Sally Morris
Thursday, December 26, 2019
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on December 26, 2019 at 08:36 am
An open letter to county commissioners, city councils, mayors, governors and state legislators: As you consider your options with regard to resettlement of refugees, I hope you will consider the…...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
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on December 24, 2019 at 06:24 am
There is no greater betrayal than that by one with whom you have shared your innermost hopes and fears, than that by one whom you have trusted as a guide…...
Monday, December 23, 2019
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on December 23, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Unless we reset our game with Islam we are going to lose. And to lose to Islam means perhaps many centuries of darkness and an uncertain path back even then…...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
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on December 21, 2019 at 07:33 pm
“Ay, tear her tatter’d ensign down!” I recall as a child, being stirred by the heartfelt patriotism and affection for the grand ship of America - “Old Ironsides”, more properly…...
Friday, December 20, 2019
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on December 20, 2019 at 04:25 pm
The bad news is that our civilization is under a very direct, serious and imminent threat. Our country, as many other Western nations, is being ever more greatly impacted by…...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
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on December 18, 2019 at 05:58 pm
As Congress moves toward a vote on impeachment of President Trump it is vital for us to consider just what the actions of Congress mean to the rest of us.…...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
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on December 17, 2019 at 12:42 pm
I realize that I have written at some length about the plight of Christians, Jews and other minorities within Islamic-controlled states throughout Africa and the Middle East, as well as…...
Monday, December 16, 2019
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on December 16, 2019 at 10:15 pm
India was constituted as a “secular” nation. It is predominantly Hindu, but there have always been large numbers of Buddhists, Muslims and various other religious groups throughout India’s history. Recently…...
Saturday, December 14, 2019
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on December 14, 2019 at 09:30 am
I know - weekends have become something special for me at the Beacon - a bit of time off, as it were, from the problems and issues on Page One…...
By
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on December 14, 2019 at 08:49 am
I’m looking at a white and green porcelain Celtic cross that hangs on my wall. I recall the day I found it, long ago in Culman, Alabama. We were on…...
Friday, December 13, 2019
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Beacon Author
on December 13, 2019 at 11:33 pm
One of the greatest dangers with a newsworthy terrorist attack in our country is the diversion of our attention. While we should be paying attention to such incidents as happened…...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
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on December 12, 2019 at 10:40 pm
We have learned that training will be suspended for 852 Saudis on American military bases. We don’t have a figure at hand as to how many Saudis are training in…...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
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on December 11, 2019 at 01:38 pm
As the vultures are gathered in the House of Representatives, intent upon undoing the election of 2016, lying, manipulating, hiding the truth, another flock of vultures have gathered in Madrid,…...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
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on December 10, 2019 at 08:49 pm
Our Republic works only if everyone plays by the rules. Maybe this sounds simplistic to you. Maybe it sounds like the teacher in the schoolyard. But this is a vital…...
Monday, December 09, 2019
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on December 9, 2019 at 03:10 pm
North Dakota, like Minnesota and much of the Midwest, is known for its openness and hospitality toward newly arrived immigrants. There is a natural desire to make them feel welcome…...
Saturday, December 07, 2019
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on December 7, 2019 at 04:05 pm
The other day I was doing the dishes and, as is my custom, I was playing some music. It’s my mini-escape, if you will. I was listening to South American…...
Friday, December 06, 2019
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on December 6, 2019 at 05:05 pm
We are at war. Does anyone doubt this? Granted, it is a strange sort of war with individual “soldiers” acting out on their own without any obvious organization, although we…...
By
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on December 6, 2019 at 12:54 am
It’s not OK to be white. That’s the determination of the president of Oklahoma City University. Last month a law student at Oklahoma City University Law School, a “Christian” college…...
Wednesday, December 04, 2019
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Beacon Author
on December 4, 2019 at 11:10 pm
The world is on fire at the moment, with protests and street violence from Hong Kong to Santiago to Colombia to Iran, not to mention the on-going violence always on…...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
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on December 3, 2019 at 06:38 pm
Right after “Black Friday” and just before “Cyber Monday”, the FBI warned shoppers about “smart” TV’s and other high-tech products. Basically, Americans love this stuff. We want cars with electrically-operated…...
Monday, December 02, 2019
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Beacon Author
on December 2, 2019 at 06:01 pm
I have a video for you to watch. A friend sent it to me. I know we hear a lot of crap from a lot of “sensitive” Americans, people who…...
Saturday, November 30, 2019
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on November 30, 2019 at 08:46 am
It’s the weekend, so time for another interesting foray into People, Places and Things! Tesla. Nope – not the ridiculous “car” that you can count on to blow up. The…...
Friday, November 29, 2019
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on November 29, 2019 at 04:54 pm
In 1865, the cause of the Confederacy buckled in defeat. The peace signed at Appomattox outlawed secession from the American Union of States. It has proved a crippling blow to…...
Thursday, November 28, 2019
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on November 28, 2019 at 12:16 am
It began as a simple protest against a move by the People’s Republic of China to institute extradition procedures in the autonomous administrative district of Hong Kong. The people of…...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
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on November 26, 2019 at 04:32 pm
A week or so ago, the chickenchain made a big announcement just in time for Christmas: they were withdrawing their charitable support for a couple of the organizations to which…...
Monday, November 25, 2019
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Beacon Author
on November 25, 2019 at 06:55 pm
You’ve ordered pizza or sandwiches delivered, right? Of course – we all have. It’s sometimes a convenient (sometimes the only) option when we are in a hurry or have unexpected…...
Saturday, November 23, 2019
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on November 23, 2019 at 08:40 pm
This week’s “People, Places and Things” feature sort of wrote itself. It’s not so much that I got lazy (maybe I did) but that as usual, Dennis Prager can be…...
Thursday, November 21, 2019
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on November 21, 2019 at 02:40 pm
Here’s one more expression none of us ever heard of ten years ago: “cancel culture”. Today we all know exactly what that means. One recent victim of cancel culture is…...
By
Beacon Author
on November 21, 2019 at 11:08 am
Coming a year after Grand Forks, under the advice of its City Council and their advisors and bureaucrats, decided to pave over and build a “high-rise” on what was once…...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
By
Beacon Author
on November 20, 2019 at 01:42 pm
It began last summer, a slight rumble. Decades of neglect, abuse and exploitation of Alberta by the Canadian federal government began to take its toll; cracks in the solidarity exhibited…...
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