Dakota Beacon

Perhaps you have heard the United States described as the ‘Saudi Arabia of coal, in addition to our immense coal deposits, the United States contains gigantic natural gas deposits. Yet, there is even more good news: “Besides being the Saudi Arabia of coal and potentially natural gas, we may become the next ‘Saudi Arabia’ of oil.”

We have under our feet the world’s greatest treasure trove of energy supplies…. We just need the freedom to go get it.

Thankfully, this year Earth Day received little more than a passing mention. Maybe Earth Day is now properly dismissed as a jest and an afterthought. To believe that mankind can alter the progress of earth’s ages is the height of arrogance and folly.

It seems that the root problem was that NDSU genuinely lacked proper budget planning, and decided to put that deficiency on the backs of students.  

The legislature and the Governor should be insisting that the Board of Higher Education impose budget oversight at NDSU, clearly they are not prepared to manage their own finances.  

When the Supreme Court says that governments have no right to prohibit the killing of innocent babies, it sets itself up as an idol in opposition to God. When people say that the Supreme Court has approved abortion and that is the end of the story, they are as guilty of idolatry as those who bow down before golden calves.

A court not bound by the chains of truth will hand out falsehoods that will spread like cancer. If those infected believe that truth should not bind the court, they too become idolaters.

If Senator Schumer succeeds, our right to freely and efficiently communicate about police activity will diminish in a way that is effectively insulated from First Amendment challenge. Privacy and freedom be damned. There are drunk drivers to catch.

Charles Schumer’s crusade is presenting Americans with a grand display of progressive arrogance.

Does anyone else out there tremble for our country, in the hands of a government whose leadership is so inane, so incompetent?  Rush Limbaugh, who, for some reason, seemed surprised at Netanyahu’s public comeback, is quite right about one thing:  the so-called Republican “leadership” should be taking notes.  This is what “standing up” looks like.  This is what it looks like when a leader has a spine and a brain.  On the other hand, when he doesn’t he embarrasses his own country and his own people and makes fools of us all.  If what the Democrats give us is Obama, we are now asking Republicans, what will YOU give us?  What we need is our own Benjamin Netanyahu.

Back when he was still the officially designated Next President of France and not an accused rapist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was glimpsed at the annual IMF soccer tournament wearing a T-shirt emblazoned “YES, WE KAHN!” (Monsieur le directeur was not participating in the game: The field he likes to play requires more horizontal exertions, as even the deferential and protective French media have begun belatedly to acknowledge.) In consciously mimicking the slogan of another and very successful presidential candidate, the IMF boss and Socialist Party candidate improved upon it – or, at any rate, made it more accurate. “Yes, We Can”? Er, no, actually, you can’t. But yes, he Kahn!

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Public schools are teaming with Planned Parenthood to perpetuate the myth that immorality and illegitimacy can be cured by showing high-schoolers how to use condoms.  But for decades, sex education failed to achieve the originally-stated goals of reducing unwanted pregnancies and sex-related disease.  Planned Parenthood-style sex education produces promiscuity and social decay.  Teens teaching “sexuality” to other teens won’t stop the rot.  Reversing our youth’s moral slide can only be achieved by parents with values despised by “experts” like John Goodlad and Planned Parenthood.

Religion, in its essence, is a matter of falling in love with the divine. Like other passionate loves, it tends to excess. It can easily become fanatical, which is especially frightening to people who have never had the experience. But I do know this: the human without the divine is never fully human.        

And this is typical of leftists.  They persecute traditionalist students in thousands of schools and universities nationwide (see Campus-Watch.org), and, when occasionally caught with their hands in the commie jar, don’t even have the guts to come on camera and defend their “beliefs.” 

Something else that can only exist in a relativistic universe is the spiritual disease that today wears the label “liberalism.”  Get people to believe in Truth, and it will die as surely as fungus that is exposed to the light.

Americans face a choice: reduced long-term prosperity caused by tax increases to fund entitlements, a bankrupt government, or reducing entitlements to avoid tax increases and bankruptcy.  While nearly 90 percent of us acknowledge the problem, only about a third seem open to taking action.  Is such thinking rational?

No, but also yes.

Over the last several weeks there has been a lot of noise coming out of Washington D.C. regarding the potential to jack up energy taxes, a move which would only further exacerbate the problem of high gas prices.

North Dakota's retiring Senator, Kent Conrad has tied himself into a few of these plans.

If, as Tea Party patriots and activists we are not up to this hard decision we need not call ourselves patriots or activists any longer.  The road is plain to see.  We see what lies ahead in either direction.  I suggest, and strongly, that we make our intentions known in time for the present "leadership" to act responsibly with knowledge of these intentions, and if they do not, proceed, full speed ahead.

In all fairness, we cannot criticize these men for not playing the “card” they hold in their hand if we are too weak to play the card we have in our hand.  The only card we have is our willingness to remove these men from office if they do not act as responsible leaders.

At last, the sights and sounds of spring arrive.

For some, the webcam video of the eagles nest at Decorah, Iowa, might be the epitome of bird watching. The raptor camera catches every move of the two adults and three baby eaglets. However, nothing compares to the live bird show outside my kitchen window.

The property tax did not arise as an addendum to the Ten Commandments.  Its function and purpose has changed in many ways since the founding of this country.  Over the next several months proponents of repealing the property tax will present their case.  It will be presented clearly and openly.  Difficulties will be encountered in implementing the repeal, but we will not claim that it will be a simple matter, but it is entirely possible.  You will not be presented with a Lloyd Omdahl snow job.

After the war Churchill admitted that "we lie in the grip of even worse perils than those we have surmounted." Only in hindsight did he perceive what the scorned "isolationists" had foreseen from the first.

Hero of the twentieth century? The historian Ralph Raico offers a sterner judgment: "Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history."

Anyone who loves America will love its Constitution. If we need to amend it we can. If we return to its formulae - guided by the intent as expressed voluminously by the framers – we will have a solvent, strong, proud and just nation worthy of the Founders and of the patriots who have sacrificed and died for her. If you get one of these inane chain letters in YOUR email, think about your fathers, grandfathers, their wives and mothers, and your own brothers, sisters and the men and women defending this nation today. Don’t just delete it, send your own message on to your mailing list to stand firm and protect the Constitution which has guided and preserved America since 1787.

With a 76% increase in ongoing state funding since 2003, the only reason that universities think they need to stick it to the students with higher education is because there is no one in the system to protect the student's financial interests. 

NDTA views students as Future Taxpayers, and as such will continue to track this situation.   

Lawyers didn’t win the battle of Yorktown or Gettysburg. Lawyers didn’t land on the beaches of Normandy. In times of war, it’s best to put our freedom in the hands of soldiers rather than in the hands of condescending lawyers who sit in the lap of luxury in air conditioned rooms while try to convince us of how brilliant and compassionate that they are.

It’s time for Democrats to apologize to our troops and veterans and leave our military alone.

 “The president is targeting more than the wealthiest. In fact, in his desperation, he is apparently now prepared to impose heavier tax burdens on middle-income Americans as well. How? In a recent speech he stated that he wants to raise the ‘cap’ on Social Security.”

American conservatives’ problem with RomneyCare is the same as with ObamaCare – that, if the government (whether state or federal) can compel you to make arrangements for the care of your body parts that meet the approval of state commissars, then the constitution is dead. For if conceding jurisdiction over your lungs and kidneys and bladder does not make you a subject rather than a citizen, what does?

United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck has an annual budget of $30 million and about 340 full-time students -- that’s an annual cost of about $88,000 per student.  To put it in a harsher light, the two-year college graduates about 110 students annually -- roughly $270,000 per graduate.  Don’t worry, it’s only federal money.

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The solution to the problem of soaring prices of food and fuel lies in Washington,” he concludes. “If Congress, the president, and the bureaucracies would restore free markets in food and fuel markets, prices would come down. If Bernanke and the Fed would quit expanding the supply of Federal Reserve Notes, upward pressure on prices would be diminished. It’s that simple, economically.