Dakota Beacon

. . . 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. 

When immigrants move to a country with a different culture and assimilate, they benefit and so does their new homeland. When they arrive and work to change their new homeland to mimic their native homeland, the only outcome is chaos and strife. In short, when the latter occurs, it is nothing short of an invasion with the goal of conquest.

But in their zeal to correct and condemn, Graham’s critics failed to ask the important question: Why did the great evangelist make his statement? Why would a man who so has faithfully preached the gospel of Jesus Christ around the globe say something like this?

So where do we look? We look to our faith, family and friends. The intact family is a safe place of stability and security.

No, the intersex wage gap isn't a bad thing, and it isn't good when it starts to close. The size of that gap correlates with the health of the nuclear family; the larger it is, the greater men's ability to support their families and women's opportunity to stay at home with the children.

The public, however, must not allow corruption and scandal to draw attention away from other equally significant issues. Among those issues is gun control.

Make sure a school official who commits leftist abuse upon a child never works again. Go for the jugular, for the kill shot; give no quarter. Go Roman. It’s only when thousands of the thought police’s decaying corpses of careers are lining the Apian Way that those in darkness will see the light.

  . . . Shirvani has cash and other goodies in his saddlebags totaling nearly $1 million; benefits of capturing the state’s wasted natural gas; “Let’s look forward to life without the nickname.” What about benefits? Sanford Health is pausing and restructuring; Two views of Minnesota taxes; ”Best State-Based Political Reporters”; “Fargo” will not be in Fargo; “It’s a fat girl’s paradise”; The price of progress is about $7.5 million a mile; In May 2009, Alien closed its Fargo plant; a big “moose study”; bible study group was surprised and stunned; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The true rivalry involves altruism and can only exist among true amateurs. It involves a fierce loyalty to team mates and good sportsmanship toward adversaries. All of these virtues are lost if one plays for the prize of becoming a mercenary, paid huge sums to devote an entire life to athletics and to be bought and sold by teams like a piece of merchandise.

Chris Christie has now demonstrated that he is firmly in the pocet of Barack Obama.

When asked by a reporter if he wasn't afraid of how his remarks will be heard, he answered, "No, I wasn't afraid of how they would be heard, I knew how they would be heard."

Is this Administration hell bent on destroying America? Not only is it ignoring the laws of finance; it is ignoring the laws of nature. Blindly or not, Obama is imposing his irrational world view on us.

Sometime in the early 1990s, Andrew experienced a dramatic  epiphany as a result of his probing questions about the liberal orthodox  environment in which he had been raised. The conclusions he reached  shattered all his preconceived liberal notions.

Although intended to be a pejorative term, the term “death panel” accurately reflects decisions that have to be made about whom to save when resources are scarce. We simply do not have the resources to provide as much health care as people might desire for prolonging their lives or the lives of their loved ones. If government pays for health care, as it does for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, limited funds necessitate that sometimes people will be denied access to care. If the decision of who does and who does not get care is not made explicitly by an appointed committee, it will be made by default as scarcity necessitates that some must wait in line for health care.

. . . we have sort of a Wild West; ND has the most bars per capita; The county threatens to close the camps; these are only the Somalis who have been arrested; 2013 grants of the Bush Foundation in St. Paul; “to study the successful oil economy of Norway”; the “voice of doom”; “We are pretty much an industrial city; Shame on you NDSU; politicians from both parties look alike; telemedicine patients of the Fargo VA center; As a child she dreamt of going to America; ND has the welcome sign out; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The resolution was sold to a number of adult volunteer leaders as simply a matter of doing something good for some boys, certainly a goal of Boy Scout leaders. In reality, however, what was sold is a bill of goods.

I believe in representative government, not one epitomized by the flippancy made famous by Pelosi. For example, when leading the Obama Administration's nationalization of health care, she told us that we would know what was in the law when it was passed; and when asked if the proposed law was constitutional, she blithely retorted, "Are you kidding?"

But as to his actual war experiences, we heard almost nothing.  In my dad’s later years, my younger brother had many conversations with him and some of this came out over the occasional glass of beer or in long evenings with little other diversion.  My father was a paratrooper.  I did know that he “cheated” to be allowed to serve as a paratrooper because of his defective vision.  He wanted to jump out of airplanes into jungles under fire because it carried extra pay with it. 

. . . a new greeting for Minnesotans; The culprit is not a billboard; an ugly picture of quarrels; Touro is an online college; scandalous conditions in the office of the dean of the UND College of Nursing; Is western ND becoming an armed camp? traffic should be light, right? Ten years after her death and millions of dollars of legal costs later; The availability of Bakken natural gas makes both plants feasible; The house was built by high school carpentry students; “The more chins the merrier!!” 2013 Chautauqua “Bird Talk”; Fargo’s “original hippie”; Tollie Schaumberg (106) lived a grand life; The Pembina County town of Cavalier (1,500) was evacuated; DAKTOIDS . . . .

John’s final resting place is quintessentially American. It sits aside a tombstone awaiting his beloved wife and across from the baseball field in small-town America where he played and coached his children for years.

In America we are busily constructing the identical scenario. . . hope Rubio and Toomey and McCain are watching this drama in London. 

The IRS agent claimed there was a special unit and that unit was in D.C. Why? It is simply because the organization engaged in “activities [that] contradict the administration’s public policies.” The IRS cited case law to support their actions. The link to Bob Jones is explicit in court documents.

"Every country has the right to define its own borders," he continues, "and to develop laws to defend them." In his view, amnesty for illegal aliens would reward those who have defied the rule of law, thus weakening the respect for law not only among immigrants, but among all Americans.

Most people do not sense a loss of freedom. Maybe it's because the erosion of freedom over time is imperceptible. Or, maybe certain things  offer an illusion of freedom.

Ineptitude and lack of ability to respond resulted from a policy mindset unwilling to acknowledge words like “war or terror” or “Islamic terrorism,” despite the reality of the continuing war with al Qaeda and its affiliates. Our armed forces had appropriate capabilities but couldn’t use them. Why?

ND won the sweepstakes; What about the neighbors? one of the greatest, if not the greatest session, in our state history; No other state has such a fortunate combination of circumstances; it has no common enemy and fights among itself; Bob develops slogans; “It felt good to be ‘suffering for science.’” “North Dakota has reached a ‘takeoff’ point that changes the basic equation of who we are and what we do.” people trying to escape their pasts; the self-centered world of Beverly Hills; half confessional and almost uncomfortably personal; A difference in style; you should not use a red Cadillac getaway car; DAKTOIDS

Yet there are many other GOP voters — and they may be in the majority — who take another position. And it’s one that well illustrates a profound difference between liberals and conservatives.

So, now, the phone that has been stolen all taken care of, what other reason could any law enforcement or government agency possibly want with a “kill switch” that could disable any phone at any time, anywhere? 

None of this would have been possible fifty years ago, but not for the obvious reason. The changes in the world around us have not brought this about. Those we've elected to lead our country have brought it about. We no longer hold our leaders to being truthful or even care when they lie to us.