Newsbusters has a video clip about Iowa voters who are looking to government to "fix their lives.
JESSICA YELLIN: [Iowa voters] really take this process as a legitimate experience and feel entitled to ask "how are you going to fix my life?"
From LifeNews.com:
Bob Smith was a New Hampshire Republican senator who drew praise from the pro-life community for helping to lead the fight to ban partial-birth abortions. Now, the lawmaker is weighing in on the Republican presidential battle and has thrown his support to Rep. Duncan Hunter, a pro-life congressman thought to have little chance of capturing the nomination. Describing him has an “inspirational leader” and the one best qualified to carry the “Reagan Torch,” Senator Smith sent a letter to his fellow conservatives throughout New Hampshire making them aware of his support. “Congressman Duncan Hunter for 25 years has stood up for the rights of the unborn,” Smith said in the letter the Hunter campaign provided to LifeNews.com. “If you really want to see change, then I urge you to vote for him. He is what American needs now more than ever.”
The Rapid City Journal and Bismark Tribune have an article about some "artistic license" taken with the geography of the Black Hills in the new "National Treasure" movie:
If the sequence followed reality, the characters would find themselves in front of a nondescript tunnel carved 70 feet deep into the rock where Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum once envisioned putting a "Hall of Records." Borglum's plan was to house historical documents such as the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence there and make it accessible to visitors.
The sculptor's plan was never completed, but the actual tunnel does feature a capsule sealed with a granite capstone holding including a biography of the artist, stories of his struggles to carve the memorial and other Mount Rushmore historical data.
The Hollywood version takes a different route.
Once the movie's treasure hunters climb the metal staircase, they wind up on a beautiful lake that actually doesn't exist at Mount Rushmore. The real location of the shot is Sylvan Lake, about 30 miles away in Custer State Park.
AT ISSUE: While this may be the season of love, generosity and devotion, it is also the season of the spin. That season started when the wannabes started their campaigns for President and other high offices and it will continue in one form or another until at least next November when voters will have an opportunity to put the skids to it. Doing away with term limits in South Dakota also seems to surface about this time of year as our legislators prepare to go to Pierre. Whether or not South Dakota ever gets rid of term limits for its elected leaders, we should not even consider term limiting Santa Clause. (Full Article)
