Archive for June 2nd, 2013

Easy fix to IRS corruption

Easy fix to IRS corruption

Sir John Dalberg-Acton famously observed, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” No federal agency enjoys more power than the “absolute power” wielded by the Internal Revenue Service. It’s little wonder, then, that under this power-drunk Obama regime, the IRS has become “corrupted absolutely.” It’s become the hammer to this president’s favorite nail: political dissent.

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Sam Kooiker

Rapid City Journal Endorses Kooiker for Mayor

Surprisingly (because it isn’t often the “mainstream” media goes for the more conservative of two candidates), the Rapid City Journal has endorsed Sam Kooiker for another term as Rapid City’s mayor.

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Mike Rounds

We Don’t Need More Feckless Politicians

Michael Sanborn’s May 22 column looks through the wrong end of the binoculars. Sanborn wants to blame the current mess on the Tea Party (people actually believe in the values of the party he claims allegiance to), but history is very clear: it’s the compromisers who infest the GOP who are running America into the ground.

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The ‘R’ Word

The ‘R’ Word

To me, the ‘R’ word is relationship, not religion. But for the sake of discussion, let’s talk religion. A recent Gallup poll indicates that many Americans feel religion is in decline, at a time when our nation needs more religious influence, not less. It doesn’t take a professional social observer to point out something so obvious. Not only has church membership and attendance gone down, but our laws and cultural mores no longer reflect the religious values that shaped the founding of our nation.

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Move Along:  Nothing We Want You to See Here

Move Along: Nothing We Want You to See Here

It doesn’t matter what propaganda we are fed or who is trying to feed it to us. It is obvious — OBVIOUS — that we were lied to about Benghazi. There is no getting around that fact and only the uninformed or intellectually challenged can truthfully not get it! Sadly, there seems to be far too many of the latter these days. How did that happen?

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