Dakota Beacon

96 percent of blacks supported Obama in 2008.  Although, few are as honest as Jackson, who clearly is proud that he never lets politics get in the way of his bigotry.

If History consigned the founding era to a status of historical irrelevance, who can say that progressivism, which is also a product of historical evolution of ideas, will not suffer the same fate? In short, why should we not believe that progressivism was simply the product of a bevy of severely misguided statists who, at the beginning of the 20th century, believed that a sort of benevolent totalitarianism was the wave of the future?

The North Dakota University System is accountable to no one, especially taxpayers.

What’s frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes. But what I have been able to do is move in the right direction. And what I’m going to keep on doing is plot away, very persistent.

Sen. John Hoeven “picked the right issue”; WDAY meteorologist John Wheeler punctured several myths; $1 billion of public; the faltering pace of economic development on Indian reservations; NDSU is suing nearly everybody; deaths and injuries in the oil patch; they’re looking for jobs, not women; bent out of shape about the Oil Patch; Two factors drive farmland prices; The government will make you healthier? DAKTOIDS

I finally caught up on my reading and ordered three great books; “The Myth of the Robber Barons”, “New Deal or Raw Deal”, and “FDR Goes to War”, all by Burton W. Folsom Jr. who is a professor of history and management at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Folsom has written numerous books and countless journal columns.

After excessive taxation of all tax venues forced venture capital into municipal bonds immediately following the war, and after increased estate taxes further drove venture capital into tax exempt foundations during the roaring twenties, it was probably the extensive excise taxes of the early thirties that put the final nails into the coffin of the Industrial Revolution, spawning The Great Depression.

An old adage is a spin-off of the Golden Rule and it goes like this: He who has the gold makes the rules. Towns and counties relying upon one major source of revenue to be distributed by a legislative committee or, worse yet, by a state agency implementing a sterile and impersonal formula drawn up by another legislative committee is something each voter should think through very carefully before voting for or against Measure 2.

Of all fifty states, not one was simply established and imposed by the federal government. Each one entered the union by virtue of its voluntary application. The first Congress proposed a Constitutional amendment - one that was rapidly adopted - which made it express and explicit that every power not specifically delegated by the states to the federal government was "reserved to the states, respectively, or the people." This language is clear: Sovereignty is in the people of the respective states, not of some conglomerate.

Judge Feland’s exclusive defense against suspension of her law license for ethical reasons is that it was all an accident. Inadvertent. Mistake. “I’m sorry, I don’t recall.”

Watch the video.

THE TRUTH WILL NOT SET HER FREE.

During the ethics trial of Feland the Panel examined a primary aspect of the prosecution of Sandy Blunt related to Mr. David Spencer and the fact that charges specific to Spencer were added without establishing probable cause because Feland lied to the trial judge about Spencer issues always being part of the criminal investigation. “From Day One”. This was never true and the hearing panel does not seem to be swallowing this WHOPPER.

Judge Cynthia Feland was found guilty of withholding evidence that the North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Panel found to be “so reckless as to constitute a knowing disregard of the discovery requirement contained in Rule 3.8.”.

“It is simply the idea,” said Reagan, “the basis of this country and of our religion, the idea of the dignity of man, the idea that deep within the heart of each one of us is something so God-like and precious that no individual or group has a right to impose his or its will upon the people so well as they can decide for themselves.”

I’ve written a lot in the past about these hate-crime double standards, but have nothing more to say here.  The story speaks for itself.

We hear those opposing Measure 2 that, while fixing property taxes is necessary Measure 2 isn’t the right way. Not only is it the right way it’s the only way. The only beneficiaaary of property taxes is the government itself.

Cynthia Feland is basing her attorney ethics defense on her assertion that not turning over evidence to a defendant was an "accident", an "oversight", an "ommission". That claim is characteristic of a pattern frequently employed that might best be described as itself is one of her Prosecutor Prevarication Proclivity (PPP) techniques.

The Burleigh County State’s Attorney’s Office (BCSAO) added three additional criminal items to the Charles (Sandy) Blunt criminal charges just prior to Blunt’s trial in December of 2008.

The trial judge questioned the validity of adding these items as probable cause to charge must be established in a hearing before the trial.

BCSAO avoided probable cause examination by making the false claim that the charges that Blunt had illegally allowed former Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) employee David Spencer to get paid for sick leave when he was not sick, Blunt did not seek to obtain half of the relocation moving expenses from Spencer due because Spencer had allegedly resigned “voluntarily” from WSI, committing monies to the North Dakota State Fire Fighter’s Association without proper authorization/authority.

BCSAO falsely assured trial judge Bruce Romanick that the sick leave, moving expenses, and Fire Fighter’s Grant had been part of the investigation from “day one” and “the get-go”.

BCSAO did not have any idea that these issues existed and much less were possibly illegal until months after the August 2007 preliminary hearing.

BCSAO has repeatedly perpetrated this lie to the North Dakota Supreme Court and Judge Romanick.

Judge Cynthia Feland reiterated this lie numerous times during her June 2011 attorney ethics trial and in the proceedings leading up to that trial.

Hal Hase reviews the book, Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Ron Powers:  In the midst of reading of the ferocious combat, and the awful losses, one cannot help think of all those young men who died.  They died in their teens and twenties.  Some had never kissed a girl.  They would not go home to college or family. They would never have the gift of their own families and grandchildren. One’s heart simply breaks in contemplation.  How can we as a nation, as a people, ever pay the debt we owe them? 

 The original consensus broke down during the New Deal, when Franklin Roosevelt claimed that the Great Depression had created emergency conditions requiring both centralized power and lax interpretation of the Constitution. Constitutional restrictions on the federal government became meaningless as Roosevelt construed such phrases as "general welfare" and "interstate commerce" to be almost infinitely elastic. During World War II, the "general welfare" warranted the incarceration of all Japanese-Americans; there was no logical reason why it couldn't have been invoked to justify killing them all.

North Dakota’s Big Black Eye Becoming Evident

The National Workman’s Compensation Insurance community tells the businesses of America of the TRAVESTY  that has been the persecution/prosecution of Sandy Blunt.

“Collectively we speak to thousands within our industry every day. Our opinions have been clear; this situation needs the light of truth shone brightly upon it. The time and resources expended prosecuting a man on such questionable grounds should be more closely examined, by the business community, workers compensation professionals and the media in North Dakota.”

2020 & Beyond; opening salvos in the 2012 governor race; news from the oil patch is so dramatic' GF’s surprising economic growth; degrees in petroleum engineering;  BNSF Railway runs 33 trains through Minot; see the stars; small Montana towns near the ND border; a river of drugs; When is race relevant in reporting? conflict of interest and corruption; crime on Indian reservations; the teenage Deese brothers terrorize the small town;  a resurgence of meth; DAKTOIDS

Tax Foundation report gives North Dakota a below-average rating for Business Friendly Tax Policy

On January 20, Sebelius and Barack Obama answered Catholics. As Bishop Zubik put it, “On Jan. 20, the Obama administration answered you and me. The response was very simple: ‘To hell with you.’”

In the end, AOAs do not want partisan government. They want self-government. AOAs do not want to exchange Democrat control for Republican control if it means more of the same.

Debate is a constructive way to get the measure of the candidates.  The parties should be trying to field the BEST candidate – not shield their favorite from the scrutiny of the convention delegates and primary voters.  It should be an effective tool FOR THE PARTY ORGANIZATIONS to help them select people who are most fit to govern.

Socialism is a promise from politicians of a utopia void of poverty. Socialists promise food, clothing, housing, retirement income and healthcare for all. They argue that these things should be free in a “fair” and “just” society and would be if it wasn’t for “greedy” rich people. This promise has been made many times, but never once kept because the real objective is the power of government over the people. 

We forgot to file seven years of income tax returns; “trio of life-altering miracles” ; top tourism spot in Canada; Keystone XL pipeline; Who does that leave?; closely related murders in Minot; impersonating a lawyer in ND; Norwegian Christmas in ND; “Startling Oil Patch numbers"; Another hospital merger; What is the Hi-Line?; the bankruptcy plan of Lee Enterprises; Essential Air Services Act; entrepreneur Harold Schafer; “Their communications skills were inadequate”;

The twentieth-century state denied God and the existence of any stable human  nature, both of which imply immutable standards of right and wrong that might  Limit the authority and power of the state. It claimed the power to eradicate  all old laws and replace them with new ones that suited its purposes. Even written constitutions could be "reinterpreted" in keeping with the demands of the New Society. Plain words whose meaning had never been in doubt became "living documents," arbitrarily endowed with wholly new meanings by state officials.

This word appears some seventy-five times in the NewTestament. We should be glad of it, since the news it announces is good indeed.
That news is this: Even though all men are sinners deserving of eternal deathin a place called hell, God has provided a way of escape.

At one point, Obama remarked that Americans are "cynical" about Washington.  His address helps explain why.  His talk of unity was belied by his second-class treatment of Republicans during the address.  The Democrats had printed copies of Obama's text - a simple courtesy denied to Republicans.

THE TEN BIGGEST NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2011:

1.Oil Patch; 2. Flooding Everywhere; 3. Fighting Sioux Redux; 4. The Nation's No.1 Economy; 5. Man Camps; 6. Sour Feelings in Sugarland; 7: Is it a Serious Medical Facility or a Criminal Enterprise? 8. AMTRAK - A Wasteful Model; 9. Somalis in the News; 10. He Knew Nothing

Paul and the other candidates are operating in different political universes. While these other candidates favor the same foreign policy as the one advocated by McCain and Bush and while they are unlikely to make much of a dent in existing social programs, Paul would turn things around dramatically. Unlike the others, he would not be providing a Bush-third term or the McCain presidency that we missed in 2008, but a program of massive dismantling of the federal bureaucracy, including and perhaps especially the Federal Reserves, and a sharp shift away from the liberal internationalism that is the staple of the Republican foreign policy.

The pattern is always the same. First one, then another, then another Redpoll darts onto the feed bag. They fly toward the thistle bag hitting it feet first sticking to it like Velcro. Nice trick for a “thistle missile.”