In case you missed it, South Dakota Rep. and U.S. Senate Candidate Stace Nelson created a stir with his comments this past weekend at the Lincoln County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. It seems some took issue with his statement: “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order, and I’ll be the latter as long as it supports the first two.”

The South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. The new site is designed to offer veterans a centralized clearinghouse of valuable resources accessible from anywhere in the world.

There are several methods for controlling a population. Though many involve force and fear, there is one that doesn’t. You can indoctrinate them into compliance from an early age through the schools, discouraging them from thinking for themselves while rewarding them for regurgitating whatever the government, through its so-called educational standards, dictates they should be taught.

Tony Stark, more commonly known as Iron Man, is one of the most famous comic book CEOs. He is described by Marvel Comics as a “self-made superhero” who inherited the role of CEO at Stark Enterprises. Isaac Perlmutter is Tony Stark’s CEO. He bought formerly bankrupt Marvel Entertainment in 1998, became CEO in 2005 and facilitated the 2009 sale to Disney, remaining CEO of the company to this day.

The most insidious result of central-planning and the overabundance of government control it requires is not the maladjustments it inevitably creates in the economy. It is not the crony capitalism and bureaucratic nepotism that it always fosters. It is not the smothering blanket of nanny-state regulations that strangle creativity. It is not even the tendency to one-party rule even when camouflaged behind a two party system that is in reality two heads of the same bird of prey. It is not a system which may actually contain only two parties if you believe there is the government party and the country party.