Dakota Beacon

Amash’s problem isn’t McCain’s joke — it’s his own dirty mind.

Richard Gamble shows in his recent book, “In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth” (Continuum, August 2012), that the common assumption of this phrase being employed continuously and frequently from Winthrop to Reagan is false.

There is no requirement in our Constitution or anywhere else for a Republican National Committee.  This was a creature of the party members.  It is, rather, a monster we created.  It is time to put a stake in its wicked heart and start over.

On “60 Minutes” December 11, 2011, Obama openly stated, “What I am not going to do is wait for congress.” He is consolidating his power by ignoring the inherent system of checks and balances between the three branches of government. His aggressiveness is less veiled today.

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career t

And we put a little human in a human box not because we’ve been brainwashed with some arbitrary social construct but because he was born in a human body, and it’s better for everyone if is he is socialized as a human than trained as a ferret.

Jamestown is a rural community that depends on the rural people coming to Jamestown to do business and spend their money here.  It also strives to be a hub of importance for the people in the smaller communities that surround us and reaches beyond the borders of Stutsman County.  Why is the city and the county commission bent on antagonizing them?  How about the city playing nice with the rural people and try not to control them through extraterritorial zoning authority and usurping territory. 

Ambulance Evidence No. 3:  2012

 “Having an abortion is safer than receiving a penicillin shot,” Tammi Kromenaker, Director of The Red River Women's Clinic told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 29, 2013 in her testimony in opposition to SB2305 the bill designed to improve the level of medical care for clinic patients. She also made the claim that, “Abortion care is one of the safest medical procedures in the United States,”

Less than 1 percent of surgical abortion patients experience a “major complication,” said

Ambulance Evidence No. 2:  2010 - 2011

 “Having an abortion is safer than receiving a penicillin shot,” Tammi Kromenaker, Director of The Red River Women's Clinic told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 29, 2013 in her testimony in opposition to SB2305the bill designed to improve the level of medical care for clinic patients. She also made the claim that, “Abortion care is one of the safest medical procedures in the United States,”

Less than 1 percent of surgical abortion patients experience a “major complication,” said

Ambulance Evidence No. 1:  1996 -2009

 “Having an abortion is safer than receiving a penicillin shot,” Tammi Kromenaker, Director of The Red River Women's Clinic told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 29, 2013 in her testimony in opposition to SB2305 the bill designed to improve the care proided to women at the clinic. She also made the claim that, “Abortion care is one of the safest medical procedures in the United States,”

Less than 1 percent of surgical abortion patients experience a “major complication,” said

. . . property owners are not feeling the love; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp; the late Dr. Ben Clayburgh; no one was inspired to play the game; a swarm of flaky bills; an oil refinery near Williston; “We think we’re a world leader in this area”; Minot murder trial of Omar Kalmio; This is real life, real victims, real murders; Omar Kalmio looks terribly guilty; What do oil workers do on their days off? men who live to blow snow; plenty of Norwegian sweaters; A Sykeston man stole Minnesota’s motto; Minot has a pulse . . . .

Text of SB 2305

This proposed legislation should be supported by all who put the health and wellbeing of women who are patients seeking elective termination of a pregnancy above all else.

The safety of abortion is touted by it’s advocates using statistics and terms indicating infrequency of problems. The number of procedures does, though, result in significant incidents of harm to actual human beings as a result of procedures executed by itinerate physicians.

This is a preemptive measure intended to avoid as much as is practicable unintended consequences of itinerate surgery.

Medical Privileges is a BIG DEAL for both physicians and the hospitals extending such privileges. The process has significant correlation with risk management and legal exposure. It is undertaken very, very thoroughly. For a REASON.

A more rigorous vetting of itinerant physicians by hospitals done by their professional peers WILL improve the care of women patients and thus the outcomes of their surgery or medically induced termination.

The constitutionality of a state’s duty to protect it’s citizens by establishing pre-emptive measures in general, and in this manner itinerate physician scrutiny specifically, is well established in case law.

Abortion practitioners and academics concur that establishment of medical privileges will result in improved outcomes following elective pregnancy termination.

You have heard of Colin Powell, yes? Have you heard of Bishop Holley? No? Do you wonder why?

When the mind stops and its endless chatter subsides a new realm opens up. It is the realm of silence. In that silence we can begin to see things in the way we have not seen them before.

The founders disagreed on many things, but they understood and agreed on the meaning of liberty. It meant to live as an individual without central government planning. It meant respect for property rights, economic opportunity and religious freedom. The founders certainly did not understand liberty to be some form of “communitarianism” as outlined by Obama.

Perceptive observers see that the Founders’ view conflicts with Obama’s. Recent political gridlock in Congress and in the states is evidence of this fundamental division. This division has not yet reached crisis proportions, but it may not be far away.

. . . plight of women in the oil patch; Personal Protection Parties; How good is the ND job market? lack of workers and housing; child welfare problems at the Spirit Lake Reservation; Accusations against the Yankton clan; Little Owl was hired to rescue the failed social services program; His trial began this week; the state lost two eminent public figures; “It’s almost entirely reactive.” convicted of running over a tenant with a Hummer; ND’s annual traffic fatality rate; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Next week will be a very, very busy week at the legislature with 7 important bills being heard in committee.  Remember the legislative hearing process is very open--so you are not only invited to attend but testify if you wish.

HB 1456, the Heartbeat bill, a bill that will prohibit abortions when the heartbeat of the unborn can be detected--will be heard on Wednesday at 11am.
In addition, SCR 4009, SB 2302, SB 2303, and SB 2305--all will be heard on Tuesday.  These are all very important life bills including a constitutional measure to protect human life (SCR 4009).
Below see the complete hearing schedule.

The initial inability of law school professors to grasp the distinction between religious acts and criminal acts was not their worst shortcoming, however. They still have trouble understanding the different implications of a law requiring someone to do something prohibited by his religion and a law prohibiting something allowed by his religion. The common belief that both are governed by exactly the same legal rules is clearly wrong.

There is that old leftist Malthusian starvation saw that seems to have more lives than a cat; there is the man-made idea of man-made climate change; and there is what logically follows from these two assumptions, that humans are a “plague” (well, some humans are, anyway). But then there’s what is simply a falsehood: the notion that the world’s population is exploding.

The truth is just the opposite:

During that same period, a remarkable survey was done by Clarus Research Group, which asked Americans which president should be the model for Barack Obama in shaping his presidency. Their top choice was America’s most conservative president: Ronald Reagan.

How could that be? Answer: it cannot. It is impossible.

The real issue is control. An armed citizenry is the final defense against tyranny from a local, state or federal government. An armed citizenry is the last thing elites want.

Maybe the reason we aren’t having an honest conversation about guns, or about the Second Amendment, is because we aren’t honest about why those guns are protected in the Bill of Rights in the first place.

. . . “Visit Minot”; he most certainly is the luckiest; former U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy; criminal charges against NDSU players; an aircraft used by NDSU that costs $5,600 an hour to operate; The Gophers refused to schedule the UND Fighting Sioux; The Metis (may-TEE) people; love of land and farming; “married the love of his or her life”; lowest rate of serious deficiencies in nursing homes; lowest rate of serious deficiencies in nursing homes; crammed at least 100 years of living into that time; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The president (or Mr. Biden), surrounded by a group of school children at a signing ceremony, is not helpful. Emotional appeals that circumvent reasoning or pertinent data will merely continue to polarize our nation, creating resentment among those who feel manipulated.

Religion of all types, especially Christianity, which has been America’s predominant faith, has promoted and inspired upright moral conduct. Religion fosters “generosity, law-abidingness, helpfulness to others, civic engagement, social trust,” and other traits that are essential to the flourishing of a republic.

The arrogance which has grown around our political leaders and our entertainment personalities is really showcased when we read their opinions on our right to guns. They obviously don't believe in this for themselves. They think they would feel safer if we were less so, apparently. Ironically, this, of course, would not be true.

Will taxing companies that develop and manufacture these urgently demanded devices thwart their production? Without a doubt! The adage is true that if you want less of something, tax it. How will the tax affect the medical devices industry and thus the health of all of us?

Middle class workers’ first paychecks in January 2013 told a harshly different story. Following their New Year celebrations, Democrat voters received a healthy dose of economic reality. Rather than gathering a few Obama bucks, paychecks for most households took a hit. The new deal from the federal government’s “fiscal cliff deal” has become a raw deal for up to 80% of American households. This has to be an “I told you so” moment.