The South Dakota Veterans Forum is the statewide speaking arm of the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group. The St. Elizabeth Seton students will carry forward the memories of these men long after the last WWII veteran has disappeared into history.…
Author: Brad Ford
Thinking about Immigration and Refugees Swings Right
A Syrian man who once survived a chemical attack within his own country has only praise for the moral correctness of US President Donald Trump in militarily confronting the Assad regime. “What you did was amazing…a powerful message of hope,” Kassem…
Local American Legion Dues Siphoned Off at the Top
American Legion Post 311 in Piedmont, South Dakota, is typical of small-town chapters where the meeting hall is almost the sole building for community-wide activities, not to mention the obvious purpose of strengthening the fellowship bonds between veterans. Promoting local…
Governor Mickelson Promoted Rails-to-Trails
by Duke Doering Tragedy struck the state of South Dakota on April 19, 1993 when Governor George Mickelson, along with the pilots and a group of civic and busines leaders, were killed in a plane crash in Iowa. Gov. George S.…
San Francisco’s High-Tech Aristocracy Rules Its Third-World Citizens
“In America’s most liberal city, increasingly visible homeless camps are a stark symbol of San Francisco’s economic hollowing out and the failure of progressive governance” begins a muckraking expose in The Federalist entitled “San Francisco’s Homeless Encampments Expose The Failure…
Decline Is Irreversible in Public Education without Discipline
Parents at home instinctively practice zero-tolerance strategies. Like most values, discipline must be cultivated early in childhood. Consistency and firmness must be administered before bad habits sink in. Even rich liberals know that public schools are breeding grounds for troubled…
This Gun Rights Supporter Will Not Be Heard on “Free” Television
Mark Robinson spoke out at a city council meeting last Tuesday evening in Greensboro, North Carolina. His comments defending the Second Amendment are a reminder that free-and-in-the clear television would censor out all such messages not consistent with liberal orthodoxy. …
Bomber against the Third Reich: Maurice Crow at Ellsworth Museum April 14
Brains and Wealth: Technocratic Darwinians Now in Command
A new technological chain of being or world order is fully in place. Like the upper reaches of science and mathematics, the national elites who run things remain out of public view for the most part. Power over society works…
WWII Veterans Interviewed by 4th Graders at EAFB Museum on April 14
South Dakota Veterans Forum is the speaking arm of the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group