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U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny, who seems to be more sympathetic with murderers and other predators than with the public he is hired to protect, has been nominated by President Obama for an appeals court position. 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 »

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 »

Last weekend the San Francisco Chronicle “outed” Proposition 8 Judge Vaughn Walker as an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle. The revelation that Judge Walker apparently chooses to engage in homosexual conduct, if true, would explain much of his bizarre behavior throughout this trial. At every turn he’s displayed extreme bias in favor of his similarly situated homosexual activist plaintiffs. Read more »

Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel, released the following statement today on news that the San Francisco Chronicle has “outed” 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Vaughn Walker as an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle. Judge Walker has presided over California’s Proposition 8 case filed by homosexual extremists who seek to manufacture a constitutional “right” to so-called “same-sex marriage.” Read more »

The end result of the Kelo vs. New London should serve as a fresh warning to Americans that we must hold our government and government officials accountable for their oath of office. When we allow our government to trample the rights of some, we are all at risk. Read more »

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! Read more »

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? Read more »

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. Read more »

The final witness in the federal court battle over California’s voter-approved marriage definition finished giving his testimony Wednesday, but the closing arguments and the final ruling are still weeks away. On Feb. 26, Judge Vaughn Walker will call both sides to meet to arrange the dates for closing arguments to be delivered. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Live Free…Or Die;Attempt to Repeal SD Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban Involves More Deception; Climate Scientist Warns of ‘ClimateGate USA’; Amazon Conned: More Egg on the IPCC’s Face; Justice Alito: ‘Not True’ To Obama’s Anti-First Amendment Spin; Head of NASA’s Goddard Institute Supports End of Industrial Civilization; Christian Apologists: Gospel of Oprah is Bad Advice; South Dakota Joins the Firearms Freedom Movement; and more! Read more »

Wednesday’s testimony saw the cross-examination of marriage expert David Blankenhorn. Blankenhorn, a self-described liberal Democrat who usually advocates for homosexuals, nevertheless remains firm in his belief that marriage means one man and one woman. This man presents an exceptionally convincing case against redefining marriage. Read more »

Day 11, Tuesday, can be aptly described as an exercise in the pot calling the kettle black (or what’s good for the goose is somehow not good for the gander). The plaintiffs’ case, in some part, has hinged upon the premise that reasonable people reflect upon their viewpoints and sometimes change their opinions. Read more »

Matchmaking website eHarmony.com settled a class-action lawsuit Tuesday, agreeing to pay half a million dollars to gay, lesbian and bisexual Californians who were harmed by its decision not to offer same-sex matching services. Read more »

It didn’t take long for the liberals to get bent out of shape over Justice Samuel Alito’s head-shake and mouthed, “Not true” in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union statement that allowing the First Amendment to work will “open the floodgates for special interests–”special interests” like the free-market companies that have been muzzled for years at the expense of the Constitution. Read more »

As we moved into the third week of the trial, there was a sense that the winds were about to shift and, shortly before noon on the 10th day, the winds did change. After two weeks of emotional appeals, persecution of religious beliefs, and experts who were unraveled by the cross-examinations of the ProtectMarriage.com legal team, the plaintiffs moved to what I would call a “document dump.” Read more »

Defenders of California’s constitutional amendment on marriage presented their first witness Monday after the plaintiffs in the critical trial closed their case following two weeks of hearings. To start things off, lawyers defending Proposition 8 called to the stand Claremont McKenna College professor Dr. Kenneth Miller, who testified as an expert on American politics and California politics. Read more »

Friday marked the end of the second week of the latest assault on marriage in our country. With the attorneys for Gov. Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown literally sitting on the sidelines, the defense of marriage rests solely with Cooper & Kirk, the Alliance Defense Fund, and the entire ProtectMarriage.com legal team. Read more »

Thursday revealed a staggering amount of anti-Christian sentiments put forth in the plaintiffs’ case, in addition to their continued attack against the democratic process. Completing the cross-examination of Dr. Gary M. Segura, the professor of political science from Stanford, was the first order of the day. Read more »

Insider Online has some great analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overdue overturn of campaign finance law that has been quashing free speech for years. This involves the double-standard against regular companies over media companies, and concerning the protest that “companies aren’t people” and thus don’t enjoy free speech rights. Read more »

It’s been 37 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a woman has the constitutional right to have an abortion for any reason up until the “point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable,’” and this year’s observance is taking on a notably different tone. Read more »