When Lana Rusev fled Ukraine, she was trying to avoid the religious persecution she’s now experiencing in Florida! The wedding planner, the latest in a long string of Christian targets, is watching with horror as the hostility she had once seen in Eastern Europe followed her to America, courtesy of Jacksonville’s radical LGBT community.

Billed as having been written by the “Editorial Board,” the New York Times column, “Nativist Lawsuit on the Texas Border,” is one of the most blatant examples of misinformation put out by an ostensibly “legitimate” news source I’ve ever seen. It attempts to shield President Obama’s lawless amnesty by pretending a number of facts just don’t exist.

Recognizing our fallibility, society should err on the side of preserving innocent life. Conflicting hearsay and self-interested decision making should not suffice to end the life of another, as it did in the Terri Schiavo case. The consequences of being wrong are simply too great.

Developing a backbone against the Obama onslaught isn’t just a matter of constitutional integrity or economic necessity — it is a matter of political survival for the Republican Party. The GOP was banished to the wilderness of the minority once before because its leaders failed to live up to the limited government, lower tax principles of the party.

The 2015 South Dakota Legislative session began this past week. In the Senate, 27 of 35 members, or 77 percent, are Republicans. In the House, 58 of 70, or 83 percent, are Republicans. This gives Republicans an 81 percent supermajority in the Legislature. With a Republican governor, and virtually all other officers of state government being Republican, what kind of legislation can we expect in 2015?

From Prager University and Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute, some good information to dispel five myths about capitalism and the free market. With the proliferation of Marxism from the Left, this is information you as a freedom advocate can use. Sadly, you’ll have to educate a lot of “Republicans” about these basic truths, too, since the “Republican” establishment has gone all-in (at least semi-covertly) for the embrace of anti-free market poison.

Dr. Robert Owens announces the relase of his newest book “Colonial American History: The Essential Story.” This work is written for non-Historians, and is a handy easy-to-read condensed look at Early American History. It is composed of short chapters each of which is designed to be a stand-alone treatment of a segment of time.