Tom Lawrence at the Aberdeen News wrote an article about how RINO Mike Rounds is running from as many debates as possible with his competitors Democrat Rick Weiland, conservative independent Gordon Howie and liberal independent Larry Pressler.

I see the militant atheists are continuing their war against God and the Christian foundation of America. Their latest kick is a “Don’t say the Pledge” crusade, ostensibly about making the Pledge of Allegiance more inclusive…except for the 76-80% of Americans who say they believe in God.

Our Constitution is so simple that Alexander Hamilton expected us to be “enlightened enough to distinguish between a legal exercise and an illegal usurpation of authority”; and he said the people are “the natural guardians of the Constitution.” Well then, if our Constitution is something The People are expected to know and enforce; is it plausible to assert that the Representatives we send to Washington – and even supreme Court Justices – are incapable of understanding it?

South Dakota Attorney General Marty J. Jackley announces that South Dakota has joined with 19 States in a request to the United States Supreme Court to determine whether the U.S. Constitution requires States to adopt and recognize same-sex marriage (17 plus Utah and Oklahoma).

Health care’s malignant growth is also a mushroom cloud caused by a lack of “negative feedback.” All systems require a regulator to dampen runaway reactions. Health care coverage is no exception. Most industries provide just the right amount of negative feedback by having the person who pays for a service, the person who benefits from the service and the person empowered to decide if the service should be provided in the first place be the same person.

“The Case for the Real Jesus” by former atheist Lee Strobel is a must-read for believers and skeptics alike. If upon completion of this thorough and comprehensive critique of Christianity’s veracity, critical skeptics do not begin to reconsider their disbelief, it will unquestionably be a matter of their own intellectual denial and willful ignorance.