Capitol Visitor Center Mangles Constitution, Historical Perspective
CitizenLink’s latest Turn Signal video highlights the new U.S. Capitol Visitor Center (the one which will save Senator Harry Reid’s delicate nostrils) and some important areas in which the $621 million taxpayer-funded facility is deficient.
For instance, builders got the national motto wrong. They engraved “E Pluribus Unum” in marble, when it should have been [...] Read more »
RINO Piracy
From our friends at Americans for Limited Government.
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Thune Elected to Number 5 Senate Republican Spot
The Rapid City Journal reports Senator John Thune was elected by fellow Republicans to the Senate Republican Conference vice chairman, the #5 Republican spot in the U.S. Senate.
Not bad for a guy in his first term in the Senate.
Congratulations, Senator Thune!
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Seeds of Financial Crisis May Have Been Sown by Barney Frank
While apparently common knowledge in Washington for some time, the relationship between Barney Frank and Herb Moses was only brought to national attention last evening by Bill O’Reilly. The conflict of interest that is obvious in this relationship was treated as verboten because of the gay implications and the fact that the scandal involved [...] Read more »
Lien and Herseth Sandlin: Time to Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
As Sibby Online points out, the Chris Lien/Stephanie Herseth Sandlin debate at Dakotafest yesterday saw some agreement…and some important differences.
While both U.S. House of Representatives candidates said we need to do more drilling offshore, drill in ANWR, build more nuclear power plants, and build the proposed Hyperion refinery at Elk Point, the Argus Leader reports [...] Read more »
Polls Don’t Look Good For Dem-Controlled Congress
According to a new Gallup Poll publicized on NewsMax, only about 1/3 of voters say most members of congress deserve re-election.
Could this spell trouble for the Democrat-controlled congress?
In the 1994 and 2006 mid-term elections, just 38 percent of registered voters said they would back incumbents for Congress, which resulted in control of the House switching [...] Read more »
To the Gang of 10: Better, But Keep Trying
Fox News and others are reporting that the energy “Gang of 10″ which includes Senator John Thune have formulated an energy proposal to lower gas prices.
While I’m not totally happy with their plan, this group of Democrats and Republicans seem to have a slightly better understanding of the problem of high gas prices than Democrat [...] Read more »
A Return to Enumerated Powers
The Founders of the United States saw the danger of unrestrained government and worked very hard to limit the power and scope of government.
For instance, they divided the authority and responsibility of different functions of government into three main areas: executive, legislative and judicial. They established the doctrine of separation of powers, which meant that [...] Read more »
Tell Us What You Really Think, Nancy
Breitbart.com quotes Madame Pelosi today saying about the President,“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.”
With success upon success in Iraq and the Democrats owning the problems [...] Read more »
Record Low Congressional Approval Rating
Here’s one you probably haven’t seen from your “objective” “mainstream” media: via Human Events, Rasmussen reports polling data finds the congressional approval rating at a record low: 9%.
One reason for the low result: 72% of voters think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers, while 14% believe members are [...] Read more »
Now Marriage Protection Acts in Both Senate and House
About a month ago, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) introduced HJR 89, the Marriage Protection Amendment, to the U.S. House to define what people used to understand and take for granted: that marriage is between a man and a woman.
A Federal Marriage Amendment is of paramount importance given the recent decision by the California Supreme Court [...] Read more »
Earmarks: What are they and does South Dakota need some?
By Gordon Garnos
AT ISSUE: An earmark, as far as Congress is concerned, is a reserved amount of money for a specific purpose. The Associated Press, in cooperation with the national Managing Editors Association and various newspapers across the country, are participating in examining the latest batch of earmarks coming out of Washington to congressional constituencies. [...] Read more »
New Homosexual Caucus Formed in Congress
You have to hand it to homosexuals and their apologists: they really know how to mobilize and get things done. They really make a lot of pro-family folks look like a bunch of lazy, timid amateurs.
OneNewsNow reports the homosexual agenda has received even more open and bold support in Congress.
Democrats Barney Frank of [...] Read more »
Develop Oil Reserves Now
On Dakota Voice and other blogs and news sites, on Fox News and MSNBC I have noticed that when the subject of drilling for American oil comes up the Leftist spokesmen respond that the benefits of drilling at home will be too little too late.
As a recent example, Bill Dennison, responded to a Dakota [...] Read more »
Video: U.S. Senate Candidate Joel Dykstra on South Dakota’s Voice
South Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Joel Dykstra speaking at the Pennington County Lincoln Day Dinner speaking about maximizing South Dakota’s voice in the U.S. Senate.
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Blame Congress for Fuel Costs
In a post last week I pointed out that “Big Oil” has little to do with the high cost of gas at the pump, netting only about 9.4% profit on their investment overall, or approximately 37 cents out of the $4 per gallon many of us are now paying.
The Wall Steet Journal addressed the situation [...] Read more »
