Dakota Beacon

As  Michael Barone observed, “the educated class” was dazzled by style, the knuckledragging morons are talking about substance. They grasp that another year of 2,000-page trillion-dollar government-growing bills offers America only the certainty of decline. Just before the Senate’s health care vote, Obama, the silver-tongued orator, declared that we were “on the precipice” of historic reform. Indeed.

On Tuesday, we’ll find out whether even Massachusetts is willing to follow him off the cliff.

Populist politicians such as Earl Pomeroy distract citizens with terms like "out of state interests."  These out of state interests' have for 18 years waged a coordinated effort to slander the character of Earl Pomeroy.  And, after 18 years I would think someone in the media would have the curiosity to ask Congressman Pomeroy to name a specific threat.  Anyway, this is the 21st century and we should encourage interests from outside our borders to aid the growth of our economy.

In a letter to the state's papers, ND Democratic Chairman Mark Schneider advised Nodaks how to act if they should encounter  “negative and distorted campaign rhetoric.”  He said do what Dorgan might do back in Regent, N.D., -- “scrape your boots, mount your steed and take the high ground.”  Schneider is new in his job, but could soon become a master of mixed metaphors.

Of course Black Americans have a right to feel profoundly insulted.  Reid has apologized and, in his infinite arrogance, Barack Obama has graciously accepted - presumably for himself and all other, lesser Black Americans, at least the "lighter-skinned" ones without a "Negro dialect", whatever that may be.  In so accepting he forgives Reid for his presumption.

Decent Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds are Americans first.  It is long past time to cease inferring racism or projecting it onto others.  Black or White, Americans all have an urgent common cause right now - we must repair the damage done to our country by this Congress and restore healthy dialogue on the issues.

CNN's Jack Cafferty explains the profligate spending and arrogant ways of the U.S. Congress and why he thinks the leader of that body is a HORRIBLE WOMAN.

A MUST WATCH VIDEO! Not because of what he calls Madam Speaker but WHY.

While the North Dakota media continues to ignore the biggest miscarriage of justice in recent history, industry insiders and top analysts begin to expose the truth about the persecution of Sandy Blunt. How can it be that people at the very top of the industry would make so many public pronouncements in defense of a convicted FELON? Answer: THEY WOULD NOT unless they KNEW with near certainty what was going on! THE VINDICATION CONTINUES TO GROW! But will North Dakota ever know? Time will tell.

When a job exists only because of a government subsidy (whether in the form of a grant, a tax credit, or any other policy device), then what the job produces is worth less than the worker is being paid. Society as a whole is made poorer by the difference between the value of what the worker produces and what the government pays him, and that wealth is withdrawn from the private sector. Obama’s fundamental problem regarding jobs is that he believes all that baloney about government having quasi-deific powers as an alleged ‘creator’ and ‘savior’ of jobs. Yes, government can put people on its payroll or prop up certain jobs, but only by redirecting scarce capital and resources from elsewhere in the economy, thereby reducing employment in the private sector.” In his latest op-ed, Dr. Hendrickson supports this contention with several real-world examples. “A little economic knowledge explains why this happens.

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

After a series of articles written by himself (Joe Paduda, nationally prominent analyst), and top author Peter Rousmaniere at Risk and Insurance, the top periodical of workman’s compensation, WorkCompCentral started to get a whiff of something rotten in the state of Nodak and started an interesting process of investigation.  It seems that the more Burleigh County Assistant State’s Attorney says, the more curiouser and curiouser things get.

Perhaps we shouldn’t try to read the tea leaves. Who would have believed that we’d have abandoned our Constitution because it was “too restrictive”, that we would be using tax dollars to fund thugs and prostitution rings, that after two weeks in office the new boy would have been chosen to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, that euthanasia is on the table?

Nevertheless I offer my prediction: America will rise to the challenge.

Obama getting serious about terrorism.....

What made it so wonderful to be a young conservative in the 1960s was that we were defying all the conventions that liberals believed they had established forever. Nothing could have been more fun. The equivalent today would be a college student advocating poll taxes, literacy tests to vote, the imprisonment of homosexuals, an all-male West Point, and one seat per county in the state legislatures. If young people start saying things like that now, they will have the kind of fun we did 50 years earlier.

Pfizer played a central role in getting New London to seize the homes of local residents who lived adjacent to the Pfizer site,” but “Now Pfizer is leaving New London ‘high and dry.’ How did this happen?

It is a sad story of local governments drawn into projects by the promise of large state grants. The grant then allowed them to accede to the special demands of large enterprises like Pfizer for tax breaks and special treatment. What is even sadder is that in their rush to redevelop, these same local governments bulldozed the fundamental rights of their own constituents and, then, their ‘business partner,’ Pfizer, cast them aside whenever it chose to do so.

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What did the Pantybomber have a membership card in? Well, he was President of the Islamic Society of University College, London. Kafeel Ahmed, who died after driving a burning jeep into the concourse of Glasgow Airport, had been President of the Islamic Society of Queen’s University, Belfast. Yassin Nassari, serving three years in jail for terrorism, was President of the Islamic Society of the University of Westminster. Waheed Arafat Khan, arrested in the 2006 Heathrow terror plots that led to Americans having to put their liquids and gels in those little plastic bags, was President of the Islamic Society of London Metropolitan University.

Instantaneous microwave transmission of wind data from around the world is fed into a central mega-computer located deep within the high security Mickelson Park Technical Center in Fargo, North Dakota. Increasingly complex computer models, developed during the last decade, have brought the question of “Local Calming” to a point of alarming urgency.

Satire as only Lynn Bergman can serve up. Global Calming? Read the whole sordid tale.

Now that Senator Dorgan is not seeking re-election, the repercussions of voting against North Dakota's interests will not be felt by him in November.  Let's hope for North Dakota's sake, Senator Dorgan's concern for his own legacy will push him to do the right thing for the state when the issue comes up in the Senate

Although patronizing, Brooks is accurate with the following assertion.  Many people are skeptical of the depth and breadth of centralized government. Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, withdrew from the excess of the French Revolution; he was horrified by claims against individual liberty in the name of equality perpetuated by the French "educated class." From the beginning of America's first and only Republic, the question has persisted, "How do we balance freedom and equality?"  This fundamental tension has preserved our Republic 200 plus years.  Absent this tension we lose the freedom to be equal.

Many of you have probably experienced the belligerence of your credit card provider in requiring you pay off your lowest interest loans (usually a promotional rate) before the higher interest ones.

This is a classic example of NEEDED REGULATION that simply enforces a commonly accepted right of borrowers, namely the right to themselves choose to pay off higher interest rate loans first. I’m not taking credit (no pun intended) for the new law, but who knows if it would have included this provision had I not formally complained?

I am waiting, for example, for a scientific intellect aware of the fact that the orthodoxies of Darwinian evolutionism and apocalyptic environmentalism contradict each other. The adaptability of species is the very heart of Darwinism. The sky-is-falling alarmism of the climatologists, cannot, in the long term, be reconciled with the essential resilience of nature from an evolutionary perspective. Would these people have us believe that the fundamental tenets of the Darwinist creed can be set aside only by them, Darwinism's most fervent acolytes?

America's preeminent security threat is terrorism rooted in Islam. Religion is not the lone factor contributing to this threat. We must also look to: political, economic, cultural, and globalization as contributing factors to this threat. Religion certainly exacerbates the call to terrorism for some who wish America harm. Religion brings an element of absolute truth and absolute reality to potential terrorists; these absolutes are void in President Obama's postmodern world view. Consequently, we need leadership which views the world as is, not as the world should be.

America’s premier periodical of Insurance, “Risk & Insurance” is weighing in on the Sandy Blunt affair in shall we say “Blunt” terms when their star columnist, Peter Rousmaniere, publishes his article “Blunting Political Vindictiveness”.

"The prosecution of Blunt was nasty froth atop a wave of popular distrust of the autonomous status of the fund. With the Blunt conviction, North Dakota has marched toward, not away from, more political intrusion into workers' compensation."

While gifts for children may not have been on display at the White House this year, and the display of a crèche was likewise in question, something peculiar was on display—a most curious image. Hung on the historic White House Christmas tree this year was a rather novel ornament: a glistening, glimmering Mao Tse-Tung. How’s that for inclusion? Baby Jesus—maybe, maybe not? Chairman Mao, yes! Needless to say, Mao is not traditionally associated with Christmas,” Kengor concludes. “To the contrary, Mao brutally persecuted those who recognized Christmas. … Mao’s subsequent annihilation made him worthy not of Christmas ornamentation but the trophy of worst mass murderer in all of history. Yes, a puzzling choice for Christmas veneration.

Justification for the wonton destruction of children emerges under an assortment of stressful and pragmatic conditions. Two of the most frequent reasons were alleviation of poverty and population control.

The scarce supply of food always curtailed population growth. Starvation could be controlled by restricting the number of children allowed to mature to adulthood. While male and female infanticide controlled the population in general, societal prejudice against females characterized many male dominated cultures.

From the Washington Post: North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan will not run for re-election later this year, creating a major pickup opportunity for Republicans.

“2009 ended with a flurry of important events on the climate-change front.” “In November, the Climategate scandal broke. An anonymous whistle-blower released over 1,000 e-mails from key scientists … [which revealed] a shocking pattern of the abuse of science by both American and British scientists.” Then, the “incriminating e-mails were followed in December by charges from Russia’s Institute of Economic Analysis that Britain’s Meteorological Office deliberately skewed Russia’s temperature data.” “With the underlying climate-change ‘science’ so thoroughly compromised, did policymakers pause to reconsider the need for colossally expensive CO2-curbing policies? No. Instead they are locked into automatic-pilot mode…. Could it be that climate-change politics is more about wealth and power than science?”

By various estimates Dr. Norman Borlaug is credited with saving hundreds of millions, or as many as a billion of the world's most vulnerable people from a wretched death by starvation over the course of a career that spanned a little more than a half century.  Many more people, indeed most of the world has reaped the benefits of the green revolution through better and cheaper food.  Borlaug certainly didn't do it alone.  The green revolution, from which we all have benefited in ways that few really comprehend, was the work of thousands of dedicated men and women, who achieved an astounding half century of agricultural advancement, and continue to do so.  But what Norman Borlaug represented most uniquely was a passion to adapt and carry those advances to the other half of the human race – those most vulnerable – the people on the edge.
 

 The state had another great year in 2009, continuing many of the positive trends of 2008.  Some of the stories are not single events, rather, they are a series of ongoing events.

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