Fox Business has a disturbing article about the State Integrity Investigation report from the Center for Public Integrity. The report card is based on a variety of criteria including public access to information, political financing, accountability, budget processes, procurement, auditing, disclosure, redistricting, insurance commissions, and such. My state, South Dakota, came in the second worst of the 50 states.
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Syria: The Risk of Opening a Regional War
President Obama is requesting congressional authorization to take limited military action that may not even achieve its purpose. He makes no guarantee the weapons will be secured or destroyed and in the meantime the action might land the U.S. in a wider war it does not intend to wage. If this really is all about credibility, our enemies surely are laughing at us. Nobody fears Obama.
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Mid-Term 2013 Congressional Scorecard
Heritage Action has released their 2013 mid-term congressional scorecard. You won’t be surprised to see certain Republicans ranked high (hint: they are the ones who have been speaking out most boldly for Republican principles and a return to the traditional American values that made ours the greatest nation in history).
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The Rule of Law…or the Rule of Men?
Have you ever wondered how this great nation departed from our enlightened founding values and got so far off course? Have you ever wondered how an informed and free people such as those in America could ever get sold on the notion of trading their freedom and the rule of law, for the bankrupt promises of liberalism and slavery to government? This is a 10-minute summary of how we came to trade freedom for servitude, and the rule of law for the rule of corrupt men.
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Recent American Clarion Articles
The Key to American Greatness: Family Education
In order to subjugate a Christian people, you must first de-Christianize them. You must remove, from the culture, that which prevents you from conquering them. Piece by piece, Christian beliefs must be removed - along with the memory of those beliefs - from the minds of the people. This will take
National Values Above Special Interests
America is about "e pluribus unum." Out of many one. Although the origin of the idea "e pluribus unum" was about unity of the different states under one federal government, it is also relevant in terms of the integration of citizens from many different racial and ethnic backgrounds into one
The Thinking Hasn’t Already Been Done For You
Whenever I encounter an online discussion about a big, contentious issue -- especially Christianity vs. atheism or creationism vs. evolutionism -- there are certain things I know I will see. Specifically, I know what kinds of things will be said by those taking the anti-Christian side.
Transgender Life, Liberty, and Property
On Tuesday, April 19th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals sided against a Virginia school board for simply protecting its students by not allowing a transgender student who was born female but claims to identify as a male to use the men’s restroom. What has this Virginia school board done
The Pilgrims: Laying America’s Foundations, Part 7
At the end of part six I said it is also important to understand that when we live for God, it is not unusual for God to bring trials into our lives so the people around us can see how we are different in the way we react to the trials. This is what some of the sailors saw when they were sick and
The Pilgrims: Laying America’s Foundations, Part 6
Trials come to reveal what is in our hearts. It reveals the kind of people we truly are, whether we will be the kind of people God wants us to be or
2016 American Clarion SD Legislative Scorecard
The 2016 South Dakota legislative scorecard from American Clarion is now available online. This is the first time American Clarion has put together a scorecard which scores legislative votes during the last legislative
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