Today U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker ruled against marriage in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case over Proposition 8, California’s marriage protection amendment passed by a majority of Californians in 2008. This came despite the fact that homosexual activists and apologists made a weak case during the trial, supplying little more than emotional arguments and anti-moral contempt.

National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre’s affection for Democrat Harry Reid has made the two quite an item, and fears persist that the NRA itself may well endorse the Senate majority leader over Sharron Angle (herself a strong Second Amendment advocate). NRA contributions to Democrats are also increasing. Government power should not be worth so much money.

As England was under relentless assault from Nazi bombing raids 70 years ago, American culture and values are under assault from moral bombing raids that come from every quarter: media, education, entertainment, and more. America needs a Silent Moment as badly as Britain did then.

The South Dakota Republican Party today called on Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin to stop using the desperate tricks in the classic Washington, DC playbook for endangered incumbents. Here is a list of just a few of the tricks we have seen from Herseth Sandlin.

Voters in Missouri’s primary yesterday resoundingly smacked President Obama’s socialized health care initiative and made it clear they value freedom over bloated unconstitutional government handout programs. By a vote of 71% to 29% Missouri rejected ObamaCare. Between this and the lawsuit by the states which is moving forward, we are seeing a resurgence of freedom not felt in America for a long, long time. The socialists in Washington counted on America to be passive; they counted wrong.

Remember a couple of months ago when pro-abortion, pro-homosexual Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was talking about how she wants to put Jesus and the Word (the Bible) into public policy? A reporter asked her yesterday when Jesus would have received the “right to life” in his mother’s womb? Would Pelosi have approved if Mary had exercised her “choice” to kill the Messiah in her womb? Unfortunately, Pelosi refused to tell us.

Most people run from political vulnerabilities or allegations of misconduct, especially when they’re running for congress. Not retired LTC Allen West. What milqtoast liberals would probably condemn as inhuman torture, LTC West did to prevent attacks on his men–and he talks about it in his latest campaign ad.

You really needed another reason to know for sure that ObamaCare is bad news, didn’t you? As if the unconstitutionality of this government health care program and the fact that socialism flops every time it’s tried wasn’t enough, now we learn from LifeSiteNews that there is yet another Trojan Horse concealed inside the legislation: legitimizing homosexual behavior to youth.

Nancy Pelosi channels Yoda to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington D.C. “Drain the swamp we did, because this was a terrible place.”

Socialists in Washington D.C. want America to be like other nations. Because of that, we can get a glimpse of what’s in store for us if ObamaCare is allowed to stand. A news story out of Sweden provides visions of Do-It-Yourself surgery when ER wait times are long…and being reported to the police if you try to treat your own wounds.

In their ever-increasing attempts to deceive the public, the people in the Obama administration have now hijacked a piece of the heart of America, the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, and they’re using it as a tool to sell their lies. It stunned me to read that Andy Griffith is now on cable television shilling for the Democrat’s health care deform legislation.

Here is an appropriate video to follow-up Mr. Ellis’ post today about Fortney Stark’s candid proclamation that the Constitution is now superseded by the arbitrary will of the political elite. Having wrested control of America from the hands of the stupid and selfish masses who quaintly insist that they should have a voice in running this country, our rulers are prepared to lead us down a new path.

It’s rare that you will hear liberals speak their mind and let you really know how they see things. But every now and then one of them slips up in public and speaks truthfully. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) held a town hall meeting in Hayward, CA on July 24, 2010 and this video shows him providing a candid look inside the liberal mind: “The federal government, yes, can do most anything in this country.”

This video encourages people to look beyond the “mainstream” media for information about Islam (good advice for ANY subject) and encourages them to read the Quran for themselves. The video examines three things about Islam that most people don’t know…and the “mainstream” media is doing nothing to help. 1. Islam has not been hijacked; 2. Striving to institute worldwide Sharia Law is a religious duty; 3. Muslims are allowed to deceive non-Muslims if it advances Isalm (taqiyya)

America isn’t about unity. America is about freedom. But in order to be free, we’ve got to have a government that protects life, liberty, and property with the same zeal and clarity that our military protects our physical selves. How can we have a government that works when we have so many elected officials that don’t know what they are supposed to do?

The bursting of the housing bubble caused the economy to almost come to a halt. Listening to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel to “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” President Obama set about fixing everything that was broken, or was that breaking everything he thought needed fixing?

The South Dakota Federation of the AFL-CIO challenged the proposed Constitutional Amendment K on this November’s General Election ballot. The ballot issue went to the state’s Supreme Court that ruled it doesn’t sit as an editorial review board, thus preserving the right to a secret ballot in political elections and efforts to organize labor unions.

These are the top stories at Dakota Voice last week, including: Ground Zero Mosque Leader’s Wife is One Cold Soldier; Britain Moves to Decentralize Health Care as US Moves to Centralize; Liberal Environmentalist Pans Global Warming; Correcting Revisionism About America’s Founders; Study: Bush Tax Cut Expiration to Hit Americans hard; Facts Behind the Dismissal of Barb Lindberg from Citizens for Liberty; Theo-tainment versus Discipleship; Judicial Activism Enables Federal Govt To Ignore Responsibility; and more!

I must remind myself to look beyond the opposing ideologies and see the person—a person made in the image of God, a person for whom Christ died, a person who is in bondage to sin and that liar of liars, Satan. I confess that I do not always do this well and I sometimes err on the side of argumentation rather than love.