Several excerpts from the recent Perry v. Schwarzenegger Proposition 8 ruling reveal judicial activist attitudes that stand in contrast to all we know of parenting, family, child development and human sexuality. Judge Walker’s opinions are more reflective of “Brave New World” thinking than reality.

The fundamental and often overlooked problem with the modern public education system is its goal of supplanting the family as the principal influence and primary means for preparing the nation’s children to be “good citizens.” Where do we get this idea that upon age six (at the latest) we should send our children away for six to seven hours a day to be trained by others?

The reasons why the United States military should not be forced to condone homosexual behavior are many. They include issues with housing, military quarters, logistics, unit cohesion, sexual harassment, health considerations, as well as the undisciplined air that such liberal thinking brings on. An additional reason that is only beginning to receive attention is the threat to religious liberty–especially that of military chaplains–the embrace of homosexual behavior brings to the unique military culture.

There are three fundamental and unalienable rights, life, liberty, and property. These are the rights recognized and enshrined by our founders. These are the rights meant to stand as the guardians and facilitators of American society.

The announcement of the construction of a new gambling casino in Iowa just across the border from Sioux Falls has raised the hackles of a number of that city’s leaders. It has caused the problems of gambling addicts to again be seen across the state. The announcement also has caused suspicion of the membership in the South Dakota Council on Problem Gambling. The problem as some could see it are they the proverbial fox guarding the chicken coop door?

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Rep. Stark: Federal Govt Can Do Anything; Mayberry Defiled, and Obamacare Still Stinks; Defense of Marriage Continues Despite Judicial Activism; ObamaCare: Vehicle to Legitimize Homosexual Behavior to Youth; Coming Under ObamaCare: DIY Surgery; Looking Beyond Ideologies; Missouri Smacks Unconstitutional ObamaCare; About Islam: Three Things You Need to Know; and more!

The Sean Hannity Show on Fox News did a feature recently on the “pink elephants” of the Republican Party–Republican women who are making a splash in politics as they run for office in 2010. This segment includes, Nikki Haley, Sharon Angle, and South Dakota’s own Kristi Noem.

Black conservatives gathered at the National Press Club last week to explain the Tea Party movement to the “mainstream” media. “It’s a lack of understanding of what our founding documents are that has brought us to this point where we’re actually ready to give up our republic in exchange for a social democracy. And that is not what most of us want.” Wouldn’t it be nice if the NAACP, the Obama Administration and other liberals received the kind of adversarial questioning the “mainstream” media directed at these black conservatives?

“I Want Your Money” is coming this fall…just in time for the November election. The film contrasts two views of the role that the federal government should play in our daily lives using the words and actions of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Two versions of the American dream now stand in sharp contrast. One views the money you earned as yours and best allocated by you; the other believes that the elite in Washington know how to best allocate your wealth.

Most Americans, including me, are fairly unsophisticated when it comes to economics, as attested by the results of the last election. We are often gullible, falling for spurious assertions that the “experts agree” when confronted with another promise of happy days to come from another lying, self-serving politician. This little video explains simply an important economic fact that we all need to be aware of in this time of economic chaos.

Remember a year and a half ago when our leaders in Washington D.C. told us they had to spend about $1 trillion of our money on pork projects to prevent the economy from collapsing (due to the corruption and incompetence brought on by most of these same socialists)? A report has been compiled to catalog 100 maddening wastes of your money and mine. We know what to do in November, right?

If you’ve been following current events very closely for the past several years, you might be aware that Muslim “honor killings” are not just something that occurs in Middle Eastern countries. It happens right here in the United States. This is a video expose on one case in particular from Texas, and the practice in general. It’s something you need to know about.

I hate stooping to even mention this, but I am forced to shine the light of ridicule on a teacher’s union in Milwaukee that demands taxpayer-funded access to Viagra. Yes, the school district is strapped for funds. Yes, the education of children is (theoretically) important. Yes, many teachers may be laid off due to the woeful financial situation, but how dare the taxpayers fail to support our educators?

As modern innovation has changed the culture, children have gone from being mere products of economic necessity to the ultimate lifestyle accessories – features of the contemporary American “success story” not unlike the SUV and luxury automobile parked in the driveway. These amenities don’t come easy and they don’t come cheap, and often, the work and stress involved in maintaining them makes one wonder if they are more trouble than they are worth

The website for the project, the Cordoba Initiative, advertises itself as “Improving Muslim-West Relations”, and “steering the world back to the course of mutual recognition and respect and away from heightened tensions.” But if Feisel Abdul Rauf is primarily motivated to “reduce heightened tensions,” why would he do something as obviously provocative as building a Mosque and Islamic Center a few feet away from 9/11 Ground Zero?

A federal appellate court ruling declared Friday that federal regulations requiring individuals and groups to have permits in order to exercise their First Amendment rights in “free speech areas” and public forums at national parks and monuments are unconstitutional. In August 2007, were blocked from passing out gospel tracts near the entrance to Mt. Rushmore because they did not have two days to wait to obtain a permit to exercise their First Amendment rights.

As our socialist lords and masters in Washington D.C. become increasingly open about their true attitudes, the gulf between the American people and their “betters” has never been wider. A new poll finds just 9% of the serfs believe, as our rulers do, that the federal government should be able to do pretty much whatever it wants.

The outlook for Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s (D-SD) re-election chances continues to look dim (as it does for a historic number of incumbent Democrats). The latest poll shows her trailing her Republican opponent Kristi Noem by 9 points.

Wayne Allyn Root makes an argument in “The Conscience of a Libertarian” that to eliminate capital gains tax for people 55 and older would be able to retire on half the income, plus make room for more investment in the nation’s economic infrastructure. This would benefit senior citizens, allow us to move government farther out of people’s lives, and be an economic boost for the country.

Only in the liberal mind is paying people not to work a great economic stimulus and a job creator. Yet this is what Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tried to sell to the American people. PolitiZoid has a slightly different take on that “reality” however.

When you boil it down, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse points out that the essential public purpose of marriage is to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to one another. The ongoing war on marriage seeks to devalue it to nothing more than a “government registry of friendships.” Such a status has no distinction and no value–and children will be the biggest losers of all.

Several Republican Leaders of the South Dakota House of Representatives expressed their support today for the position taken by their legislative colleagues in Arizona on illegal immigration. “This is yet another example of the federal government trying to encroach upon the rights of the states”, stated House Majority Leader Bob Faehn R-Watertown.

The America-destroying insanity of the left continues unabated, as the Islamists and their sympathizers shamefully use our Constitution and Bill of Rights against us, and the wicked few in power facilitate their success in doing so. . Are those in power actually afraid of the Islamists? Is that what it is? Or is this more of a business deal with them?

Many of you have probably noticed already, but the Shad Olson Show on KIMM has moved ot 6:00 pm. He is also close to concluding negotiations to break into new markets that will drastically increase the coverage and exposure of the SOS Radio Network. Be sure to tune in to the most unique and hard-hitting radio show in western South Dakota.

The list of reasons why socialism and government charity programs is long and profound, with the lack of constitutional authority for such programs being perhaps the most important one for Americans concerned with the rule of law. But there are other reasons, including practical and fiscally responsible ones. A new report from the GOA provides a fresh example, finding that hundreds of federal employees are reaping millions in charitable taxpayer dollars they are not entitled to.