South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard today signed House Bill 1054, “An Act to establish consumer protection standards regarding certain insurance claim practices and to provide for certain penalties.” The legislation is part of a four-bill package, proposed by the Governor, to strengthen insurance consumer protection laws.

Turns out Republican governors and legislatures that blocked Medicaid expansion in their states may have done both their constituents and taxpayers a big favor. One of the so-called hardship exemptions under Obamacare is “You were determined ineligible for Medicaid because your state didn’t expand eligibility for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act,” according to the new Healthcare Marketplace form.

Oops. David Jolly won election to Congress in Florida’s special election to take the place of recently deceased Rep. Bill Young (R). The GOP establishment was already writing off his campaign (the one in which he ran against all the things the establishment refuses to do anything about), and yet he won. See that egg on their faces?

As reported by the Rapid City Journal, the radical homosexual agenda has fully arrived in Rapid City with the plans of two homosexuals who are seeking the assistance of a morally bankrupt judiciary to thwart the will of the people and thousands of years of common sense to counterfeit marriage. Meanwhile, our gutless RINO South Dakota Legislature has once again left the people of South Dakota vulnerable to Leftist attacks.

It is an open secret that (until recently), by far, the US military — from the enlisted ranks to the officer corp — are of a conservative political bent. It is the nature of the beast. The political left has been attempting to destroy that bastion of conservatism, which has been a burr under their saddle for two and a half centuries. Today they are making serious inroads into the military and the destruction of same is well within sight.

In the time of the founding of America, when a Biblical worldview was predominant in the American people, the connection between following the Commandments and peaceable existence was clearly known, easily understood and evidentially experienced in the American culture. Indeed, living prosperously by living righteously is what Jefferson meant when he used the phrase “pursuit of happiness.”

The Venue is a church, founded last year in central Florida, with a bold and unique vision. The Venue has a vision of getting into schools — as many as it can — and staying there. It will enable them to reach out to children and families right where they’re at, instead of expecting those families to come to them.

At the U.S. Air Force Academy, jets aren’t the only thing taking off. So is a campus-wide rebellion against the forces of political correctness. Frustrated by the school’s decision to scrub a Bible verse from one of the dorm whiteboards, cadets decided to take matters into their own hands. In a show of defiance, Bible verses started popping up on dry erase boards throughout the dorms — outraging the anti-Christian “tolerance” police at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national movement to limit terms for elected officials, today sent a letter of praise and thanks to each of the 23 South Dakota senators who voted to defeat anti-term limits bill HJR 1002. The bill would have created a referendum to weaken term limits from eight years to 12, even though no one outside of the state’s political class had called for a change.