A bill to require drug testing for welfare recipients was once again considered this year in the South Dakota Legislature, and was once again killed in committee by the “Republican” supermajority legislature. “Republican” Governor Dennis Daugaard was also opposed to the bill.

Last week the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee gave its approval to an expansion of gambling in Deadwood, even after hearing testimony about the societal ills gambling causes. Yesterday, HB 1246 was introduced in the South Dakota House to increase the maximum bet limit and to eliminate the award limit on video lottery games. Meanwhile, a new report reveals record gambling losses worldwide, with the United States leading the way.

Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s, which the Supreme Court decided was protected from a government seeking to gain access to their member and donor lists in order to target them simply due to their beliefs, the Tea Party will not be silenced. The only question is whether members of Congress use their “power of the purse” to rein in this abuse of power, or will they just talk.

Hundreds of millions were murdered by the Marxist-Leninists and Stalinists to establish the USSR. Mao’s bloody military campaigns and disastrous “Great Leap Forward” economic plan ended in the death of tens of millions. And the ideologically-aligned American left doesn’t want you to care.

These are some of the bills we’re watching at American Clarion which are up for consideration in the South Dakota Legislature today. Among them are bills to protect the privacy of students and their families, a waiting period requirement for new education standards, the gathering of racial information on forms, and drug testing for welfare recipients.

God’s judgment on America is long over due, were His wrath for the murder of 56 million innocent babies slain on our soil, and about a billion murdered by our government worldwide, were that judgment to fall today what would it look like? How devastating would it be? Would there be anything left of our land?

Last fall, the Supreme Court agreed to review two religious liberty cases surrounding the Obama Administration’s contraception mandate. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties maintain that the federal requirement is an unlawful infringement upon religious liberty, and this year we’ll find out if the highest court in the land concurs.

Liberals are some of the most racist, divisive, stereotypical people I’ve ever encountered. They thrive on creating division by perpetuating generalizations. They only see the externals of color and culture and want to keep us in our own mutually exclusive groupings. They are also establishing a form of political correction so precise that we will be reluctant to even speak for fear of unauthorized, governmentally enforced, oral expression restrictions.