Why do supporters of South Dakota's atrocious new abortion law, HB 1217, keep lying to us that the bill is just about informing women? Because lying is par for the course in the War on Women. To understand, please, please,…
Posts tagged as “religion”
Let's mingle the secular and the sacred on the budget today, shall we? HB 1230 comes before Senate State Affairs this morning. This bill permanently diverts 22% of the contractors' excise tax to corporate welfare, handouts to wealthy businesses that…
Bigotry check, everyone! The following "joke" has been circulating on various conservative fora. Madison City Commissioner Nick Abraham posted it on his Facebook wall yesterday. This morning the Muslim Brotherhood warned the United States that if United States meddling in…
South Dakota's legislators don't pay much attention to history... not even recent history. Our legislators---who still haven't written a budget---are considering three measures that would fight the scourge of Islam that has driven South Dakota into its structural deficit, deprived…
The South Dakota Legislature becomes a bigger embarrassment every day. At a crackerbarrel in Rapid City yesterday, Rep. Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) declared it a problem that American women marry whom they want: In the Western world... Muslim men are…
I have a problem with House Joint Resolution 1004. Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City), Senator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center), and many of my favorite conservatives (Haggar, Hickey, Hubbel, Munsterman, Stace Nelson, even my gal Stricherz) want to submit to us…
I by no means presume that reading South Dakota's pastor blogs makes up for not going to church. But it is good for my brain... and for everyone's financial thinking. Father Tim bends our brains a bit by pointing out…
Loose on Religion, Uptight on Homosexuals ThePostSD.com alerts us to another reason we might have trouble convincing some young people to stick around on the prairie. The Daily Beast spent Martin Luther King Day calculating how tolerant the states of…