There’s a short article in the Rapid City Journal which encapsulates why South Dakota Rep. Stace Nelson is the best choice for U.S. Senate, starting with the headline “Nelson wants to ruffle feathers in Washington.”

RINO Mike Rounds made headlines recently with his call for “discipline” in Washington. What a pity his record reflects none of the “discipline” and conservative juice his rhetoric wants us to believe in.

Why are we placing restrictions on how and when truth can be spoken? Why should we be deterred from speaking truth with 100% shameless conviction? Truth is much more than religion. We must continue to speak as boldly in the public square about all natural realities, and make Swiss cheese of the tremendous amount of controlled, sponsored propaganda that has been passing for scholarly study and reporting these days. The fact of the matter is, it’s all religion anyway.

Putin’s Russia has drawn the Crimea back into the Russian fold and has moved troops up to the borders of the eastern most portion of the Ukraine. Should he decide to invade the Ukraine, no doubt he will be successful and the West — or as we are referring to the alliance of western states today — “the Unled,” will have lost again.

The present day in which we are living is moving at exponential speeds and there has never been a time in the 6000 year history of man in which our global society has moved this quickly. Our world and global society is moving and changing at the speed of a jet and billions are oblivious to where this jet is taking them.

When government officials believe they need to “get the economy going again,” they typically spend money on works projects to flood the market with dollars. Japanese economists invented the financial policy of quantitative easing in 2001 to intentionally inflate the currency. In the process, they dropped the interest rates of their country to zero. Quantitative easing occurs when the central bank purchases government Treasury bonds or other financial securities.

Our revolution changed the world. Our Declaration of Independence proclaims self-evident truths. That all men are created equal, they’re endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These words shook a world held in the vise-grip of hereditary privilege inspiring people around the globe. Our Constitution established a representative republic with a limited government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Charles “Charlie” Summers (USAF ret) of Rapid City spent three tours in Vietnam flying the F-100 Super Sabre. On Saturday, April 12th, he will present his combat experiences to the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group at the Western Dakota Technical Institute at 9 am.