Dakota Beacon

The root of the answer, once again, is the Marxist/communist assault on marriage. Led either by the spirit of the times or by another spiritual force that has long led communists, the communist priority is not gay rights but a continued assault on the family.

This position is generally referred to as materialism. It rests on the presupposition that reality consists of only that which can be observed, conceptualized, measured and quantified. This view, however, fails to do full justice to the way we see the world function.

"The first impression he generally conveyed was that he had stated the case of his adversary better and more forcibly than his opponent could state it himself." This rare ability to grasp his foe's position made Lincoln himself a powerful foe.

Finally, Defense Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, REGRETS the “$860,000.00 cost to taxpayers for his weekend trips to his California home 27 times.”  When is the last time you heard of an enlisted soldier, during his/her deployment, getting trips home because it’s “important just to get your mind straight and your perspective straight.”  It’s a pity some of this “mind and perspective” straightness, was not reflected in his behavior.  Regrets?  Nathan Hale’s statement: “I REGRET that I have but one life to give for my country” still defines the highest and noblest example of integrity. I’m sure that Nathan Hale felt no regrets for his action.  And he did NOT say, as is taught now, “I regret that I have but one life to ‘Lose” for my country. 

When President Obama uses his authority to shut down private business, in the form of the Keystone XL pipeline, he (it is estimated) has cost ND people around $573 million since January. In our area, many of the mineral lease offers have evaporated, and that is money that can never be recaptured. All because one guy thinks he knows more than the rest of us.

It’s back. The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is a United Nations “law” that would tax US-based interests. This is the same treaty that President Ronald Reagan refused to sign many years ago. Today, some in the US Senate, Democrats in particular, want to say “yes” to this international tax. We know all about the unsustainable debt our government incurred and the recurring effort to raise the debt ceiling again and again in order to spend even more money. With our economy going south fast, some Senate nitwits nevertheless want to redistribute American wealth internationally. Give me a break.

Yes, the legislature loves to dish out tax relief at opportune times, a small enough gesture to fend off popular demands for a serious reckoning. To do this now and then serves their political purposes. Like the federal income tax, property tax is a tool for political manipulation. It is a device for government intrusion into the private sector, picking winners and losers at the taxpayers’ expense. We see how well that works on the national level! Wouldn’t we all like to gamble with huge amounts of other people’s money and reward friends? The property tax has been “fixed” 135 times since 1981 and is still one big lemon for us all to suck on.

Our original rights freed us from the state's power. Nowadays, most alleged "rights" increase the state's power over us.

Our Founding Fathers had firsthand experience in dealing with hardships associated with religious freedom and the lack thereof. It was so important that the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights protected our religious liberties. Today not much has changed in regard to the threats to our religious freedoms, and the very same protection is needed.

. . . I didn’t think it would happen this fast, Bill and Jane Marcil have emerged as leading philanthropists, Peggy Lee, TAT chairman Tex Hall, Tex Hall wants an additional $12 million, dangerous roads in the oil patch, dangerous roads in the oil patch, young families are commuting from small communities, Williston has an immediate need for 7,000 homes, man camps are an alternative to chaos, oil field trash, Westbound coal trains are usually empty, Riding a Roan Horse, Careless Czesia has drug charges, DAKTOIDS. . . .

Despite the fact that President Hoover increased government spending and debt, his approach was labeled “free market.” The exact opposite is true. When running against Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover actually argued that Roosevelt would make things worse by lowering taxes and decreasing spending. Roosevelt responded by accusing Hoover’s administration of being a profligate spender.

Voters don’t necessarily elect candidates to “get things done.” “Getting things done” is clichéd rhetoric; it is more of a problem than a solution. Elected officials keep “getting things done” at voters‘ expense. Whether for appearance sake or to buy votes by bringing home the bacon, “getting things done” is one of the reasons we’re in the sorry economic quandary we find ourselves today. Americans are never safer than when congress is in recess.

. . . the little ND brothers and sisters were working hard; Little Missouri State Park; theoretical maximum; Our leaders must step up to the plate; desperate families looking for jobs in the oil economy; one of the biggest controversies in western ND; a 3,000-person facility proposed in Dickinson; barriers to the free flow of labor; April issue of "fedgazette; Common Schools Trust Fund; Norma changed her name to Peggy Lee; McClusky Canal; Great Lakes Airlines . . . .

And now think about this: If Obama was willing to drop the marriage mask before the election, what masks will be dropped after it when, as he said to Dmitry Medvedev, he has “more flexibility”?

The irony here is that the health Nazis would have had the overindulgent Ohio mother’s back if she’d ended her boy’s life in the womb. 

All this will guarantee my swift impeachment and removal from the presidency, since Congress will surely regard keeping my oath to uphold the Constitution as chief among "high crimes and misdemeanors."

So, why not exponentially increase this benefit?  Why not spread it around to all taxpayers?  Because, obviously, if you did THAT, you wouldn’t have all that power and influence to peddle anymore.  And that would be a shame.  No more sweetheart deals, no more kickbacks.  Just plain old opportunity for all North Dakotans.  No more unfair advantages to sell.

Likewise, Marx wrote this: “the theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” Yes, liberals place all kinds of restrictions on private property, but I know of no Congressional Democrat who would go as far as Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Castro.

Are America’s citizens, especially her youth, capable of electing a congress and an executive qualified to lead us back to the status of a respected world leader?

History has a funny way of repeating itself. Today Heidi Heitcamp is trying to distance herself from the Democratic Party while trying to convince us that she believes in North Dakota values.

The depression of 1920-21 was as severe and rapid an economic contraction as any in U.S. history. Unlike the contraction in 1929-30 that eventually persisted for 12 years, the severe depression in the early ‘20s ended in 1922. By 1923, the economy was firing on all cylinders. Why?

Ah, those scripts. In the old days, and let us not hesitate to call them the good old days, literate men like Morrie Ryskind, William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, James Agee, and Raymond Chandler wrote screenplays worthy of the best actors.

Of course, there's no reason to believe that Hokumhontas was actually qualified for her Harvard position in the first place.  Having listed herself as a "native American" in a directory of law professors for the decade prior to her affirmative-action hiring, it's all but certain that she was playing upon the female-minority quota daily double — and benefitted from it.  And all this based on supposedly having had a great-great-great grandmother who was Cherokee, which would account for 1/32^nd of Warren's heritage.

Scam is in the air; “worst place on earth”: Let’s not become the third Dakota; the “oldest old; a horrendous, growing problem; Williams County (Williston) created 12,000 jobs; crime boom; University of Mary in Bismarck; Medcenter One in Bismarck and Sanford Health; Fighting Sioux nickname; “Indoor RV park”; Frankly, Jellybean is not ready; DAKTOIDS . . .

Afghanization succeeds only if it proceeds with a bodyguard of political and economic reforms compelling the Afghan people to fight for themselves. Otherwise, Afghanization only needs to endure until early November and the re-election of President Obama.

ND’s capitol is “terrible, it’s embarrassing,”; “commands the prairie with simple, lean authority”; “It’s beautiful and simple; offer free college tuition to all Nodaks; legislative leaders and their lemming-like followers; UAS graduates find jobs with drone manufacturers; average full professor makes $100,000; a Buffalo Chip on Jessica Vega; grass is “flammable as gasoline; both parties go away happy; Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp; meth use and sales are increasing; ND traffic accidents are rising . . .

The ingenuity of Americans to assemble the component pieces of economic energy—and to convert that economic energy into economic abundance and wealth—is an American success story. Wealth generation is the outcome of Americans freely conducting their lives as they see fit in the pursuit of happiness. The perpetual motion machine of Americanism is driven by freedom; the freedom to obtain, assemble, and release economic energy and create wealth.

What other purpose does the Pledge really serve? It teaches an unreflective loyalty to the government, rather than an intelligent attachment to the principles of the Constitution. The Constitution never speaks of the United States as a single and monolithic "nation." It always refers to them in the plural. There is a reason for this, but most Americans have forgotten it. Even Lincoln sometimes spoke of the United States as a "confederacy."

. . . Richard Dawkins suggested that it may have been seeded on this earth by aliens. It is truly hard to believe that a serious scientist would even entertain such a fantastical speculation. This is, however, what happens when even intelligent men try to avoid the obvious implications of science. They start talking about aliens and such.

Will it require increasing other taxes?

How can it be administered?

29,617 voting age North Dakotans signed petitions to place Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 2 on the June 12, 2012 Primary Election ballot. Measure No. 2 eliminates property taxes and requires replacement of the lost revenues with other state revenue sources, without restrictions on how the revenues may be spent by local political subdivisions.

 If we act now to leave $857,012,658 Million in the pockets of North Dakota individuals and businesses on February 15, 2013 and $970 Million in the pockets of North Dakotans on February 15, 2014, the likely rapid diversification of our economy and associated economic benefits to North Dakota residents will be unparalleled! And as the years go by, all areas of our great state are likely to prosper, not just agriculture, oil and their support sectors. We can look forward to a future economy that is diverse enough to weather almost any “economic storm” placed before us; and hopefully without the taxpayer supported “economic development” schemes that “pick winners and losers”!