South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has signed several more legislative bills, completing action on all remaining bills in advance of the final legislative day, Monday, March 19. These bills include legislation establishing a Legislature’s Planning Committee, revisions pertaining to boating while under the influence, speech-language, property tax appeals for corporate shareholders, and an affirmative defense of compulsion for the crime of prostitution.

The socialists in our government who want to ram government health care schemes down our throats have tried to excuse their tyranny and violation of the U.S. Constitution with a number of flimsy arguments. One of those is that since drivers are required by the states to have liability insurance, it’s okay for the federal government to assume powers it does not have and force people to buy a product whether they want it or not. But as Eric Scheiner at CNS News points out very humorously in this video, it isn’t the same at all.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed HB 1228 to provide tax refunds for some energy projects. Gov. Daugaard cited concerns about tax breaks from South Dakota being provided to citizens of other states. He also called the legislation “discriminatory” because it excludes wind farms smaller than $50 million from these tax breaks. Daugaard also said the bill was confusing.

Perhaps, at the very least, NPR should be required to broadcast a political disclaimer every hour saying, “Taxpayer funded NPR has a policy against providing our listeners with diverse points of view, while others are ‘fair and balanced’ we make no pretense that we are, listen at your own risk.” Better still, maybe the Senate will wake up, save taxpayer dollars, eliminate NPR’s funding and free them up to try to compete with conservative talkers in the private sector marketplace.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed HB 1248, a bill which would have removed the requirement for state residents to obtain a concealed carry permit. Gov. Daugaard said he believed the bill would weaken “the reasonable protections currently in place, and it could lead to confusion and to longer and more frequent detainment of innocent citizens who choose to carry a concealed weapon.”

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed SB 157, a bill dealing with the regulation of outdoor advertising signs. Rapid City recently passed an ordinance to regulate billboards in the city, but Lamar Advertising sued the city, arguing that the ordinance was illegal. Gov. Daugaard said this legislation improperly attempted to “invade the local regulatory sphere” and “effectively decide the lawsuit in favor of one side before either side is heard in court.”

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed more bills today, including: a new state accountability system for public schools, reporting requirements for the death or disappearance of a child, property tax levies, fees for public records, bullying policies, and more.

Recently during the GOP primaries in the South, we heard the haughty derision from liberals that poll results seemed to indicate that a great many people in Alabama and Mississippi believe Barack Obama is a Muslim instead of the Christina he claims to be. Well, how could anyone be so stupid as to believe that? I wonder what could have possibly led people to that conclusion? Quite a bit of evidence, actually.

Called the “Chief Architect of the Constitution,” he wrote many of the Federalist Papers which helped convince States to ratify the Constitution. He introduced the First Amendment in the first session of Congress. This was James Madison, born MARCH 16, 1751.