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If our society chooses to embrace the notion that the unborn only matter when they are wanted (and affordable), it is only a matter of time before we allow ourselves to be persuaded that the human rights of infants, the disabled, the elderly, the poor, the unproductive, or even the unemployed are similarly mutable. This way of looking at our fellow humans – no matter how cleverly disguised by the rhetoric of “rights” or “dignity” – is evidence of a poisonous and depraved state of mind. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve new standards for social studies classes. The 11-4 vote was a preliminary approval for a curriculum that will serve as the framework in Texas classrooms for the next 10 years. Texas has the second largest school system in the nation, behind California, and is the second-largest textbook market in the country. The Lone Star state can thus have influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide. Read more »

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on national currency. The pledge does not constitute an establishment of religion, Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “[T]he Pledge is an endorsement of our form of government, not of religion or any particular sect.” Read more »

Glenn Beck’s “Indoctrination in America” special last Friday is a sobering look into the modern excuse for “public education.” It reveals the host of radical socialist organizations that are meddling in American public education, and what they are teaching our children: to believe in global warming dogma, push radical environmentalism, parrot Marxist propaganda, and not listen to their feeble-minded parents. Read more »

“Nearly every important office in Washington is occupied by someone with an aggressive dislike for our heritage, our freedom, our history, and our Constitution.””Nearly every important office in Washington is occupied by someone with an aggressive dislike for our heritage, our freedom, our history, and our Constitution.” – Dick Armey Read more »

Wouldn’t it be nice if President Barack Obama would throw the American people a curve-ball and nominate someone for something, and that nominee would be a fine, upstanding person who loves America, the American way of life, our founding principles and our Constitution? Keep dreaming. President Obama’s nominee for judge of the 9th Circus (Circuit) Court of Appeals is nothing but another member of Obama’s “Dream Team” to tear down this great nation. Read more »

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed all claims against Shirley Dobson, the wife of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, in a lawsuit challenging the National Day of Prayer. Shirley Dobson is chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force and was among the names listed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in a lawsuit filed in October 2008. Read more »

The Sam Adams Alliance has done a study of the Tea Party movement. The study is called “The Early Adopters” and it examines why people got involved with the Tea Party movement, what they seek to accomplish, and some interesting dynamics about the people and politics of the phenomenon. Read more »

Bill Whittle takes us on a trip to examine some of the noble ideals that formed the foundation of our great nation. As Whittle explains, the U.S. Constitution is the “how” of our country while the Declaration of Independence is the “why” of our country. Read more »

Patriots, it’s time to dust off your Bibles and put your emphasis on the Word of God. Let us never forget that God established the greatest nation in the world. When we think of freedom, remember that it is The Almighty who has given us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What America needs is a change of heart that is faithful, true, and enduring. Read more »

External factors are only symptoms and not the causes of evil engineering. Uncivility in people, as well, is just a symptom of a deeper problem. The causes have to do with spiritual depravity and degeneration in those who turn away from God, and those who never seek to know Him in the first place. Read more »

It’s now over 40 years since the Civil Right movement — enough wandering in the wilderness. It’s time for a new generation of black Americans to step forward. A generation to turn to the truths that will rebuild black lives, black families, and lead blacks to the freedom that Dr. King and all blacks have dreamed about. Read more »

While we can and should disagree with the method of Joe Stack’s madness, Americans shouldn’t be too quick to discount the source of his frustrations. Clearly, Stack is neither a hero nor a martyr. Nor is he technically a terrorist. Rather, he is the end product of a system that pays little heed to the disaffected, discontent and voiceless. And while Stack may have been alone in the cockpit of that Piper Cherokee plane, he is not alone in his discontent and frustration. Read more »

There will probably never be another generation like the one that founded the United States. Grounded in a Biblical worldview and educated in history, this group of men had a handle on the noble possibilities of which humans are capable…and of the great evil we can sink to when we get sloppy.
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America once stood on the foundation of God’s Word. But that foundation is crumbling – even in the church – and being replaced by man’s word, observed one Christian apologist. Whatever we (America) once were, we are no longer. We have changed” Read more »

Conservative leaders have released an excellent statement today which articulates our loyalty to the founding principles of America–the principles that produced the greatest, most affluent, most tranquil and free nation in all of human history. It is called the Mount Vernon Statement. Read more »

Loving your country does not mean being satisfied with the status quo or the way government is being administered. Government invariably, possibly inevitably, oversteps its authority. Love of country, it must be emphasized, is always strengthened by both a knowledge of history and of the Constitution and, when need be, acting on that knowledge. Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Audi Green Police Ads Downright Offensive; Tebow Super Bowl Ad Epitomizes All That is Horrible; Obama’s Anti-Christian Faith-Based Appointee; How Dumb Does He Think We Are?; South Dakota Pastors Converge on State Capitol; Legitimizing Homosexual Behavior in Schools at the Federal Level; SCOTUS Eminent Domain Case: Rights Trampled for Nothing; and more! Read more »

The principles of the Founders are neither dead nor irrelevant; they are necessary if we are to preserve our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The seven principles of the American republic are: Unalienable rights, Ordered Liberty, Private Property, A Free Market Economy, Limited Government, The Rule of Law, and Personal Responsibility. Read 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. Read more »

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? Read more »