The “Republican”-controlled South Dakota House today approved HB 1214, a bill which would provide taxpayer funded prenatal medical care for illegal aliens. Obviously, the majority of “Republicans” in the South Dakota Legislature don’t really give a flying rip about dealing with the out-of-control lawlessness going on in our state and country. Rewarding illegal aliens and providing incentives for lawbreaking are precisely the opposite direction we need to be going.

I recently returned from a tea-party speaking tour in Florida, and the No. 1 concern these patriots brought up to me was how to reach the next generation. Finally, they were asking the right questions to bring our country back in the right direction. The answer is all too simple: Show them the price of freedom.

Everything we will ever need to know about the Obama Administration may come down to a single decision. And that is whether Obama, along with newly sworn in Secretary of State John Kerry, approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the U.S. For, contained in that decision is not just the future energy independence of North America — the U.S. currently depends on foreign sources for 45 percent of our fuel — but perhaps the future prosperity of the American economy.

I’ve read in several locations that the citizens are supposedly (according to polls) overwhelmingly for gun control. If this is true and not mere propaganda, why the need to waste money on ads to gain support? Seems like a useless and wasted gesture. Why not focus on fixing the economy or some such thing, instead, since that is a very real problem and not a made up one?

The drone mission at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota has been in the works for a couple of years now, officials recently confirmed that the program is already online. A recent newspaper article confirms missions have been piloted out of Ellsworth since November 1, 2012.