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Gov. Daugaard Appoints David Anderson to Vacant District 16 House Seat

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South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that he will appoint David L. Anderson to the vacant seat in the State House of Representatives, representing District 16. Anderson will succeed Rep. Patty Miller, who resigned earlier this year.

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Supporting Working Families

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Families across South Dakota, including mine, spend evenings planning out who’s doing what chores, who’s taking who to school, to practice, or to church youth group the following day. There’s a lot of coordination that goes into organizing and managing a family schedule and this only increases when parents have to juggle work commitments on top of family responsibilities. I believe working families should have additional flexibility in order to spend quality time with their children, spouses, or elderly parents.

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Gov. Daugaard Appoints Robert Gusinsky as Seventh Circuit Judge

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South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that he will appoint Robert Gusinsky of Rapid City as a circuit judge in South Dakota’s Seventh Judicial Circuit. Gusinsky will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Mary Thorstenson. The Seventh Circuit includes Custer, Fall River, Pennington and Shannon counties.

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Senator Thune Condemns IRS Tea Party Harassment

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U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today reacted to the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) admission that it inappropriately targeted conservative political groups for additional screening and scrutiny.

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Senator Thune Statement on ObamaCare

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U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today released a statement ahead of President Obama’s health care speech to women later this afternoon.

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Mike Rounds Not Very Open About His Official Activities

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South Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rounds is hiding his official actions behind some pretty closed-door regulations that allow government officials in South Dakota to keep their official records hidden from public view. This is really typical of the way the RINOs operate (which is pretty much lie liberals operate). They don't like the people they serve knowing what they're doing--especially when it might expose liberal actions that the people they serve probably wouldn't like if they knew about them.

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SD Medicaid Task Force to Meet in Rapid City

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Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s Medicaid Opportunities and Challenges Task Force will hold its next meeting in Rapid City, South Dakota, next week. There will be an opportunity for public testimony on Monday, May 13, from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Additional information about the Medicaid Opportunities and Challenges Task Force can be found at sd.gov/medicaidtaskforce

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Scientific Law and the Origin of Life

Bob Ellis

What do you have when you have a theory that is contradicted by observed scientific law? For one thing, you don't have much in the way of a viable scientific law.

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Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave

Victor Sharpe

Those words written in the early years of the 19th century by Sir Walter Scott referred to his story of a love triangle with all of the intrigue that ensued. But it could equally represent the corruption and deception rife within the Obama Administration, within the State Department, in the IRS and among far too many of the personnel and bureaucrats existing in an ever growing BIG government. But the big question remains why the State Department and the White House have spun such a web of lies over Benghazi.

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‘A nickel isn’t worth a dime today’

Dr. Robert R. Owens

So, how long will this system of floating money, fiat currency, and systemic debt last? None of us gets to live in the world we grew up in because the world moves too fast. Things change. What was science fiction yesterday is your cell phone today. One thing we can know for sure is that it isn’t over till it’s over. Yet from a realistic evaluation of the deep hole we have spent ourselves into the future isn’t what it used to be and if the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.

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Marketplace Fairness Act Burdens Businesses with State Compliance Audits

David John Marotta

States started with a sales tax. Then they added a use tax to collect revenue that escapes the sales tax. Now the Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) to force companies in other states to collect the tax. Few individuals comply with the use tax, and where everyone is guilty, no one is guilty.

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DOJ on ‘Gays’: ‘Silence Will be Interpreted as Disapproval’

J. Matt Barber

The only thing this Obama White House seems to generate is scandal. Well, here’s yet another to add to the growing list. In addition to the Benghazi cover-up, IRS targeting of political dissenters and the illegal seizure of media phone records, whistleblowers within DOJ have contacted Liberty Counsel to express grave concerns over this administration’s latest attack on freedom. Our sources have provided Liberty Counsel an internal DOJ document titled: “LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers.”

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