Sometimes people ask me why I criticize the Medicare system so much. A better understanding of my frustration with the Medicare system could be reached by just reading this official government document and realizing the extra burdens of time, money, and frustration that the Medicare system places on America’s senior citizens.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley: “I feel strongly that the federal takeover of healthcare goes too far in violation of fundamental individual and state’s rights guaranteed by our Constitution. I am disappointed that despite lawmakers representation this does not impose a tax, a divided Supreme Court declares the Act as creating a constitutional tax. I am relieved that the Act’s Medicaid expansion has been declared unconstitutional and has been significantly limited by the Court.”

Family Research Council (FRC) criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the entire 2010 health care law through its decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. “The Supreme Court has today given the federal government unlimited authority to use its tax power to require Americans to engage in specific commercial activity. The obvious implication is chilling: Uncle Sam can make you buy anything, at any price, for any reason.”

The militant homosexual radicals have set their sites on the State of Illinois in their quest to pervert the definition of marriage. In their campaign to overturn the law in Illinois that correctly defines marriage as between a man and a woman, they are maligning the Christian conservatives who are defending what any rational person knows—that there is not, and can never be, any such thing as a homosexual marriage union. What’s more, elected officials are refusing to do their job to uphold the law.

The Argus Leader reports South Dakota has spent $8,252 in the lawsuit against ObamaCare, in which the state joined 25 others to combat the unconstitutional assault on the liberties of Americans. I’d say it’s not only money well spent, but is a bargain. What is your freedom worth? What is it worth to you to be able to decide what to spend your own money on? What is it worth to you to maintain access to health care and not see it go down the toilet as it does every time socialism is tried? What is it worth…

Two people from Rapid City, Bar Braver and Ravaye Meltzer, have pleaded guilt to counterfeiting products and face penalties of up to 10 years in prison and $2 million in fines. It seems the counterfeiters have attempted to pass off goods as authentic products of Monster Energy, Angry Birds, Hollister, The North Face and Ed Hardy…when the products weren’t actually products of these companies. If we so strongly oppose the counterfeiting of currency and manufactured goods, why do some enthusiastically support the counterfeiting of other things?

The Constitutional Convention was in a deadlock over how large and small states could be represented equally. Some delegates gave up and left. Then, on JUNE 28, 1787, 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin spoke and shortly after, the U.S. Constitution became a reality. As recorded by James Madison, Franklin stated: “Groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights.”