While much of America will proclaim their love for this country by stating that they love her so much they would die for her, I would simply submit to my readers: Do you love your country enough to live for her? Julius Caesar said that if you give people a piece of bread and a spectacle, you can do whatever you want with them.

According to the Rockford Register Star, counterfeit $20 bills are being passed around in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. I’m not sure what all the fuss is about, since the U.S. Supreme Court and a judge in Michigan this week have decided to push counterfeit marriage on the American people as if the counterfeit was the real thing.

A new law making it illegal for young drivers to use a cell phone while driving takes effect on Monday, July 1, South Dakota Department of Public Safety officials remind citizens. The law, passed by the 2013 Legislature, prohibits anyone who holds a learner’s permit or a restricted minor’s permit from using any handheld communication device while driving. Generally, such permits are issued to persons between the ages of 14 and 18.

It never takes homosexual activists and their “useful idiots” long to capitalize on their last victory over truth, justice and morality to leverage the next attack on what is right. Now corrupt judicial activists in Michigan are going after that state’s domestic partner benefits prohibition, as well as the state’s ban on counterfeit marriage.

The President’s Climate Action Plan outlines Obama’s determination to push the limits of his Executive branch power through bypassing Congress and instituting policies through a series of regulations and Executive Orders. With the Environmental Protection Agency expected to be the point of the spear in this war on American energy production, the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head that agency becomes an important test of the Senate’s support for the now declared war.

There’s a saying that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and with new allegations surfacing that the National Security Agency (NSA) is indeed recording the content of every communication, it looks like the agency is on fire. It’s a tremendous distinction. Is the agency intercepting and storing just the metadata on phone calls and emails, or also the content of every communication?

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that the state Board of Water and Natural Resources has approved $4.9 million in grants and loans for drinking water, wastewater, storm water and recycling projects. The board met Thursday and Friday in Pierre.

On July 2, 1776, John Adams sent a letter to his wife Abigail: “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.” Although his prediction was two days premature, Adams’s sentiment was 100 percent accurate.

Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) released the following statement today on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold portions of ObamaCare: “ObamaCare has been built on a series of broken promises, and is deepening the administration’s trust deficit and credibility gap with the American public. Despite Democrats’ assurances that the bill would lower premium costs and allow Americans to keep the insurance they liked, ObamaCare has instead resulted in higher premiums, higher taxes, fewer jobs, more regulations, and more government spending.”

One of the acts consisted of a married couple who fancied themselves to be a singing duo. Unfortunately they were, by any halfway reasonable standard, absolutely terrible. I think it’s hard to disagree that they should have taken a good, hard, honest look at themselves before going too far. It’s easy to laugh at the foolishness of people like this couple, but when it comes right down to it we’re all in the same boat as them.