Rep. Kristi Noem announced today that she will co-sponsor the “Stop the Coin Act,” which will prevent the United States Treasury from minting a platinum coin that could be used to pay the federal government’s bills. “To think that some in Washington believe that minting a trillion dollar coin can solve our nation’s out-of-control spending is embarrassing,” said Rep. Noem.

As my title conveys, the urge or trepidation to sugarcoat has now been laid to rest as mounting results from one political speech continue to encroach upon our American way. A timely convenience surfaced years back at a Democrat convention which was immediately recognized and thus seized upon since the pedigree of the orator dovetailed with the ageless quest for “de-freedomizing” America.

Cincinnati Fox 19 is doing the fact work that the national “mainstream” media is (as usual) AWOL on. Fox 19’s Ben Swann looked up some of the numbers British socialist Piers Morgan has been spewing on American TV. They didn’t hold up to reality.

How do you think George Washington would feel about the Second Amendment and the God-given right to keep and bear arms? How do you think he dealt with the threat to freedom from his own British government?

Just like other Americans who understand why we have the right to keep and bear arms, I am puking-sick of the desperately ignorant, wholly belligerent campaign of the Left to demonize guns and lawful gun ownership. So, I read the infuriating story of a Scottsdale, Arizona gun dealership, American Spirit Arms, having its Bank of America account frozen because of its increased activity with the flood of gun and gun parts purchases it has had recently.

According to the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce, the sponsors of the legislative crackerbarrel meetings in Rapid City, there will be four crackerbarrels in January and February. Try to make it to as many of them as you can. These are an excellent way to stay informed on what is going on during the legislative session in Pierre, to ask questions of your elected representatives, and to hold them accountable.

Today’s Founders Quote of the Day: “The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. . . . How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if…”