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Sioux Falls, Sep 24, 2008 / 12:47 am (CNA).- Pro-life activists in South Dakota have launched a television ad featuring Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the founding members of NARAL, who calls on South Dakotans to vote to ban the use of “abortion as birth control.”   In a TV ad supporting Measure 11 in South Dakota, Dr. Nathanson explains that he and his colleagues who founded NARAL created it to “export our pro-abortion mentality across the land.” He also reveals that, “One of our strategies, in order to mislead the American people, was to deny what we knew to be...

The Meade County State’s Attorney said Friday that members of the Hells Angels initiated a bar scuffle that led to the shooting of one of club’s members at the Loud American Roadhouse in Sturgis earlier this month. Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal said in an e-mail that the investigation has revealed the Hells Angels “instigated the assault” in a fight with the Iron Pigs on the evening of Aug. 9. The two clubs got into a fight just before the shooting, according to witnesses at the scene and authorities. The Iron Pigs is a national motorcycle organization made up...

STURGIS -- In his first-ever stop at the always-raucous Buffalo Chip Campground, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain had thousands of boisterous supporters -- and more than a few loud motorcycles -- rocking and rumbling Monday night as he slammed his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, for being weak on energy and national defense.

(dpa) - Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert. With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or rival Democrats. But the state doubles in population during the annual August motorcycle rally in Sturgis, at the foot of the Black Hills, that draws an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 out-of-state "wild hogs" who roar cross country to celebrate their bike culture. McCain plans...

A Watertown pastor suspected tonight of having sexual contact with a child. KSFY obtained these court documents which lays out the case against Dennis Hayes. In documents released by Watertown Police, we're told the suspected contact happened last Friday when Hayes took a juvenile boy he had been mentoring from the "Southwest Youth Services Center" in Magnolia, Minnesota to a library in Luverne, Minnesota. The boy claims during the drive to Luverne, Hayes held his hand and told him he loved him. While at the Luverne library, he claims Hayes rubbed his back outside his shirt. During the drive back...

Aberdeen, SD, May 14, 2008 / 01:08 am (CNA).- Presentation College in Aberdeen, South Dakota has withdrawn an invitation to a commencement speaker because of her views on legalized abortion.State Senator Nancy Turbak-Berry was scheduled to deliver the commencement address at the college on Saturday.  According to the Associated Press, she said she was told on Friday that she could not speak there because of her views on abortion.  She had accepted the invitation to speak in January.College officials reportedly said they had made an “administrative decision” to withdraw the invitation because her pro-abortion views were incompatible with Catholic...

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on Friday introduced a bill that would change language in the 2007 energy bill to allow wood waste from national forests to count toward the Renewable Fuels Standard in the energy bill. In a last-minute change, the final version of the energy bill enacted in December contained a definition of "renewable biomass" that excludes any material removed from national forests. The definition means cellulosic ethanol derived from wood chips and other wood waste from national forests does not count toward the renewable-fuels standard. The result is that fuel blenders and refiners have no incentive or requirement...

Sweden's largest direct marketing company has joined the national postal service in refusing to distribute a political newspaper containing a caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Earlier this week Posten decided not to distribute SD-Kuriren - a newspaper produced by the far-right Sweden Democrats - in Svedala in southern Sweden. As the newspaper contained a reproduction of Lars Vilks's controversial illustration of Muhammad as a dog, the postal service said that to distribute the publication would constitute a security risk. "We want to protect the safety of our mail carriers. This illustration has provoked reactions that have led to death...

State Department Urges Reporters To Leave Gaza New York Sun - http://www.nysun.com/article/56426 Hamas, Fatah Fight Continues In Gaza http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007629564AHN - Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - Following the Hamas takeover of a dozen Fatah controlled buildings in Gaza, Palestinians appear headed toward a full civil war. Hamas hands security forces ultimatum to surrender arms Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/06/13/afx3816108.html

SIOUX FALLS -- Former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, who endorsed Barack Obama for his party's presidential nomination, said he would consider being Obama's running mate if asked but said it's not likely to happen. "I don't believe there is much possibility that I will be asked," the former Senate minority leader from South Dakota said Saturday by phone from Washington. "If I would, I would consider it, but I don't expect it to happen

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Here in the poorest corner of the poorest Indian reservation in the country, Geraldine Blue Bird's household was one of the worst off. Then-President Clinton stopped by her home during his 1999 tour of the nation's most impoverished places. Blue Bird, who lived on a disability check, was squeezing 28 adults and children, most of whom she had taken in from the streets, into a four-room shack with no plumbing and a pop-up camper out back. When word got out, donations poured in, and continued for years. Blue Bird even received a brand-new double-wide mobile home...

Sen. Tim Johnson, a Democrat from South Dakota, was hospitalized Wednesday after what his office at first called a "possible stroke," leading to concern among Democrats that their new one-vote majority in the Senate could be in danger. By the end of the day, after what his office called "a comprehensive evaluation by the stroke team" at George Washington University Hospital here, a spokeswoman for Johnson said that he had not suffered a stroke or a heart attack. The spokeswoman, Julianne Fisher, gave no further details about Johnson's medical condition.His office said that Johnson, who will turn 60 on Dec....

On November 7, this nation will have a national election. Along with the candidates for federal and local offices, there is a ballot measure in South Dakota that will ban abortion in most cases. Most of us here on FR will not be voting in South Dakota. But we can pray that the good citizens will cast the vote that will begin the end of the practice of infanticide. This is a prayer request. My wife and I will be praying on the seventh, and would this is something that we all need to pray for. My bride’s mom is...

A truly historic speech

"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." — Matthew 5:14-16 President Ronald Reagan often talked about his vision of America as "a shining city on a hill," and thereby inspired a whole generation and our entire nation — helping to pull...

Every election is a crossroads: a time for us to choose, not just between individual candidates, but between two very different directions for our country. This year, because of the principled and courageous actions of your state representatives, the people of South Dakota find themselves on the front lines of the fight for life and liberty. On one side in this battle are those who believe in the founding principles of America, and whose desire is to restore and defend the traditions and basic institutions of our country. They believe that every human being, born or unborn, is created...

The ordination and installation of Bishop Paul Swain, makes him the 8th Bishop in the Sioux Falls Diocese. "Have the power to forgive sins among your demand," said St. Paul/Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn. "It's just amazing, the one thing that really touches my heart the most is when they hold the book of gospel over him and the responsibility and weight of that, as a Bishop to be our spiritual leader. That symbolism there," said Catholic Dawn Wolf. He waited until he was 44 years young, before joining the priesthood. Now, at the age of 66, Bishop Swain is...

On Nov. 7, the people of South Dakota will be asked to vote yes or no on Referred Law 6, which restores protection for the right to life of their posterity in the womb. For the first time since the Supreme Court's unconstitutional Roe v. Wade decision, the issue of equal rights for posterity will be decided by a vote of the people, rather than the dictates of unelected federal judges usurping the people's right to decide issues of faith and conscience for themselves. Constitutional requirements When they passed the law restoring equal rights to children in their mother's womb,...

Pro-abortion forces are converging on the bucolic state of South Dakota in unprecedented waves because they know that when voters go to the polls on Nov. 7, their future will be at stake, organizers on both sides of the critical life battle say. "The next few decades in America are going to be shaped by what happens in South Dakota," David Bereit, a spokesman for the American Life League, told WND this week. "They (pro-abortion forces) know what's at stake, this is their ground zero. They realize this is going to be the fight that shapes what happens next. "Unfortunately,...

Abortion and birth control are antagonistic to Creation. They waste under their own curse as they course toward self destruction. They leave in their wake the deaths of individuals, the destruction of families, a void in communities, and the downfall of nations. They rip, slash and tear at the moral fabric of a religious people. Coming events foreshadow themselves as several states introduce legislation to abolish or restrict abortion. Most of this legislation will undoubtedly be gutted with exceptions for rape, incest, or lifestyle of the mother. South Dakota legislators have kept most these exceptions from defiling House Bill 1215....

LOS ANGELES -- It's a real shame the Dodgers have no more games scheduled with the Padres this year, because after finding all sorts of ways to lose to San Diego while dropping 13 of the first 17 games between the two teams, it looks like they've finally found a way to win. The Dodgers hit seven home runs Monday night and needed every one, overcoming four-run deficits twice in a remarkable 11-10 victory in 10 innings that put them back into first place by one-half game and had to be seen to be believed. "This will be a game,"...

José Luis Cano was back at work driving his taxicab this week after surviving a kidnapping that started in San Diego and ended when he escaped the same day from a Tijuana house where he was being held. “It's difficult to describe how I feel,” he said. “I felt powerless, I felt fearful, and when I was in the house I focused on observing and listening to everything so I could get away.” Two men were arrested after Cano escaped and reported the crime to Mexican authorities. It's been a particularly busy week for kidnapping investigators on both sides of...

As the state of South Dakota prepares for a battle over a new law banning virtually all abortions, CNN conducted an interview with a woman who flies in from Minnesota to do abortions at the state's only abortion business, in Sioux Falls. No one in South Dakota will do abortions so Planned Parenthood is forced to bring abortion practitioners in from out of state. Miriam McCreary, a 70 year-old retired abortion practitioner is one of four the abortion business brings in every Saturday to perform more than a dozen abortions each week. "There is quite a need for somebody to...

SEARCH:    Contact Us Abortion Debate Recipes HDTV FAQ KOTA Employment HomeNewsWeatherSportsWhat's on TVKOTA AutosClassifiedsLifestyle Contact UsAbortion DebateRecipesHDTV FAQKOTA Employment Print   Text Size Polygamists may be living near PringlePosted: Featured Video Cindy DavisFollowers of a polygamist sect could be living in KOTA Territory. Their leader is accused of child rape and wanted for fleeing from prosecution, and according to a Texas newspaper, he could be hiding southwest of Pringle. The Eldorado Success newspaper reports the discovery of a 100 acre site in Custer County. The paper reports the property is connected to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...

Abortion Ban Supporters Hit by Vandalism by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor South Dakota pro-lifers are targets of eggs and threatening calls.Pro-abortion activists in South Dakota have apparently begun punishing supporters of an abortion ban.  The bill to ban abortion sailed through both houses of the state Legislature last month and is now at the governor's desk awaiting his signature.  Leslee Unruh, founder of the Alpha Center, a pregnancy-resource agency, fought hard to get the message to lawmakers that abortion kills innocent babies and hurts women.She said she and her family have now become targets.Her house has been splattered with eggs....

Another state you should never visit passes an appalling abortion ban, because they hate youAttention all funky sexy single intelligent women of South Dakota (assuming there are any left): It is time. Pack it up. Strip the bed, box up the cat, load the U-Haul, call your hip friends over in Minneapolis, move out West, or East, or anywhere with a mind-set not stuck like a bloody nail in the moral coffin of 1845. Let this be your clarion call. Get the hell out, right now. Here is why: You state hates you. Your state, apparently run be pallid sexless...

National Right to Life accused of complicity with the other side   Pro-life groups divide over abortion ban   Right to Life Leader Helps Pro-Abortion Folks Defeat Bill to Criminalize Abortion (Our Sad Times)   NARAL Pro-Choice America: Santorum-Linked Group Succeeds in Pushing Total Abortion Ban in S.D.;   On Google   South Dakota Right To LifePO Box 1032314 South CentralPierre SD 57501Phone (605) 224-9181Fax - (605) 224-2141E-Mail:sdrtl@iw.netState Director: Brock GreenfieldNational Right to Life Committee512 10th St. NW  Washington, DC 20004(202) 626-8800NRLC@nrlc.org

Report Regarding NRLC Role in Defeat of South Dakota Legislative Effort to Ban Abortion and Challenge Roe v. Wade Wed, Mar 31, 2004 TO: CONCERNED PRO-LIFERS DATE: March 31, 2004 FROM: Richard Thompson, Chief Counsel, Thomas More Law Center RE: REPORT REGARDING THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE’S ROLE IN THE DEFEAT OF SOUTH DAKOTA’S LEGISLATIVE EFFORT TO BAN ABORTION AND CHALLENGE ROE V. WADE INTRODUCTION Over the past week, the Thomas More Law Center has received numerous inquires questioning National Right to Life Committee’s (NRLC) role in the defeat of South Dakota’s House Bill 1191 (HB1191), designed to ban...

Posted: 23-02-2006 , 11:44 GMT Israeli security officials assess that 2006 is the "target year" set by the global al-Qaeda network to carry out a mega-attack in the country, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday. bin laden According to the report, Israeli intelligence authorities detected two years ago the shift in priorities of al Qaeda towards Israel, which has been "upgraded" to the rank of a major target. Recently, al Qaeda chief in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi declared his intentions to carry out an attack in Israel. The report added Syria has been identified as a transfer point for...

His name is Buzz, but maybe it should be Buggsy, judging from his erratic behaviour. Whatever, Buzz Hargrove, head of the Canadian Auto Workers, seems to be unraveling in this federal election campaign. He desperately wants to be associated with winners, but is succeeding mostly in making an ass of himself. He's undoubtedly embarrassing the NDP, if not candidates he's personally put his stamp of approval on, as the nation approaches the cusp of the Jan. 23 vote. Yesterday, Buzz was calling Tory Leader Stephen Harper essentially a "separatist," and urged Quebecers to support the Bloc Quebecois -- a separatist...

Many in favor of Freudenthal The chief of the Cowboy State ranks third in a nationwide survey that asked people to rate their governors. By Ilene Olson rep3@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Gov. Dave Freudenthal is the third most popular governor in the country with a 67 approval rate among Wyoming residents surveyed. A poll, released earlier this month by Survey USA, lists the approval ratings for the governors of all 50 states. Only Govs. John Hoeven of North Dakota, with an approval rate of 71 percent, and Mike Rounds of South Dakota, 70 percent, were ranked...

Police used tire spikes to stop a passenger bus on Interstate 90 near the South Dakota-Minnesota border today after a woman on board reportedly held a knife on the driver. Bonnie Buchanan of the Jefferson Lines bus company says the driver and the woman were taken to a hospital for unknown injuries. She says it's believed no one else was hurt. Buchanan says a passenger called 911 on a cell phone and didn't talk, but kept the line open until authorities realized what was happening. State troopers and other law officers followed the bus for some time before it stopped...

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November 01, 2004 Live Report From Courtroom A Mr. Jordan was just testifying at the hearing in Daschle's lawsuit to stop poll watching. He worked for Howard Dean in Iowa. He said that poll watchers would "roll their eyes" and make a "negative face" at times and that, in his opinion, this constituted "intimidation" of voters. See SDP for a look at the complaint. UPDATE: Another report on Daschle's first witness, the Howard Dean worker. He's a lawyer from Virginia who works for Lexis-Nexis and has been in South Dakot for 48 hours. He testified to "note-taking" and "faces" being...

Story in Argus Leader now. We can't link, but the address is: http://www.argusleader.com/breaking/Mondayfeature.shtml A hand-picked Daschle judge will hear the case to keep GOP poll watchers from observing tomorrow.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 1, 2004 Contact: Dick Wadhams, John Wood (605) 221-1010 INTERVENTION TO HEAD OFF ELECTION LOSS DASCHLE LAWYERS GO TO FEDERAL COURT AT 8:00 PM TONIGHT TO STEAL VOTES, ELIMINATE REPUBLICAN POLL WATCHERS SIOUX FALLS – Anticipating a loss to Republican challenger John Thune tomorrow ending his 26-year congressional career, Senator Tom Daschle will seek federal judicial intervention in the election process tonight, Monday, November 1 during an emergency hearing in federal court in Sioux Falls at 8:00 PM. The hearing will be before Federal Judge Larry Piersol who was appointed by Daschle to federal court...

------------------------------------------------------------------------Posted on Fri, Oct. 29, 2004 Oglala order could prevent GOP poll watching on Pine Ridge CARSON WALKER Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of...

Similarly, Sen. Daschle's campaign received more money—$13,650—from lobbyists associated with Patton Boggs than from lobbyists at any other firm. Patton Boggs' second largest client during the last six years was the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, which over that period paid the high-powered lobbying firm $5.8 million. One of ATLA's top priorities was to ward off limits on awards in medical malpractice suits. In July 2003, Daschle spearheaded a successful effort to block such proposed limits.

It's looking more and more as though South Dakota's election could be decided in court. Six people have been charged with crimes stemming from a Republican get-out-the-vote campaign. All but one were employed by the Republican party. The case raises questions about whether the ballots will count. Sioux Falls, S.D. — In an election year where everyone is looking for problems - they're already happening in South Dakota. To unravel this story here's a little background. South Dakota law allows early voting. Assuming you're registered to vote, to get your ballot you have to fill out a request. That form...

... And let's not forget that Tom Daschle is Senate Minority Leader. Translation: Head bully, keeping George W. Bush's judicial nominees from getting hearings. Sean Rushton of the Committee for Justice says, "When it comes to the judiciary, Tom Daschle stands with plaintiffs' attorneys, the abortion industry, and the radical environmentalists, against judges who will interpret the law as written, not pioneer social policy from the bench." That's liberal activist judges — the ones who will write gay marriage into the law and halt abortion restrictions, as we have seen most clearly in Massachusetts. But South Dakotans are to believe...

"Given the way media works today, anything you say in Washington is heard almost instantaneously in South Dakota. So it would be impossible to say one thing in Washington, and say something else in South Dakota. People in our state just would never let anybody get away with that." --Tom Daschle on PBS, October 20, 2004

Tom Daschle... in his own words: "I want to thank you for sending Hillary Clinton to Washington to represent you. No one does it better." "I'm a DC resident" "America's trial lawyers will stand with you and you must stand with them." "We will not surrender sacred ground. And that includes a woman's constitutional right to choose." "I'm a DC resident" South Dakota needs a voice. Again.

-- Republicans Likely to Pick Up Senate Seats by John Gizzi Posted Oct 15, 2004 With two weeks to go before voters go to the polls in 34 states to choose U.S. senators, prospects are good the Republicans will make a net gain of 3 seats. Such a gain would increase their Senate majority from the current 51 to 49 (when Independent Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont is counted with the Democrats) to 54 to 46. The Republicans appear poised to pick up seats in five states where Democratic incumbents are retiring--Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina But...

The National Rifle Association has switched its endorsement in the US House race to Democrat Stephanie Herseth. The gun-rights group had endorsed her Republican challenger, Larry Diedrich, in the June special election. Herseth won that election and faces Diedrich again in next month's general election. The National Republican Congressional Committee says the NRA bases its endorsements on votes taken by incumbents. Since Herseth voted to lift a ban on most guns in Washington DC, the NRA gave her its endorsement.

From CNN's "Capital Gang," 7 p.m. Eastern Saturday According to the SD Argus-Leader, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle has moved into a 5-point lead over Republican challenger former Rep. John Thune. The total was 50-45, with 5 percent undecided. Liberal CNN panelists, such as Mark Shields and Al Hunt, were unsurprised at the development. Most noted that Daschle is the institutional favorite in SD because people there know "he can get things done for us." It was noted that a national "Meet the Press" debate on last Sunday between Daschle and Thune was seen in SD as a victory for...

STURGIS, S.D. - Promoters on Wednesday canceled the remainder of the Sturgis Music Festival, putting refunds in doubt for fans that paid as much as $50 a ticket. Wednesday night's B.B. King Blues Festival was to feature the legend jamming with several other artists. The concert was nixed just four hours before show time, leaving blues fans like Debbie Fromme of Newell feeling ripped off. "I've never been involved in a situation like this," she said. "I just feel like I've been taken. Where's my $100?" Sturgis 2004 LLC, the company putting on the festival, canceled the King concert and...

National Right to Life Joins Pro-Abortion Groups to Kill SD Abortion Bill; Thomas More Law Center Accuses Them of Betraying Unborn To: National Desk, Legal Reporter Contact: Brian Burch or Richard Thompson, both of Thomas More Law Center, 734-827-2001, Web: http://www.thomasmore.org ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Shock waves are still reverberating one week after South Dakota's bill criminalizing abortion was defeated by a single vote over National Right To Life's complicity with pro-abortion groups to kill the legislation that pro-abortion lobbyists called the most restrictive anti-abortion measure since the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973. The...

"Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is a pro-abortion, Catholic Democrat and up for reelection this year. Of late, the matter of Catholic politicians who do not subscribe to the Church's pro-life stance and teachings on abortion has become a hot political topic. With the November elections quickly approaching, candidates like Daschle and John Kerry (also a pro-abortion Catholic) are finding themselves in a sticky situation. Daschle, who hails from the conservative state of South Dakota, really has his hands full trying to trick his constituents into thinking he is, if not conservative, at least moderate. This recent article from Most....

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The governor shut down the teen section of the South Dakota State Library's Web site, saying it included links to material he doesn't believe young people should see. Gov. Mike Rounds' move to shut down the entire teen section Monday followed a decision last week by the State Library Board to remove a link to a Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) Web site. While the state board rejected a request to remove the link in April, it reversed itself Friday at the urging of the governor. Rounds opposes abortion; Planned Parenthood lobbies to keep abortion...

AIM Activist's Funeral to Go on, Family Fighting Request for Third Autopsy By Carson Walker/Associated Press Jun 18, 2004 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Days before the planned funeral and reburial of an American Indian Movement activist killed nearly 30 years ago, lawyers for two men charged in her death are seeking a third autopsy in hopes of absolving their clients. The family of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash intends to go ahead with Monday's funeral on the Indian Brook Reserve near Halifax, Nova Scotia, and only the reburial is in question, said Denise Maloney, her older daughter. U.S. prosecutors believe...