A bill urging Congress and the President to secure the blessings of life and liberty for our posterity passed the South Dakota Senate today on a 28-7 vote. Four of the seven voting against it in the South Dakota Senate were Republicans: Senator Deb Soholt of Sioux Falls, Senator Larry Tidemann of Brookings, Senator Craig Tieszen of Rapid City, and Senator Mike Vehle of Mitchell.

HB 1100 to “prohibit the use of certain photo radar speed detection systems and of certain photo monitoring devices to detect red light violations” was heard in the South Dakota House Judiciary Committee today. The bill passed out of committee 11-0.

According to an article at KELO, South Dakota RINO Rep. Anne Hajek from Dist. 14 is “disgusted” with the legislation upholding Republican values that she’s seen this session. Apparently she has a major problem with defending Christians and Christian business owners from the kind of attacks on religious freedom we’ve seen in other states, not only against people who try to tell the truth about homosexual behavior but against Christian business owners who simply want to run their business in a manner that honors their God.

Here in the US, there has been a decided lack of interest in the Games, which begins this Friday in Sochi, a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia. Many Americans, including this scribe, have finally come to view the Games as just another theater for international politics and we are slowly losing interest in them.

The video below tells the story of Emilie from Tennessee. She has lupus, and had health care coverage which helped her treat this disease…before ObamaCare came along to “help” her in typical government fashion. ObamaCare came along and cancelled her perfectly good health care coverage to “make things better” as government usually does.

According to the Leftist template, this isn’t supposed to happen: an Arab serving in the Israeli Defense Force. Monaliza Abdo is an Arab Christian from Haifa who, though she didn’t have to, joined the Israeli Defense Force. She has helped guard the nation from terrorist attacks and keep illegal drugs out of the country. In doing so, she protects both the Jews and the Arabs who live in Israel.

We have repeatedly warned you that the radical homosexual movement’s goal is nothing less than the obliteration of the rights of those who oppose it. We have yet another proof of this in Massachusetts, a state in which the militant homosexual movement is on a vicious, seemingly inexorable march. On Friday, MassResistance reported on the story of a homosexual activist going through legal channels to force a Catholic school to hire him, despite the fact that he is “married” to another man.

These are some of the bills in the South Dakota legislature we’re watching at American Clarion that will be under consideration in committee or in a full legislative body today. In addition to bills on taxes, workforce education, and securing the blessings of liberty, another “health care for pregnant illegal aliens” bill to be considered today.

We are all familiar with the US Marine Corps slogan “Looking for a Few Good Men.” Truth is, America’s military has always had plenty of “good men.” What it seems to lack in spades is good leaders.