Curtis Strong of Rapid City announced today his campaign for South Dakota governor in 2014. Strong will be running on the Constitution Party platform.

Congresswoman Kristi Noem today unveiled a new school nutrition bill that reduces federal mandates on school lunch standards, which have been a point of contention since their implementation at the beginning of the 2012 school year. The announcement was made while Rep. Noem ate lunch with high school students in Chester, SD.

This past week our nation celebrated the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address. Once a staple in schools, where kids learned the words by heart and delivered them before the whole class, modern education has apparently deemed the soaring words of Lincoln unworthy of being taught.

President Obama’s socialized medicine law has a big problem on its hands — something much more serious than a botched website or a broken political promise. And while some say it’s nothing more than a “technicality,” the court case over this “glitch” is moving forward even as most of the mainstream media looks the other way. “This has the potential to sink Obamacare,” Cato Institute health policy expert Michael Cannon told The Los Angeles Times.

Put me down with Todd Friel of Wretched Radio and Wretched TV. I am a wretched person who sins, doesn’t do enough of the right things and does too many of the wrong things. The only difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is that the Christian has acknowledged the fact that they don’t measure up to God’s standard of goodness, and has thrown themselves on God’s mercy.

As security guru Bruce Schneier says, though, “Complete effectiveness is not the goal; the checkpoints just have to be effective enough so that the terrorists are worried their plan will be uncovered.” However, there hasn’t been a study yet where the TSA successfully stopped over half of testers’ weapons or explosive materials. If the TSA were a private security firm, they would have been fired by now.

The long discredited falsehood that it is the “Israeli occupation” that is responsible for the Christian flight from the territories under the control of the Palestinian Authority is wearing thin. Indeed, it is so thin that all who are fair minded and have eyes to see and ears to hear can see that it is veritably transparent.