HB1005 is a good bill regarding applications for home school students. HB1005 is An Act to revise certain provisions regarding the excuse from attendance of children receiving alternative instruction. However,  a lobbyist for the Sioux Falls and Rapid City school districts, Dick Tieszen, is proposing an amendment that would remove local control by directing all applications to the state Department of Education.

This is the kind of arrogance and elitism the Left has long harbored toward parents and Americans in general: parents are too stupid to know what’s best for their children, and need bureaucrats to make those decisions for them. Liberals used to avoid this kind of frank talk about their views in public, but with the advent of the most Marxist president in American history three years ago, they have grown bold enough to say what they really think more and more in public.

Dr. Robert Owens, one of our beloved authors featured here at American Clarion, was interviewed on Wallbuilders Live with David Barton and Rick Green. Dr. Owens, a history professor, discusses the United States Constitution and what can happen when the American people don’t understand their own God-given rights.

Only in Washington, D.C. can a proposed budget that increases spending and borrowing every single year be considered to somehow reduce the deficit. The latest Obama budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 — and how the Administration is spinning it — was no exception.

When it comes to the hot-button issue of abortion, there are some questions that make even the staunchest pro-lifer uncomfortable:  What do you say to the woman who finds herself pregnant due to rape?  What do you do with the adolescent girl who is impregnated by her father, brother, or uncle?  What if it was your wife, or your daughter that was the victim?  Would you expect her to bear a child conceived in violence and fear?

This is a trailer for a very revealing documentary.  It’s called “Occupy Unmasked,” and shows us not only the double-standard our elected officials and the “mainstream” media have held for the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement, but the vast differences in methods and goals of the Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street movements. This film will wake people up to the visceral hatred for our country that is the heart and soul of the Left.

Creeping censorship reared its head recently when the leaders of Internet giants Google and Twitter announced they would begin censoring certain content in certain countries. Oh, but that does not affectAmerica, you say. Really? The fact is that the mechanisms for squashing free speech on the Internet are already in place, and they only need a despotic regime to set them in motion to silence us right here in the United States.

George Will masterfully encapsulated the modus operandi of modern liberalism when discussing this weekend the assault on religious freedom being perpetrated under the banner of ObamaCare

n the 3rd century, Emperor Claudius II was faced with defending the Roman Empire from the invading Goths. He believed men who were not married made better soldiers so he forbade traditional marriage in the military. Bishop Saint Valentine risked the Emperor’s wrath by standing up for traditional marriage, and secretly marrying young men and women