Dakota Beacon

Republicans have a large majority in both houses of the North Dakota Legislature; watch out! The potential for bad legislation has increased substantially! Citizens from all over the state must come to Bismarck and testify on issues they feel strongly about.

This legislative session must be one in which the people are heard…I challenge each and every one of you out in the vast regions of our state to get involved, get in the car or pickup, and get to Bismarck this session…we need your voices to deliver conservative messages on many issues during the first months of 2011. Please don’t let your state down.

Mr. Obama really does believe that he has initiated a wondrous time in America. He believes that we, the clingers to guns and religion, are just far too simple to grasp the gift of human progress that he and his nanny government have bestowed on us.

The Rousseaus, Shellys, and Tolstoys lived out-of-control lives characterized by moral and sexual degeneracy. But each man possessed a world class mind. Obama pretends to the trappings of brilliance, with none of the actual brilliance. But Obama does share the classical philosophers' penchant for dishonesty. Obama lies. Repeatedly. And about the most important things.

Economically speaking, inflation is like heroin addiction. The ‘highs’ are enjoyable, even exhilarating, when bubbles inflate and the good times roll—but underneath the surface, the health of the system is wasting away. Just as the addict has to suffer the wrenching pains of withdrawal in order to recover his physical health, so our economy needs to endure the short-term pain of a deflation in order to purge decades’ worth of malinvestments, uneconomic patterns of production, and unfathomably massive amounts of unpayable debts.

We must distinguish between benign deflation and traumatic deflation. The U.S. economy is a dead man walking—a zombie on life support, if we don’t bite the proverbial bullet and go through a painful cleansing, a healing period of deflation, the ultimate price we pay will be even worse. Like the heroin addict who can’t kick his habit and eventually overdoses, someday the Fed will go too far in its inflationary policies. It will ignite a hyperinflation, thereby annihilating the dollar, wiping out the country’s capital—not to mention, the savings of the middle class—and totally collapsing the economy.

ND Sen. Kent Conrad, their “deficit hawk” award, ND Senator-elect John Hoeven, Tex Hall is the new chairman, Mary Schneider is one, So let the buffalo roam, ELCA is raising questions about genetically modified seeds, ND farms with more than 5,000 acres rose 20 percent, Hulse views large farms in a moral context, NDSU reclaimed the Marker, former UND basketball standout, Williston is a challenger,

Who “Runs” the Minot Daily News and May Soon Have His Very “Own” Corrupt Sheriff?

Jack Hoeven, Orlin Backes and Lynn Aas?

Just elected Ward County Sheriff Steve Kukowski?

We should call upon the “moderate” Republicans to put the “Republican” party first and their own political aspirations second as we all face a struggle to return America to the greatness that is hers.

Progressives' smugness and their presumption of astuteness, correctness, and all-knowingness will always plague humanity. It now falls on the GOP House majority to stop ruinous policies from doing untold damage.

It is the job of responsible voters to stay informed and inform other responsible voters in order to clean out the White House and the Senate in 2012.

It is clear that suppression of  ammonia production to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions will have a deleterious, and plausibly a disastrous effect on world food production. There are several mechanisms by which cap-and-trade and other domestic measures, and worldwide limits on carbon emissions will deplete the world food supply. 

Maybe Earl Pomeroy is  a good person, but he is part of the Left Progressive Democrat Party. We know that the Pelosi Democrat Progressive Party must be repudiated and defeated. And Earl Pomeroy must be defeated because he is part of that crowd.

The examples are numerous, unrivaled by any president, Democrat or Republican, from the Cold War to War on Terror. To cite one example, Carter’s statements about Kim Jong-Il after a 1994 trip to North Korea defy imagination. Each time I read them, I stare in disbelief…. With Carter, there’s this inexplicable gullibility. It’s an extraordinary thing that I can’t explain.

When you read this, the November elections will probably be over. If they are, the die has been cast; if they are not, please cast your vote for a return to a representative republic, and not an illusionary utopia run by professional politicians who have. It is still incredible to me that anyone in North Dakota could still harbor the delusion that these three stooges we have in Congress even remotely represent ND values and wishes.  Byron Dorgan, always the most astute of the three, already “abandoned ship,” of course taking his re-election war chest with him. Earl, after being one of Madame Pelosi’s “yes, mama” boys, now pretends to “attack” her.

The professional soldier bears all. But, my heart goes out to the draftee who had no choice or the enlistee who thought he was doing the right thing for his country by joining the military. These young people bore the stigma of rejection.

Maybe that’s why I get a lump in my throat when someone too young or too imperceptive to remember those charged and turbulent times says, “Thank you for your service.” If only they knew how much that meant.

Obama is an ideologue -- and a man addicted to demonizing his opponents. So the president will play ugly games with a recharged GOP. He will agree to extend the Bush tax cuts. But the left-winger will cling to left-wing dogma and choose ever sneakier routes that will burden American business. The ideologue and his czars and agency bosses will try to circumvent Congress and the Constitution to bring about state-controlled capitalism.

We must stand on the proven power of principle to hold us to the course set forth by the founders of the Republic in the Constitution.  We cannot let the star-power of personality capture the spotlight and diminish the voice of the people.  Instead, we must redouble our efforts to build a grassroots movement of informed citizens who are equipped to hold the elected representatives accountable to the platform.

President Barack Obama seems more concerned with appeasing environmental extremists in his administration than he is with the lost jobs of poor Americans. He's letting the environmentalists run wild with long pent-up schemes to force a change in the American way of life that includes small cars, small apartments and, for many, a return to an idealized 19th century lifestyle. It's not China that's responsible for American job losses; it's Washington's fault for shutting down whole industries and preventing new jobs from being created.

Last Friday, we told you about the debate over congressional earmarks going on in Washington, D.C.  Today, there has been a major development. 

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has changed his mind about earmarks and has announced that he will now support a moratorium on earmarks.

As was reported last week in newspapers and on the radio, this debate has deeply involved North Dakota. 

The National Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Debt Commission) has issued its “Draft Co-Chairs Proposal”. The document reveals the Debt Commission’s bias toward “establishment politicians”. While this initial effort is important to begin the dialogue, it does not factor in the current mood of our country toward real fiscal reform.

We are closer than we think to solving our nation’s debt problems; now the powers in Washington need only to acknowledge the Tea Party message on the commission and get the job done to benefit the taxpayers, not special interests from both sides of the isle.

“Give me your money”, this is not the time to hoot, holler and overreach, Drew Wrigley, Democrats have little need for soul searching, “There is no such thing as Obamacare", the tough work lies ahead, Three Affiliated Tribes, Turtle Mt. Reservation, 2009 income tax returns contained a few surprises, statewide bullying hysteria

Earmarks allow members of Congress to legally trade votes with each other and dictate how bureaucrats spend rather than letting them bureaucrats run wild.  They also allow the president to buy votes from Congress - again, legally.

So, how do we fix the process?  By simply requiring every earmark to:

The Bismarck Tribune did not even bother to explain why the commission decided to cut funding to the organizations. But the discussion about taxpayer-funded job development is long overdue and is finally taking place.

Funding job development is little more than a feel-good, “we’re doing something” program designed to increase the power of government at the expense of the taxpaying public. It’s simply bad public policy.

The Inheritance Tax, which was set at 0% for year 2010, is scheduled, in year 2011, to range from 18% (under $10,000) to 55% (over $3 Million) with an additional 5% on the amount over $10 Million. That means an effective 60% tax on estates over $10 Million, which would include many, if not most, farms and other family owned businesses in North Dakota

What sets the United States of America on a different plane than many other world powers is not the use of force -- it is the motivation for the deployment of troops into a conflict.  This, in my view, is what bears examination on this day set apart to honor those who have served in the military and those men and women who continue to sacrifice for the cause of freedom.  We do not enter another country to conquer or to possess but to liberate from oppression, tyranny and terror.

This Thursday (Nov 11th) our nation will be remembering our veterans in many ceremonies around the country. One of the themes of the American Legion is the "Legion Family." Which includes; the veteran, the spouse, the families, and the communities. Today more than ever the support each and every one of you provides to our armed services is critical as we continue to be a "Nation at War."  Please seek out and attend a veterans day ceremony in your area, I will be attending the events below, stop by and say hello if your in the area!

No matter what progressive does the "arguing," the illogic for income redistribution reduces to condescending preachiness. That preachiness is based on high-and-mighty "moral" positions, positions which have little basis in morality but are filled with feel-good, wealth-destroying ideology. It's amazing that Cohn flat-out acknowledged the progressive modus operandi by titling his piece, "Moral Arguments for Soaking the Rich."

The height of arrogance occurs when one cannot even recognize one's own arrogance. For the typical progressive, arrogance comes naturally and flows effortlessly.

Emil was drafted into the Army in October 1941, and stationed at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. He recalls being in a movie theater, on a date, the evening of December 7, 1941, when the lights suddenly came on. A military officer announced that all active servicemen were required to leave immediately and report to the base—details to follow. Emil talked the officer into allowing him to drive his date home first. When Emil got to the base, he learned about Pearl Harbor.

The Republican Party, with the help of the Tea Party, swept the House of Representatives with a massive pickup of at least 60 seats. The Federal Reserve made another historic announcement with its $600-billion ‘Quantitative Easing’ program (QE2). The October non-farm payroll number came in at a positive 151,000, and the unemployment number remained elevated at 9.6 percent for the month. All of this transpired in the course of one week. So, what’s next? Hold on to your seats.”

Americans have seen the future from the mountain top of Big Government and they don’t like what they see.

For conservatives, libertarians and Tea Party folks, the work starts now for the 2012 elections. No let up. No compromise. Keep the momentum going for the next two years.

This Republican landslide ELIMINATES any grounds to blame Democrats for what happens in the legislature.  If any North Dakota Republican legislator or elected official claims that Democrats are a driving force behind any legislation, that Republican is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

Taking control of spending requires North Dakota Republicans to change how they spend.  Your support will help pull Republican legislators into the right lane and get over the notion that having a surplus justifies spending more.