South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed 24 bills into law today. They dealt with domestic abuse, a waiting period prior to new education standards, fuel tax, insurance, and more.

It is an article of faith in Washington among the ruling class that were it not for those unreasonable conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee that Republicans would control the Senate. Those are the types, so the mantra goes, who win primaries and then lose elections that could otherwise be won. like Richard Murdock of Indiana and Todd Akin of Missouri. But what about the anointed “reasonable” Republicans? How have they done in recent elections?

It is extremely rare that the US finds itself negotiating from a position of weakness rather than strength and this lethal bargaining position can only result in many decades of slavery and oppression for those caught behind the digital(?) curtain soon to descend between the two spheres of free and unfree peoples of the earth.

American Clarion contributors Billy and Karen Vaughn were recently interviewed by Ginny Thomas for The Daily Caller about Extortion 17, the callsign of the Chinook helicopter her Navy SEAL son Aaron was aboard when it was shot down in Afghanistan in 2011. Said Karen of her son Aaron: “We raised him in the ’80s when America was strong, and he learned to love the America that most of us would give anything to have back right now.”

Bethany Christian Services in Rapid City will be celebrating their 25th anniversary on Thursday March 27 at 6:00 pm. Bethany provides family and pregnancy counseling as well as facilitates adoptions. So many lives are touched by the work they do. You can support them by attending the celebration.

The fact that we are the products of thousands of years and hundreds of generations of institutional law makes us as blind to the intricate and all-encompassing nature of this skeleton upon which our society lives and moves. Just as a fish does not notice the water within which it moves, and we are not constantly aware of the air in which we move, our social self is not aware of the framework of laws which daily provide the context within which we find our meaning.

These are some of the important bills being considered by the South Dakota Legislature today. There is an animal cruelty bill, one on human trafficking, photographic traffic control devices, education funding, expansion of gambling, and more.

Under U.S. tax law, the entire tax burden of a small business flows directly onto the personal return of the owner. Profit is taxed immediately in the year it is earned. It takes between 5 and 40 years to fully amortize the deductions for capital expenditures. Most business owners need a tax preparer to assemble the binder-sized stack of tax forms required to comply fully.