No, the headline isn’t a word association game, nor is it the result of an LSD trip. What a combination: the beauty of a rainbow from the beauty of a 12 gauge shotgun.

Subsequent to constituents in Hanson & McCook Counties providing him the most nomination signatures of any legislative candidate in SD this election, of 171 signatures, Rep. Stacey “Stace” Victor Nelson, officially announced his re-election campaign as a Republican candidate for one of two District 19 House of Representatives seats.

If you are a Republican, would you vote for a presidential candidate who…Pushed a government health care scheme onto the people, forced a free people to participate in his government health care scheme, created a socialized health care scheme that provided $50 abortions, believes in the hoax of anthropogenic global warming, pushed cap and trade taxes and regulations onto people, and more liberal ideas?

Remarking on the premise of striking the insurance mandate portion of ObamaCare, Justice Anthony Kennedy said,  “By reason of this Court, we would have a new regime that Congress did not provide for, did not consider. That, it seems to me, can be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power … than striking the whole.” On ObamaCare, it’s all or nothing-and “all” will gut the United States Constitution.

This past week, the eyes of everyone concerned with the continuance of limited government were riveted on the Supreme Court. This is the first time that a majority of the States have combined to protest an act of Congress. In the face of the ever expanding power of the central government often the Supreme Court appears to be our last line of defense. But where does the Supreme Court get its power?

A stock’s valuation is the final factor of the Fama-French three-factor model of investment returns. A stock’s valuation is measured on a continuum from “value” to “growth.” In broad strokes, value stocks are cheap and growth stocks are expensive. But there are compelling reasons why an investor might be willing to pay more for a growth stock than a value stock.

New research found that living together before marriage is more common today and doesn’t carry the stigma that it once did. But is that right? Statisticians don’t seem to look at that. But they should. A CDC study found: “Almost half of the first marriages today will break up within 20 years.” Considering what the study showed is the norm today about living together before, or instead of marriage, those couples might want to reexamine their living arrangements….

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The world of communication was revolutionized by a man who died APRIL 2, 1872. His name was Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the Morse Code. Morse allowed Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, to chose the message for the first demonstration of his invention. She selected a verse from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, “What hath God wrought?”