Dakota Beacon

President Obama spoke yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast. I’ve long studied the sitting president’s remarks at these breakfasts, particularly President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and President Ronald Reagan. I note this to hopefully lend a little credibility in putting my observations into historical context, while also not avoiding the current political climate—as Obama certainly did not.

Obama’s spending proposes to take the average Bush deficit for the years 2001-2008, and double it, all the way to 2020. To get out of the Bush hole, we need to dig a hole twice as deep for one-and-a-half times as long. And that’s according to the official projections of his Economics Czar, Ms Rose Colored-Glasses. By 2015, the actual hole may be so deep that even if you toss every Obama speech down it on double-spaced paper you still won’t be able to fill it up.

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While Congressman Pomeroy is telling his people he might as well retire if the healthcare debate continues, Senator Conrad is willing to completely change his philosophical beliefs to keep the debate going.

Going Rogue definitely provides an understanding of Palin’s growth as a person and as a politician. She is not a wild-eyed radical. To appreciate her political views, one need only turn to the views of Ronald Reagan. Palin’s book can be best understood as several phases in the ‘education of Sarah Palin.’ This ‘education’ had three phases—and perhaps a fourth.

ARLINGTON, VA -- Success in eliminating abortion from American life will require a degree of political sophistication not heretofore witnessed among the leaders of the pro-life movement.

Economic Liberty and Constitutional Government Needed to Foster a Culture of Life

While there is plenty of blame to go around for this situation, the GOP in its desperate hunger for minority votes has done its part. As a right-of-center party, which it sometimes claims to be, it should be fighting for economic freedom, distributed governing powers, and an end to the war against discrimination, understood as making us speak like graduates of a multicultural indoctrination session. The GOP has moved out in front as an advocate of leftwing thought and speech control -- and the campaign against Reid illustrates this.  

The contrast is breathtaking, but true. It’s another jolt to traditionally minded voters—especially pro-life Democrats and independents—who voted for ‘change’ on November 4, 2008, and are now absorbing the change they authorized.

The Obama administration and Democratic Congress ‘rejected funding for school vouchers for poor children in Washington, DC, but supported funding for abortions for the mothers of those children.

Over 300,000 pro-lifers marched in Washington last month without notice by the mainstream media. So, I’d like to take a moment to explain what happened.

Because the West has fallen victim to moral relativism, it no longer believes in transcendent Truth.  Thus, stripped of the eternal yardstick that should govern art and curricula, we use emotion as the yardstick and try to provide what makes a given group “feel” good.  This is why we hear about how something isn’t relevant to most because it’s about an “upper-class white man” or was penned by “dead white males.”  It’s why we try to give each group its particular flavor, such as feminism for girls and afro-centrism for blacks.  It’s why we talk about the times and not Truth, saying that a work is no longer “contemporary.”  It’s why education has degenerated to a point wherein all we can do is give everyone a lie that, supposedly, he can relate to.  But this tragically misses the point: Everyone needs the same thing, Truth.   Thus should our goal be to relate it — and help everyone to relate to it. 

President Obama doesn’t like the cards dealt to him of late, to wit: the election of Republican Scott Brown to fill Ted Kennedy’s old seat, the apparent collapse of health care legislation in congress, nagging high unemployment and low poll numbers. What’s a president to do?

Well, he can always apply P. T. Barnum’s dictum to Americans. “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

For its bold attempt at feigning populism, Obama’s discourse was riddled with cornpone and chutzpah. Huey Long couldn’t have done better himself. So, here we have Mr. Obama posing as Mr. Populist.

They are still placing the blame after 365 days of being in power on GWB, though I agree that W deserves his share of the blame. But blame is NOT the solution to what ails this nation today. From a government viewpoint all one has to do is to look at the past when the economy went into a recession or stood on the brink of a depression.

The way to stimulate a depressed economy is to reduce taxes to the business community (especially the small ones), as well as individuals. This puts more money into the economy, and in a capitalistic system, money is what drives the economy. It creates jobs because consumers have more income to spend, placing a demand on production of products the consumers want and need. This increase in consumer activity is a boon to the government due to more workers earning more wages and thereby paying taxes. If one is out of work they pay NO taxes, and this hurts not only the feds but also the state and local communities.

Suppose you were arrested on criminal charges because you were the head of an organization that had produced a film critical of the wife of a former political leader, who was now running for office herself. What country would have such a law? Cuba, Myanmar, China? None of these. Actually, you would be talking about the United States of America.

What is even more interesting and astounding, is that President Obama does not like the decision one bit—as was evident in his State of the Union address on Wednesday evening. What’s the likely reason behind this disapproval?

But not Barack Obama: “I don’t quit.”  So on he went. As my colleague Rich Lowry put it after the Massachusetts vote, the public thinks Obama doesn’t get it, and Obama thinks the public doesn’t get it. And as he’s got the microphone he’s gonna keep talking at you until you do get it. The ever tinnier, more perfunctory sophomoric  uplift at the start and finish can’t conceal the hope-killing, jobs-slaying, soul-sapping message in between, which is perfectly consistent, and has been for two years. As President Obama sees it, whatever the problem – from health care to education, banking to the environment – the solution is more Washington.

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Deficit spending is skyrocketing. In December, a report was issued under the auspices of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Committee for a Federal Budget, declaring that the U.S. is facing "a debt-driven crisis  -- something previously viewed as almost unfathomable in the world's largest economy."

This past year, the federal government ran a deficit of $l.4 trillion. In 2009 alone, the public debt grew 31 percent, from $5.8 trillion to $7.6 trillion, rising from 41 percent to 53 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

HAVE CRIMES BEEN COMMITTED IN THE PROSECUTION OF SANDY BLUNT?

After being apprised that they did not provide a memorandum from the primary prosecution witness that destroys the vast majority of the prosecution’s case, Burleigh County Assistant State’s Attorney Lloyd Suhr,  responds that it was an oversight. Then, he claims that the very succinct document in question is no big deal, that their was plenty of other evidence “of fact and description of events” somewhere in all the other documents turned over to the defense.

Defense attorney Michael Hoffman destroys this nonsense in his letter that also points out that there is very much other evidence that was not provided as law requires. He then explains how Auditor Wahl had likely, in his opinion, committed perjury! Suhr then asserts that witness testimony was not only equivalent in signifigance but likely more important then the MEMO!

A bearded man visited America on Christmas Eve. It wasn’t Santa Clause. Karl Marx (i.e. the spirit of government imposed poverty past, present, and future) was back from the Global Warming summit in Copenhagen. The Socialist Democratic Party’s helpers (Byron Dorgan, Kent Conrad, and Earl Pomeroy) voted for socialized medicine.

That's the question Sandy Blunt, former CEO of North Dakota's state workers comp fund must be asking himself.

Because the most serious charge against Blunt was based on Blunt authorizing sick leave for and not getting expenses repaid by an employee who was terminated. Turns out the North Dakota state auditor had reviewed the situation and given Blunt a pass, and reported as much to prosecutor Cynthia Feland well before she went to trial. In fact, these 'crimes' were what enabled Feland to increase the charges leveled against Blunt from misdemeanor to felony status.

This documentary is far better than anything produced on World War II by the History Channel, PBS or A&E. It is certainly better than anything to come out of Hollywood including the realistic film “Saving Private Ryan.”

In the wake of the Massachusetts senatorial election, a sudden cascade of speeches and press releases by President Obama and his surrogates claim that the president is fighting to ‘rebuild the middle class.’ But it is not at all clear what is meant by ‘middle class.’ For more than a year, President Obama defined middle class as people making up to $250,000 a year—promising not to raise their taxes (at one point) and also promising to lower them (at another point). He did not say what the dollar threshold was—that is to say, the income level that puts one in the ‘lower class.

Dr. L. John Van Til—observes the emergence of political claims and terminology that crop up on a daily basis in the media. Yet, the terms are often ambiguous or misrepresented. In his latest op-ed, Dr. Van Til considers the two recent examples: “middle class” and “populism.

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