Dakota Beacon

Check the numbers, Valley City is in the flooding bull’s-eye, living with stress and anxiety on an island, a grim warning about Devils Lake, Annabelle Homes, a Minneapolis developer, $370 million for roads damaged by oil traffic, was that the state should not overreact to short-term problems, Time to sharpen the plow blades, Healthy Oilseeds, suspected fraud, Whitey’s Cafe in East Grand Forks, “Never the twain shall meet”, DAKTOIDS

Once a gazillionaire owns two yachts, four homes, and ten cars, regularly eats $25,000-a-kilo Almas caviar, enjoys unlimited top-notch medical care, and travels around the world all year long, does gathering a-hundred gazillion dollars more to support ten yachts, a palace or two, a container ship full of Rolls-Royces, and every-Friday-night dinners at Central Park West’s Jean-Georges Restaurant put yet a bigger smile on the gazillionaire’s face or render said gazillionaire immune to death?

Really, Professor Stiglitz, can’t your immense, hay-wired, progressive brain do better?

For many Americans, April 15 marked Tax Day. But it also marked an event much more redeeming. On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. The executive who signed the talented athlete was Branch Rickey, President of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Recently, CNN reported that Branch Rickey’s faith was a strong motivation for his decision to sign Robinson. Now that’s an angle that rarely gets acknowledged, but should, especially this week that many of us celebrate as the most holy in our faith.

On a spending binge for decades, congress and the president expect us to pay for part of their excess and then borrow the rest. Spending money they don’t have, congress added almost $3 trillion to the national debt in the last 2 years. THREE TRILLION. That’s a 3 with 12 zeros. At this rate congress will grow the debt by at least $2 trillion a year for the next 10 years unless corrected. That’s a recipe for America’s economic disaster. Entitlement programs and interest on the debt are the major driving factors.

Dismissing serious federal budget reductions by claiming it hurts the elderly and children is a political canard, a scare tactic, partisan, the same old same old.

The 2011 Political Landscape of the State of North Dakota in comparison to the 2008 Republican Platform. First of a Series.

If many of these Senators expect to be re-elected, they have a lot of explaining to do!

My personal hope is that many will retire, leaving future tough choices to new leaders with a backbone.

The hard truth is that we are not in trouble because we haven’t been thieving from the “rich” fast enough.  We are in deep, deep trouble because we spend too much.  Our federal government is spending money at an ever faster rate.  We cannot sustain it.  We cannot feed this monster any more.  Kari was right about it being George Bush’s fault.  He spent like a whole Russian navy on a binge.  The current administration is just a continuation, speeding ever faster, of the same irresponsible spending in which Bush engaged.

Vegas is no longer the world’s biggest gambling resort; America is. Barack Obama says we need to “win the future”, and one more roll of the dice should do it: a trillion dollars of chips on the stimulus came up empty but let’s pile another couple trillion on ObamaCare, and “high-speed rail”, and “green jobs” and “broadband access”…  And all the while Wayne Newton is singing “Danke Schoen” in Chinese. But don’t worry, we’re not just throwing our money away. We’re playing to a system! The President calls it “investing in the future”.

What a rush of pride I felt when I saw my Soldier strolling towards us.  He walks like a soldier.  He’s proud to be a soldier.  His basic training made him a man.... his AIT is making him a mature, professional and responsible member of our armed forces.  What a blessing he is.  I look at him and think, “He could be deployed.”  “He could and probably will be put in harms way.”  He’s my grandson!

Prof. Omdahl’s comments are based on so much misinformation and disinformation, not to mention plain old lack of information (but no shortage of pontification) that it is difficult to respond fully to his assertions here.  We suggest that he take seriously what so many North Dakota voters have already taken seriously—the abolition of the property tax—and present his revised opinions in a future column.

It took Democrats a while to get there, but, finally, almost a century after the start of the Bolshevik Revolution and Margaret Sanger’s organization, they’ve arrived at where the Soviets and Sanger found common ground. They indeed act as if, as Sanger said about Stalin’s Russia, ‘birth control … is part of the regular service of the government.

What struck me in recently re-reading this article is how Democrats in America have arrived at Sanger’s ideal, where Planned Parenthood’s services have become, in their mind, ‘part of the regular welfare service of the government’—just like Stalinist Russia…. The saddest thing is that neither they, nor their supporters, nor America, seem to comprehend the outrageousness of their position.

There is near universal agreement among Christians of all political stripes that one of our great privileges and duties is to do charitable deeds. Where we disagree is on the question of whether the secular authority of the state should be an agent of Christian charity. To some, such an alliance seems logical; to others, it is a non sequitur to conclude that, because we are expected to perform acts of charity, we should enlist the state to help us.

The Democrats, about to bury America in our own debt, pointed to the hard ground and nudged our Republican “leaders” and ordered them to dig.  Our leaders should have said, “No.  See if you can dig it yourself. The American people did not elect me to dig your hole!”  After all, WE had the shovels THIS time. Where are the leaders we elected?  This is not a rhetorical question, by the way.  We need to find them before the next election campaign season.  We cannot afford to back anymore RINOs.

Increasing money supply does not magically increase the quantity of land, labor, or capital goods available for production. Creating money out of thin air does not produce more consumer goods, and there is the rub. We cannot eat money. We cannot wear money. We cannot live in money. Even the Beatles knew that money can’t buy you love.

One must be suspicious whenever Democrats “oppose” mass murder.

One must be suspicious whenever Democrats “support” human rights.

One must be suspicious whenever Democrats “support” the “will of the people”.

One must be suspicious whenever Democrats claim to “support” peaceful protests.

If Democrats said that this is about Obama’s re-election or setting up another Islamic dictatorship, I would buy that.

“The Ruling Class” by Angelo M. Codevilla is a must read book for anyone wishing to plumb American contemporary undercurrents. This exciting and original essay describes the huge division between America’s two major classes. Every sentence reads like a blow from a nail-driving hammer. Adjectives like superlative, profound, incisive, clear, lucid, insightful barely begin to describe this 145 page essay.

Supporters of measures like the New Mexico anti-suicide bill laud such actions. But the supporters fail to see the self-defeating nature of the “helping” approach. Conditioning anyone, American Indian or otherwise, to rely on government cures for social ills weakens self-reliance. The American Indian must reject the false hope generated by dependence on aid and comfort. The best way to eliminate isolation, depression, and suicidal urges is to assimilate, contribute, and succeed in society as a whole.

Last week we learned that Welsh girls, age 13 and up, will now be receiving free “morning after” pills.  The government of Great Britain is announcing that the young people of Wales are now free to go at it like little minks.  Good for Great Britain!  Just the way to solve a rampant nightmare.

Depravity sanctioned by the state will not lead to a better nation, better health or a population equipped to sustain itself.  Providing these birth control pills is literally war on the Welsh people with their own consent and assistance.  It is neither kind nor well intentioned.  Whether government likes it or not, there is a role here for religious instruction and custom.

When Republicans call for $61 billion dollars in spending cuts (1.6 percent of Obama’s proposed but never voted-on 2011 budget), said demand is unreasonable.

It would be reasonable, Democrats are essentially contending, to keep 92 percent of the $800 billion in annual spending hikes since 2007 in place and set about confiscating more and more taxpayer money to pay for the fiscal drunkenness.

The “progressive” mentality is again on grand display.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST CYNTHIA M. FELAND, A MEMBER OF THE BAR OF THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA

NOTICE OF HEARING

File No. 5007-W-1002

Notice is Hereby given that the above-entitled matter will come on for hearing…….

Hearing Panel of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota, on Wednesday, the 29^th day of June, and Thursday, the 30^th day of June, 2011, at 9 a.m., in the Brynhild Haugland Room, at the State Capitol, 600 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND.

Political science professor, columnist and former North Dakota Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Omdahl opined recently in the Grand Forks Herald, that our current efforts to instill democracy in the Middle East and parts of South America appear to be futile.  He questioned the viability of those “freedom fighters” in Libya and Egypt, etc., once they no longer have a common enemy.  I would suggest that they will likely unite behind a hostile posture toward the United States as their “common enemy”.  There is every reason to expect this based on the religious fanaticism apparent there.

Some things are most thoroughly savored when they have been earned.  The people of the Middle East have not earned liberty.  They don’t know what it is and they don’t care to find out.  They are afraid of freedom and its attendant responsibilities.  We should teach by example.  Those ready to learn have a great advantage over Sam Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.  THEY can STUDY Sam Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. THESE are our gift to the world.

We’ll solve it ourselves, toxic spills one of the city’s greatest risks, Minnesota’s black population, There seems to be two Minnesotas, strong opposition to targeted benefits, ND has three political parties, An entirely logical idea, fierce predators ready to steal pets and babies, Kid rich, property poor, grain business along I-94, Sen. Byron Dorgan visited UND, DAKTOID

Ending Medicare as we know it? Say it ain’t so! Medicare, we hardly knew ye! It’s an open question whether Americans will fall for one more chorus of the same old song from Baucus, Harkin, Podesta and the other members of America’s wrinkliest boy band. But, if this is the level on which the feckless patronizing spendaholics of the permanent governing class want to conduct the debate, bring it on:

Paul Ryan’s plan would “end Medicare as we know it”.         

The Democrats’ “plan” – business as usual - will end America as we know it.

This article is an update of an earlier paper entitled “California Watch.”  The impact of its publication resulted in the formation of a Phantom California Cult located in the Mt. Shasta area.  Copies of the paper—cut out of the original publication, Artifex—were sold by rare book dealers for several years.  The following text may be found to be difficult—some might say dangerous—but the careful and philosophical reader will be rewarded.]