Bob Ellis

I’m on a bus just pulling into Ft. Pierre right now with nearly 60 pastors from the Rapid City area.  We are going to be in the state capital of Pierre today talking with many of the South Dakota legislators today and praying for them and the legislation now before our state.  The trip is [...]

President Barack Obama appoints so many bad people to our government, it’s almost impossible to keep up with them all. Harry Knox was appointed early last year to the president’s Faith Based Initiatives board, but most of us are only recently beginning to hear about him. Like the vast majority of President Obama’s appointments, he is about as wrong a choice for the position in which he serves as you can get.

Audi’s Super Bowl “Green Police” ads are offensive to Americans who cherish their freedom, but they do provide a useful glimpse into the world environmental wackos and cap-and-trade-global-warming-tax advocates have in mind for us.

When you watch it, you will realize why the NAGs and all their pro-abortion allies were apoplectic over the thought of this ad playing on national television. Now that we see it in all it’s dark and ghastly glory, we average Americans can understand why abortionists were so determined to see it banned from the airwaves. How dare anyone have the call to show something so horrible amongst all the violence, scantily-clad women and beer commercials on this most sacred day!

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Team Obama Recruiting at Public Schools; Global Warming Boss Takes Chauffeured Ride 1 Mile to Work; Atheist Group Opposes Postage Stamp Honoring Mother Teresa; Star Wars Text Makes it to Earth; Canadian Premier Flees Government Health Care to United States; The Super Bowl Kerfuffle; South Dakota Resisting Govt Health Care With Three Bills in Legislature; and more!

Lech Walesa is the former president of Poland. Before that, he was a freedom fighter in the Cold War. Walesa has a reminder for America, and an admonition that we turn around before it is irrevocably too late.

Is it true that corporations don’t enjoy freedom and constitutional protection because they aren’t people? Or is this merely an excuse to oppose the rights of some organizations while favoring protection for others?

Liberals are wailing that former congressman Tom Tancredo is a racist, based on comments he made about the intellectual prowess of the body that elected Barack Obama. So is Tancredo really a racist…or are his critics only proving Tancredo right once again?

With the massive advance of socialism we’ve seen under our Marxist president in the last year, Gallup has come out with an interesting poll on how Americans view socialism. Overall, only about 1/3 (36%) have a favorable impression of socialism while 58% view it negatively.

For several months, CNS News has been doing the yeoman’s work (the work the “mainstream” media won’t do) of challenging our representatives on Capitol Hill about the constitutionality of socialized health care. Their efforts have revealed some pretty interesting, and pretty pathetic, responses.

When it was implied that Dr. Dale M. Rognlie had not signed the petition disagreeing with the theory of anthropogenic global warming because he died eight years ago, his wife Janice contacted the Petition Project for a copy of his signature. She has confirmed her husband’s signature as genuine, and hopes this will right a wrong done to the organizers of the petition

Government health care is so good that Canadian Premier Danny Williams is coming to the United States for heart surgery rather than have it done in his own country. And President Obama and his comrades want to force this kind of garbage on the American people?

The New York Times features a story on the remarks of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas concerning the recent SCOTUS decision restoring First Amendment rights to companies and groups. When you know the real history of who’s attacking freedom in America and why, you might be VERY surprised.

On the heels of losing the effort to repeal South Dakota’s ban on embryonic stem cell research in the state legislature, proponents are now considering taking the repeal to the ballot in November.

Today the South Dakota Senate voted 21-12 to stop SB 74, the bill to undermine South Dakota’s ban on embryonic stem cell research. Those who voted for the bill: Senators Dempster, Heidepriem, Knudson, Turbak Berry, Adelstein, Jerstad, Nelson, Vehle, Hundstad, Merchant, Nesselhuf, and Tieszen.

Currently there are several bills in the South Dakota legislature opposed to the current federal attempt to take over health care in America. These included SB 137, SCR 1 and HJR 1001. On Monday, SCR1 passed the state Senate 22-10, and now goes to the state House for consideration.

Doublethink is a word and concept made famous by George Orwell and his book on statist oppression 1984. It refers to the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s mind at the same time while accepting both. President Obama is a master of this feat.

SB 74 has been amended in a desperate effort to gain some access to the product of embryonic stem cell research, and a vote in the South Dakota Senate is expected Wed. Feb. 3. The bill no longer calls for an outright repeal of the ban on ESCR in South Dakota, but would allow treatments derived from ESCR elsewhere to be brought into South Dakota. The bill is still practically unnecessary and morally reprehensible.

Remember the “hate crimes” legislation the Democrat congress sneaked through cloaked in the defense bill last year? CNS News reports the Thomas More Law Center is challenging the Constitutionality of this unconstitutional legislation. Protecting immoral, dangerous behaviors from criticism, and quashing freedom of speech and freedom of religion under the auspices of protecting people is not the American way.

In the growing tradition of “Hitler videos,” someone has taken a clip from a Hitler movie and redone the subtitles. The first referenced Hitler’s fury over the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts, and the second was over GlacierGate.

Socialists in congress and in the White House may be intent on forcing government health care on the people of America, but the states are no longer the door mats our despotic federal government has become accustomed to. More than 2/3 of the states are moving to nullify government health care, and South Dakota is moving forward with three bills in the legislature to resist this.