As reported by National Review, President Barack Obama’s trade of five Club Gitmo terrorists for traitor/deserter Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was illegal. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report today which found the action did not comply with the law.

Beyond the obvious technological advancements that have mostly benefited our lives, many of the issues we are currently wrestling with as a people weren’t even conceivable in 1989. Given that trend line, and the fact we are domestically debating unprecedented existential threats to individual liberty, the next 25 years could become American Exceptionalism’s tipping point moment barring revival.

That may seem like an odd question to ask. After all, everyone knows Jesus. At least that is what they tell me when we’re out on the streets. Rather than get into an argument with them, I chose to simply ask them a question. This is the same question I would like to put to the millions sitting in the pews of America’s churches: Which Jesus? Which Jesus do you “believe” in? Which Jesus do you serve?

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that the South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s DUI Implied Consent Law is unconstitutional by affirming the Circuit Court’s grant of the suppression of blood evidence in State of South Dakota vs. Shauna Fierro.

During the U.S. Senate debate at Dakotafest yesterday, conservative candidate Gordon Howie pointed out that while Mike Rounds likes to talk as if he’s a conservative and hates ObamaCare, Rounds actually worked to defeat Howie’s attempt to protect South Dakota from ObamaCare in 2010.

Political candidates don’t usually admit when their opponents did something positive, but in this video, conservative U.S. Senate candidate Gordon Howie talks about some of the things RINO candidate Mike Rounds did that had positive results.

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, who has written six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed papers, recently exposed the lies of the pro-transgender propaganda movement. Dr. McHugh calls transgenderism what it is: a mental disorder.

Maybe people just don’t know appreciate the importance of argument. The British Parliament is a wonderful example of how to argue. Sometimes fistfights even break out! You might call that “argument with style”. Let’s start with Webster’s definition of the word itself. “Argument: a statement, reason, or fact for or against a point. An address or composition intended to convince or persuade”. When you go back to the United States Founding Fathers, they were skilled users of argument.

Most Americans today would call themselves patriots. Would you? But what does that mean…to be an American…to be a patriot? What is the basis for your self-description as a patriotic American? This is something to think about!