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Tea Party groups in New Jersey have been trying to recall Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for his support of unconstitutional efforts to implement government health care, but they have been blocked by state officials who have ruled that the state constitution–which allows for recalls of officials–is unconstitutional. (Yes, you heard right.) But now an appeals court has ruled in favor of the citizens of New Jersey that the state must accept a recall petition. Read more »

Lemmon, South Dakota has scheduled their first Tea Party event. The event will be at 1:00 pm on Saturday, May 1, featuring a special speaker on the Constitution who will hold a Q & A session, and all South Dakota gubernatorial candidates have been invited; two have accepted the invitation so far. Tell your friends that the Tea Party movement is coming to Lemmon, South Dakota! Read more »

The new “Coffee Party” movement–if you can call the tiny, sputtering gatherings by these liberals a “movement”–wants people to believe it is a “civil” alternative to the Tea Party movement, and that they want limited government, too. But when you take the lid off the cup, you find that they don’t want less government, they just want less input from the people into our government. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Global Warming in Historical Perspective; Obama and NOAA may soon abolish recreational fishing; State’s Rights Can Live Again; Climate Confusion at the National Association of Evangelicals; Tea Party Danger: Mediocrity; Public Education: The Indoctrination Factory; Open wide: Dems plan to ram it down whole; and more! 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 »

Common threads of the tea party platform among all the groups are the concepts of fiscal responsibility, limited government, lower taxation, and national sovereignty, and these are quite important. But, when it comes to “social issues” like abortion and homosexual “rights,” some tea party leaders tend to shy away. Read more »

These are the best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Legalize Marijuana? That’s Crazy!; Al Gore: King of Lie-Lie Land; Lord Monckton to Al Gore: I’m Coming for You; Global Warming Hysteria: Following the Green Money; Global Warming Fanatics Shoot Children, Themselves in Attempt to Save Earth; Kopp vs. Zimmerman: Science Versus Hysteria; MSNBC meltdown: Tea Party racists, anti-semite murderers; and more! Read more »

The current Obama administration budget projects a doubling of our national debt to $18.5 trillion by 2020, or about 100 percent of our GDP. Harvard economist Martin Feldstein estimates interest alone will cost $800 billion a year. It’s time to stop lying to ourselves. We’re losing our freedom and our nation. We need to slam on the brakes before it’s too late. 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 »

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 »

From Tea Party Express:
In an interview with the Tea Party Express’s Mark Williams, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan yelled, screamed, walked off his own set, and alleged that tea partiers carry signs calling for the death of blacks and Jews. And as the veins were bursting in his head he then demanded that Mark Williams’ microphone be cut off so he could be heard. 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 »

Apparently the Tea Party movement has spread from the United States where it was born a year ago to the United Kingdom. The universal human yearning is for freedom, and is obviously not confined to one nation or people. 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 »

Something tells me Keith Olbermann has never been to a Tea Party! Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: America’s best-kept secret of 2009: Michael Savage and His Ban from Britain; Is Sarah Palin as Dumb as Diane Feinstein?; American Colleges: The Liberal Factory; Birth of the Tea Party Movement; Crow Indian Tea Party holds first rally; Rain, Snow or Shine, Global Warming is Fine…For an Excuse; and more! Read more »