If you listen closely you can hear Obama twisting himself into knots asking the wrenching question: “To lead… or NOT to lead?” As America’s regal eagle, King Obama resembles Denmark’s overly sensitive prince, Hamlet, in so many ways. Obama never seems quite able to make up his mind. He pines away in the shadow of such great presidents a Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, James Monroe, et al.

South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant announces the new computerized military absentee ballot system iOASIS is now in full operation. The next round of South Dakota elections begin in April. The new iOASIS system is available to Gant’s overseas military constituents as they begin the voting process.

This would also explain a lot about how some “Republicans” can be as oblivious to the truth as Democrats.

Although the Constitution is the supreme law of our land and provides limits on the powers and authorities of our federal, state and local governments, its words cannot and will not leap off the page and enforce themselves. The common folk of America must be the champions of their own liberty.

James Madison, in Federalist 45, explained how the powers of the federal government were to remain limited while state governments retained robust powers: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite…. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”

That master of falsehoods, fabrications and breathtaking mendacity, Saeb Erakat, is at it again. Erakat, who is the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator in the delusional “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, has yet again made the hoary old claim that the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are descended from the extinct Canaanites.

The average salt-of-the-earth common-sense citizen knows what a “CUT” is. If this year I spend $100, but next year I spend only $99, it’s a “CUT”. So what’s happening? Government deliberately uses illegitimate definitions of a “CUT,” but depends on you to subconsciously apply a correct definition of a “CUT”.

Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, “Are you sure I will never sing again”? The surgeon found it difficult to answer his question. He simply shook his head no.

If you want to make your case for your ideology in a thoughtful, respectful manner (rather than stifle dissent, and rudely dismiss tried, true, traditional, empirical and proven arguments in favor of a random, unprincipled form of equality) then don’t expect those to whom you seek respect and acknowledgement to embrace your achievements.