Dakota Beacon

In 2001, a completely new 10% bracket was created for the first $8,500 worth of income.  Prior to that, this level paid 15%.  If the these tax cuts are not extended, that income level will have to pay another $350 each year in taxes.

 This represents a 50% increase in taxes for this income level.

It is important that we “remember that our founding fathers, like ourselves and every generation of mankind, were born into a world they did not make. Yet no generation did more to remake for the better, the world they inherited.” The debt that we, and indeed the world owes this unbelievable group of men, can never be repaid.

Honoring our soldiers and veterans involves more than simply handing out someone else’s money or taking a taxpayer funded trip to pose for pictures with them. It includes speaking out against those who slander them and most importantly preserving the principles of freedom that they fought, bled, suffered and died for.  In Pomeroy’s case, it simply means going against his party.

Strange art and radical politics focus otherwise purposeless lives. Snubbing the notion of a free society, elitists concentrate on shackling society in chains fashioned from impossibly perfect models of economics and human nature. Many artsy-fartsy Santa Feans' real motivation comes across as no different from liberals' motivation in general: getting high on the feel-good that flows from contrived virtue.

More money is not the cure for depressions, as can be seen by contrasting the depression of 1920-21 with the early 1930s. The money supply contracted to a comparable degree both times, but in the ‘20s prices and wages were more flexible (that is, free of government intervention), so that they could adjust and bring supply and demand into balance. In short, markets work if government stays out of the way.

"Genius" Barrack and George W. talk to grade school children. Makes you kind of wonder......

“ticking time bomb”, Devils Lake covers over 700 square miles, Ramsey County Commissioner Joe Belford, Fargo native climbs Mt. Rainier, It's time to close, ND has a growing problem with elderly drivers, -- and that's only Sheriff Doug Howard, Tracy Potter know this all too well, $380,000 of out-of-state travel expenses, 100  Best Places to Live, Fargo is very high on the GF list of suspects, Fargo-Moorhead is becoming older and blacker, But we have no choice now, we can't unring the bell, 61 steady years, Daktoids

All of the aforementioned brings us to an important point: Illegal migration isn’t the problem.

It’s an exacerbation of the problem. 

And if we’re going to support our current legal-immigration scheme, why get so worked up over illegal migration?  We are already supporting a legal cultural death by a thousand cuts; we are already supporting the importation of nearly a million socialist-leaning voters every year.  All amnesty does is expedite the process.

The norm in man’s history has been to keep unassimilable foreign elements out of one’s land, not invite them in.  Of course, another norm of man has been the will to survive.  I’m not sure that’s an instinct we still possess. 

Nodland and Kitko were both informed that they were perpetrating falsehoods. Kris Kitko was even given a chance to get in front of the eventual exoneration of Dave Weiler when she was informed that the charges would be dropped against him (Weiler). An orchestrated effort to destroy the life and reputation of another human being, to purposely, by extension hurt his children, all for politics is about all that liberals can do. There are few things more dishonorable. It is disgusting.

This is a multifaceted movement, but one thing seems certain: Those taking pleasure assailing Tea Partiers may enliven the very movement they endeavor to destroy. I’m reminded of a quote from an early Church father (Tertullian): ‘We multiply wherever we are mown down by you.’ The ‘blood’ of the faithful is ‘seed’. The hysterics have only gotten worse. Smear groups like ‘CrashTheTeaParty.org’ are infiltrating the Tea Party. The goal … is to ‘act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities,’ in order to ‘damage the public’s opinion of them.’ To the Obama acolytes: If independents, moderates, and Democrats are a notable element of the Tea Party movement, or sympathize with it, do you really want to inflame them, especially as November 2010 approaches?

I have been fascinated by stories of the Shroud of Turin for nearly 25 years.  Never did I imagine that one day I would be bringing my newly confirmed 14-year old daughter Teresa and two of her friends with me to see it.  But last April, by piecing together cheap airfares and frequent flier miles the four of us went on a 9-day pilgrimage of a lifetime to Italy that was spiritually transformational.

General McChrystal  Biography 
Commander,  International Security Assistance Force/
Commander, United States  Forces Afghanistan 
United  States Army
 SOURCE OF  COMMISSIONED SERVICE: USMA EDUCATIONAL DEGREES 
United  States Military Academy - BS - No Major 
United  States Naval War College - MA - National Security and Strategic   Studies 
Salve   Regina University - MS - International  Relations
 MILITARY  SCHOOLS ATTENDED: 
Infantry  Officer Basic and Advanced Courses 
United  States Naval Command and Staff College 
Senior   Service College Fellowship Harvard   University
 FOREIGN  LANGUAGES: 
Spanish
 PROMOTIONS  DATE OF APPOINTMENT:

A simple dictionary definition of logic is: “the science of correct reasoning; the laws which govern correct thinking.”  It further includes the acceptance of conclusions based on verifiable facts, or truths, reached either through experience, inductive or deductive reasoning, or observation or experimentation.  Some examples of truths confirmed by these methods are: H20 makes water; 2+2=4; water runs downhill; seeds produce their own kind; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; compassion without substance is worthless, or as Antoine de Sainte Exupe’ry says, “To love, only to love, leads nowhere.”  Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” is probably the best essay on the connection between “reason” and “compassion” and when and where each is appropriate.  Read it!

For [John] Stossel to maintain that the federal and state governments should not deploy National Guard troops to secure the border because it is expensive turns people off to libertarianism. I share Stossel’s aversion to big, expensive, wasteful government. But to make a dollars-and-cents argument that the United States, still the wealthiest country in the world, shouldn’t spend money to defend its citizens and its borders against swarms of sometimes-violent foreign invaders is flabbergasting.

The loud and vocal consensus of the left-wing main street media is “three cheers for Obama” for sticking up for those illegals, after all, that is a lot of democratic votes come November. But, the country’s best legal minds, those who really count, think Obama and Holder bit off more than they can chew; that the new law that goes into effect at the end of the month will be ruled constitutional, and that Governor Brewer and the soon to be safer residents of Arizona, will indeed have the last laugh.

At the time of her birth my niece McKenzie was the most premature (16 ounces) child to be born and survive in St. Louis County, Missouri. She was considered a miracle. Today, at 23 years she is by all accounts “a live wire”. My fondest memory of her was from the family reunion when she was 6 years old. She just wanted to crawl all over me, to be held and cuddled. Such an affectionate kid, a beautiful spirit, so easy to love, a miraculous gift from God. But what if she had never been?

Watch this video about a true miracle. Watch this video and ask yourself when was the exact moment that she became human, and if you do not know when that moment was, ask yourself should unborn children be protected at least until we do know for certain and without queston.

I got a really good email the other day. Many of you may have seen it. It talked about the punishments for crossing the borders of various countries around the world. North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Venezuela, and Cuba were mentioned, and 12 years hard labor, detained indefinitely, shot, jailed, never heard from again, and branded a spy were their penalties or punishments. Pres. Calderon of Mexico recently admitted that if a Guatemalan crosses over into Mexico illegally, they are asked for their papers, detained, and sent back. It is against the law to cross into this country without the proper papers, also. I support Arizona.

The reason for this Mexican invasion of illegal fugitives is that that nation is an abject failure.  Calderon realizes that his best hope for his economy is revenue coming from illegals sending money home to Mexico while taking pressure off of Mexican resources by sucking ours dry through free education, medical care and other services for which they pay no taxes to support.

When I hear “Hitler” and “Nazi” tossed around by people who would never say “Stalin” or “Mao” or “communist,” I have to ask, is it because they are afraid of these kind of people? Or worse, is it because they admire them?

Could that be it? And why?

Leftists are intellectuals, just ask them. Or don’t, they’ll be only too happy to tell you anyway.

And though I say it who am one, intellectuals tend to be, shall we say, a bit on the wimpy side. They may admire strength, but often have little idea what it is, and too damned often they think strength is brutality.

"Utility Only" version of Cap & Trade will disproportionally

Can oil production continue to keep our state’s economy ahead of the country until it catches up to us, or do we get pulled into the muck with rest? Let’s hope the leaders of our state take the initiative to start planning for a rainy day and realize they can’t continue increasing the cost of government when the state populous is not growing at all comparatively.

Imagine discovering that a veterinarian regularly ripped the heads from living puppies or kittens or crushed their skulls. Would you consider this type of action obscene? Terrorizing? Barbaric? Or, what if you discovered that some doctors regularly ripped off the heads of human babies? Obscene? Terrorizing? Barbaric? It is happening. You just thought that the antiseptic, clinical abstraction that is “abortion” had nothing to do with terror or barbarism. Think again. Here is the evidence.

The latest print edition of The Dakota Beacon magazine will be in the mail and on the streets of North Dakota starting today!

Legislating a “green economy” is foolhardy. If there was an energy substitute for carbon fuels that didn’t need federal subsidies, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists would have jumped at the opportunity long ago.

Bryce makes suggestions, but not for energy independence. He recommends embracing solar, nuclear and natural gas technologies. He proposes to increase domestic oil production. And, he strongly proposes getting the government out of the energy business.

Devils Lake Solutions Tour, yes, sorry, through Valley City, is a crisis that goes beyond Devils Lake, $1.5 billion Red River diversion, Dakota Growers, ND Investment Board, Arizona’s new law regarding illegal immigrants, Washington should be more like ND, will there be a giant sucking sound?, Her obituary says she loved Sykeston, Cass County deputies confronted Buck who proved uncooperative, Some nervous residents fear an invasion, ND is holding its own -- weight, that is

In 2008, Barack Obama (I’ll clean this figure of speech up a bit) spit down Americans’ backs and told them it was rainin’, and 53 percent of us believed him.  Many of us still do.  But it’s time to grow up and wise up — because our time is almost up.  That deluge of national destruction running down your back is not some unexplainable natural phenomenon.  It is the effluent that naturally flows when you elect Marxists, malcontents and miscreants to office.

Indeed, then, as now, Americans had become complacent in comfort, unable or unwilling to comprehend that the consequences of foregoing liberty for refuge are dire. And the words of Benjamin Franklin must again and forever, ring in our ears; ring in the ears of American Patriots, as we remember the bravery of the Sons of Liberty  and that first step towards a free and democratic America.

Due to the financial crackup of the last few years, we have already passed the point of debt saturation—that is, additional dollars of debt produce no net increase of wealth. In fact, data for 2009 tell a distressing story: Each new dollar of debt was accompanied by a net reduction in GDP. In fact, at year-end, each new dollar of debt subtracted 45 cents from GDP ... Remember this the next time you hear some economist claiming that Uncle Sam should run even larger deficits to ‘stimulate’ the economy. The sovereign debt crisis that is rumbling through Europe today, sooner or later, will hit home.” If the Fed “follows the recommendations of Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman and implements ‘quantitative easing’ on steroids (that is, hyperinflation), and the end result won’t be pretty.

The FCC has basically admitted to a plan to conceal from Americans the content of "media ownership" discussions that are occurring. Mark Lloyd may fulfill a dream expressed in 2007. The Diversity Czar can now work to correct "the structural imbalance of political talk radio" without worrying about bothersome interference from the American people.

And now, alas, we have a stunning spectacle, courtesy of the Petraeus replacement of McChrystal last week: The most extreme elements of the left, who had found Hillary Clinton too ‘pro-Bush’ when it came to Iraq policy, who smeared General Petraeus as ‘General Betray Us,’ who backed Obama as the only Democrat unwaveringly against Bush and Petraeus in Iraq, now stand behind Obama as he turns to Petraeus to do what Bush and Petraeus did in Iraq.