Who would have ever thought a person might have a need for a handgun in a store? Couldn’t he have just called the police? The knife-wielding maniac couldn’t have stabbed more than a couple of dozen additional people before police arrived. What’s more, average citizens can’t be trusted to think for themselves, or to exercise their own God-given rights without government approval and oversight! What was this violent gun-owner thinking???

President Obama has an “accomplishment sheet” and one Virginia Senator isn’t afraid “to put boots on the ground” and energize voters with such a stacked résumé. While Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas isn’t afraid to imply Mitt Romney and his supporters are racists, we have yet to receive the details of Barack Obama’s revered accomplishment sheet. If you have much to brag about, why demonize the opponent and attempt to label him a racist?

The Indianapolis Business Journal reports Cook Medical Inc. had been planning to open five new manufacturing plants, but has shelved those plans because of the hit it will take from a new ObamaCare tax on medical devices. Average Americans are left to wonder how this could happen, since the Left tells us government creates jobs out of the taxes they reap from the American economy.

A famous Japanese proverbial picture depicts three monkeys, in turn, covering the eyes, ears, and mouth. A fourth monkey with crossed arms has since been added, as the “Do No Evil” monkey, a dubious honor. It might have been the hallmark of Speaker Boehner, except instead of doing nothing wrong, he is simply doing nothing — as he has stifled every legitimate attempt to control spending and Obama.

Views differ on the concept of power. To utopians, the exertion of power explains society’s unhappy circumstances, which they believe result from the privileged exerting power for selfish motives. Their solution is to centralize power in the hands of people who are sincere, well intentioned and reasonable and thus direct it toward more lofty goals. Those with the tragic view sharply disagree. They view selfishness as inherent in human nature. So long as people are still free to choose without penalty, they would call it influence, not power.

The Criminal Justice Initiative task force recently named by Governor Dennis Daugaard has its work cut out for it. The Governor named the 18 person panel to see if it can make South Dakota’s prison system more efficient and economical, perhaps more in line with neighboring states of North Dakota and Minnesota. Are there alternatives to our prison population in the state, and us still having the death penalty for such atrocious crimes? There are, but implementing them could be very political.

Fido, Casper the Ghost, and Juan Valdez walk into a polling place. No this isn’t the beginning of a joke it is a key part of the Chicago Plan to re-elect the worst President in American history. When voter forms have been sent out to “deceased infants, out-of-state family members, and non-U.S. citizens, among others,” and the federal government will sue any State that has the chutzpah to require a photo ID to vote, don’t be surprised when Fido, Casper, or Juan cast their vote to continue the occupation of Washington by the Progressive statists and their totalitarian plans.

He was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London eight months for being a Quaker, but later King Charles II gave him land in America as repayment of a large debt owed to his father. He invited persecuted Christians of Europe to join his colony of religious toleration. Soon Quakers, Mennonites, Pietists, Amish, Anabaptists, Lutherans, Reformed, Moravians, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Dunkers (German Baptist), Brethren, Schwenckfelders, and French Huguenots joined his “holy experiment.” His name was William Penn, and he died JULY 30, 1718.