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There’s something we must do to ensure America’s cattle markets can begin again to support our nation’s independent cattle farmers and ranchers. That something has everything to do with the upcoming election.

The following students graduated after the spring 2024 semester at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. More than 1,500 students completed all requirements for a degree and/or certificate program.

Our history is filled with incredible stories of heroism – and I believe it is also full of times where God’s hand was at play shaping our future. One such time took place before America was even a country during the French and Indian War.

DITOR Dear Editor: Some people just don't get it and it appears they never will. I refer to State Senate candidate Dan Andersson's July 17 editorial page attack on me and on the pro-life cause and everything and everyone else I hold near and dear. For openers, it is an unassailable, inarguable scientific fact that preborn children are indeed children at their earliest, smallest, most vulnerable stages of life, as I earlier detailed, but Mr. Andersson redoubled down on his contention that “a clump of cells in a uterus is not a person,” and in so doing he has done exactly what German Nazis did to Jews before shooting, gassing and cremating several million of them during WW2 - they dehumanized them, calling them 'untermenschen' - subhumans the better to justify killing them; they were not persons, according to the Nazis. My old buddy Bob and I were reading Mr. Andersson's screed in the Gregory paper and Bob asked me, 'Say, Eric, do you suppose that when Dan's wife Anna announced that she was pregnant with their first child and subsequent children, was Dan happy to hear this? And if so, why? After all, to hear Dan tell it, their children were not persons, just clumps of cells in a uterus.' I replied, 'Gee willigers, Bob, that is a very good quality question.' On further reflection, we concluded that if Dan was happy at this news, he would have to know, at some level of consciousness, that preborn children are indeed children, even if he isn't willing to admit that in print or speak it aloud.