Dakota Beacon

. . . 2011-13 biennium surplus of $1.7 billion; Defense of Marriage Act; “I plan to turn that around and say we are open, too.” How do you know you are in ND? a draft evaluation of the university presidents; accused of deleting 45,000 emails; Credible answers have been elusive; firing Shirvani was a case of killing the messenger; If someone lacks vision, it’s important for their supervisor to say so; new UND provost, Thomas DiLorenzo; who would be so careless; “Just deserts” may seem a little harsh; Prairie demolition; Canadian border guards seized 16 guns; “Bowtie Guy.” DAKTOIDS . . . .

Unfortunately, today’s liberals/progressives could care less; they are fine with happily embracing any and all violations of Natural Law in pursuit of their own new, enlightened laws. It’s part of that glorious “fundamental transformation” of America.

In so doing, liberals are shattering a rare, precious consensus that they had nurtured with conservatives. There are few things that liberals and conservatives agree upon, but one of them was the crucial importance of children being raised in a home with a dad and a mom.

This is a very clear indication that the Republican Party can no longer stand on its rotted foundation. 

There are consequences to the experiments with traditional values and families that have been going on over the past 60 years -- and they have been ugly, unenlightening, and anything but positive.

I said many years ago that I didn’t use the term “African-American” and that I never would. It is part of the Lexicon of the Left, and, as the old book the Tyranny of Words points out, the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate.

---It is impossible to tabulate all the American businesses that have been hamstrung, crippled, or even forced into closure by the oppressive edicts of federal regulatory agencies. We tend to hear about the large corporations that go broke; their sheer size commands national media attention, but countless thousands of smaller businesses have been crippled or crushed by OSHA, the green brigades of FWS, BLM, and the green queen bee, the EPA.

Instead, we instill them with the notion that the sexes are the same and, by golly, if something isn't dangerous for a guy, there's no reason why you should have to "modify your behavior" in that department.  Equality!

Today's leaders at the  highest levels accept a vision of America comparable with that of a secular,  dying European culture.

"Accompanying the decline of institutions and the decay of values in such ages [like ours] is the cultivation of power that becomes increasingly military, or paramilitary, in shape. Such power exists in almost exact proportion to the decline of traditional social and moral authority."

I am confident that some traditional colleges will go out of business in the next 10-15 years due to their inability to adapt.

Our government may intend to do nothing with hundreds of millions of electronic telephone logs and Internet records other than to fight terrorism. We must remember, however, that the same people will not always run the government; if our future leaders decide to misuse this information, they will already have it and will not have to go before a judge again.

Is it that the capons at ESPN have eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and liberalism and think that they, too, can be like God and change even Scripture if so inclined?

If our will is so wanting that we’ll pander on the big thing and not do what any sane nation does instinctively — deport invaders — it’s beyond silly to think we’ll suddenly man-up on the little things (especially since we have no history of doing that, either).

Actually, the IRS is not the virus; it is just the implementation agent. The virus was injected into our Constitution in 1913 with the passage of the 16th Amendment. The 16th Amendment was deemed necessary because our Founding Fathers had wisely prohibited the imposition of income taxes by the federal government.

. . . In short, a person so perfect, he or she can’t be found; This was the paradox that Hamid Shirvani found in ND; The value of the 2012 corn crop in ND equaled wheat; money is burning a hole in their pocket; ND’s high level of social capital; Today's young people today face terrible problems; What would Sigrun Emily think about those young folks? MN has a 17% minority population; The meth is procured in Texas and the Twin Cities; The Prairie Pothole Region; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Under Perón, government agencies gradually got involved in all areas of the economy. We see a similar pattern in the United States–many sectors of the economy now depend on control, encouragement, or direct management. Obamacare is the best example; it is Perónism or corporatism on steroids.

You can elicit whatever response you want depending upon how you phrase the question.  Example:  How do you feel about clean air? For it or against it?  This can be manipulated to support more EPA involvement in our power industry or to support legislation requiring that smokers stand 60 feet from the nearest building.  When you begin by asking whether we support securing our border or protecting our own labor force and end with support of a bill which does neither it’s just part of the game of manipulation.

The test vote on Grassley's amendment says it all. Border security even in the eyes of the Gang of Eight takes second place to amnesty. At this rate our borders will never be secure. This in spite of
 polling data that indicate Americans want border enforcement first by a margin of 4-1.

“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

. . . Top 20 highest-paid public employees in ND; newspaper editors usually don’t stick their necks out; Chinese immersion programs in elementary schools; You have to vote yes or no on the carbon boom; nothing to fear from biotech wheat; two young Montana motorcyclists were hit head on and killed; it will no longer be economical to maintain land lines; The Ramirez story leads to Bismarck; everyone in Williston has a lilac bush; placed the twins in shoe boxes surrounded by hot bricks; paying them a handsome bonus, then killing them; DAKTOIDS . . . .

A terrorist is someone who threatens us or someone we love, our business, our employees, our home, our property.  That would be our government. 

When immigrants move to a country with a different culture and assimilate, they benefit and so does their new homeland. When they arrive and work to change their new homeland to mimic their native homeland, the only outcome is chaos and strife. In short, when the latter occurs, it is nothing short of an invasion with the goal of conquest.

But in their zeal to correct and condemn, Graham’s critics failed to ask the important question: Why did the great evangelist make his statement? Why would a man who so has faithfully preached the gospel of Jesus Christ around the globe say something like this?

So where do we look? We look to our faith, family and friends. The intact family is a safe place of stability and security.

No, the intersex wage gap isn't a bad thing, and it isn't good when it starts to close. The size of that gap correlates with the health of the nuclear family; the larger it is, the greater men's ability to support their families and women's opportunity to stay at home with the children.

The public, however, must not allow corruption and scandal to draw attention away from other equally significant issues. Among those issues is gun control.

Make sure a school official who commits leftist abuse upon a child never works again. Go for the jugular, for the kill shot; give no quarter. Go Roman. It’s only when thousands of the thought police’s decaying corpses of careers are lining the Apian Way that those in darkness will see the light.

  . . . Shirvani has cash and other goodies in his saddlebags totaling nearly $1 million; benefits of capturing the state’s wasted natural gas; “Let’s look forward to life without the nickname.” What about benefits? Sanford Health is pausing and restructuring; Two views of Minnesota taxes; ”Best State-Based Political Reporters”; “Fargo” will not be in Fargo; “It’s a fat girl’s paradise”; The price of progress is about $7.5 million a mile; In May 2009, Alien closed its Fargo plant; a big “moose study”; bible study group was surprised and stunned; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The true rivalry involves altruism and can only exist among true amateurs. It involves a fierce loyalty to team mates and good sportsmanship toward adversaries. All of these virtues are lost if one plays for the prize of becoming a mercenary, paid huge sums to devote an entire life to athletics and to be bought and sold by teams like a piece of merchandise.