Day Two of the South Dakota GOP convention in Rapid City was another long day-but not as long as it was for the Platform Committee. If I remember what Chairman Craig Lawrence said this morning, the Platform Committee met until about 10:30 pm last night, then came in about 8:00 am this morning to finally wrap up things right before the general assembly started at 9:30 am. What a tremendous amount of work they did-and good work, at that!

I’m a delegate and sitting in on the general assembly of the 2014 South Dakota GOP Convention in Rapid City, so my time and focus for reporting is limited, but here are a few scenes from Day Two of the convention today.

Get a half-dozen disgruntled liberals in one place, and the “mainstream” media creates a firestorm of publicity. Get a large group of conservatives together to stand for the values upon which our great republic depends, and there’s a collective yawn…if the “mainstream” media even shows up at all. Fortunately there is still some non “mainstream” media out there to cover things such as the protest on Capitol Hill in favor of marriage and family.

On June 12, Senator Harry Reid sent a letter to Washington Redskins president Bruce Allen urging the team to change its name, which came as the U.S. Patent Office revoked the team’s trademarks in a ruling. But shouldn’t Reid be first trying to change the name of the Russell Senate Office Building, named after a Democrat who filibustered civil rights legislation, actively supported segregation, and even co-authored the Southern Manifesto against the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, Brown v. Board of Education?

The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, led by Saturday Night Live comedian turned politician Al Franken, voted unanimously against the exact language contained in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. This marks perhaps the first time elected officials have officially voted against the basic freedoms that have been the backbone of our individual liberties for more than 225 years.