Dakota Beacon

Despite attempts in recent years to debunk the Pilgrim Thanksgiving story, at least one vital historical event gives evidence of a bed rock foundation for the Thanksgiving spirit. This evidence won’t be taught in the classroom.

At this time of year it is appropriate to again read George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation. He declared “...a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Watch the video to understand how 2.25 hours is “FOREVER” according to Judge Cynthia Feland

The FALSE claim that Spencer issues were part of the case “from the get-go” is repeated over and over to the North Dakota Supreme Court as well as to the Court’s Disciplinary Board Panel that heard the case of Cynthia Feland on June 29 and 30, 2011. It is especially significant as Sandy Blunt’s supposed refusal to obtain reimbursement of Spencer moving expenses was a primary aspect of Blunt’s trial and conviction. During that hearing, North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Chief Council asks Judge Feland why Spencer was not a subject of the August 7, 2007 Preliminary Hearing.

It is crucial that we grasp this point: Atheists claim that everything is ultimately matter and motion, and yet in their reasoning they resort to categories which cannot be accounted for by matter and motion. This constitutes a contradiction at the very heart of atheistic thought.

In addition to the “Wahl Memo” which was the narrowly considered subject of the November 1, 2011 North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Hearing Panel in the case of Cynthia M. Feland, lots of other discovery was withheld by prosecutors from defendant Blunt. Besides the Wahl Memo, four reports of investigation were created and withheld!

NONE OF THE FOUR BCI REPORTS AUTHORED BY QUINN WERE PROVIDED TO BLUNT

A MAJORITY OF THE MATERIAL AND EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE FROM THE REPORTS WAS WITHHELD!

ND students are just average, ND will take Minnesota to court, Fighting Sioux nickname issue, Jim and Sheri Kleinsasser, a Pyrrhic victory, The case of UND student Caleb Warner, “one day, it’ll fade", Minot will be Olive Garden’s third ND location, Smoot was found dead, A good day’s work, “marvelous display of visionary thinking”, an instant town called Centerville

We don’t need to hear one more word about taxes because given our debt and its service and the enormous cost of this overwhelming government bureaucracy that totters on the withering shoulders of our dwindling productive class, if we took the last dime from every millionaire, the last penny from every kid’s piggy bank, shook the lint out of every pocket of every homeless person and went through the upholstery of your sofa, we could not handle this debt.

So, taxes be damned.  Let’s talk about cuts.  Instead of hearing how Rick Santorum would build up our military, let’s find out what he will cut so as to keep the doors of West Point and Annapolis open, because at this rate they must close soon.

Veterans I’ve met, especially from the draft era (1973 and before), almost without exception remember with nostalgia their days of military service. This I find amusing since many were drafted reluctantly, although a few joined voluntarily and some even stayed in for a career. That speaks volumes in affirming their generally positive experience.

Veterans, especially those serving as youngsters, found the military to be a sort of finishing school as they transitioned from adolescence into adulthood. Many who wished to elude the draft were motivated to enlist in other services to avoid the rigors of Army field duty. Some people were never aware that the draft also populated the other services though not to the extent as with the Army. Either way, the vast majority served honorably much to their credit.

The clinical term is pathological….. Cynthia Feland is no longer the Prevaricating Prosecutor. She has become the Duplicitous Jurist – “The Lying Judge.”

To publically and repeatedly call an attorney, former prosecutor, and now judge a liar seems a very dangerous thing. And according to North Dakota law could be ruinous.

Claims like this are made by either the insane, the stupid, or one who has sufficient command of fact to verify such a contention.

Truth is the only protection against legal liability when one makes such an assertion.

So, who is lying? You decide.

North Dakota Standards for Imposing Lawyer Discipline 6.22, which provides suspension is generally appropriate when a lawyer knows that he or she is violating a court order or rule, and causes injury or potential injury to a client or a party, or causes interference or potential interference with a legal proceeding.

The "progressive" community - news media, politicians, and various moralists at large - is in a lather about "hate crimes," demanding federal legislation to combat them. The trouble is that nobody seems to know exactly what they are.

The concept of hate crimes is too nebulous, too subject to arbitrary application, to be a useful legal category. It's sufficient that murder is already a crime; especially heinous murders can be punished appropriately under existing laws. There is no need to give the state more discretionary power than it already has.

When you query atheists, you realize their insistence on God's non-existence is not based on reason, logic, evidence or science. Most skeptics deny the existence of God because they do not wish God to exist.

Atheism's shaky foundations can be in most cases easily exposed with a few pointed questions. After the pretension to objectivity falls away, what remains is mere personal opinion.

Wishing that God did not exist is everyone's prerogative. But one would hope for more intellectual consistency from those who claim a worldview informed by reason.

To implement or not implement ObamaCare - that is the question facing every state in the nation.  

Frank’s life as a soldier took a dramatic turn on November 2, 1944 in a bomb-run over Germany. He crammed into the tail of a B-17, wedged inside a flak jacket. The target was Merseberg, a major industrial area. He flew amid an air armada of 500 heavy bombers—each carrying eighteen 250-pound ‘general purpose’ bombs—escorted by 900 fighter planes. While the Americans were ready for business, so was the Luftwaffe.

For too long, guys like Frank didn’t tell their story. Frank is now willing to share. There are others like him, and they won’t be around much longer. A decade or two from now, they’ll be nearly extinct…. Men like Frank Kravetz have no regrets, but we’ll regret not pausing to record their history.

I don’t “stand with the 99%”, and certainly not downwind of them. But I’m all for their “occupation” continuing on its merry way. It usefully clarifies the stakes. At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement’s aims: They’re anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life – just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.

Why do I do it? I sign onto the Bismarck Tribune on-line site to read and to comment on news articles, opinion letters, and Op Ed pieces. This has the sound of serious business, but it is not.

The Sioux, and all other Native North Dakotans, actually deserved a better “fight” from those taking huge pay checks to pretend to be concerned about the education of students who have paid 10% increases in tuition their entire academic careers. To surrender to an inept conglomeration like NCAA is stunningly gutless.

World’s Largest Buffalo, the silver carp, They just don’t have the money, 42 ND counties have won the disaster sweepstake, “I know nothing -- NOTHING!”, Michelle Turnberg was a TV anchor in Fargo, Hettinger, get ready, you’re next, we’re almost overwhelmed, crashes involving trucks, 500-foot statue of Sakakawea, The ash has useful applications, retarded and temporarily insane

Maybe we could all be issued with free diapers. As a casual glance at the headlines suggests, there’s almost nothing you can’t get government to pay for, but that’s no reason not to demand more. At its core, the “Occupy Wall Street” movement (in the political rather than the diaper-filling sense) is a plea for ever more extended adolescence funded at public expense. Don’t knock it. Dozing around listening to drum circles all day is more dangerous than it looks. Last week, several dozen members of “Occupy Las Vegas” occupying land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport narrowly missed being hit by a 50lb slab of what’s euphemistically known as “blue ice” that fell from the bathroom of the President’s plane. Perhaps, as a symbol of the new post-self-reliant America of adult babies, Air Force One should be fitted with a giant diaper.     

In light of today's "multicultural" environment, Halloween demands a fair hearing. In perspective, Halloween extends back more than one and a half millennium but few people associate Halloween with observances of the ancient Christian church.

In his book "The Screwtape Letters" C. S. Lewis cites Martin Luther pointing out that the quickest way to deal with the Devil is to mock and ridicule him. He is a defeated foe. We should act like it.

The celebration of All Saints Eve has progressed from the pagan to the Christian to the secular. Even so, this is no reason for Christians to abandon the holiday. "Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of...observing festivals...." (Col. 2:16).

Why not reclaim Halloween in the context in which it was originally celebrated?

In response to the genuine grass roots pro-freedom protests of the Tea Party, Democrat leaders are organizing violent pro-Communism protests on Wall Street and across America. They are preaching the same class warfare rhetoric preached by people like Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Hitler and President Obama.

Planes leave the US every minute to countries that already have the economic system that Democrat are demanding. The problem is that those on the extreme far left (the mainstream of today’s Democratic Party) are unhappy people who believe that they will be happy once everyone else is made to be miserable. They are driven by the jealousy of seeing others happy.

When a nation of 300 million people presumes to determine grade-school hiring and almost everything else through an ever more centralized bureaucracy, you’re setting yourself up for waste on a scale unknown to history. For example, under the Obama “stimulus”, US taxpayers gave a $529 million loan guarantee to the company Fisker to build their Karma electric car. At a factory in Finland.

If you’re wondering how giving half-a-billion dollars to a Finnish factory stimulates the US economy, well, what’s a lousy half-bil in a multi-trillion-dollar sinkhole? Besides, in the 2009 global rankings, Finnish schoolkids placed 6^th in math, 3^rd in reading and 2^nd in science, while suffering under the burden of a per student budget half that of York City. By comparison, America placed 17^th in reading, 23^rd in science, and 31^st in math. So the good news is that, by using US government money to fund a factory in Finland, Fisker may be able to hire workers smart enough to figure out how to build an unwanted electric car that doesn’t lose its entire US taxpayer investment.

In a sane world, Joe Biden’s remarks would be greeted by derisive laughter, even by Fourth Graders. Certainly by Finnish Fourth Graders.

Making ND the No. 2 state, Good news, bad news, oil patch refugees, It is common practice to flare (burn) the gas, siren song of prosperity, Over 10 percent of the students are ELL, calling a black student Buckwheat, no “anonymous voices on our website, “good cop, bad cop”, information for women who are smart and savvy, “a strong streak of moralism”, it should be their choice, technologies to reduce regional haze, a testimonial to Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs

The Republicans now want to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Holder and his fast-and-furious dance of deception.  And I say, dig long and dig deep.  Because with the amount of dirt in Holder’s closet, you’ll find that Obama has created at least one shovel-ready job.

And I’ll conclude by making a request of our post-racial president’s attorney general.  Mr. Holder, you once said that Americans were “cowards” in the area of race.  Well, then, brave man, do you have the sand to come out of the closet?  Produce that card from your wallet; proudly proclaim the beliefs you’ve long held so dear.  Or is it that, deep down, the color other than red that epitomizes you most is yellow?