The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is selling its soul to the devil-literally. I have to agree with Brent Bozell: CPAC is going to have to get serious about opposing groups that support liberal causes, or CPAC is going to be a completely worthless exercise.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has signed several more bills into law during the 2014 legislative session. The new laws deal with motor vehicle taxation, military license plates, gambling establishments, funeral homes, first responders, and more.

In today’s domestic economic boycott, the left has escalated their efforts using an extremely sophisticated instant communication system designed to mobilize people to be offended almost instantaneously, and now they are looking for targets to use it on. And that is why they are determined to use every government agency at their disposal to disclose corporate contributions to groups that engage in limited political advocacy. Read more ›

The United States Supreme Court will determine if and/or how far the EPA has the Constitutional prerogative to use the Clean Air Act of 1960 — which does not include carbon as a pollutant under the regulatory jurisdiction of the EPA — as legal authority to regulate so-called greenhouse gasses. The ruling may have wide-stretching ramifications.

The story is told that when Ben Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention an anxious lady asked him what kind of government they had given us. His famous reply was: “A republic, Madam, … if you can keep it.” And, for the most part, right up through the Second World War, we Americans tried to keep it. But no more. It’s just too hard, too difficult, too dull, banal, and boring to involve oneself with politics.

We knew before Barack Obama was elected in 2008 that he planned to gut the U.S. military. He’s been very busy demoralizing it and creating chaos for the past five years, and now it’s time to pull the rug on defense financially.

A young lady, identified only as Lauren A., describes Duke University (a school whose motto is Eruditio et Religio: Learning and Religion) as her “dream school,” and she states that she has chosen to act in porn movies to finance her education. She tried to keep her identity under cover, so to speak, but one of the young men at the school recognized her on campus and exposed her identity. She was subsequently harassed and bullied online for what she does, so she decided to write a column about it and what she believes it means.

These are some of the noteworthy bills being considered in the South Dakota Legislature today.