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Officials decried at the time. there were moments where south dakota was among the highest per capita deaths from covid. so really that's the record here when she talks about that, but nevertheless that is what has put her on the map as someone we could be talking about over the next months and years as someone who could rup in 2024. mike pence has been out working this circuit, others we talked about making the quiet connections here locally as well. speaking at these kind of state conventions, but chief among them is donald trump who is both diminished in his platforms but also looming large...

Two days after Russell Moore s official exit as president of the Southern Baptist Convention s Ethics Religious Liberty Commission, which he announced in May, the denomination is reporting strong year-over-year increases in designated giving as well as giving to its Cooperative Program for May

John Pudner The combination of ranked choice voting and the VA State GOP convention May 8 may offer a pathway to a “Final 5” election process that revives the giant State Conventions of the 1990s. In the 1990s, three efforts in Virginia turned out 13,000 or more Republican state delegates to choose the Republican party’s statewide nominees. Candidates and their teams visited every County or City GOP Mass Meeting and let the people in each county ask questions of the field rep or the candidate themselves. Unlike party primaries, the focus was on people and discussion...

President Ronald Reagan said: “I am deeply disappointed that, although a majority of the Senate voted for it, the school prayer amendment fell short.” On September 25, 1982, Reagan said: “Unfortunately, in the last two decades we’ve experienced an onslaught of such twisted logic that if Alice were visiting America, she might think she’d never left Wonderland. We’re told that it somehow violates the rights of others to permit students in school who desire to pray to do so. Clearly this infringes on the freedom of those who choose to pray, the freedom taken for gra...

After the Constitutional Convention ended, George Washington commented to Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788: “With regard to the two great points (the pivots on which the whole machine must move) my creed is simply: First, That the general Government is not invested with more powers than are indispensably necessary to perform functions of a good government … Secondly, That these Powers … are so distributed among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, into which the general Government is arranged, that it can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, a...