Archive for June 17th, 2013

South Dakota Motor Vehicle Registration Fee Increase

South Dakota Motor Vehicle Registration Fee Increase

The South Dakota Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles, wants to remind motor vehicle owners that the second phase of the non-commercial motor vehicle registration fee increase will go into effect on July 1, 2013.

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Hello Orwell: Privacy in the Age of Surveillance

Hello Orwell: Privacy in the Age of Surveillance

There’s a reason George Orwell’s 1984 is a predominant theme in my new book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. Orwell understood what many Americans, caught up in their partisan flag-waving, are still struggling to come to terms with: that there is no such thing as a government organized for the good of the people—even the best intentions among those in government inevitably give way to the desire to maintain power and control at all costs.

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Republicans, Independents, and Tea Party United by IRS Scandal

Republicans, Independents, and Tea Party United by IRS Scandal

Unintended consequences have a way of coming back to bite you, and the IRS targeting of conservative groups and contributors has done just that to the agenda driven hard left in the Obama Administration. A funny thing happened on the way to the 2014 Democrat victory celebration — Lois Lerner.

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Why Is Christianity Losing in America: Living Through the Cross

Why Is Christianity Losing in America: Living Through the Cross

If Jesus commands us to “seek first the kingdom” then it is imperative that we know more precisely what this means. If the kingdom is as the Bible describes, the rule and reign of God come to earth through Jesus the King over all other kings then this reality carries enormous implications for how we are to live and act as faithful followers of Christ.

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What Our Founding Fathers Got Wrong

What Our Founding Fathers Got Wrong

Our Founding Fathers struggled to protect property rights, human rights and interstate commerce. They defended freedom admirably. It’s hard to believe they would both protest a tariff-created monopoly at the Boston Tea Party and then create one at the first congress.

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