Celibate Christians like author, Wesley Hill, have publicly acknowledged their sexual propensities to be a heavy burden and a great sin against God and our created purpose. What they, and those who support them, do not do, is place the need to become ‘straight’ before the need to become ‘saved.’

Independent U.S. Senate candidate Gordon Howie was East River campaigning yesterday and took time to discuss illegal immigration with the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan. There is a clear difference between Gordon Howie and the other candidates on illegal immigration, and that difference came out in the interview.

Kamal Saleem will be speaking in Rapid City and Sioux Falls in September. Kamal was recruited by the Muslim Brotherhood at an early age but had his life turned upside down during an auto accident when devout Christians treated and cared for him.

Palestinians murder three Israeli teenagers and launch a pre-meditated barrage of lethal missiles upon Israeli civilians from Hamas occupied Gaza. Still most of the international and mainstream media slumber on. But then, saints alive, the Jews fight back and retaliate against the Palestinian Hamas thugs. Then the morally compromised media wakes up.

If you listen to talk radio, you get a steady stream of rhetoric promoting what is called conservatism. I hope in the next minute or so to get you thinking about whether being conservative is really to be right.

The drums of war are increasing in the world this week. Not too far north of the hot war zones, with tens of thousands of Russian troops stationed along Ukraine’s western border, the Kremlin is flirting with the notion of sending a humanitarian mission to intervene. From the Obama camp, we heard of his decision to launch military action in Iraq. We must not forget the war on terror.

In the end, conservatives have it right on the whole: the small town is fertile ground for robust cultural mores, preserved traditions, and a sense that most people know each other’s names and care about each other’s lives. But I fear for the future - a move to large cities so often coincides with an increasing isolationism.