Bob Ellis

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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 [...] Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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! Read more »

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) has received significant campaign contributions from Speaker of the House and San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi’s “PAC to the Future” Political Action Committee, to the tune of $35,000 over the past several elections. This is the same PAC Pelosi has used to pay her husband and his company $100,000. Read more »

The socialist apostles of a Leftist status quo are having such a hard time digging up any real racism in the Tea Party movement they so loathe, they’re actually launching a new website with an appeal to videographers and bloggers to help them come up with some “racism.” You know the agenda stinks when those promoting it have nothing up their sleeve except lies and deception. Read more »

Historian David Barton takes a group of pastors on a tour of the U.S. Capitol building, citing the rich Christian heritage of America, especially as seen right inside the center of American government. Secularists with an agenda have worked hard for decades to bury and erase America’s Christian heritage, but people like Barton are determined to help Americans reclaim this nearly-lost and important aspect of our history. Read more »

The third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday is coming on September 26, 2010. This nationwide event, also known as the Pulpit Initiative, is sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund to promote the religious freedom America’s pastors and churches enjoyed throughout our history until it was curtailed in 1954. The IRS is caught between a rock and a hard place in trying to enforce this unconstitutional tax code provision, and freedom will eventually win out. Read more »

Reps. Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy have a new book out called Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, and they have a video to promote it. South Dakota’s own GOP candidate Kristi Noem is among these young conservatives ready to return America to constitutional government. Read more »

As usual, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal provides great insight on the “what if” of whether we had taken the coward’s way out and allowed Saddam Hussein to continue defying U.S.-backed UN resolutions, firing on our our warplanes, funding terrorism, and working to reconstitute his WMD program. What do the lessons of the “unnecessary war” have to shed on the Iraq invasion? Read more »

Bret Hayworth at the Sioux City Journal indicates Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) got a little wild-eyed a couple of days ago when speaking to a group of about 15 people in North Sioux City on Monday. He says that in six years of covering her on the political beat, he’s never heard her “take any edge” on issues, but at this small gathering she got “revved up.” Read more »

I appreciate those rare instances when a liberal really just speaks their mind, throwing off all pretense and just letting us know what they really think. The man authorities believe to be James Jay Lee, 43, who took hostages while wearing explosives at the Discovery Channel building today in Silver Springs, Maryland has provided such a moment. Read more »

Sometimes simple truths can get lost in the details of an issue, especially when some are desperate to find any excuse to circumvent what is right and true. Sometimes an everyday illustration can demonstrate profound truths, as this one does about marriage. Read more »

Phoenix area community colleges are under fire by the lawless Obama Administration which insists that not only should the federal government refuse to do its job, the states and local authorities must also join them in refusing to enforce the law. This administration is hell-bent NOT to enforce the laws of our country. Read more »

It’s all started to unravel for High Priest Al Gore and his fellow earth worshipers in the last year. From Gore getting caught in his own lies and hypocrisy, to the hypocrisy of a host of environmentalists, to IPCC embarrassments, to ClimateGate. Now an independent study has found the IPCC playing fast and loose with facts to support a political agenda. Read more »

New information uncovered by CBS New York indicates the developer behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque fits right in with this project. He has a long rap sheet of violence and disorderly conduct, and conflicting financial information that makes him a good fit for any project designed to insult America. Read more »

This sounds like something out of the old communist Pravda, doesn’t it? One of the Obama Administration’s kommissars says there is too much “misinformation” going on out there in the provinces (translation: too much truth about their socialist health care plan has slipped out), putting their lordships in a bad light with the serfs. She proposes “reeducation” to remedy the problem. Read more »

I love those unguarded moments when liberals speak their heart without reserve and we get to see unvarnished liberalism. One such moment came this weekend when ultra-liberal “mainstream” newsman Bill Press squawked over Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial. Apparently Press thinks the Lincoln Memorial is too “sacred” to be talking about God and the need for our nation to once again rely on Divine Providence. Read more »