Yesterday Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said she thought President Obama deserved a “C” grade for his leadership. To make it worse, she indicated the reason the grade is not lower is due to his work on our economy. The Obama – Pelosi – Herseth Sandlin agenda is pushing our state and our nation off a fiscal cliff.

Pastor Terry Jones’ misguided and spiteful act in planning to burn the Quran on his own property continues to expose the astonishing hypocrisy–as well as the moral and intellectual bankruptcy–of the “mainstream” media.

We’ve seen a lot of judicial activism from our court system in the past year, and the latest example finds a federal judge declaring that the U.S. military should allow open homosexual behavior in the military. The judge not only attempts to legislate from the bench and take the Constitution in places it does not go, but also attacks military readiness and effectiveness.

As we head into the November elections, no book better informs voters about the foundation of their liberties than The Five Laws of Liberty. Author Scott Hyland believes “Freedom is the responsible pursuit and preservation of life and no other system of belief accomplishes this better than Christianity.” Endorsed by David Barton, President of Wallbuilders and including a foreword by Mathew Staver, Director of the Liberty Center for Law and Policy, this book has become the next revolutionary “shot heard around the world”.

Wouldn’t that be terrible if next year socialists in congress had to face not the usual wussified Republicans but a “Tea Party congress”? Wouldn’t it be an absolute horror if the socialists who remain in congress after November’s election had to face a fresh crop of senators and congressmen who, like the Tea Party movement, insisted on fiscal responsibility, limited government as prescribed by the U.S. Constitution, and adherence to the U.S. Constitution in all legislation?

The never-ending hypocrisy of the Left is once again displayed in this planned misguided Quran-burning. Those who insist Islamists be allowed to build a Ground Zero Victory Mosque where 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists also insist this pastor of a small church in Florida not burn a Quran he owns on property he owns. And when Bibles were burned by the U.S. government in Afghanistan, where was the outcry?

For those of us who daily try to make sense of President Barack Obama’s incomprehensible decisions, Dinesh D’Souza writing at Forbes has a helpful contribution to consider. Is he a Marxist, a proponent of the Cloward-Piven Strategy…or simply the inheritor of an anticolonialist philosophy he received from his Kenyan father?

Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Terry Lakin, an Army officer in his 18th year of service, decided to refuse deployment orders to Afghanistan and asked that he be given a court martial so that discovery of Obama’s documentation could be revealed, and LTC Lakin could determine whether or not Obama is the lawful Commander-in-Chief of the United States military. His defense was denied on the grounds it might prove “an embarrassment” to Obama.

The fun folks at Politizoid and RightChange have another look at the world of liberalism in Washington D.C., featuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Respect and value for the lives of the workers was a central theme of the labor union organizing movement. Respect and value for the lives of unborn babies should be another central theme of the labor union movement today.

I have mixed feelings on the related matter of a planned Quran-burning by a pastor in Florida. On one hand the act seems petty and unnecessarily vindictive, especially for a clergyman. On the other hand, it has already served to expose a shameful and even dangerous hypocritical double-standard on the part of pop culture and our leaders. Apparently, offending Christians and the loved ones of nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamic terrorists is to be celebrated and defended, the freedom of expression while burning private property on private property is to be roundly condemned.

The South Dakota Republican Party unveiled a new video today highlighting yet another aspect of the close relationship between Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The web video zeros in on a trip Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin took with Pelosi in 2007 to Greenland and Northern Europe to inspect the melting ice caps on the taxpayer dime.

Dems find a solution to their waning political power. They will simply do away with the Second Amendment and then do whatever they like with little fear that Tea Party groups and other patriots might have other thoughts. Big complicated words like “shall not be infringed” and “Congress shall make no law” will no longer vex them when they can invoke the greatest trump of all, the “commerce clause.”

Democrats are in a panic and are desperately trying to ratchet up the fear-mongering about the Tea Party to new and greater heights. Yet a new poll shows more than two-thirds of American voters agree with the core Tea Party agenda of fiscal responsibility and limited government.

The term “homosexual marriage” is an oxymoron, signifying something that is impossible. Marriage is the conjugal union of a man and a woman in sanctified commitment; two men or two women are biologically incapable of forming this conjugal union, for they lack one of the essential parts. Words mean things, and we cannot escape reality by attempting to redefine them.

Some rare color film taken after an air raid in London during World War II has been found, literally stored away for years in someone’s attic. Carolyn Keen’s grandfather was an air raid warden and filmed these scenes both as a training film and historical documentation. I used to spend hours and hours talking to [...]

Have you seen the latest internet sensation? It’s some Star Wars footage and creative lyrics set to the tune of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

The folks at Bighorn Canyon Ministries in Rapid City have launched a new blog which has the same name as their publication, On the Right Side. As the blog indicates, primary topics will include politics, the pulpit and the press.

Amidst plans here in the United States by Muslims to build a Ground Zero Victory Mosque on the site where Islamic terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans on 911, the tolerance and commitment to dialog by Muslims is being displayed overseas by Australian Muslim preacher Feiz Mohammad and his call for the beheading of a Dutch politician.

More good news for the American people=more bad news for Democrats. The latest from Rasmussen finds that on the generic congressional ballot, Republicans have a 12-point lead over Democrats–closely matching a recent Gallup poll which found a 10-point lead for Republicans.

On Labor Day, the day set aside in America to ostensibly celebrate labor, we are reminded me of what the labor movement has devolved into. Since the Left will be pulling all the stops out this election year in a desperate attempt to stop Americans from veering our nation back on course to constitutional government, it behooves us to remind ourselves of what they are really all about.

Back in May, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion occurred under suspicious circumstnaces. Now last Thursday another oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has exploded, a day after a federal judge in New Orleans refused the Obama administration’s demand that he throw out a lawsuit filed by a number of oil drilling companies against the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. I don’t believe in coincidences.

When you are bleeding to death the first thing you must do is stop the bleeding. When you are trapped in a hole the first thing you must do is stop digging. There are answers that encourage freedom and enhance liberty. There are answers that preserve our position and protect or independence.

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Thinking Christianly about Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero Mosque; Herseth Sandlin Chief of Staff Busted for DUI; Man’s Best Friend in Shariah’s Cruel Crosshairs; More Bad News for Democrats; Young Guns: Kristi Noem; Another Man Behind the Mosque Unmasked; British Press Smacks IPCC Over Junk Science, Hysteria; and more!

Islam is more than mere religion in the recently secularized Western sense—i.e., private beliefs that are largely irrelevant to public life. In contrast, Islam is an all-encompassing socio-political-religious ideology in which more radicalized Muslims emphasize jihad and the more troubling social/justice positions that to them are consistent with a faithful rendering of the Koran. When taken to these extremes, this interpretation of Islam promotes violence and conquest as legitimate means of faithful expression.