Dakota Beacon

Enumerated powers, separation of powers, checks and balances, high thresholds for amending the Constitution, and a system of co-equal state and federal powers – these were the promises made to the people and to their sovereign states when the Constitution was adopted.  Has any solemn promise not been broken?  Federal offices swear to protect and defend the Constitution, but when is the last time this sacred oath was taken seriously? 

"As far as public debt is concerned, the United States is long-since on a par with Europe. More generally, you cannot adopt European ideas about government and hope to keep the minimal government cherished by the American revolutionaries."

 In this latest e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, “V&V Q&A: Outrageous Public Debt”, Dr. Paul Kengor, executive director of the Center, interviews Dr. Guido Hülsmann, chairman of the economics department at the University of Angers in France and author of an acclaimed biography of Ludwig von Mises, "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism."

Obama praised Wright as "a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith." 

That would explain a lot about his absurdly mangled version of the faith he professes.  The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Shakespeare tells us; but surely the devil could do it more adroitly than Obama. 

It is time to start over with a process that brings both parties to the table with ideas for reform. The special deals and exemptions of the past are null and void. And another thing of great importance, this will be the opportunity for congress and the president to make amends for past behavior. They can show the American people that legislation can be produced that meets our nation’s needs, and it can be done in the open. We need to see civil behavior and cooperation and respect for other points of view. And most of all, they need to earn back the respect of the people for it is we who send them there to do our work.

Obama’s call for bipartisanship is imaginary transparency. He does not care about Republican ideas. He has called for a bipartisan meeting for two reasons. First, at long last he will fulfill his promise to televise health care negotiations on C-SPAN. Second, he can use the edited transcripts in November to produce campaign propaganda TV commercials supporting Democrats against Republicans.

Bottom line: Survey after survey reveal that Americans don’t like what they see of health care legislation. Most wish the process would start over with a level playing field, not merely be tweaked in bipartisan meetings. President Obama and the Democrat congressional leadership want proposed health care legislation left in tact and have said so.

Both as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and president, Washington worked to form an American character. Throughout the War for Independence, he expected both his officers and soldiers to act morally and “display the character of republicans” appropriate to “Christian Soldier[s]” who were defending their country’s “dearest Rights and Liberties.” Speaking to the nation’s governors in 1783, Washington argued that Americans could “establish or ruin their national Character forever.” As John Winthrop had done in his 1630 sermon “A Model of Christian Charity,” Washington reminded his countrymen that “the eyes of the whole World” were “turned upon them.” Guided by the complementary principles of revelation and reason, Americans must fulfill their civic duties because they were “actors on a most conspicuous Theatre … peculiarly designated by Providence for the display of human greatness and felicity.”

Since all of the many past temperature fluctuations were caused by natural cycles and we have barely scratched the surface regarding our understanding of these natural cycles, it's absurd to assume all of the 1 degree of warming the past 100 years must be from man.

Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity, by Brian Domitrovic. Domitrovic “has written an important book,” observes Dr. Hendrickson. “Econoclasts is the first in-depth history of ‘supply-side economics,’ the intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the tax-cut and sound-money policies [that] liberated the United States from the grip of the dreadful stagflation of the ‘70s and paved the way for a quarter-century of almost uninterrupted economic growth and prosperity.” “Prof. Domitrovic writes fluently and clearly. He superbly recreates a period which many Americans are too young to remember.”

There can really be no argument on this point: The struggle against abortion is the cause célèbre nonpareil of our era. A free citizen living in these times is morally challenged as profoundly as an American living through slavery or as a German during the years of Hitler's madness.

We are morally defined by our response to the existential demands of our era. No Yankee or Southerner in antebellum America was left unscathed. No German in the time of the Third Reich avoided Divine scrutiny. Few of us today will be able to stand before God pleading total innocence of the blood of these 50 million children. I include myself among the guilty because I have lacked the wit and the passion to save a single one of them.

The soulless wretch in My Son John resembles another John of modern leftism, John Edwards.  This John  lies whenever it is more convenient to lie than to tell the truth.  He lies even when his lies are daggers through the hearts of family members.  He strives to look pretty, to sound glib, to seem caring, to think seriously – and yet everything about this very real modern John is as much a lie as the fictional character in My Son John.

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This is the only country in the developed world where a mass movement took to the streets to say we can do just fine if you control-freak statists would just stay the hell out of our lives, and our pockets. You can shove your non-stimulating stimulus, your jobless jobs bill, and your multitrillion-dollar porkathons. This isn't karaoke. These guys are singing "I'll do it my way" for real.

But it's awfully late in the day. The end is near, we face the final curtain, and it's an open question whether the spirit of the tea parties can triumph over the soporific, sophomoric, self-flattering conformism of that Audi ad: Groupthink compliance has never felt so right!

In one case, 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell was abducted from the bedroom of her home in Salisbury, Maryland. Her body was found three days later on Christmas Day. Thomas J. Leggs, Jr., 30, a registered sex offender acquainted with her family, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and burglary.

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Now that Byron Dorgan has quit fighting for “us”: he’s weary of war; he has ‘”battle fatigue,” plus his lack of a backbone makes it very painful to carry his  $4,000,000.00 out-of-state “war chest.”  He also wants to write two more books about nickels and dimes. The paper for his books could be put to better use sent to Haiti as toilet tissue.  Considering that the national debt went from $914 billion in 1980 to $12.8 trillion during his “watch”, does anyone really need another book about anything from a blind deficit hawk?  Dorgan’s decision to quit came from his awareness, as an astute politician and a “faithful Obama Democrat, of the “handwriting on the wall.”  He has given, to ND voters, the chance to send a U.S. Senator to congress to FIGHT for the survival of the UNITED STATES of America instead of pitting of each state against every other state at the pork trough. That is the job of the “representatives” of each respective state. 

It could be argued that the T.E.A. Partiers are actually going easy on Governor Hoeven as they have not asked him to explain how doubling the state budget in 10 years prepares him for tackling the federal financial situation.  Without that line of questioning, Mr. Omdahl will be better positioned to claim the T.E.A. Parties are "Republican Pep-Rallies" than to say they are "making life miserable for Governor Hoeven."

The Executive Branch has taken over through intimidation - risking American defense by eliminating key military installations as “punishment” to members of Congress who stray, and bribery - using our tax dollars to buy their votes.

I have no doubt there was a Divine intervention.  It took place long before Coburn’s prayer but no one recognized it.  Its only magic was that ordinary Americans kept doing what they knew they must, even in the face of defeat after defeat.  They never gave up, they never lost their courage. And their true leaders were empowered by this and stood their ground.

FDR’s budget doubled between 1931 and 1938 while concurrently unemployment climbed. The CCC and WPA destroyed jobs in the private sector by creating make-work jobs in government. Unemployment peaked in 1933 at 25% and only dropped to 17% by 1940.

From 1929 to 1940 a struggle ensued between the public and private sectors of the economy. The private sector dominated in the beginning, the public sector dominated at the end.

Unlike today’s global warming scam, Obama’s recession is very much manmade. Sadly, it doesn’t have to be this way.

President Obama spoke yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast. I’ve long studied the sitting president’s remarks at these breakfasts, particularly President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and President Ronald Reagan. I note this to hopefully lend a little credibility in putting my observations into historical context, while also not avoiding the current political climate—as Obama certainly did not.

Obama’s spending proposes to take the average Bush deficit for the years 2001-2008, and double it, all the way to 2020. To get out of the Bush hole, we need to dig a hole twice as deep for one-and-a-half times as long. And that’s according to the official projections of his Economics Czar, Ms Rose Colored-Glasses. By 2015, the actual hole may be so deep that even if you toss every Obama speech down it on double-spaced paper you still won’t be able to fill it up.

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While Congressman Pomeroy is telling his people he might as well retire if the healthcare debate continues, Senator Conrad is willing to completely change his philosophical beliefs to keep the debate going.

Going Rogue definitely provides an understanding of Palin’s growth as a person and as a politician. She is not a wild-eyed radical. To appreciate her political views, one need only turn to the views of Ronald Reagan. Palin’s book can be best understood as several phases in the ‘education of Sarah Palin.’ This ‘education’ had three phases—and perhaps a fourth.

ARLINGTON, VA -- Success in eliminating abortion from American life will require a degree of political sophistication not heretofore witnessed among the leaders of the pro-life movement.

Economic Liberty and Constitutional Government Needed to Foster a Culture of Life