A bill to prohibit registered sex offenders from loitering in certain places was approved by the South Dakota Senate Judiciary Committee today. SB 125 seeks to add public libraries to the places registered sex offenders are prohibited from loitering in.

From the Washington Examiner comes word of 62,000 grassroots (e.g. Tea Party) activists finds big support for the 2016 candidates for president that you’d expect, and little for the ones you’d expect. No real surprises here. As they always have, Tea Party patriots support Americans who support American values and the values that the GOP used to stand for…and they have no use for frauds who sell out those values on the altar of the vain pursuit of pleasing liberals.

If the GOP is truly serious about ridding itself of conservatives, Tea Party and otherwise, then all they need do is pass any form of immigration reform that allows a so-called pathway for citizenship — amnesty — for the illegal aliens within our borders.

Radio talk show host David Webb recently confronted Rev. William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP for his (NC NAACP President) levied against Senator Tim Scott and the Tea Party: “A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy. The extreme right wing down here finds a black guy to be senator and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction, and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the Tea Party.”

These are bills of interest which are scheduled to be considered in the South Dakota Legislature today. They include bills dealing with child molestation, protecting the public from sex offenders, animal welfare, tobacco regulation, and Common Core/education standards, Article V Constitutional Convention bills, and a bill to allow “independents” to sign petitions in a primary election.

Spiritually, our nation is dying. In response, conservative Christians are caught between righteous judgements and somber humility. Share and Defend is what I propose. Share the Gospel and Defend Christian Values.

Reports indicate that that Attorney General Eric Holder intends to ban consideration of “religion” in terror investigations. By “religion,” we understand he means Islam, the religion of the overwhelming majority of terrorists who have attacked the United States.