Dakota Beacon

 Last week, in his National Day of Prayer proclamation President Joe Biden omitted the word God. Many media outlets were quick to criticize the president. In this article, presidential scholar Dr. Gary Scott Smith looks at the proclamation and the backlash and argues that there may be more to the story. Smith writes, “These issues and developments remind us that we should evaluate Biden by all his statements, actions, and political policies.”

Many people own stock in corporations. Every publicly traded company must host an annual shareholder meeting. At these meetings, investors cast votes for board members, their compensation package, and management proposals, -- and shareholder proposals. This last category the left has been especially adept at influencing. Unfortunately, conservative investors don’t bothered to show up in person, or by proxy, to vote. Everyone is busy. Kids, grandkids, work, pandemic – all consume time. Corporate proxy voting slides out of mind.

Liberal shareholders advance their agenda through proxy voting – an agenda they could not achieve through government legislation. Think of reactions by Jack Dorsey at Twitter, Tim Cook at Apple, and Brian Moynihan at Bank of America if enough conservatives voted to oust board members, disapprove the executive compensation packages, and turn down proposals.

Three years ago, two babies in China were born with a gene-edited trait for HIV resistance. It was done with relatively new technology—CRISPR gene-editing—to genetically program the embryos by altering the gene CCR5. The new genetic condition became part of their genetic identity and will be passed on in some measure to their offspring. In this article, Dr. Jan Dudt discusses the new technology and warns that misuse could be dangerous to humanity.

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Many of us remember the Canada we used to visit - Winnipeg's English Gardes, ballet in the park, charming restaurants, world class music, festivals, sports, shopping - a vibrant and varied cultural world.  Today, under the leaden boot of its government this is all destroyed.  You see, where freedom dies, culture really cannot flourish.  Canada has succumbed to the Covid death cult.  Covid has been, more than anything, a pretext to destroy our freedom, impoverish our people and kill our culture.  It is a hoax in the sense that it has been used for this.  Sure - you may know someone who fell ill or even died allegedly of Covid.  But we all know people who have died of cancer, of heart disease, of organ failure, bacterial pneumonia and other things.  But we are allowing the possibility of death deprive us of life.  Canada, our twin up north, with whom we share so much of our heritage and culture - has become a fascist tyranny.  We need to learn from this - we need to fight back hard NOW.  The longer we allow bullies and tyrants to pursue their ends, the longer we go along to get along, the stronger they beome.  The harder it will be to win back what we have lost, the more we will have lost.  We need to start now.  Say no to masks, stop "social distancing", say no to forced vaccines, get together again with friends.  Stop trying to get along with people who would steal your freedom.

Some are telling us that the covid vaccines are "experimental".  The people who take these vaccines are the "subjects".  I disagree.

Wokeism is a full-on attack on Western Society. It is everywhere and is now threatening to end freedom of speech and thought. It has become impossible to speak out without fear of damaging a career or incurring physical harm.

The objective of this piece is to encourage the reader to put the brakes on the stupidity and false narrative of wokeism. Second, the background offered here should provide some ammunition with which to confront wokeism in conversation. Third, this piece should encourage the reader to undertake some research of their own. Keep notes, observe inconsistencies, and identify lies.

Our culture and country are at stake.

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Before being elected to the U.S. Senate, Rev. Raphael Warnock told Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, “The early church was a socialist church.” In this article that first appeared in Crisis Magazine, Dr. Paul Kengor examines Warnock’s statement and argues that the early church was not socialist. Kengor writes, “Let’s start with indeed the most basic principle, which is this: this passage from Acts is not socialism. Socialism/communism does not bear witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, or to belief of God.”

Can the United States Congress constitutionally change the size of the Supreme Court? Or, better yet, should the United States Congress constitutionally change the size of the Supreme Court? Proposed legislation argues for an increase of four new justices. In this article, legal scholar Dr. John Sparks looks at the debate and offers a compelling argument why court packing could be a dangerous endeavor.

Science has provided many benefits for humanity: health, nutrition, and technology. In fact, science has driven many responses to the COVID-19 crisis. But are there other variables and definitions that we are missing? In this article, Dr. Jan Dudt explores this question and challenges Christians to wisely balance what we have discovered about the natural world with what we know to be true from Biblical definitions. Dudt writes, “when considering the equation of life, Christians are wise when we realize there are other variables in life’s equation in addition to science. Biblical definitions and variables must also be brought to bear along with the science.”

As of April 1, 2021, 47 states have entered 361 bills in their respective legislatures. A review of voting laws has been long overdue. Having found enough fraud to warrant concern, these legislatures are taking corrective action to reform election laws. As of December 2020 the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database topped 1300 cases collected over years and is growing.

Among the principle opponents leading the naysayers over voter integrity measures is the liberal Brennan Center for Justice. The Brennan Center is one of the loudest opponents of measures to curb election fraud. Voter “suppression” and “discrimination” they squeal. And, oh, by the way, the center received millions in funding from George Soros.

There is hope for the Republic. With updated election laws and states controlling their implementation, the 2024 Presidential election should be a lot cleaner, more transparent, and less disorganized than the 2020 election – as long as the feds keep their hands off.

Is corporate activism the new normal in America? Recently, corporations such as Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola made public statements against legislation in Georgia. In this article, Richard D. Kocur examines the current events and argues that, “Today’s corporate activism takes the role of business in society to an entirely new and troubling level.”

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Many Americans are still asleep, dreaming blissfully that they are free and live in a constitutional republic.  Those who have awakened to the smell of smoke - their country, constitution and freedom smouldering in the counch downstairs are trying desperaately to awaken the rest to put out the fire and save their home and their lives.  It isn't easy.  Even otherwise intelligent people tell us how they are "fully vaccinated" as if this were a good thing, while we knowthat this only means that the fire has reached the box of matches on the buffet.  Will America wake up before it is too late?  Or will our grandchildren rightly curse us for our stupidity and faithlessness?  

Earlier this year, the social media application Parler was removed from all major app stores rendering the app unfunctional. Quickly, debate began about big tech censorship and calls to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—an act that protects websites for deleting content, even where that content is protected by the First Amendment. In this article, Dr. Brian Dellinger examines the situation and argues there may be a better solution than repealing Section 230. He writes, “Perhaps the best of a set of bad options is to reconsider the role of antitrust laws. At issue in all the cases above is the ubiquity of the big tech firms: that decisions by a small group of companies can render information meaningfully unreachable or invisible.”

Yesterday we finally heard the verdict of the jury in the case of Derek Chauvin, who allegedly killed George Floyd.  Yesterday we also learned of another unfortunate killing of an individual in Columbus, Ohio.  The latter was also a case of a white police officer acting, this time to save the life of an intended stabbing victim.  The question - which should not even be a question at all - is whether we want to discontinue the custom of "innocent until proven guilty" - the backbone of our system of justice and a pillar of our society.  

Rules governing the conduct of elections, which are constitutionally entrusted to the various state legislatures, should remain the prerogative of the states.

H.R. 1 would micromanage the election process at the federal level imposing unnecessary, unwise, and unconstitutional mandates on the states. It would reverse the decentralization of the American election process essential to our liberty and freedom. It would implement nationwide the worst changes in election rules that occurred in 2020 and further damage or eliminate basic security protocols. Given the vulnerabilities and security weaknesses in the U.S. registration system, HR 1’s automatic registration threatens to make this problem much, much worse.

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Pinocchio’s nose grew long when he lied, a telltale sign. So does the collective nose of the legacy media. Mainstream media (MSM), left wing media, corporate media, big media – whatever you wish to dub the elitist press -- regards itself as the fourth estate but acts like a fifth column. CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Times. Add Vox, Axios, Slate, and Huffington Post to the list as wannabes.

We once had a president who was not afraid of the media. He called them out when they misrepresented, when they omitted, and when they conjured. He did not cower before the press as do some “moderate” Republican toadies who are scared to death of news stories critical of themselves.

More and more people are seeing the truth. Many have known it for decades – the media and their elected Democrat sycophants are not to be trusted.

Recently, yet another hedge fund, Archegos Capital, was forced to liquidate huge amounts of blue-chip stock holdings. The damage was severe: causing several large stocks to plummet and leaving at least three banks with financial hardships. In this article, economist Dr. Mark Hendrickson asks: Are hedge funds rogue institutions that should be banned? He writes, “Hedge funds have an enormous image problem. We only seem to hear about them when one blows up or when a headline trumpets that a hedge fund manager paid a record-breaking price for some property.”

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A recent article published in the journal Nature, highlighted disturbing research at the University of Pittsburgh: skin, taken from aborted fetuses, was grafted onto rodents to produce rat-human skin hybrids. In this article, Dr. Paul Kengor asks: Doesn’t anyone care about ethics anymore? Kengor writes, “It isn’t a pretty picture. If it offends you, well, it should. That’s all the more reason for me to report on this and you to know about it. Silence in the face of this can serve as acquiescence.”

The Trump administration created a policy called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). This was a workaround to a choice between separating minors from adults (bad) or allowing a policy that created an incentive for evil doers to convey kids on a dangerous journey (worse) where violence was commonplace and upwards of two-thirds of women and girls were raped.

The MPP, also called the Remain in Mexico Policy, stated that adults crossing with related children would be placed in Mexico instead of the US. This allowed the families to remain together while removing the incentive for bad people to use children as tickets into the US. Under the MPP, if adults were bringing children who were determined to be not related, often trafficked, the unaccompanied children would still be housed in the US but the adults would be forced out.

The result of Biden’s rollback of MPP was entirely predictable. Once again children are pawns used as tickets into the US through a dangerous journey.

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In a few days we will celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. But for Christians, the week leading up to Easter Sunday—Holy Week—holds tremendous significance. In this article that first appeared at The American Spectator, Dr. Paul Kengor reflects on Holy Week and the hope that it ends upon. He writes, “And alas, though the week is filled with sorrow, we must above all remember how it ends. Even as we share in Christ’s agony, including that cold Saturday when he was in the tomb, the week ends with hope.”