2016-08-06 13:44
A big segment of the population that doesn’t understand how freedom requires the rule of law, and that without it we’re all right back to the jungle, where the strong and the mea… Read More
Blog Directory > Politics Blogs > Government Blogs > Dakota Voice government Blog >
2016-08-06 10:54
In his book Leading the Way, Paul Borthwick says, “The world needs leaders who cannot be bought; whose word is their promise; who put character above wealth; who possess opinions and a… Read More
2016-08-06 00:03
Over the last week, I have taken in insult after insult, as have I reaped absolute disdain, contempt and scorn from those who should know better for pointing out the obvious concerning the i… Read More
2016-08-05 18:29
How it works is the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) files a lawsuit in federal court against a city, county or state, alleging constitutional and civil rights violat… Read More
2016-08-05 12:13
In Western civilization generally and in the United States specifically, Christian principles have held together the fabric of society while allowing for a great deal of change. Essentially… Read More
2016-08-05 12:07
On the morning of August 3, 2016, my day started with a “thank you” message from one of our senior citizen clients. Our answering service took a message the evening of the previo… Read More
2016-08-04 23:38
The Washington Post’s credibility, to the extent it still has any, is on the line. Jonathan Capehart cannot help himself. One shoddy article has now given rise to a second.
The post C… Read More
2016-08-04 18:35
I thought I covered it pretty thoroughly (not exhaustively by any measure, but surely thoroughly) in Part 1, yet I continue to hear from fellow Republicans who just can't seem to grasp why I… Read More
2016-08-03 12:43
Though Donald Trump and his recent feud with the father of a decorated Muslim Army captain killed in Iraq has brought the discussion about Muslims in America to the public forum, it is not a… Read More
2016-08-03 12:25
Unfortunately, it is the "payback and redistribution" message that dominates the public space in black America. It's what young blacks hear from black stars in the entertainment business, an… Read More
2016-08-01 18:39
The stunning part is that the Democrats are so blinded that they can't see what is obvious to everyone else who is paying attention. The end results of Obama and Clinton's policies toward re… Read More
2016-08-01 18:30
Newly-released records from the Obama Administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) show that they have been right in the middle of this and that they have conducted… Read More
2016-07-31 20:00
Attention on the poop deck. It seems our “first gay president” intends to “milk,” with pride, his fetish for all things “LGBT” in the closing months (merc… Read More
2016-07-31 19:54
Are there really “moral responsibilities” to be regarded in an election? In fact, there are and one of the most rudimentary of them all is the need to elect people who are basica… Read More
2016-07-31 19:27
If black lives matter why are Marxist radical leftists (of every color and persuasion) using them to forward a lawless and sinister tyrannical agenda? Are these the things utopian dreams are… Read More
2016-07-30 10:51
If our representatives will represent us instead of themselves and their cronies, we would find that the solutions to our broken institutions are in the Constitution.
The post The Solution… Read More
2016-07-30 00:03
Americans are once again caught up in the political cycle and settling for what has been handpicked and presented as an option. Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are both immoral.
The pos… Read More
2016-07-30 00:00
If you’ve been paying even a little attention over the past decade or so, you will know that one of the main groups of people targeting Christians and Christianity in America are milit… Read More
2016-07-29 23:50
If an alien landed on this planet with no knowledge of Hillary Clinton’s history, that moon man might think that Hillary sure has some big ideas. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Hilla… Read More
2016-07-29 13:28
Racist and former KKK leader David Duke from Louisiana has said he will run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Now, any serious student of history knows the Democrat Party has always been… Read More
2016-07-29 12:20
There are some who will rise (and maybe not). There are others who fall. They are sold out and were never right at all. They are those who claim to be of the faith. Yet they dread to be labe… Read More
2016-07-29 10:49
Faithful Mohammedan’s are committed to Jihad at first quietly subverting a non Mohammedan society while waiting for their population to reach that trigger point where they can then eng… Read More
2016-07-28 23:45
Author Tiffany Madison wrote, “Our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the sta… Read More
2016-07-28 12:09
On April 2, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany, stating “The world must be made safe for democracy.” Has President Barack Obama… Read More
2016-07-28 11:59
On May 5, 2016, I wrote and typed a letter for an Army veteran to sign. He had brought papers to me for review and I agreed with him that the matter involved either Medicare fraud or serious… Read More
2016-07-28 03:07
I’ve been hearing Republicans bemoan the lack of backbone in the party for years. Cry out for “another Ronald Reagan.” Leadership with some spine. A tireless defender of th… Read More
2016-07-28 02:57
A new client asked us for help with a bill that he got under Obamacare before he became a client of our agency. The client had been careful to read the details of the Obamacare “On Exc… Read More
2016-07-27 12:12
In direct contradiction to America's founding document, the Democratic platform specifically states that abortion should be accessible no matter the woman’s financial situation and all… Read More
2016-07-26 23:30
Religious freedom is under daily threat by wealthy secular humanists like Peter Thiel, who use their wealth to force their values on the whole nation.
The post Thiel Republican Fans Out of… Read More
2016-07-26 18:41
Ted Cruz was demonized for encouraging voters to vote their conscience, but when RNC Chairman Reince Priebus encouraged Democrats to vote their conscience, there was no outrage. Ronald Reaga… Read More
2016-07-26 13:36
The Democratic National Committee functioned as an arm of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign throughout the primary. The release by WikiLeaks of more than 20,000 DNC emails makes tha… Read More
2016-07-26 12:20
NBA legend Michael Jordan just announced that he could “no longer remain silent” about the growing tensions between black Americans and the police, and his words provide all the… Read More
2016-07-26 12:16
Mixing narrative and interviews, D’Souza exposes the Democratic Party as the Party of Exploitation and Subjugation. Urban plantations, barrios, and ghettoes. Forced sterilizations. Sla… Read More
2016-07-24 18:46
Even as the GOP establishment drifts ever leftward, mutating into a “progressive” monstrosity nearly indistinguishable from its DNC Capital Club drinking buddies, a group of cons… Read More
2016-07-23 00:03
Soft judges create hardened criminals, and that is what the American politicians have become, hardened criminals toward the American institution of our Constitutional Republic (Article 4, Se… Read More
2016-07-22 02:59
Evangelical James Dobson endorses Donald Trump (after making it clear last year that he knows what a liberal fraud Trump is)? The Republican National Convention gives a homosexual who claims… Read More
2016-07-21 23:11
The main stream media made a big deal of Melania’s speech at the RNC even after the entire matter was all but dismissed by Donald Trump. No heads are going to roll and the Dem’s… Read More
2016-07-21 18:20
Cruz, being a man of honor and principle, did the best he could do in an impossible-to-win situation. He quickly congratulated Trump on his primary win. Cruz went on to encourage people to n… Read More
2016-07-21 16:14
For those who paid attention, Ted Cruz did exactly what he’s been doing for years: Stare down the political establishment. Stick to his guns. Refuse to kneel before the altar of politi… Read More
2016-07-20 13:32
South Dakota Representative Isaac Latterell made headlines around the nation and around the world when at the 2016 Republican Convention in Cleveland he expressed what so many conservatives… Read More
2016-07-20 10:42
No State action or law is valid unless it conforms to God’s law and His Will. This is precisely why the primary document of America’s political view begins with the acknowledgme… Read More
2016-07-20 10:35
All eyes should be on Florida to see the seeds of change in black America. Students receive scholarships to attend the school of their choice from Scholarship Funding Organizations. The FSOs… Read More
2016-07-19 23:30
A Washington man has come up with a simple idea to show support for law enforcement.
The post A Simple Idea to Support Law Enforcement appeared first on American Clarion.
To continue recei… Read More
2016-07-19 19:10
It has been our actions (and inactions) that have destroyed America. History will continue, noting only with wonder how Americans in the late 20th and early 21st centuries traded heaven-on-e… Read More
2016-07-19 19:00
President Obama, you don’t get to blame the rest of us for the evil that has been unleashed as you play the role of “Agitator in Chief” as the Black Lives Matter movement t… Read More
2016-07-18 23:30
The powers-that-be want us to feel powerless to protect ourselves and reliant on and grateful for the dubious protection provided by the American police state. Their strategy is working. The… Read More
2016-07-17 18:45
Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, President Obama uttered these chilling words: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”… Read More
2016-07-17 10:47
For those who remain in poverty generation after generation, it’s their choices that condemn them to that condition, not racism. Not studying, not developing the social skills needed… Read More
2016-07-16 14:23
You cannot bring right down to a lower level because others may want it lowered to fit their lawless lifestyle. It must be where it always is. Is crime to replace the law that produces liber… Read More
2016-07-16 14:11
This is a future I didn’t anticipate when I was 14. A future without God. A future that has forgotten the Noblesse oblige of history, forgotten the words of Jesus, “Everyone to w… Read More
2016-07-16 14:00
What is a constitution? A constitution organizes, distributes and regulates the power of the state. A constitution sets out the structure of the state, the major state institut… Read More
2016-07-14 18:41
Mike Pence has longstanding credentials as a reliable conservative. Is that enough to overcome Donald Trump's decades of liberal positions and convince conservatives to support Trump for pre… Read More
2016-07-14 18:18
In July 2015, a client from Crown Point brought to me a bill from Mayo Clinic for $2,388.92. He wanted to know why he got the bill since he had both Medicare and a Medicare supplement insura… Read More
2016-07-14 18:15
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing an Iowa church filed a motion Wednesday that asks a federal court to stop the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from censoring the church’s… Read More
2016-07-13 18:32
If the narrative presented by the media and government were actually true, and I doubt that it is, what should be done? So we have an irate black man with a gun killing police officers. What… Read More
2016-07-13 12:45
Once again James O'Keefe's Project Veritas has exposed the truth, this time about anti-gun Leftists who want to make it harder for law-abiding Americans to own guns...while owning guns thems… Read More
2016-07-13 12:10
While I realize this issue of inequality, slavery and the Founding Fathers, and particularly the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, has been a huge stumbling block to blacks and college stud… Read More
2016-07-13 11:56
The basis of a civilized, decent and just society is law. But law, if it is going to be respected, must be rooted in core values and eternal truths. In the words of our second president, Joh… Read More
2016-07-12 18:39
“…that all men are created equal…” Not that they are equal, or that the outcomes of their lives will be equal; but that they are created equal. What happens after… Read More
2016-07-12 13:21
If we want to have free trade, let's have it — with enforceable agreements. By ignoring trade barriers like currency manipulation, the WTO and IMF are pushing the world further away fr… Read More
2016-07-12 11:57
Democrats to this day titter at the supposed trailer-trash aura of Sarah Palin. Well, Sarah Palin, swilling a two-liter Mountain Dew, hawking NRA tote bags out of an El Camino at a Wasilla s… Read More
2016-07-12 11:52
Today we are divided. Our leaders, the powers and principalities, have sown seeds of wickedness, violence, chaos and division as we the people reap the poisonous fruits of strife and discord… Read More
2016-07-09 03:03
The Rule of Law and those who uphold it took twin beatings this week. The Rule of Law cracked and crumbled along Clintonian fault lines on Tuesday as the Marquis de Hillary received yet anot… Read More
2016-07-09 03:02
If Hillary Clinton wins the Presidency, the Clinton cartel will continue their criminal behavior at the expense of the American people. President Hillary will also continue Obama’s fai… Read More
2016-07-09 02:58
There are no accidents, but there is George Soros. Look at the man, his mission, his methods, and subsequently, our nation's direction. Is there truly any further question? The agenda procee… Read More
2016-07-09 02:47
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that South Dakota has joined a lawsuit filed today in Nebraska Federal District Court against the U.S, Department of Education and… Read More
2016-07-09 00:05
I could not help hearing what the propagandists were broadcasting while the FBI Director was talking of the “carelessness” of Hillary Clinton’s compromise of America’… Read More
2016-07-08 18:34
Alton Sterling fought the police, and now he’s dead. He refused to follow their directions and fought them and continued to struggle with them while on the ground. Was it because he… Read More
2016-07-08 13:44
It must be incredibly galling to the former secretary of State, who has often been characterized as one of the smartest people in politics, that her key to freedom might be the FBI director'… Read More
2016-07-07 18:53
Is James Comey “crazy” for not recommending criminal charges for Hillary Clinton over her private emails – or “crazy like a fox”? Was the FBI Director’s T… Read More
2016-07-07 10:43
This week we celebrate the 240th birth day of our Constitutional Republic. Our founders laid down the immutable principles for the foundation of our civil government in that great document w… Read More
2016-07-07 00:10
This side-by-side of Hillary Clinton's lies next to FBI Director James Comey's statement on the findings of the long investigation of her lawbreaking really tells the story.
The post Hillar… Read More
2016-07-06 23:54
FBI Director James Comey told the nation the FBI would not be recommending that Hillary Clinton be charged with any crime for storing and disseminating classified information from her privat… Read More
2016-07-06 23:46
South Dakota Republican Party Executive Director Ryan Budmayr emailed Republicans in South Dakota regarding Amendment V on nonpartisan elections which will be on the ballot in South Dakota i… Read More
2016-07-06 18:43
Apparently, "Heterosexual Pride Day" was July 1st. Did you know that? I didn't. Frankly, the only way I even heard about it was from a so-called "news" page that comes up when I access my em… Read More
2016-07-06 18:40
Great news! I was recently arrested as a suspect in a local bank robbery, but the local prosecutor announced today that I’ll not be charged. I’m grateful, of course, because it… Read More
2016-07-06 18:37
If the prospect of a president with a well-worn track record of poor judgment and mishandling classified data doesn’t keep you awake at night, what will? Indeed, the only thing more in… Read More
2016-07-06 18:32
When FBI director James Comey announced this week that that Hillary Clinton’s actions regarding her official email were not worthy of prosecution, his decision had ramifications far be… Read More
2016-06-05 12:33
Rick Kriebel has served on the school board in Rapid City, and also several years as a Rapid City alderman. Kriebel opposes Common Core Education standards, and wanton tax increases for educ… Read More
2016-06-05 12:14
On Sunday, the Libertarian Party nominated the former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson as their alternative to Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Governor Johnson has been a longtime advo… Read More
2016-06-04 20:11
South Dakota Taxpayers PAC has a new ad out highlighting the priorities of Rep. Jacqueline Sly who is running against incumbent South Dakota Senator Phil Jensen. You can watch the video here… Read More
2016-06-04 18:09
Below is a mailer going out this weekend from South Dakota Senator Phil Jensen's campaign, and it's a good one. The front side says: "Jacqueline Sly masterminded the plan to give 400 teacher… Read More
2016-06-04 14:28
American Clarion recently submitted a list of questions to Lora Hubbel, a fresh candidate for the South Dakota Senate in District 9. These questions focused primarily on bills that were con… Read More
2016-06-04 14:09
What was meant as a slur has become a badge of pride to many who proclaim, “I am a bitter clinger.” Rejecting the racist projection that anyone who does not embrace the globalis… Read More
2016-06-04 00:05
If I gave you a vial of medicine and said that I sold all that I had, every possession in the world for you to have this, you would say, “That’s great, but I’m not sick&rdq&hell…Read More
2016-06-03 18:36
Go with Hillary, lose the Bernie voters who hate her. Go with Bernie, lose the disenfranchised Hillary voters. Go with Joe Biden, potentially lose them both. These scenarios must be giving D… Read More
2016-06-03 13:39
In part seven I covered some of the troubles that came upon the Puritans after arriving in the New World. It was certainly a time of trial. However, in February of 1631 there was a marvel… Read More
2016-06-02 17:59
On May 31, 2016, I got some great news. The doctor who runs a major department at a hospital in northern Indiana phoned me with the good news. His department cancelled the contract with a me… Read More
2016-06-02 12:31
American Clarion recently submitted a list of questions to Tina Mulally, a fresh candidate for the South Dakota Senate in District 35. These questions focused primarily on bills that were c… Read More
2016-06-02 10:06
This bay to the south was the bay for Boston. If you were to bring up a map of the Boston area on the internet, you would see that there are two rivers which flow into the water way that le… Read More
2016-06-02 02:06
When we ask the question whose to blame for the mess in our county, the most often stated response is that it is politicians. And while they bear a great responsibility, it goes deeper than… Read More
2016-06-02 01:57
“The Cold War continues,” says retired US Navy Captain James A. Huff of Rapid City, an expert in naval intelligence who cut his teeth on Russian-American spying and surveillance… Read More
2016-06-01 13:58
American Clarion recently submitted a list of questions to Stace Nelson, a fresh candidate for the South Dakota Senate in District 19. These questions focused primarily on bills that were c… Read More
2016-06-01 13:45
A groundbreaking new study from the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas provides state of the art data showing the benefits of school choice. The bottom line: When p… Read More
2016-06-01 13:13
What if I told you government's only purpose is to secure your rights. That's correct: our government's purpose and mandate that God has ordained is so limited that all they are to do is pro… Read More
2016-06-01 13:13
After leaving England on April 8, 1630, the Puritans arrived at Salem on June 12th. Salem was the place where Higginson along with a man named Skelton, had gone in 1629 after the charter wa… Read More
2016-06-01 13:02
All presidential options considered, the term, 'lesser of two evils,' has never been so fitting. At least with Trump, we know what we are getting, or at least we know that we don't know.
Th… Read More
2016-05-31 12:35
In part four I addressed the introductory main points of Winthrop’s sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity,” which were to provide the vision for Puritan society. At the end… Read More
2016-05-30 15:06
Notice what happens when, acting on God’s behalf, we use our position in society and our possessions to carry out God’s will by helping others? We “show forth the glory of… Read More
2016-05-30 14:47
Before you break out the barbecue or grab your baseball glove this Memorial Day, take a moment to consider what's behind this "most solemn of American holidays" - and the cost.
The post Bef… Read More
Subscribe to Dakota Voice
Get updates delivered right to your inbox!