Dakota Beacon

We have now allowed schools and private organizations to take over sex education. This data suggests, however, that parental involvement remains an important part of the mix.

Great harm is wrought by the President's deceptive and fear-mongering rhetoric. His rhetoric is facilitating both economic damage and human suffering. No thinking person can any longer believe America has a responsible leader.

They will say that even in New York City — which has a larger white population than L.A. — blacks and Hispanics committed  96 percent of all crime. So who would we expect police dogs to bite in a big city? “I mean,” these apologists will say, “K-9s generally don’t bite random people on the street.”

No question. What happened at the World War II Memorial was pure political exploitation. The spectacle of elderly, heartbroken, wheelchair-bound vets voyaging thousands of miles to remember their fallen brothers, maybe for a final earthly time, only to be denied by cruel, intransigent Republicans, was apparently too delicious to pass up.
But even then, as the Standard noted, the barricading of the World War II Memorial was “just the start of the Park Service’s partisan assault on the citizenry.”

On the eve of World War II, the Army found Marshall unfit for promotion from colonel to brigadier general. Eisenhower never mastered the basic war skills of a two-, three-, or four-star general.

. . . the best year ever in 2012; Red River Valley sugar industry; a widespread drug investigation; Farting bridge trolls; the Forum continues to titillate; Griggs County voters were against a new courthouse; the strange reluctance of Twin Cities newspapers; a black Texan working on a road crew; Can’t say whether his education helped or hindered; Memoirs from the Greatest Generation; Lawrence Welk’s birthplace; a spurt of retail growth; Legacy Center; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The plan was to introduce into the marketplace of ideas views separate, distinct, and provocative from the more progressive mainstream views then in evidence.

In 1984's Ministry of Truth, Outer-Party member Syme is hard at work on a new edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. He regales Winston with his dreams of ultimate success:

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make Thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.

Obamacare's costs and regulatory mandates will, in less than five years, double America's health care costs and significantly reduce care quality and availability. Obamacare mandates are driving doctors out of the profession.

Does this display of brute force on the part of our federal government during the “shutdown” or “slowdown” want to make you hop on the bandwagon for Obamacare?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) responded by calling Vitter an "anarchist" playing "really juvenile political games" for insisting that Congress and Obama follow the law, and the same rules as everyone else.

 "Although Barack Obama's chefs have been deemed 'essential,' employees at the National Institutes of Health who offer last-chance experimental cancer treatments to children suffering from cancer have not. Worse still, House Republicans have offered to compromise with the president and single the NIH out for funding. The White House has threatened a veto.

Here's a thought : Maybe all the Republicans in Washington who've been leaking their disparaging views on Cruz and Lee can get together in a room and work out a plan to mend it not end it.

As merely one illustration among many I could give, former DNC head Howard Dean and MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell were recently inveighing against Republican tax cuts. Dean extolled “what an increase in the top tax rate actually does.” He insisted: “that’s what governments do—is redistribute. The argument is not whether they should redistribute or not, the question is how much we should redistribute ... The purpose of government is to make sure that capitalism works for everybody … It’s government’s job to redistribute.”

Equality is the voodoo medicine of the vice-ridden man blind to virtue.

'How,' asked Corker, 'can I vote in favor of the House Bill, cutting off the funding for ObamaCare, if a vote isn't first passed to end debate?'

. . . Minnesota Martyrs; The Mall of America; Minnesota might be returning to the days of “Spendy Wendy”; UND alumni in Minnesota business and politics; ESPN GameDay show in Fargo; Ugliest traveling trophy in college football; Home of the fighting Sioux; Let’s hope the beaver fares better; the ultimate American bureaucracy; South Dakota is fading in the rearview mirror; Kim Kardashian of energy; Wow -- it happened so fast! Time to construct a first-class stadium in ND; Bismarck was preparing to steal their lunch; The author of the Forum’s “fat column”; Where the Zen Master Finds Inner Peace; Find fun and adventure in ND; self-identified Scandinavians and Germans; Are you in the mood to hear “Lady of Spain”. . . .

It is not melodramatic to say that conservatives in the House and Senate are trying to preserve what America's Founding Fathers established. They are trying to save the country. Is the risk of a few weeks of government shutdown too high a price to pay?

Thus, a person who institutes unjust profit-reducers such as excessive taxes and regulations is a policy poverty pimp who can literally rob his society of billions in prosperity. A thief in an alley is less to be feared.

Talking in trillions of dollars can easily boggle the mind. To provide some perspective on the magnitude of our current debt, think about this: If you were alive when Jesus Christ was born and spent one million dollars every day since that point, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars yet.

Shutting down our dysfunctional government, moving it aside, and rebuilding from the ground up is our only hope.

Well, so goes "leadership" in Washington. But what intrigues the Rubble is the permanent affliction that plagues the Pelosi's of the world. They suffer from a constellation of blind spots that serve to conceal from them the better part of reality.

The “tactics” and “strategy” that should be employed is to say:  “Here’s your best deal.  Time is not on your side . . .”

So, why did deficits increase under Reagan? Liberals insist his tax cuts generated deficits. They’re wrong. It’s crucial to understand how and why.

Maybe this is why so many of us are out for blood on this shutdown vote. Vincent might lump us in with the lumpenproletariat that hasn't missed an Adam Sandler movie, but we'll be damned if we'll let him suppose we'd side with such traitors as Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Charles Krauthammer and Obamacare's Nurse Ratched, Dana Perino!

. . . the biggest thing that ever happened to Fargo; the infamous woodchipper; The team did little to inspire hope; ND schools did not rank highly; ND and SD downplayed the lists; UND Writers Conference faces "funding challenges"; “Tiny Bucyrus almost burned to the ground . . . last fall.” 110 GF companies are doing business in the Bakken; the largest project in the department’s history; beneficiaries of Minnesota’s big government policies; Stockland hopes to have 75 stores; Viterra is selling Dakota Growers for $370 million; an apartment in Williston can require as much as $6-7,000; It’s hard to find good employees in Williston; The real causes of chronic homelessness; DAKTOIDS . . . .

. . . the biggest thing that ever happened to Fargo; the infamous woodchipper; The team did little to inspire hope; ND schools did not rank highly; ND and SD downplayed the lists; UND Writers Conference faces "funding challenges"; “Tiny Bucyrus almost burned to the ground . . . last fall.” 110 GF companies are doing business in the Bakken; the largest project in the department’s history; beneficiaries of Minnesota’s big government policies; Stockland hopes to have 75 stores; Viterra is selling Dakota Growers for $370 million; an apartment in Williston can require as much as $6-7,000; It’s hard to find good employees in Williston; The real causes of chronic homelessness; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Frankly, what our country needs in not this tainted brand of "American Exceptionalism, but truly exceptional Americans.

Rather than address these issues, our political class outlaws incandescent light bulbs; tells us how much water we can use to flush our toilets; mandates what our kids can eat at school lunches; regulates what our kids must and must not study; and the list goes on.