“Let’s be honest, three years ago, Republicans in Congress didn’t just lose their majority, they lost their way. When I opposed No Child Left Behind, when I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill and when I opposed the Wall Street bailout, I knew that if we kept acting like big government liberals, the American people were eventually going to go with the professionals. And they did. Truth is, our party in Congress walked away from the principles that minted our national governing majority and the American people walked away from us.”

The South Dakota Family Policy Council’s 2010 voter guide is now available online and possibly coming to a church near you. The guide asked several questions of South Dakota state candidates and SD federal candidates. This article looks at the answers to 16 questions from South Dakota gubernatorial and legislative candidates.

I realize the liberals in our federal government had a lot of faith that the porkulus bill last year would stimulate the economy, but could it stimulate the dead? According to a new report, the Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people. The American people are entitled to better government than this.

That long train bringing bad news for socialists in Washington D.C. just keeps a-rollin’. The latest from Rasmussen shows Kristi Noem has regained the lead over Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD), and Sharon Angle has a 50%-46% lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

Four weeks. Four weeks until the American people can elect a new “bridge crew” to steer the ship of America away from the rocks looming so close. Four weeks until we can begin to stop the slide of our once-great economy into the socialist abyss. Four weeks until we can put a huge crop of these elitists out to pasture. Four weeks until the American people take back their government from the socialistic aristocrats. Four weeks.

Campbell’s Soup Company of Canada is going halal. In case you’re not familiar with the word halal, you need to know that it refers to food and other products, like cosmetics, personal care and clothing items that are produced or prepared in accordance with Islamic law. It is plain to see from those points that halal standards are incompatible with western civilization.

Did you know that according to the “wisdom” of some, your children should not have good role models? Yes, insisting on moral role models are unacceptable to some in our country. It is so unacceptable to some that they are brazen enough to criticize a United States senator for daring to say that people who openly live immoral lifestyles have no business acting as role models for our children.

The Hill reports President Barack Obama has been campaigning for Republicans, helping them increase their chances of regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Yes, it’s true! Find out more.

Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel, released a statement on the series of recent highly publicized suicides committed by allegedly “gay” identified teenagers. “Unfortunately – though not surprisingly – extremist ‘gay’ pressure groups, like the incongruously named ‘Human Rights Campaign,’ Ellen DeGeneres and other liberal activists are shamelessly exploiting these tragedies as a means to achieve their own selfish political ends.”

The latest from Politizoid. You have entered a dimension where everything is the opposite of what it is in the real world. You have entered…the Obama Zone.

It’s no wonder Democrats don’t want voters to know what party they belong to, and no wonder Democrats don’t want to be identified with the biggest policy achievement of their own party. Polls continue to show that the American people still cherish freedom over the nanny state. A majority of Republicans want ObamaCare repealed, a plurality of Independents do, and even a quarter of Democrats do.

The 111th Congress has a poor record not only on issues of fiscal responsibility and freedom, but on the values that preserve the moral fabric of our country. The Family Research Council has put together a voter guide for 2010 which looks at 16 important social issues on which the 111th Congress has voted. The guide examined votes on “hate crimes,” taxpayer-funded abortion, other pro-abortion measures, needle exchange programs, funding for Planned Parenthood, government health care, homosexual behavior in the military, and free speech.

The 2010 Christian Voter Conference is coming to Sioux Falls on Oct. 15 and Rapid City on Oct. 18. The presentation will include video segments from the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit held in Washington D.C. in September 2010.

Organizer Brenna Cherie McLeran reports there will be a Tea Party rally in Bismarck on October 16, 2010 from 1:00 – 2:30 PM at the North Dakota State Capitol. There will be special speakers, music, and fun things for all attendees to join in. They have a Facebook page where you can learn more. If you are anywhere remotely near Bismark, try to make it to the rally on October 16. Take a stand for your country; take a stand for OUR country. You won’t regret it!

A volunteer meeting for supporters of U.S. House of Representatives candidate Kristi Noem will be held Saturday October 9 at 10:45 am at 1525 Samco Road in Rapid City. If you’re ready to lend your aid to elect a real representative of South Dakota values, tell your friends and ALL OF YOU COME OUT SATURDAY!

A meet-and-greet with Kristi Noem will be held at the Johnson Siding Community Center on Friday, Oct. 8 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. There will be free chili and pie for dinner, so come on out!

You are cordially invited to join the RNC’s fire pelosi bus tour! The bus will be at the Pennington County GOP in Rapid City, South Dakota on Monday, Oct. 11 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

South Dakota Tea Party Alliance President, Shad Olson, announces today national conservative talk show host Glenn Beck will appear in Rapid City October 26th as the kick off event for the nationwide promotional tour for Beck’s latest book entitled, Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure. The event is being sponsored in conjunction with Big Horn Canyon Ministries, The Shad Olson Radio Show, Wilson Baird Communications and the South Dakota Tea Party Alliance.

This is one of those songs that captures the essence and mood of the patriotic Tea Party movement: “They had their hand on a Bible and a black powder rifle with a hunger for being free. And when the Redcoats came, them old boys took aim, sayin’ ‘Brother, don’t tread on me!”

Has the heart of academia been so wedded to progressive ideology for so long that even an existential threat to that which they have always held as sacrosanct, academic autonomy and integrity, is now thinkable under an extreme Leftist administration?

George Orwell’s terrifying futuristic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four was written many years ago, but we still see many references to this novel in our modern day. From the proliferation of GPS satellite surveillance technology to backscatter x-ray vans, our private lives are hardly private at all anymore.

I love it when conservatives go on the offensive! Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center is doing just that, striking back at the liberal bias of the “mainstream” media with trucks labeled “Tell the Truth!” which will circle several media headquarters offices eight hours a day.

Gallup’s latest polling of likely voters shows a double-digit gap between Republicans and Democrats, with Republicans leading by double-digits. If Republicans don’t get cocky or think they don’t need to vote, this election could be a total repudiation of the Democrats’ socialist agenda.

Democrats have been drinking lots of FAIL lately, haven’t they?  They fit right in with these clips from Jackass or whatever. From their non-tax hike elimination of a tax decrease, to their taking-over-not-socialism of companies, to the futility of reading bills before passing them, to the systems that work while failing miserably, and more…this, is America’s Democrat Party!

As RINOs usually do, de-throned RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is continuing to put her thirst for power above the good of the GOP…or the country. She lost the GOP primary, but now she wants to block Alaska broadcasters from airing Tea Party ads that help the GOP nominee Joe Miller.