One of the most time-honored tricks in politics is the act of accusing your opponent of your own worst crime. Doing so confuses the mass of the population. It allows the trickster to assume the mantle of righteous indignation, wrapping their stern lectures in the aura of high morality. This came to mind as I read the ravings of the hard-Left in the “main stream” press.

“When it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle class Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point? Or, should we ask some of the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share?” President Obama said in his weekly address. Interesting how the only option is an either or.

Since the Left will almost never come clean about their radical goals to remake America into the ugly image of their glorious socialist utopia, nor will they come clean about their loathing for the United States that our founders created, it falls to people like Rush Limbaugh and Paul Shanklin to pull back the curtain and illustrate for the American people what the Left really feels.

The Faith & Hope Community Breakfast was held this morning in Rapid City at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn Ballroom. The keynote speaker was astronaut and retired Brigadier General Charlie Duke. Duke was CAPCOM for the first Apollo mission to land on the moon, Apollo 11. He inadvertently affected the crew lineup on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, and eventually walked on the moon himself during Apollo 16.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard has declared April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in South Dakota to help shed light on an ongoing problem while encouraging public awareness and outreach to help break the cycle of abuse. “Finding solutions to end child abuse and neglect depends on state and community involvement,” Gov. Daugaard said in an Executive Proclamation.

Of course we should not be surprised at anything that comes out of his mouth, but comments this week by Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) were simply stunning.  Not only were they stunning, but they were chilling.  When he issued a thinly veiled threat to the Supreme Court concerning their ruling on the atrocious Obamacare legislation, we saw a brazen, boorish, wanna-be dictator showing his ugly, arrogant face.

Born in a slave hut APRIL 5, 1856, was Booker T. Washington. As a young man he attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and later Wayland Baptist Seminary in Washington, DC. He went on to found Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and recruited George Washington Carver. He was the first African American to have his image on a U.S. coin and postage stamp.