What has happened, America? Why have we given over to this change from the founding values of our great nation to the lawlessness we see today? The Bible clearly says in Proverbs 24:21, “… meddle not with them that are given to change.” So why are we changing?

140,000 comments. That’s how many groups and individuals weighed in on the Internal Revenue Service’s proposed regulations that would normalize the IRS’ targeting of tea party groups, and a review of a sampling of these comments reveals a startling new reality – they overwhelmingly came from conservative/limited government supporters. It seems the tea party has grown up, and not a second too soon.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed several bills into law today including legislation concerning autism, insurance investigations, weather modification programs, election rules, hunting, alcohol, and more.

Based on his words and actions (as well as his silence and inactions), we have witnessed a president who has emboldened two zealous and highly determined radical groups – progressive activists and militant Islamists. It would seem these two flourishing movements would be diametrically opposed, but under closer inspection, some commonalities are revealed.

Have you ever watched a person or a group of people who always seem to find a way to lose? They are the ones for whom the statement was made about “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.” Consider what is perhaps the most clear example of this exasperating behavior from the Republican establishment.

By now you’ve probably heard that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who seemed to be such a promising Republican just a few years ago, wimped out in the face of pressure from homosexual activists and their “useful idiots,” vetoing a bill to protect religious freedom in Arizona. What you probably HAVEN’T heard is how utterly hypocritical many opponents of this bill are.

Former Rapid City Councilman, financial advisor and Republican Jeff Partridge formally announced his campaign for South Dakota district 34 House today at the Hotel Alex Johnson. Currently Rep. David Lust and Rep. Dan Dryden serve Dist. 34 in the state House, but Lust is term limited and will not be running again this year.

At 680 words, Arizona’s SB 1062 didn’t take a yeoman’s effort to read. But it was an effort, unfortunately, that few people bothered to make. If they had, the debate over the state’s religious liberty measure would have been met by more yawns than pitchforks.

I cannot fathom that Gov. Brewer sold out a moral society for a football game!! ONE lousy football game? I know the NFL is influential, and the NFL did threaten to withdraw the game next year from AZ. So let them. I would have called their bluff. Let them waste their money rescheduling it elsewhere. The Super Bowl has become the equivalent of the Roman sport of throwing Christians to the lions anyway.

A recent Wall Street Journal oped by Ajit Pai, the sole Republican commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called attention to an alarming study commissioned by the agency that would have “ascertain[ed] the process by which stories are selected, station priorities (for content, production quality, and populations served), perceived station bias, perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the eight [critical information needs], and perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”