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It’s called “Hot Air: The Movie” and it’s a campaign video from Carly Fiorina who is running against ultra-liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer from California. The video points out that in the 18 years Senator Boxer has been in Washington has accomplished little…little good, that is. Read more »

Steve Hildebrand of Sioux Falls, a former advisor of President Barack Obama, admits Democrats may just get slaughtered in the upcoming 2010 November elections: I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall” Read more »

Republican gubernatorial candidate Gordon Howie says last week’s plan from legislative leadership called for budget cuts, but this plan doesn’t actually cut the budget. Howie says it increases government spending. Read more »

There are a few points about the Tea Party Movement that people should know. First, this is not a top-down movement, fueled by charismatic personality and silky baritone oration. Second, tea partiers do not send leaders to Washington to achieve bipartisanship. Finally, tea partiers do not do nuance. Read more »

Get ready for the dodgeball playoffs during the congressional spring recess coming up on March 29. Word is out that liberals in congress will either try to pass unconstitutional government health care before the spring recess begins on March 29, or will try to avoid town hall meetings back home. Read more »

The Rapid City Journal is reporting that Malcom Chapman won’t be running for re-election on the Rapid City Council. Expect big, big changes on the Rapid City Council starting this year and in the next election. People have had it up to their eyeballs with arrogant waste of taxpayer dollars and elitism. And while the Tea Party movement has definitely been big on the national scene over the last year, Tea Parties are very active in local issues, as well. Read more »

This is a good ad by Sue Lowden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) Republican opponent in the election this year. As a mother, she takes him to task for his “one size fits all” approach to government health care, which experience has taught her doesn’t work with children, much less health care. She takes a strong stance against socialized medicine, giving voters a clear choice. 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 »

South Dakota state Senator Gordon Howie (R-Rapid City), who is also a candidate for South Dakota governor in 2010, has a new video out on his website at www.howie2010.com. Howie pledges to get government out of our business, to protect human life through all stages, defend Second Amendment rights, and ensure our state policies are built on a foundation of principle. Read more »

As Americans face the figurative and literal bankruptcy of socialist programs in our government, the time has come to rally behind real leadership–leadership that can move us out of the land of bondage to government and back into the promised land of freedom that America has traditionally been. And there is such a plan, if Americans are brave enough to reach out and demand their freedom back. 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 »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Global Warming & Healthcare Coverage Linked by Playground Activities; Rapid City Government Spiraling Out of Control; Keith Olbermann: Surrounded by Faces Like His Own; Textbook in India Features Beer-Drinking, Smoking Jesus; Global Warming Myth Buried Under Snowstorm of Hubris; World Trade Center Government Incompetence; Rep. Ryan Cuts Through Health Care Summit Fog; and more! Read more »

Citizens for Liberty, the Rapid City Tea Party group, hosted the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit today at the Best Western Ramkota in Rapid City. Tea Party and other limited groups from all over South Dakota came together to strategize on how to best promote limited government, to share ideas and develop better communication between groups. South Dakotans are joining thousands of other energized patriots across the country who are determined to return government to the control of the people, and return government to its constitutional boundaries. Read more »

The Rapid City Tea Party group Citizens for Liberty will host the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit tomorrow, Saturday February 27 at 6:30 pm at the Ramkota Best Western Rushmore Room in Rapid City. Come join patriots from across South Dakota at this historic, electrifying event. Read more »

Democratic candidate for Congress Woodrow Wilcox is urging Congress to reject “Obamacare”. Wilcox sent faxes and emails to key congressional leaders to persuade them to oppose President Obama’s version of health care reform legislation. Read more »

During lean times, average Americans usually cut back on extravagances. But today the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee took a pass on cutting back on out-of-state taxpayer-funded trips, voting down a bill to curtail this activity 8-4. 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 »

A strong majority of the American public has decided that it doesn’t want the kind of change President Obama is trying to shove down its throat, and no amount of rhetorical flourish is going to change its mind. America is looking for a very different kind of change–one they can actually believe in. Read more »

Here’s the rub: while Americans wander about oblivious in their brainwashed states, their “government of the people, by the people and for the people” is being taken away from them. The answer: get un-brainwashed. Learn your rights. Stand up for the founding principles. Make your voice and your vote count. Read more »

The resulting combination of big-government policies and self-righteous, reckless leadership will be the demise of progressive Democrats. They will be challenged at every turn by fiscal and social conservatives running for office. If they cannot learn how profoundly out of touch with America they are, they will go down. Read more »

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? Read more »