Dakota Beacon

There are a lot of bright folks among us. The professional politicians we elect and re-elect which dispense laws from on high are not among them. They are certainly not the best and the brightest. They are, however, the true alchemists of the twenty-first century. The more dishonest ones sometimes succeed. For their personal gain they’re able to turn manure into gold.

Government-Run Healthcare has passed.

Congressman Pomeroy broke his promise.

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Americans have become calloused to that perversion of republican democracy which comes in the form of political payola to blocks of voters in return for their reflexive support.  This is bad for good governance, but it is not terminal illness.   The concept of the general welfare – helping all Americans through commonly used programs like highways and harbors – has been redefined to mean its opposite, the welfare of defined groups.  As malodorous as the Cornhusker Kickback and the Second Louisiana Purchase may be, this sort massive graft does not murder liberty. 

"The people of North Dakota opposed this bill and the philosophy behind it.  Congressman Pomeroy ignored the will of the people, as well as his own previous declarations.  It will not be forgotten."

For a government regulatory hearing, the testimony was livelier than usual. The porn star Madelyne Hernandez recalled an especially grueling scene in which she had been obliged to have sex with 75 men. The bureaucrats nodded thoughtfully, no doubt contemplating another languorous 18-month committee assignment looking into capping the number of group-sex participants at 60 per scene. In future, if a porn actress finds 75 men waiting for her on the set, they’ll be bureaucrats from Sacramento’s Condom Enforcement Squad.

Obama and Pelosi are strongarming swing-state Congressmen into taking one for the deem. It’s appropriate that it should take banana republic maneuvers to ram this through, because it’s about government so powerful it can make up the rules as it goes along. Maybe regulators should roll a giant condom over the Capitol before it fatally infects the rest of us.

NDSU got ahead of its resources, ND may be taking its economic boom for granted, A strange legal and political battle, He used Rep. Earl Pomeroy as an example, the Red River Valley has grown wetter, everyone is wary and prepared, Flooding is becoming intolerable, people down river will take political action, WCHA disqualified Frattin, Minnesota fans were angry with everybody, Hoeven settled into the driver's seat

America, which is a nation of citizens who chose to migrate here from all over the world, views the whole of mankind as its friends.  Americans overflow with generosity to the poor and the persecuted throughout the world and many Americans travel at their own expense to dangerous places to bring hope and help to wretched peoples.  Does this sound like the actions of a people poisoned by racial and religious bigotry?  Only in that odd and isolated colony called Hollywood.

I don’t doubt that “Woodstock” actually happened; I’ve seen the pictures; but as for shaping an entire generation; I don’t think so!  I am told that with all the alcohol and drugs, only about half of the 400,000 who were there actually remember being there; and that includes most of the 32 bands and 100+ musicians!

Gutzman contends that the American judiciary, legal establishment, law schools, and media have completely misled the public about the meaning and history of the U.S. Constitution, substituting case law - the accumulated opinions of the courts - for the simple truth. Flimsy "precedent" has usurped the place of history, fact, reason, and even logic. So precedents take precedence, as it were, over the actual words of the Constitution.

     The U.S. Supreme Court winds up treating its own rulings - in Roe v. Wade, for example - as more authoritative than the Constitution itself. No wonder the public is confused: The whole system is incoherent and - well, "corrupt" is a mild term for it. The Constitution becomes whatever the courts say it is. This is a recipe for unbridled, arbitrary power, such as we are already experiencing.

Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does.  And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who has just managed to graduate — in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking — from moron to imbecile. 

If an entrepreneur forecasts the future correctly, he serves his fellow man by producing goods people want. It seems only right that such producers are rewarded with profit. In a free market, the only way entrepreneurs earn profits is to serve customers better than anyone else.

Here is an intriguing look at the biblical basis for the free-market economy, dispelling the popular notion among many “social justice” Christians that Scripture supports a socialistic, collectivist, redistributive economic system.

It has gotten very sad now that nationally recognized healthcare/insurance expert has begun to joke about the people running North Dakota, and logically, he has good reason in his latest article "North Dakota - they do things different up there....." --------

This would actually be pretty funny, even hilarious, if it wasn't about a prosecutor who allegedly committed crimes in the course of prosecuting one of the most decent, honest, and competent executives I've had the honor of meeting in my 25 plus years in the business world.

Could anyone embrace Communism?  What was there about the Gulag that sane and moral people missed?  When one sixth of the earth was a giant prison, what led good people to still believe in communism?  The answer to these questions is ugly.  Communism, like Nazism, is pure evil.  Has Obama ever said that, even once?  No.   The conclusions we must draw from that are clear and troubling.  Obama is not a misguided socialist, as so many on the left.  He is a militant Marxist who believes that anything is justified in the cause of the Revolution. 

Supporters of Government Healthcare (AFL-CIO, ND-People.org, SEIU, and others) also showed up and decided to highjack the rally - even brining their own signs saying "Honk FOR Healthcare."

They thought this would be effective, half their "protesters" we either paid political staffers or union big-wigs.......

The video speaks for itself, but it just proves once again that supporters of government-run healthcare are simply more interested in drowning out their opposition than in passing actual reforms. 

There will be "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" rally tomorrow, Tuesday at 12 noon at Cong. Pomeroy's BISMARCK office, at the Federal Building, 220 East Rosser Avenue. Blogger Rob Port will be there as well to urge Cong. Pomeroy to vote against the health care reform legislation.

STOP CREEPY SOICALISM - BE THERE!

Three economists, led by John Deskin (Creighton University), have published a study questioning the value of increasing higher education spending to the economy. Their conclusion is that higher education spending has a negative effect. This is coming after we have learned that our higher ed system is geared toward the state, not the student.

Should churches and individual Christians seek to help people with material problems and social needs, remedy social ills, and improve social institutions? Throughout history many congregations, Christian organizations, and individual believers have labored to do these things. Today, however, some political conservatives denounce the ‘social gospel’ as misguided and unbiblical and counsel Christians to avoid or leave congregations that stress social justice. These commentators and others who censure the church’s social mission misread both history and the Bible. Certainly, some social gospel advocates have ignored evangelism and individual piety, and others have rejected Christian orthodoxy. However, many other Christians have endeavored both to save souls and help the poor and oppressed. They have often argued that these two missions are integrally related.

It seems the Jamestown City Council has decided that tax dollars are better spent on infrastructure than on corporate welfare programs (euphemistically called Economic Development).

GLEN COVE, NY -- Former Reagan official and GOP activist Tom Pauken's important book, published this month, is titled Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back (Chronicles Press, 2010). The first half is a study of how conservatives have lost control of the Republican Party and of the name "Conservative" itself. The second half is a proposal for re-conquest.

"Freedom is a fragile thing” Reagan continued, “and it is never more than one generation away from extinction. Freedom is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly, by each and every generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again. Knowing this, it is hard to explain to those who even today would question the people’s capacity for self-rule. Will they answer this; if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern anyone else?”

the big head, 100 oil rigs are at work,  Teachers’ Fund for Retirement, Dakota Growers, Don’t mess with a good thing, Gophers meeting the UND Sioux at “The Ralph” , The unlicensed caterer mowed down 180 people, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Northwest Area Water Supply, City Council has hijacked half of the tax, DAKTOIDS

What part of “no” do these tyrants and thugs not understand? Do they understand that they serve us and that they don’t rule over us? Perhaps they would understand a catchy phrase like “It’s about our freedom stupid”. Of course they would, but the problem is that our freedom is what they are after.

Can you believe it has been 25 years since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power? Gorbachev seized the reins of the Soviet state on March 11, 1985. As an illustration of how much the world has changed since—in part because of Gorbachev. The media jumps at anniversaries of historical figures and events. For those of us who write about history, we, too, seize these opportunities to teach history, especially history Americans should know.

Coach Dale Brown:

"Kevin Cramer is an American patriot and one of the most caring, principled, and talented men I have ever met.  We desperately need him in congress because he will always tell the truth and be a servant-leader that recognizes he works for us."