker Pelosi the front-man in this campaign the November elections would be almost moot and victory a foregone conclusion.

As our federal government sues Arizona for the unimpeded right to ignore the law, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has a new report which indicates illegal immigration costs the United States $113 BILLION a year. It’s not that we cannot deal with this problem, but rather that we lack the will to deal with this problem.

Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is hosting House Majority Leader in Sioux Falls on Thursday to bolster her re-election bid. Leader Hoyer helped Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin strike a deal with Dr. Kevin Weiland, convincing him to end his House Democratic Primary challenge. South Dakotans deserve to know the answers to five questions during Leader Hoyer’s South Dakota visit.

While embryonic stem cell research results in the death of innocent human life in the harvesting of stem cells, adult stem cell research uses nonessential cells from an adult human being and does not have the same ethical problems as the controversial ESCR. And it’s becoming easier and easier to obtain adult stem cells, with scientists now announcing a way to use blood as a source for stem cells.

Stephen Wesolick, an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney, filed an appeal Tuesday on behalf of a South Dakota church challenging a decision issued by the Pennington County Board of Commissioners. The board voted last month to refuse to lift more than $17,000 in property taxes on land owned by the church even though the law exempts the church from such taxes.

Global warming enthusiasts want us to make draconian changes to our economy and sacrifice our freedom to avert what they claim is a coming global climate apocalypse due to human activity–and say we can’t wait until we have proof. But how have climate change predictions of the past worked out? As a newly released documents reveals, they were only off by a few thousand percent in their predictions.

Gallup has a new poll out which examines some of the top concerns for Tea Party patriots and Tea Party supporters. It also contrasts their concerns with Tea Party opponents as well as those who consider themselves neutral with regard to the Tea Party movement.

The First Amendment is a marvelous thing. It is what stands between us as citizens and an authoritarian regime. Unfortunately, caught up in our politically correct sensibilities, we have largely lost our appreciation for those rabble rousers who exercise their First Amendment rights. Nowhere is this more evident than in society’s increasing intolerance for religious freedom.

In an effort to elect candidates who will support and promote his liberal agenda, Barack Obama’s political machine is paying back and supporting Scott Heidepriem’s gubernatorial campaign. Obama’s political machine – Organizing for America – is promoting an election kick-off event for Heidepriem tonight in Sioux Falls.

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“[Obama] wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.” Who could have imagined this when Americans first walked on the Moon and explored the surface of Mars?

Words have meaning. He who steers the language has power over the mind of the culture. In the past several decades, the left has craftily and subtly introduced new words and phrasing into our culture. There are many examples, and you might call them examples of “political correctness.”

The state is nothing more than individuals bound together by the social contract which they have all either directly or indirectly agreed to. The state is not an individual. The state is not a separate entity with inherent rights of its own.

My children and I hiked up Harney Peak in the middle of the Black Hills today. I hadn’t been up there in 17 years, and my son and daughter have wanted to go up there for a long time. You can see the peak from most places around Rapid City and the Black Hills, so it’s been a source of curiosity for them for some time. What a view from 7,242 feet!

Randy Rasmussen at the Rapid City Journal had a great column today examining the recent controversy over Rapid City Pastor H. Wayne Williams’ endorsement of Republican candidate Gordon Howie for governor of South Dakota. Rasmussen expresses amazement that the 1954 tax code revision has remained unchallenged this long, and points out the hypocrisy of those who want to keep America’s voice of conscience out of the public debate.

Did you know that Jordan Mason, the newly-elected Rapid City councilman from Ward 4, is an evil, evil man? He dared to purchase campaign ads on electronic billboards all around Rapid City…angering the source of all truth, righteousness and wisdom in western South Dakota: the Rapid City Journal.

Murderers choose to take the life of an innocent human being. Yet frequently when they receive the death penalty for their crime, suddenly they begin to appreciate the value of human life. It’s odd how their perspective changes when their life hangs in the balance.

HISTORY TELLS US that the American Revolutionary War started April 19, 1775, and Independence Day followed on July 4, 1776. But it wasn’t until 1789 when our nation’s Constitution was established that, in effect, put our Declaration of Independence to work. Yes, there is a Bill of Rights Day on Dec. 15. On Sept. 25, 1789, Congress approved 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification, but it wasn’t until Dec. 15, 1791, when 10 of the 12 were ratified and Virginia ratified the Bill of rights.

The Left would have us believe the Founding Fathers were just a bunch of “rich old white guys,” seeking to demean their wisdom, their bravery and their risks in our modern eyes. It is a way of separating us from the ideals of our noble past, so that they can craft an illegitimate future for us. But as this reading from Bob Parks of Black and Right of a piece written by Rush Limbaugh’s father illustrates, they were far from a pampered bunch of elitists who paid no price for independence.

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Another Report of Israeli Preparations for Iran Strike; What Price Freedom?; Americas Black Founding Fathers, Part 2; Supreme Court Affirms Viewpoint Discrimination; Rep. Herseth Sandlins Husband Puts Himself in the Campaign Battle; EU Group: Belief in the Bible ‘Hate Speech’; Whitewashing Democrat White Supremacy; and more!