The Progressive agenda to make America healthier may well result in a leaner, greener America.  Unfortunately, their contempt for the unborn and their embrace of “anything goes” promiscuity will render those benefits moot.  A society guided by moral schizophrenics cannot long endure.

U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today issued the following statement regarding the president’s call for new taxes to avert the across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration.

Though our “Republican” supermajority legislature has already killed several textbook Republican bills in the 2013 legislative session, we must give credit where credit is due. Today, the House Health & Human Services Committee today killed HB 1227 which sought to allow breaking the law as a defense for breaking the law, i.e. allowing “medical necessity” as a defense for breaking the law and using marijuana.

South Dakota HB 1173 would extend a property tax credit to parents for education expenses the owner has incurred in educating their child. Liberals have already lined up in opposition to this, ignoring a number of key facts about the issue, not the least of which is that this bill could actually benefit the public education system in a number of ways.

Liberal Republicans are creating a super-PAC to defeat conservative Republicans who have the audacity to actually believe in and defend the documented principles and values of the GOP. The very same D.C. political elites who delivered us the “electable” Mitt Romney will now be working their magic in a primary close to you.

I’m extremely proud of the Rapid City Council and Mayor for their stand last night in favor of religious freedom and the Christian heritage of our nation. Recently, a small group of anti-Christian God-haters threatened Rapid City government with a lawsuit if the city didn’t stop praying before council meetings-a practice our government officials have held since before we were officially a nation. But the mayor and council stood firm for freedom and our heritage last night.

Common sense is both a noun and an adjective. As a noun, common sense—good judgment—is becoming a rare and precious commodity in our world today, especially from Washington politicians; thus, it describes little of what comes out of our nation’s capital. Yet, I have noticed that whoever it is that puts the words in the mouth of Barack Obama (or whatever his name is), has latched on to “common-sense” as an adjective to describe what can only be regarded as tyrannical, unconstitutional dictates.

Just as the 9/11 terrorist attacks created a watershed between the freedoms we enjoyed and our awareness of America’s vulnerability to attack, so the spate of school shootings over the past 10-plus years from Columbine to Newtown has drastically altered the way young people are perceived and treated. School officials, attempting to both protect and control young people, have adopted draconian zero tolerance policies, stringent security measures and cutting-edge technologies that have all but transformed the schools into quasi-prisons.