Dakota Beacon
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
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Beacon Author
on January 4, 2017 at 09:44 pm
In an article on World Net Daily dated March 3, 2014 the revolutionary agenda of the Convention of States organization was unmasked. http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/03/new-push-for-limits-on-washington-power/ The Convention of States deceptively proposes a…...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
By
Beacon Author
on June 28, 2016 at 01:13 pm
You are the winner. You have vanquished all others in what had been a large field of candidates. You've received by far the most votes. Indeed, your nearest competitor, Ted…...
Sunday, June 12, 2016
By
Beacon Author
on June 12, 2016 at 05:07 pm
Early in my career, my wife and I attended a church in California with a notable American who famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is…...
Monday, April 25, 2016
By
Beacon Author
on April 25, 2016 at 03:07 pm
The recent filing of a lawsuit by Comstock Construction against the North Dakota Heritage Center for $1.5 million points up a recurring issue in state government. There is a pattern…...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015
By
Selwyn Duke
on September 2, 2015 at 11:08 am
Barack Obama won’t be saying, “If I had a psycho son, he’d look like Vester Lee.” But he might as well. Because Vester Lee Flanagan II, the bigoted maniac who…...
Thursday, February 26, 2015
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 26, 2015 at 06:41 pm
A homosexual couple goes into a known Christian bakery and asks for a wedding cake for a same-sex “marriage,” is refused and then files a government complaint or sues. “Intolerance!…...
Saturday, February 07, 2015
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 7, 2015 at 12:00 pm
If you look for the worst in a group, you’re sure to find it. Using a twist on an Abraham Lincoln line, I made that statement on the Mildred Gaddis…...
Friday, January 30, 2015
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 30, 2015 at 11:53 pm
Call it the Blizzard of Oz. The “Snowstorm of the Century” Monday was supposed to be historic. All we got was histrionics. It turned out that the real…...
Friday, January 09, 2015
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 9, 2015 at 04:24 pm
“If not for my faith, I would be barely human.” That was the answer English writer Evelyn Waugh gave when asked, as all Christians will be at some point, how…...
Monday, December 15, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 15, 2014 at 02:45 pm
There was a recent scandal that, as much as anything else, illustrates the intellectual emptiness and moral ennui of the modern liberal man. It occurred in Britain but reflects a…...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 19, 2014 at 04:27 pm
To many, the above title may seem much like speaking of the bright side to malignant cancer. And did it really come out of this writer's pen? Long a staunch…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 19, 2014 at 04:10 pm
A well known phenomenon in the animal kingdom is that when taking over a new pride, a lion will sometimes kill all the cubs. We don't know exactly what kind…...
Thursday, November 13, 2014
By
Beacon Author
on November 13, 2014 at 07:55 pm
Proponents of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) like to promote the idea that CCSS is "not a curriculum." The CCSS website further states the disjointed idea that local districts…...
Sunday, October 12, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 12, 2014 at 08:08 pm
“There was a time when you knew who the bad girls were,” someone close to me once said. “Now you know who the good girls are.” And I hear that…...
Friday, September 19, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on September 19, 2014 at 10:03 am
If I pointed out that involvement in every major 20th-century conflict the US was part of occurred on liberals’ watch, it might not be entirely fair. True, there was WWI…...
Monday, August 11, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on August 11, 2014 at 12:25 pm
One reason predictions of a Mitt Romney victory in 2012 were inaccurate, say analysts, is that the turnout among certain Democrat constituencies — in particular blacks and Hispanics — was…...
Thursday, August 07, 2014
By
Beacon Author
on August 7, 2014 at 12:19 pm
I first encountered the Common Core State Standards last fall, when my grandson started sixth grade in a public middle school here in Berkeley, Calif. This was the first year…...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on July 8, 2014 at 12:27 am
It was headlining AOL on Friday, a story about a woman stabbing a schoolteacher to death in front of a class of five and six-year-olds. The gruesome and bloody crime…...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 25, 2014 at 03:21 pm
Western civilization lied and people died. It lied, that is, to itself. I am referring to Iraq, but not to the hapless George W. Bush and the claim of WMDs’…...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 18, 2014 at 01:26 am
This article will be a departure from my usual fare. I will not claim there is some Absolute Truth deeming soccer the bane of humanity’s sports. I do not contend…...
Thursday, June 12, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 12, 2014 at 05:30 pm
Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that’s now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all mass killers are white.…...
Friday, June 06, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 6, 2014 at 11:30 pm
Commenting recently on the Elliot Rodger killings, arch-leftist Michael Moore wrote that while “other countries have more violent pasts…more guns per capita in their homes…and the kids in most other…...
Thursday, May 29, 2014
By
Beacon Author
on May 29, 2014 at 01:48 am
It would appear that Elizabeth Ferguson, in a less-than-lucid letter to the Grand Forks Herald (“Face Racism and Work to Eradicate It”, dated May 21st of this year) has attempted…...
Friday, May 23, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 23, 2014 at 12:38 pm
It’s increasingly the case in America that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. A case in point is Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.…...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 21, 2014 at 11:22 pm
Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco — and Michelle Obama left her brain in 1954. Addressing graduating high-school students the other day in the Topeka, Kansas, school district,…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 21, 2014 at 01:23 am
Not satisfied with having pressured the Boy Scouts of America into lifting their prohibition against openly homosexual scouts, activists now want homosexual scoutmasters to be allowed as well. Equality, you…...
Thursday, May 15, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 15, 2014 at 11:16 pm
How do you know you’re being had by a slick politician? Writing in Mein Kampf about how to manipulate people and win power, Adolf Hitler said that since the average…...
Saturday, May 10, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 10, 2014 at 11:47 am
Never let a racial crisis go to waste is, I suppose, the credo of the Machiavellian mainstream media. Since the release of the Don Sterling audio, liberals haven’t missed a…...
Thursday, April 03, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on April 3, 2014 at 12:42 pm
If a famine befell us and you couldn’t save everyone, would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve rather than endure the inequality of just saving…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on April 3, 2014 at 12:23 pm
While Barack Obama’s recent telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin about the Crimean standoff has been widely reported, the exact substance of the discussion has remained a mystery. That…...
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