Dakota Beacon

After telling the state media and everyone else who will listen.....the Burleigh County State's Attorney WILL prove that they did not withhold evidence. Only they can not. Prevarication? Confusion? Deception? You decide.

The saga of the public destruction of Sandy Blunt with nothing but lies, using your tax money continues.

Liberals don't leave morals to locals. And sadly for America, the liberal echo chamber houses nothing resembling traditional morals. Moral paralysis passes for wisdom. Shrewd-sounding dictums earn stroking.

The echo chamber hubbub surrounding the Ground Zero Mosque has at times grown deafening. Preachers preach tolerance while ridiculing anyone who observes that the 9/11 attacks fell in line with more than a millennium of history. The preachers advise kindness while viciously demonizing people who argue that a mosque intentionally located near the site of the deadliest attack is meant as a shrine to the most immoral act imaginable -- mass murder.

Global warming zealots began pushing the human-causation fallacy in the late 1980s. Since then, warmists' echo chamber conditioning has produced shriller and shriller predictions, none of which has, or ever will, come true.

Alas, one saving grace from this sad episode is that it helped produce the death of détente and the birth of the Reagan presidency, but only after an even more painful period, namely four horrendous years under President Jimmy Carter—made possible by Gerald Ford. Ford gave way to Reagan. And with the advent of that sea-change at the head of the GOP, accommodation was out and ‘rollback’—i.e., the goal of undermining the USSR—was in. It was that tectonic shift at the Republican helm that sealed the fate of the Soviet empire.”

North Dakota has been one of a small handful of states that has been able to maintain strong economic growth throughout the national recession.  As leading financial experts warn of the dangers of a double-dip recession, policymakers in Washington are now considering a measure that could bring North Dakota's economy to a screeching halt.

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Have Your Investments Taken a Hit?  Another Investment Attack Is Coming!
 
If you think that your investments have been hard-hit with the economic downturn, another hit is on the horizon.  And if you are a senior, many of your investments are in the cross-hairs.  Many seniors - 59% exactly - receive dividend income from many companies, including utility companies, as a part of their retirement.  Unfortunately it's not just limited to seniors - working families and their retirement investments are being targeted as well.

Billy Wilder's death at 95 summoned generous eulogies, and most of them rang true. He was an excellent writer-director, one of Hollywood's rare originals. At his best -- in perhaps a dozen of his many films -- he displayed a caustic wit unusual in that sentimental, formulaic medium. And who else in the film industry could have produced movies as different as DOUBLE INDEMNITY and THE APARTMENT?

Private Markwardt and his decorated Vietnam Veteran Grandfather Rollie Port

The recruits were standing at attention.  What a sight to see.  Six companies of America’s greatest and  brightest young men and women who have committed themselves to service to their country.  Soldiers one and all.  Standing tall and proud in their camouflage and black berets, ready to serve when called.   Willing to make the extreme sacrifice for their country.  They are American Soldiers.

Nearly 13.5 million innocents were murdered by Hitler, Stalin, and Pot. Three terrorists voluntarily checked out of Gitmo. No staunch liberal would seriously doubt the equivalence. Size doesn’t matter. America is every bit the monster that those murderous regimes were, simply because a liberal says so.

Obviously, Abdo doesn’t object to “war in any form” — just the American form.  As for the unstated “American values” he mentioned, I hope we resurrect the almost lost American value of accountability in his case.  This would mean forcing him to repay the Army its investment in him and giving him a nice long stretch in a very American prison.



It’s not a stretch to imagine that a government education monopoly that assumes kids’ minds belong to the state reeks of a totalitarian aroma. If true, this idea does not merit respect. Philosophy, theology, logic, music and art may not translate to “jobs” contributing to the Gross Domestic Product, but they do provide a firm foundation for a life well lived.

In the short span between 1607 through the early 1900s, America’s education produced multiple generations that built the greatest engine of democracy and finest economic dynamo the world has ever seen. Today, the progressive program of government pedagogy, the so-called linear path to enlightenment, serves more to confound than to clarify.

Mathematics is an unforgiving discipline. No matter who on planet Earth subtracts a larger positive number from a smaller positive number, the result is still a negative number. This reality stands firm despite wishful-thinking Democrat legislation. So when straightforward arithmetic treatment of today's government finances shows that it is, in Monty's words, "impossible to get out from under the level of existing debt," all clear-thinking, logic-based human brains (non-liberals) take notice.

These economic policies are nothing new. It’s not change. The Great depression was caused by massive tax hikes and government trying to spend us out of a recession. It’s these failed policies of the past that Obama, Conrad, Pelosi and Pomeroy are trying today. The economic policies of Karl Marx have failed every time they have ever been tried because they were designed to fail.

It turns out that that of the actual Program C audit working papers provided by the prosecution are ALL computer-clean, printed from a pure electronically-provided file with NO writing and NO notes.

 Just what if Cynthia Feland has presented to Judge Romanick a document that is NOT as she claims the C99 that she gave Sandy Blunt?

Horrified by flooding in the Devils Lake Basin, rising concern about Devils Lake, Nodaks of Norwegian ancestry can’t stop talking about politics, some landowners on the Ft. Berthold Reservation are not receiving their oil royalties, the policy discriminates against prudent employers, tribal communities need ethical leaders, Center Court is plotting a comeback, Get your Sarah Palin gear!, Bristol who?, hitchhiking hummingbirds, the Forum’s policy of publishing bankruptcy flings, Costs in higher education can and should be subject to cost-benefit analysis, the state has a large number of foreign college students, ND Youth Council, DAKTOIDS

To the liberal, when people mess up, it's one oppressor or another, one victimizer or another, that has oppressed, victimized, and goaded the people into messing up. Stiglitz lays the blame for our economic condition at the feet of "financiers" and "regulators." Foolish people who accepted unaffordable mortgages don't make Stiglitz's list of suspects.

Now that Barack Obama has decided to be for the Ground Zero mosque before being implicitly against it (perhaps), discussion about his faith has once again reached a fever pitch.  To many, his stance proves he’s a Muslim, with a recent poll showing that almost 20 percent of Americans hold that opinion; to others, it just reflects a desire to be faithful to the Constitution (now, that would be change).  The truth, however, is a bit more nuanced.  Obama is not religiously Muslim.  Culturally, though . . . well, that’s a different matter altogether.

Dorgan Says North Dakotan's Want Higher Taxes

Bruce’s knowledge of history, his wry and subtle sense of humor, and his laser targeted analysis of the serious issues make this book intellectual candy most delicious.

This book is GREAT! It has classic written not just all over it! It has classic all inside of it as well!

What a history lesson! What a brilliant look into the mind of the socialists!

Each of the 51 chapters - individual gems of history, wisdom and insight in amusing, bite sized pieces. - A must read.

- Steve Cates

Rep. Mark Dosch (R- District 32 Bismarck) has consistently led the quest for more accountability in higher education.  While it is not a popular view among the editorial elites, we need to support his calls for transparency and accountability in the University System.

Of course, it shouldn't be difficult to rectify misperceptions. Throughout American history, presidents have been asked about their faith and sat for lengthy interviews sharing their thinking, explaining precisely what they believe. Why doesn't Obama simply do the same? This isn't rocket science.

Revealing, it is, that today's Progressive-in-Chief, Barack Obama, boasts of delivering "the most progressive legislative agenda" in decades in order to "shape history for the better." Obama's pronouncement summarizes the mission that progressives see in life. Yet every single attempt by progressives to "shape history for the better" has consisted of social engineering that produces misery.

Damned concerned, we ought to be. Damned determined, we must be, to kick the progressives out of power this November and the Progressive-in-Chief out of the White House in 2012.

We  are  not  aware  of  a  single  apology  by  a  Senior  Global   Muslim  for  the  conduct  of  those  Jihad  barbaric  murderers.  The  Muslim  silence  was  deafening.  It  was  as though  the  Muslim  silence,  after  9/11,  was  indeed  a  sign of  their  cumulative  contempt  for  Non - Muslims.

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The real inflationary (or hyperinflationary) risk that the financial markets will calculate very carefully going forward is that the central bank, with this announcement, has now opened itself to being fully co-opted by the political process in Washington. Consider, why make hard political decisions on taxes and spending when the central bank has, in effect, just announced that it stands at the ready to print the money to finance any deficit of any size in order to underwrite any amount of future debt accumulation? A central bank that is willing to simply print money out of thin air to finance unlimited amounts of debt will eventually undermine the confidence in the currency being managed as lenders eventually seize on the realization that they will never be paid back in anything other than worthless paper.

History is written by courageous heroes, everyday people whose lives are bettered by the heroes, and cowardly tyrants who betray the people’s trust. Voters will write the next pages of American history by electing men and women to squash the tyranny that threatens to kill a noble and exceptional country. The newly-elected had better not betray us. We are in no mood for more betrayal.

The light of the world has dimmed, true. People all over the planet wonder if America has gone mad, if freedom, prosperity, and leadership will be extinguished by treachery. But Democrats’ treachery has awakened a giant, for the people will not tolerate iron rule. 

Few actions possess tyranny’s power to fill tyranny’s victims with resolve. Nothing motivates more than betrayal.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, most of the ideologues I encountered were on the political left. ... Recently, however, conservatives seem to have become more like the ideologues they criticized 40 years ago. They have long excoriated ‘knee-jerk liberals,’ but have many conservatives actually become knee-jerk ideologues on the right? There are a few warning signs that the transformation may be well underway.”

What does Joe Six-Pack want? Freedom to prosper under limited government. But Joe didn't stop freedom-stealing big government ideologues from pushing a feel-good agenda on bankers, who then created investment tools that derived from loans given to people who had no way to repay. Joe didn't stop the ideologues from pressuring the bankers to issue the loans. Joe didn't stop the people from accepting the loans. Ultimately, Joe didn't stop Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and irresponsible inventors of irresponsible investment instruments from bringing America to her knees. The conclusion that follows in the "mind" of Ratigan? Joe is filled with human fecal matter.