Dakota Beacon

So, let’s clasp a hand of friendship and share a good drink for old time sake.

At year’s end, on December 31 after an evening of celebration, the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” drift across the room as sure as midnight bells toll around the world.

 In the midst of turmoil during an unprecedented year, remember to bind together with family and friends. The value of enduring friendships transcend time; the reservoir of reciprocal regard inevitably inspires and sustains the human spirit.

Happy New Year!

On August 7, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit allowed enforcement of a dismemberment abortion ban in Arkansas and thus every other state in the Eight Circuit.         As a result, Attorney General Stenehjem should immediately put House Bill 1546 into effect by certifying House Bill 1546 to the legislative council.

 Attorney General Stenehjem would successfully defend House Bill 1546 if challenged in court. He signed amicus briefs in support of dismemberment bans in Texas and Alabama.

Please thank Attorney General Stenehjem for his pro-life work and encourage him to certify House Bill 1546 to the legislative council.

2020 has largely been a year marked by media lies.  We have been lied to incessantly throughout the year, and perhaps it's a good thing that it has become this bizarre.  In fact, we have been lied to for a long time and many of us didn't realize it.  Now that it is this blatant we can begin to look at everything we hear in the so-called "legacy" media - the mainstream - with a jaundiced eye and a very critical frame of mind.  Honestly, you can't make this stuff up - COVID deaths, the main symptom being injuries sustained in a fall from a ladder, a skyline outlined in flames that is "fiery but mostly peaceful", an election with more obvious fraud than we have ever seen before in America, all of which we are supposed to shovel in like a baby's pablum.  It is therapeutic to see lies this flagrant.  

Maybe someone else out there is getting tired of the computer whiz, Bill Gates, posing as first a health care professional and now a qualified climatologist.  He also has himself confused with Napoleon . . . or God.  His latest poses a continuing threat to humanity for long after he is gone.  We need to do something soon to rein this nutter in.

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Sometimes I think the anti-Christian forces take Christ more seriously than most nominal Christians do. The Western world, including many of those who consider themselves Christians, has turned Christmas into a bland holiday of mere niceness. If you don’t get into the spirit, you’re likely to be called a Scrooge.

The natural reaction to Christ is to reject him. He said so. In fact, when he was taken to the Temple as an infant, St. Simeon prophesied that he would be a center of contention. Later he predicted his own death and told his followers they must expect persecution too.

His bitterest enemies weren’t atheists; they were the most religious men of his age, the Pharisees, who considered his claims blasphemous — as, by their lights, they were.

Nice? That’s hardly the word for Jesus. He performed miracles of love and mercy, but he also warned of eternal damnation, attacked and insulted the Pharisees, and could rebuke even people who adored him in words that can only make us cringe.

Events that have been unfolding, whether we look at the violence in our cities' streets all summer, the unlawful lockdowns and closing of businesses by government, thus depriving us of our property and our right to earn a living or host friends or family in our own homes or visit loved ones - on sham excuses, our media that censors us and obliterates our First Amendment rights, or our courts which refuse to perform their basic duties to hear cases, it seems that we really are no longer a nation of laws.  We have become something else, something much darker.

It is Christmas!  With all my wishes for a blessed Christmas and all the cheer you can muster with your family and friends, I hope you will all remember the reason for all of this.  It is the founding day of the Christian religion.  The birth of the Son of God in Bethlehem.  It is also the anniversary of a harrowing event in our America history.  It is equally important to remember this and the kind of people who gave us the RIGHT to worship as we believe, we must remember the great sacrifice and struggle which forged our nation.  We have a great nation and a great heritage which is currently being stolen from our children.  I hope that you will find today's message worth a half hour of your day today.  It is truly dramatic and inspiring.  There is perhaps no better time to tell this story.

The joy of Christmas returns. Things to do. Places to go. Gifts to buy. Few are immune from the Christmas rush as the season marches forward in an unrelenting cadence. Take time, make time, to pause and reflect on the depth of the celebration amid the hustle and bustle. A story, a poem, a song inspires the Christmas spirit.

In our post-modern era as Christianity slowly wanes, a Biblical meaning of Christmas pleads to be told. Browsing through some old Christmas sermons, one in particular registered as representative of times past when people embraced their Christianity more seriously than they do today. Or so it seems. An old volume (1903) titled “Holy-days and Holidays” contained a succinct sermon written in the late 1800s by David Gregg, DD.

His quest? Where was Christ before Christmas? My interpretation?

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One of the things my grandmother used to say which has always stuck with me is "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."  Our free press is the light we need.  More and more we find that light being snuffed out.  Censorship is one of our biggest issues right now.  And we can see what effect it is having on our inability to communicate with one another and to find out the truth.  One of the foremost seekers of truth in the West is Ezra Levant.  Right now he is struggling.

Last week the big news was that the C****-*9 vaccine is out and enroute.  While this has been a miraculous achievement, we need to remember that it has not been tested.  The demand for instant remedies for the Chinese virus did not allow for a testing phase.  There may well be a greater chance of dying of the vaccine than of the disease.  We will have to see.  In the meantime no one should take this against their will or wishes and no one should vaccinate children.  There are some red flags flapping wildly here.  Our economy and our social fabric have been largely destroyed by the response to this virus.  Now we are expected to donate our bodies for medical research.  No, thanks.  It is finally time to draw the line.

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This is the last Sunday before Christmas this year.  It sort of crept up on me!  This week, a few thoughts for the holiday, what it means, how we might celebrate in these times, a look ahead with hope for the future.  I hope you enjoy the music at the end.

If you thought you were a business owner a few months ago, right now you might be lucky to be taking orders from bureacrats who never did a day's real work in their life. If you thought you had a steady job a few months ago, now you're probably collecting unemployment. (But for how long?) You're both wondering how much longer this can last. You don't need to be up on your Milton Friedman to know the economic situation you're in is untenable. And yet, everywhere you go, you are told to tighten your belt and "we're all in this together" while the politicicans and unelected "experts" telling you this are living fat off the land. You're supposed to swallow that your present penury is "due to Covid 19" and go along. "Just two weeks to flatten the curve." "Four more weeks and we can get this thing under control." So how long are you supposed to knuckle under till you can live a normal life again? When the vaccine is out? You're angry, frustrated and anxious, perhaps living one day to the next, afraid to look up, afraid to look ahead, hoping this will all just go away.  But it won't - until you understand what sort of people are up-ending your life, and for what purpose.  

Christmas ‘tis the season for giving! What better way to say “I love you” than with the gift of a book? The only prerequisite for the recipient is that they possess an intellect imbued with curiosity.

Of course, readers do not share the same taste in books. The following suggestions come from my own library and are meant to be edifying and not inconsequential.

The subject is China. Interest in China skyrocketed since President Trump broke the globalist mold and engaged China on trade and military issues. What should peak even greater interest, if the major media would cover it, involves China’s placement of spies in a never-ending intelligence gathering effort.

Those who have been watching closely the strange developments of our current election crisis have been expecting this, but in spite of that, last night's quiet and matter-of-fact announcement comes with a breathtaking drama.  Those who have bought into the media's narrative and have been accepting the term "President-Elect Biden" might find it a shock, however.  We have never "been here" before in our nation's history.  There has been nothing about the year 2020 which we would have predicted.  It is still too early to predict what will happen and who will be our president for the next four years.  "Interesting times" doesn't begin to describe this.  

Today I'm sharing an important documentary by NTD.  I can almost guarantee you will learn something new from it even if you have been following recent events closely.  Joshua Phillip has deeply investigated many of the elements of recent events.  Some will be shocked by what he has found.  This is for sharing - with everyone you know.  

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“People who cannot be reasoned with can only be fought.” It’s an age-old truth, one good people ignore at their own peril. It too often is ignored, though, since good people are mostly reasonable and, in accordance with man’s nature, engage in projection. They thus assume that others are as reasonable as they are.

It’s reasonable to assume that mentioning right now the futility of reasoning with the Left is motivated by the election. It’s also, in my case, untrue. I’ve for decades recognized that devout leftists, emotion-driven and vice-ridden, operate by occultist Aleister Crowley’s “principle,” “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” But now, with the Left stealing an election after have stolen our whole culture and increasingly achieving its ends through violence, more people may accept this message.

Our social media is every bit as bad as the old MSM.  We need to support alternatives (Parler and Rumble, etc.).  In the meantime, please use your own contacts to spread information.  The silencing of the people and the cotrolling of our formerly free press, is a huge part of destroying our country.  Stalin would be the first to teach us the importance of controlling the means of communication - it is essential if a people is to be subjugated.  If we are to remain free we need to do everything we can to overcome and thwart this control.  We are living in a time of war in our own country - this is a fact, not hyperbole.  

As we struggle through the longest election season in anyone's living memory, some are beginning to despair that we can solve the matter and - also importantly - repair the damage this election has caused.  One party has decided it was worth it to destroy the nation just to drag their comatose candidate across the finish line.  They pulled out every stop.  The organ is crashing through the sound barrier now.  People, driven by the knowledge that this was by no means an honest election, have reached the breaking point.  We'd better all pray for America.

The 2020 election decided how the United States would be governed. It was a referendum on the interests of the Ruling Class versus the Country Class. In other words, those of the perpetual political class and their sycophants who comprise the Washington, DC swamp against the rest of us.

A poem by Scots poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) repeatedly comes to mind. It appears below. A few Scottish/Gaelic words have been altered to render the poem a bit more intelligible.

We are becoming a nation of hypochondriacs and sheep that need to be told what to do.  We have to change our attitude about this.  We need to take responsibility for our own health decisions, our own business decisions, our own lives.  Allowing governnment to step in to "take care of us" has been an unqualified disaster.  We need to take these decisions back.  We are perfectly capable of deciding when or whether to close our businesses, to stay home if we are sick or to go to work when we are well.  

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Republicans are known best for one thing - attacking each other.

Today we mourn and remember Dr. Walter E. Williams—economist, teacher, cultural commentator, and, most importantly, devoted husband, loving father, and friend. To our Grove City College family, Walter was a long serving member of the Board of Trustees, an adjunct economics professor, a graduation commencement speaker, and a recipient of an honorary doctorate degree. In this tribute, Dr. Caleb Fuller—who studied under the instruction of Williams at George Mason University—offers personal stories to honor our friend.

You read that right.  My new title is "President-Elect" and it might as well be yours, too!  We need to address the climate of threats in our political and business life in America today.  It is wholly un-American and it nearly always emanates from the left.  You might be afraid to put a sign in your yard or wear a MAGA hat.  Maybe you don't take a client if you are afraid it isn't politically correct enough.  Fear is beginning to be the driving force.  It NEEDS TO STOP.

Halloween and its candy has passed. Thanksgiving with all its scrumptious food went into the history books. Christmas and New Year’s feasting lie ahead. How are you set for calories? Acquiring more than you can burn? Weight gain through the Holiday Season becomes a problem for many.

Need motivation? Visualize this. A four-stick package of butter weighs one pound. Imagine carrying several packages of butter around your waist. Get the idea? Not good!

Do you live to eat, or eat to live? Poor eating habits reflect unrestrained indulgence, possibly a lack of self-discipline, or both.

Leaders’ increasing exhibition of blatant hypocrisy is also a sign of a declining republic. In a healthy one, this is less possible because politicians are held accountable. But to whatever degree a pseudo-elite establishment places itself beyond voter discipline (e.g., via rigged elections), it can in the same proportion place itself beyond the voters’ government-imposed burdens.

Megalomaniacs will never stop exercising irrational control over you because control is the goal, an end unto itself. They inflict their torments not just with the approval of their own consciences, but at the urging of their most animalistic desires.

America used to be known as "a nation of laws, not of men".  Those days are gone.  Our resurrection as a great nation depends upon our return to that philosophy.  We have fallen into lawlessness in all areas because we have tolerated it when we thought we could wink at it.  As the summer has taught us, this is no joke.  Our recklessness may have cost us our most precious asset - the consent of the governed.  For there is no consent if there is no fair election.  A stolen election means government without consent.  Think about that.