Here is how Obama got his 60 votes to push Obamacare through the Senate:
Here's a new maxim: Nothing good ever happens when the Congress is in session on a Saturday night.
As you know, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nev) cajoled, coerced, and co-opted Senators Mary Landrieu [...]
David Limbaugh points out another intolerant from teh secular left:
It seems the mainstream media's favorite pastime is to ridicule Sarah Palin. Of all the screeds I've read, I don't think any are snarkier than the Washington Post's Sally Quinn's "On Faith" blog post "Sarah Palin's 'rogue' Christianity."
Do we [...]
Looks like many of today's scientists are more political than factual:
Officials at a key global warming research center in the United Kingdom have authenticated a series of e-mails and other documents apparently taken from their computer system by a hacker, but they cannot explain what scientists in internal exchanges [...]
Cory Heidelberger will not accept the truth of Natural Law as applied to economics. Ilana Mercer presents it to argue on behalf of "property rights"...a natural right that Cory has a hard time understanding:
Going against the GOP grain, fleetingly, Dick Armey took on a former Clinton lackey named David [...]
Larry Elder makes a great point with a history lesson you will not get in the Progressive's government schools:
"The political risks of failure are pretty high."
A former congressional aide offered this ominous assessment following the House of Representatives' passage of "health-care reform." Warning to the Senate: President Obama [...]
Ann Coulter points out the silliness of the diversity nuts, and has a solution, if we still have a separation of powers in DC:
Among the worst aspects of America's "diversity" is that liberals' reaction to a heterogeneous population is to create a pecking order based on alleged victimhood – [...]
Because of hard economic times, the state government can no longer afford to increase economic activity by selling products made in South Dakota:
The Made In South Dakota Internet site is about to become window shopping only.
The Rounds administration is removing the shopping cart function.
When the [...]
The most anti of the anti-Americans has to be the ACLU:
Eric Holder called his decision to try the suspected plotters of 9/11 in New York City “the toughest decision I’ve had to make as attorney general.” It was unarguably the most controversial one. In my opinion, it was also [...]
Walter E. Williams also understands that both political parties favor big government:
Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being master of ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington, D.C., that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Founded in 1981, the [...]
The Pew Center has this interesting study:
South Dakota's state government might be in relatively better shape financially than most states throughout the nation, but a new national report indicates South Dakota is in worse shape than all but one of its neighbors.
The financial-health report distributed earlier this [...]
Using more expensive forms of energy will injure an economy. Such is the case with renewable fuels:
Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is has reduced its cellulosic ethanol production cost during the past year from $4.13 per gallon to $2.35 per gallon.
The Sioux Falls-based company plans [...]
Remember how Obama used his power and fear-mongering against Tea Party members? Now members of his communist movement are the ones allegedly guilty of violence:
Che Guevara supporters with a radical pro-amnesty coalition viciously attacked and bludgeoned tea party protesters at a Florida anti-illegal-immigration rally, including a 62-year-old man who [...]
So says Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson:
The source of the problem is democracy. Decades of so-called “progressive” thought have led us to abandon the limited-government, constitutional republic established by our founding fathers. In the name of putting more power into the hands of "the people," the government has arrogated sweeping [...]
Dennis Prager has noticed how Obama's actions over the last year have pused Indepndents to the right:
In half a year, there has been a 23 percent shift from Democrats to Republicans among independent voters. And nothing particularly bad had occurred – no further economic meltdown, no terrorist attack from [...]
The po0litical game of bragging about job creation seldom talks about teh jobs lost. Example...Big Stone 2. Cory Heidelberger and his big-government control freaks celebrate this:
Developers have announced that Big Stone II, a 1.6 billion dollar coal plant scheduled to go up near Milbank, South Dakota will not be [...]
When the weak say that we get more from the federal governemtn than what we pay in, we should subtract our cost of implementing the federal programs, such as the state Department of Education. That issue is brewing in regard to Porkulus:
South Dakota Auditor General Marty Guindon wants to [...]
Amazing how people fueled by the truth can stop evil:
A video explaining the dangers of a U.N. treaty proposal promoted by President Obama that critics say would lead to a world government has received more than 3.5 million views since WND broke the story on the ominous possibilities, [...]
A one-time skeptic of fiscal stimulus, [German chancellor] Ms Merkel plans what amounts to a third stimulus package worth about € 7 billion ($10.4 billion), starting on January 1st.
– The Economist, Oct. 31, 2009
The mainstream media is full of reports of economic recovery and an end [...]
Ellis Washington goes after two causes the allowed the Fort Hood massacre to happen:
The tragic murder of 14 people (I include the preborn baby) at Fort Hood last week by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was the first terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. This terrible act has brought [...]
Perhaps Cory Heidelberger will now understand how Obama plans to ban guns in America:
Gun rights supporters [...]
As usual the Progressive left gets exactly backwards. Their reaction to the Fort Hood terroist attack would be the same as banning aiplanes after the 911 terrorist attack. This also points out that Fort Hooed was one of teh Porgvressive left's fun-free zones:
Did you hear about the two handguns [...]
There are Progressives like Cory Heidelberger who hate big coprations. What they don't understand is that their big-government policies hurt small business. Robert Ringer explains:
Any civilized person dislikes the thought of minorities being oppressed, and I would argue that the most oppressed minority in the U.S. is the small-business [...]
Burt Prelutsky brings the truth:
When I hear voters suffering from buyer's remorse insist they didn't know what "hope and change" actually meant, I ask them what they thought he meant when Obama told Joe the Plumber that redistribution of wealth was a good thing. Then I smack them with [...]
Alan Keyes has a way with words:
We have now come to a decisive moment in the history of the United States. Some people, represented openly by the Obama faction, and covertly by their crypto-socialist fellow travelers in the leadership of the Republican Party, want to turn back the clock [...]
Barack Obama despises America.
When people who voted for Obama in 2008 -- including registered Democrats -- start speaking in normal conversational voices at dinner parties, neighborhood gatherings and PTA meetings that the over-inflated ego from Chicago has it "in for America," then it's clear most reasonable [...]
Joseph Farah points out Obama's anti American attitude toward Americans:
Remember when Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security was advising police officers all over the country to watch out for "right-wing extremists" sporting Ron Paul bumper stickers, waving the flag, declaring the Constitution, of all things, as the law of the [...]
This should not be suprising to the well informed:
Second Amendment advocates are expressing alarm that the most significant attack on gun rights across the United States in years soon could come in the form of a workplace "safety" regulation under President Obama's nominee to run the federal Occupational Safety [...]
So says Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of “punishing” Texas and being “hell-bent” on turning the United States into a socialist country.
Speaking at a luncheon for a Midland County Republican Women’s group, Perry said that “this is an administration [...]
I am putting Cory's Heidelberger's comment left on this morning's Dakota Rural Action post because the truth is important:
Dakota Rural Action fights for landowner rights against TransCanada. Jamie Horter grew up on a Bristol, SD, farm. Can you please get off the "everyone is the enemy!" jag? Dakota [...]
Ben Shapiro nails the truth about what really killed those soldiers at Fort Hood:
There's nothing more offensive to the memory of those who die while serving our country than using them as props for a nonassociated political cause. Yet that is precisely what both the Army and our president [...]
As I have been saying for a long time, the Republican versus Democrat feud is a distraction. Walter E. Williams explains how thet team up to grow government as they violate the Constitution:
At Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Oct. 29 press conference, a CNS News reporter asked, "Madam Speaker, where specifically [...]
Arthur Robinson makes the point that the far-left Obama presidency is waking people up to the truth:
Imagine that our physical and economic freedom were to return to that of our country's founding or even to move halfway back – far enough to allow a virtual explosion in human accomplishment [...]
The Argus Leader has a report on a South Dakotan going to Copenhagen where a treaty that will destroy America's Sovereignty will be offered up to the New World Order:
Jamie Horter is in love with the world - it's an infatuation on a molecular level, the adoration [...]
So we have a second communist radical leaving the White House:
White House communications director Anita Dunn, on whose comments about President Obama's "control" of the media WND reported, is slated to step down from her post at the end of the month, according to sources talking to the [...]
David Kupelian blames the Progressive left's secular PC agenda for what happened at Fort Hood:
Now imagine there's a religion, which we'll call "Religion X." Many adherents to "Religion X" live peaceful lives in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Whatever their religious doctrine is, they don't bother anybody.
But [...]
AARP is a far-left political machine and will benefit financially if the House helath care bill becomes law:
However, seniors have the option of joining Medicare Advantage plans, allowing them to use Medicare funds to purchase private insurance plans that offer extra benefits and lower copayments than the Original [...]
Two members of a Centers for Disease Control team that evaluated studies of sex education programs have raised alarms, reporting that the data actually conflicts with the agency's stated conclusion that comprehensive programs such as those emphasizing "safe sex" over abstinence are working.
Certainly playing football should not be considered a Constitutional right. So why should the taxpayers pay for it. In this case, "Pay to Play" makes perfect sense:
Instead of gearing up for playoffs and state championships, South Dakota athletes could become part of budget cuts that would eliminate such activities.
That [...]
Ted Baehr and Tom Snyder explain the importance of Christian morals to creating and protecting American freedom:
The lie that capitalism is evil promulgated by Michael Moore, teachers, professors, government officials and even some liberal clergy shows a terrible lack of knowledge and understanding as well as mendacity.
As Adam Smith pointed [...]
Hermain Cain blows the cover off of Obama's propganda:
There's an old saying about a glass being half empty or half full. The optimist will view it as half full, while the pessimist will say it is half empty.
But when the glass is nearly empty and it's called "nearly [...]
Vox Day explains how the wheels fell off and how the Fort Hood terroist attack plays into the Cultural Marxist diversity agenda:
But, as both history and scientific studies have reliably demonstrated, social relations between majorities and minorities are largely dependent upon the existence of a strong majority culture. Most [...]
Mark Steyn understands that the far-left diversity nuts are not allowing us to analysis the ideology of our enemy:
But we’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives a man to fly into a building or self-detonate on the subway, and thus we have a hole at the heart of [...]
This KSFY report shows that the political environment in America toady is about money and power:
Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was one of 39 Democrats who voted against a Democratic-written health care bill in the House yesterday. It was one of a series of votes that have put her [...]
Joseph Farah uses the terrorist attack at Fort Hood to condemn the media for not warning America about the Muslim Mafia:
Are you sick to your stomach about the way the media have soft-pedaled the latest Islamic terrorist attack at Fort Hood?
Do you share my disbelief at the way [...]
This is how the Progressive Movement indoctrinates our legislators:
State Sen. Sandy Jerstad, D-Sioux Falls, has been selected to attend the Legislative Leadership Institute on Child Development Research and Policy.
It will be held Nov. 9-11 in St. Paul.
The institute is sponsored by the Council of State Governments Midwestern Office and [...]
This leaves no doubt that Obama cannot handle being the Commander in Chief:
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly shouted the familiar Islamic phrase asserting the supremacy of Allah, "Allahu Akbar," before he killed at least 13 fellow soldiers and wounded 28 at Fort Hood in Texas, according to the base [...]
I have been pointing out that the so-called moderate Repubicans to be the same as the Progressives who are running the Democrat Party. I have also been saying that the GOP leadership want conservative to be voters, but not part of the party leadership. Allen Keyes has support for [...]
Burt Prelutsky wants the socialists to be exposed for what they are:
For some peculiar reason, America's left-wingers object to being called socialists. In fact, we have only one member of Congress, Vermont's Bernie Sanders, who has the gumption to admit he is one. Still, so far as I can [...]
Will Senator Tim Johnson side with the partisan tyranny, or will he stand up for rural South Dakota by pulling a Baucus:
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved climate change legislation Thursday with no Republicans voting for the bill or even participating in the process.
With Republican boycotting [...]
