Many bills that go through Congress often have misleading names. One such bill is the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, or more simply put, the Farm Bill. However, in this year’s Farm Bill, totaling $969 billion for the next 10 years, 80 percent of the spending doesn’t have anything to do with agriculture or farming. Where does that 80 percent go? To SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more widely known as food stamps.

On July 18, a House Appropriations subcommittee approved a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services that would defund much of Obamacare. According to the Committee, the cuts will save $8.6 billion in 2013 and $123 billion in the next five years. “This committee cannot repeal Obamacare directly,” explained subcommittee Chairman Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) in a statement. “But we can prevent it from being further implemented with taxpayer dollars we have jurisdiction over. The legislation therefore prevents the Secretary of Health and Human Services from using any funding in this bill to continue to implement Obamacare.

Since Leftists, ever contemptuous of the liberties of law-abiding citizens, always use every act of violence (encouraged by the Left’s derision and animosity toward moral values) to renew their call to disarm law-abiding citizens, it is apropo that we all take a little refresher in American history, liberty, and truth.

Every now and then South Dakotans get an alert of a scam going around in attempts to bamboozle money out of primarily the elderly. Usually I read about it and get the attitude, “It just won’t happen to me.” But an attempt did happen to me and today’s column tells the story. A scam amounting to several hundred dollars was averted by me when I went to the police station rather than going to where I was told to go.

Mr. Obama may not be the only President we have ever elected who has little real world experience, but he may be the first who has none. And hopefully he will be our last. With serial apology tours, bowing to foreign leaders, and abandoning our surrogates to help install the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East, it is obvious Mr. Obama is a walking disaster for America’s foreign policy. It is also obvious from the recession he has managed to turn into the Great Recession that his spread around the wealth transfer policies are an unmitigated disaster on the domestic front. Are we teetering on the edge, past the tipping point, or already careening into the abyss?

Roger Sherman was the only person to sign all four of America’s founding documents: the Articles of Association-1774, the Declaration of Independence-1776, the Articles of Confederation-1777, and the U.S. Constitution-1787. At age 19, Roger Sherman’s father died and he supported his family as a shoe cobbler, helping two younger brothers attend college and become clergymen. Roger Sherman was elected a state senator, a judge and a delegate to the Continental Congress.He was on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.

We teach teenagers a lot more about sexuality than we do about money. This can confuse them about what they should be learning. Give this article to a teenager and encourage him or her to start a Roth IRA. For a $4,300 gift spread out over the next seven years plus a little work on the teenager’s part, you can fund a teenage child or grandchild’s million-dollar retirement. Here’s how it’s done.