Dakota Beacon

“Property Tax Revolution” makes some good points. Abolishing property taxes certainly protects home and land ownership from state confiscation for unpaid taxes. It makes a really good point in that repealing the property tax would potentially curtail funding of special interest groups. And, it makes a really, really good point in that abolishing property taxes would probably slow the growth of government

Physical and mental are two wholly different and separate realms which materialistic dialectic cannot bridge. The only way out is to realize that the mind is not the product of the brain, but rather it is the user of the brain.

So many Americans have succumbed to political correctness that they are divorced from reality. In their thinking, America encounters cultural challenges accruing no ill effects

Democrats will look for pockets of discontent, the party is looking in the rear view mirror. “the North Dakota way”, the votes are in ND, the money is elsewhere, Tex Hall likes broad gestures, the largest residence in ND, new university system chancellor Hamid Shirvani, ND’s prosperity comes with a cost, Housing is tight in the Oil Patch, a 700-mile one way drive, Spend it or give it back, Mandan is becoming more like California, they could easily be seen as victims of hardship, she farmed and outlived two husbands, DAKTOIDS

The wisdom of the founders came not because they were smarter or wiser that we are today…it came from the fact that they were very personally under the thumb of British tyranny and knew from such first hand experience how such tyranny may be prevented… resulting in the birth of our constitution and its subsequent amendments.

A fundamental misunderstanding of that distinction by many, if not most, Americans today is, in large part, what has led us down the road of creeping socialism and the “equality that is poverty itself”. What Greece faces now… we shall face sooner than we think if we do not better educate our children regarding the founders’ wisdom.

Democrats and their media relentlessly attack Republican women like Sarah Palin. She is everything a “feminist” is supposed to be except she is not a Democrat.

If individuals don’t believe that their vote is meaningful, there will be less desire to turn out to vote. If candidates don’t believe it’s worthwhile to invest time and money in a state campaign, voters won’t get information and may not be mobilized by campaigns.

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

Prosecutors evidently separated the wheat from the chaff when providing discovery to defendant Sandy Blunt and gave him only the chaff. The Burleigh County State's Attorney's Office seem to have PREFERENTIALLY PROVIDED to and PREFERENTIALLY WITHHELD from Blunt materials from four criminal investigation reports authored by Special Agent (SA) Michael Quinn of the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) during the fall of 2007.

186 pages of documents that had little if anything to do with the question of the alleged crime were provided to the defendant. Four law enforcement reports and 142 pages as well as a 1.25 hour long audio recording were not provided. The withheld documents and recording were material to the charges and substantiated that the crime that Blunt was being tried for did not exist. And the Burleigh County prosecutors knew it!

Even our aesthetic tastes are increasingly formed by forces of which we know little. It can't be good for the soul to be subject to so much calculating hype and promotion.

Well, if a major law-enforcement agency is producing fraudulent evidence for the purposes of damaging a sitting president, wouldn’t that warrant investigation, too? The undeniable, irrefutable fact here is that there is smoke. And we need to find out who started the fire.

The president’s statement about America having only 2 percent of oil reserves is misleading. The size of our reserve is actually quite vast, but the percent of the world’s oil we have is far less important than the amount we produce. The United States accounts for at least 6 percent of global production of petroleum—a figure that would be significantly higher had President Obama’s party not been impeding and restricting domestic petroleum production for years.

Which of the two—Romney or Santorum—is a more forceful, eloquent spokesperson for the issues that Obama and Axelrod will use to define and malign him?

Even though he did not intend it, Dawkins' statement brings out starkly the intuitive implausibility of evolutionary theory.

Patrick and his converts were known for their strength in doing battle with the strongholds of paganism in this country now known for a long history of faith-based struggle and conflict.

Applebee’s was easily the best restaurant, “the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in Grand Forks”, “What North Dakota Could Teach California”, Does the bitterness remain? Who is the true fool? $5.5 billion anti-missile facility, they just want people to be comfortable, Carrington’s Dakota Growers pasta business, Standing Rock Tribal Council Chairman Charles Murphy, statewide vote on the Fighting Sioux nickname, the laughing stock of the sports world, the lives of part-time farmers, DAKTOIDS

Nat Cole's personal life was probably far more interesting, but nobody cared much about it, and he liked it that way. He was content to be an entertainer, and he took pride in his work without losing his modesty.

"I shall have no right to take part in the restoration of {Christian}life in Germany after the war unless I share the trials of these times with my people."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's amazing how seldom we ask the most basic questions. What is a state, anyway? Where does it get its authority? Might we be better off without it?

While we don’t advocate using the kind of language that accurately describes Ms Fluke’s behavior, we cannot help but wonder whether all of this fuss might not better have been spent in bringing our attention to the real, unspeakable suffering of real women in the real world

Congress and President Obama’s administration must realize that defense spending is not the cause of our economic problems. To proceed on such a premise places the United States, our freedom and our interests around the world at risk.  . . . In jeopardy is the highly successful recruitment and retention programs of an all-volunteer military

The bad news is that union operatives and allies, some from outside the area, used a combination of intimidation and lies against parents who had signed petitions to trigger reforms, causing the petition to be rescinded.

The result of the entire public firestorm is that it has delivered to the media a golden opportunity to focus on contraception at a time when Iran is on the cusp of nuclear weapons capability and as the whole Western world's economy is on the verge of tanking because of its indebtedness.

Indeed, over the course of the past century, far too many progressives—in my view—have never believed in equality of the races, today insisting that, left to their own devices, African Americans cannot make it on their own and thus need artificial props like affirmative action to lift them up. Contemporary progressives may say that they believe in equality, but they want government programs that advantage some over others.

To suggest that the absence of a thing could give rise to anything is obviously absurd. But this is exactly the position Richard Dawkins finds himself in. He has to explain the coming into existence of the universe from the absence of the very things which define and comprise it.

. . . ban on new man camps, Gov. Jack Dalrymple talked about the Oil Patch, newcomers are disproportionate victims, common sense not ideology, improprieties which lasted several years, 154 happy future Donald Ducks, U-Mary has a deal with Arizona State University, regional cultural tips for politicians, Most of the schemes failed, Now, all they need is ND investors, GF will be the third community in the nation, Silas Jr is going to prison, big things happen nearly every week, DAKTOIDS . . .

The bottom line in this is becoming ever more clear to some of us who are at leisure to think in the "political mental ward" that the United States has become.  The press is afraid of the truth.  The mechanism for informing the public, so vital to effective and proper self-government, has broken down.  Whether through an essential factor of fear on spec, or through intimidation implied or specific in this particular subject area, it does not really matter.  The result is a people left uninformed about issues critical to their decision making and their future. 

While this crime is making headlines, Coon states that it was merely the horrible culmination of continual racial harassment her son had to endure at East High. Moreover, after conducting an investigation that included extensive interviews with parents and students, I've learned that Coon's son is not alone. Other white students also report a pattern of racial harassment at the high school at the hands of their peers -- and, shockingly, their teachers.A

Evangelicals like to quote a biblical text that God favors those who favor the Jews. However, for them they mean only Jews who make wars and contribute to chaos in the Middle East. Jewish peacemakers are cursed in their view. No tears were shed for Yitzak Rabin who negotiated peace with the Arabs until Israeli fanatics killed him. Indeed Pat Robertson said that Rabin was killed because he was trying to thwart God's plans.