Dakota Beacon

With a $17 trillion debt as government grows out of control domestically, traditions and time-tested institutions crumbling, and forces around the globe eager to harm American interests, what is reversible and what is not, in coming decades?

"By their fruits ye shall know them." Born in violence, the unions have grown in violence, theft, and corruption. In the middle of the twentieth century, the AFL and CIO merged. By then, their only concern was to divide up the loot and political power.

 Ridicule is most effective when it undermines the political and psychological strength of an adversary. It strips that adversary of their prestige.

It was a war fought by dirt poor Southern white farmers on one side and a lot of German and Irish immigrants filling out the ranks of dirt poor Yankee farmers on the other side. Despite sharing the same race, religion, and history, they slaughtered one another with alacrity. What a different country this might have been if, 400 years ago, someone had suggested, “Let’s pick our own cotton.”

. . . there’s something she doesn’t get: the lawyers’ job isn’t to understand Rachel Jeantel; they aren’t her therapist or minister. It isn’t about her at all. It’s about a man named George Zimmerman, whose life hangs in the balance.

If Coulter and other people involved in the formation of public opinion are to be responsible in their work they must figure this one out before it goes any further. 

This brings us to the myth of diversity. All it can ever be is a liability to, hopefully, be overcome; it can never be the “strength” it’s billed as (without even a shred of evidence in support of the notion).

 “There can be no doubt that the University’s discrimination injures white and Asian applicants who are denied admission because of their race.” In the process, such a racially motivated admission policy “stamps [blacks and Hispanics] with a badge of inferiority. It taints the accomplishments of all those who are admitted as a result of racial discrimination.” Moreover, those minority students who were admitted on the basis of merit cannot be distinguished “from the ones whose race played a role in their admission.” Therefore, their admissions and their achievements are tainted as well.

. . . 2011-13 biennium surplus of $1.7 billion; Defense of Marriage Act; “I plan to turn that around and say we are open, too.” How do you know you are in ND? a draft evaluation of the university presidents; accused of deleting 45,000 emails; Credible answers have been elusive; firing Shirvani was a case of killing the messenger; If someone lacks vision, it’s important for their supervisor to say so; new UND provost, Thomas DiLorenzo; who would be so careless; “Just deserts” may seem a little harsh; Prairie demolition; Canadian border guards seized 16 guns; “Bowtie Guy.” DAKTOIDS . . . .

Unfortunately, today’s liberals/progressives could care less; they are fine with happily embracing any and all violations of Natural Law in pursuit of their own new, enlightened laws. It’s part of that glorious “fundamental transformation” of America.

In so doing, liberals are shattering a rare, precious consensus that they had nurtured with conservatives. There are few things that liberals and conservatives agree upon, but one of them was the crucial importance of children being raised in a home with a dad and a mom.

This is a very clear indication that the Republican Party can no longer stand on its rotted foundation. 

There are consequences to the experiments with traditional values and families that have been going on over the past 60 years -- and they have been ugly, unenlightening, and anything but positive.

I said many years ago that I didn’t use the term “African-American” and that I never would. It is part of the Lexicon of the Left, and, as the old book the Tyranny of Words points out, the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate.

---It is impossible to tabulate all the American businesses that have been hamstrung, crippled, or even forced into closure by the oppressive edicts of federal regulatory agencies. We tend to hear about the large corporations that go broke; their sheer size commands national media attention, but countless thousands of smaller businesses have been crippled or crushed by OSHA, the green brigades of FWS, BLM, and the green queen bee, the EPA.

Instead, we instill them with the notion that the sexes are the same and, by golly, if something isn't dangerous for a guy, there's no reason why you should have to "modify your behavior" in that department.  Equality!

Today's leaders at the  highest levels accept a vision of America comparable with that of a secular,  dying European culture.

"Accompanying the decline of institutions and the decay of values in such ages [like ours] is the cultivation of power that becomes increasingly military, or paramilitary, in shape. Such power exists in almost exact proportion to the decline of traditional social and moral authority."

I am confident that some traditional colleges will go out of business in the next 10-15 years due to their inability to adapt.

Our government may intend to do nothing with hundreds of millions of electronic telephone logs and Internet records other than to fight terrorism. We must remember, however, that the same people will not always run the government; if our future leaders decide to misuse this information, they will already have it and will not have to go before a judge again.

Is it that the capons at ESPN have eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and liberalism and think that they, too, can be like God and change even Scripture if so inclined?

If our will is so wanting that we’ll pander on the big thing and not do what any sane nation does instinctively — deport invaders — it’s beyond silly to think we’ll suddenly man-up on the little things (especially since we have no history of doing that, either).

Actually, the IRS is not the virus; it is just the implementation agent. The virus was injected into our Constitution in 1913 with the passage of the 16th Amendment. The 16th Amendment was deemed necessary because our Founding Fathers had wisely prohibited the imposition of income taxes by the federal government.

. . . In short, a person so perfect, he or she can’t be found; This was the paradox that Hamid Shirvani found in ND; The value of the 2012 corn crop in ND equaled wheat; money is burning a hole in their pocket; ND’s high level of social capital; Today's young people today face terrible problems; What would Sigrun Emily think about those young folks? MN has a 17% minority population; The meth is procured in Texas and the Twin Cities; The Prairie Pothole Region; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Under Perón, government agencies gradually got involved in all areas of the economy. We see a similar pattern in the United States–many sectors of the economy now depend on control, encouragement, or direct management. Obamacare is the best example; it is Perónism or corporatism on steroids.

You can elicit whatever response you want depending upon how you phrase the question.  Example:  How do you feel about clean air? For it or against it?  This can be manipulated to support more EPA involvement in our power industry or to support legislation requiring that smokers stand 60 feet from the nearest building.  When you begin by asking whether we support securing our border or protecting our own labor force and end with support of a bill which does neither it’s just part of the game of manipulation.

The test vote on Grassley's amendment says it all. Border security even in the eyes of the Gang of Eight takes second place to amnesty. At this rate our borders will never be secure. This in spite of
 polling data that indicate Americans want border enforcement first by a margin of 4-1.

“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

. . . Top 20 highest-paid public employees in ND; newspaper editors usually don’t stick their necks out; Chinese immersion programs in elementary schools; You have to vote yes or no on the carbon boom; nothing to fear from biotech wheat; two young Montana motorcyclists were hit head on and killed; it will no longer be economical to maintain land lines; The Ramirez story leads to Bismarck; everyone in Williston has a lilac bush; placed the twins in shoe boxes surrounded by hot bricks; paying them a handsome bonus, then killing them; DAKTOIDS . . . .

A terrorist is someone who threatens us or someone we love, our business, our employees, our home, our property.  That would be our government.