On Feb. 27, 2012, a teenager—reportedly a victim of bullying and something of a social outcast—walked into a Cleveland high school and opened fire in the cafeteria, killing two students and wounding three others. The teenager, identified as T.J. Lane, has been taken into police custody. Now media pundits are speculating on who or what is to blame for this latest spate of violence.

South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant announced today the state’s official recognition of the South Dakota Libertarian Party after a review of the group’s petitions. “Today we welcomed the Libertarian Party into our state elections,” Gant said. “My approval of the petitions opens the door to candidates for federal, state, legislative and county offices to run as officially recognized members of the South Dakota Libertarian Party in 2012 and 2014.”

Speaking to the National Governors Association, Barack Obama implored governors from across the country to stop cutting spending: “Too many states are making cuts that I think are too big. Budgets are by choice, so today I’m calling on all of you: invest more in education, invest more in our children.”

A Christian theocracy is clearly not what our founders intended. But neither did they intend for the federal concentration of powers over matters as private as health care, education, retirement, nutrition, etc., etc.It is by no accident that the first ten amendments to the Constitution safeguard the rights of individuals and severely rein in the tendencies of a central government to overreach. Our founders sought to prevent a single group from tyrannizing everyone else by virtue of being a simple majority.

The ObamaCare mandate for contraceptives and abortifacients is more than mere politics as usual, it represents a fundamental attack on liberty in which the United States government is using its coercive power in an illegal manner to impose a controversial ideology on its citizens. Indeed, there are some who believe that President Obama’s true motive has less to do with birth control and more to do with government control, sending the message that it is not God but the State that is the final authority on questions of personal conscience and morality.

My friend and fellow South Dakota patriot Tonchi Weaver was recently interviewed on Liberty Today about the government health care machinations going on in South Dakota these days. As Tonchi points out, this push for government health care mandates goes all the way back to 2007 and the Zaniya Project commissioned to study health care in South Dakota. That commission found little need or reason for government health care intervention…but some “Republicans” who support government intervention are demonstrating that they aren’t going to be deterred by things like reality, freedom and liberty.

A great, comprehensive analysis of the across-the-board assault on liberty and the American way of life that is ObamaCare.

President Obama’s appeasement of murderous Muslims is shameful and harmful to America’s reputation and credibility. In this upside-down world of insanity, NATO has reportedly agreed to prosecute our men who burned Qurans being used by Islamic militants to pass messages. What law did they break?! Sharia law? Americans are not bound by Sharia law!

After Richard Stockton signed the Declaration of Independence, the British invaded New Jersey, forcing him to move his family for safety. Richard was betrayed, dragged from his bed at night and imprisoned in New York. With his health broken from over a year in the British prison, Richard Stockton died bankrupt at age 51 on FEBRUARY 28, 1781.

Several bills of note were considered in the South Dakota Legislature yesterday: an anti-bullying bill, ObamaCare repeal, adoptions, violence against children, juvenile sexting, a year-round legislative planning committee, Second Amendment rights, protection from Shariah law, and balancing the budget. In the next few days, the legislature will consider health care coverage for abortion, repeal of ObamaCare, adoptions, anti-bullying, juvenile sexting and more.