Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to obtain records related to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a program that compensates patients who have been adversely affected by certain vaccines, including Gardasil, the vaccine for the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus.

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports “Rep. Noem votes against Violence Against Women Act.” Can’t you just hear the journalistic breathlessness between the lines? Wow, Rep. Noem joined Senator John Thune (R-SD) in voting against the “Violence Against Women Act?” Can you imagine that? She must be a real self-loathing woman, huh?

Time for a little history lesson. Sequestration may in fact have been Obama’s idea, but it was brought to the floor in the House of Representatives not once, but twice by Republican leaders. There, it was approved not once, but twice. In the Senate it passed easily with bipartisan support. Republicans let it pass the House and Senate, and Obama signed it.

Today Judge Thomas Trimble of the Seventh Circuit Court in Pennington County found that South Dakota’s protocol, which is modeled on one approved by the United States Supreme Court, does not pose a risk of unconstitutional pain and suffering. Charles Russell Rhines, who is on death row for the 1992 murder of Donnivan Schaeffer in Rapid City, had challenged the constitutionality of South Dakota’s method of execution protocol.



What would you say if a group of employees working the Alzheimer’s ward in a health care facility deliberately switched the name tags on patient’s doors making patient identification difficult and removed dietary instructions from the patient’s room, putting patients at risk? Would it matter that these actions were deliberately taken as part of a labor dispute? That is exactly what happened at HealthBridge.

The Club for Growth has released their 2012 Congressional Scorecard. In case you aren’t familiar with the Club for Growth, they are one of the organizations most demonized by the Left in America. Their mission is to promote economic freedom and by extension economic growth in our country. It is a well-known (except on the Left) and well-documented truth that economic freedom produces economic growth and prosperity for all segments of a society. How did your senators and representatives do?

It is theorized that we “shot our load” when Tea Party candidates dominated the 2010 midterm elections. To that I ask a quizzical “really, how so?” Our detractors all point back towards last November as proof positive of Tea Party shortcomings. Well, not so fast bucko. Players emerged from their comfy shadows and in doing so, have realigned the coming 2014 contest.

If you believe in the Genesis account of creation (and subsequently the global flood of Noah’s time, which would have deeply altered the geology and climate of the earth), have you ever wondered how all the plants, animals (and people) got all the way around the globe? At the 2012 Creation Superconference, Dominic Statham provides some insight into this and other questions.