Dakota Beacon

…. Many of you have been attacked for being single-issue activists or single-issue voters. But I ask: What single issue could be of greater significance?” Reagan said that if one is unsure precisely when life begins, one should err in a way that protects rather than robs life: “If there’s even a question about when human life begins, isn’t it our duty to err on the side of life?”

Discussions will revolve around Measure #2 on the June Ballot

That is to say, just as there is no such thing as "personal" morality, neither is there such thing as the group variety.  To say otherwise is to wax relativistic – as the left will – and implies that morality doesn't really exist; only personal preference does.  Morality, however, if it is anything but a confusing synonym for taste, refers to an absolute, universal and eternal standard for behavior that transcends not only individuals and groups, but man himself. 

 The beauty of our form of government, our Constitution, our law, is that we are “a nation of laws, not of men”, meaning that we are not a personality cult, but a rational people governed by ONE LAW for ALL. The best guarantee of good law is that it is applied evenly across the boards. Bad law, on the other hand, gets to survive if the powerful are exempted from it and it applies only to the weak. If we are to have laws that are acceptable to the “important” or the “strong”, they must apply equally. There is great danger in these special exemptions.

Once again in America we are faced with a choice-it is a time for choosing. Just as Ronald Reagan spoke to a nation with many challenges and much at stake, so there are candidates touting solutions to the situation in this country today.

There is a reason why we have Supreme Court justices who have contempt for the document that is supposed to be their guiding light and a president who wipes his feet on the Constitution as he goes where no statist has gone before: they are following a trajectory that the nation was set on a long, long time ago.  They simply represent the latest version of republican decline: anti-constitutionalism 9.0. 

DSU was a “diploma factory”; the campus was administratively dysfunctional; issues at DSU raise numerous questions; Yah, sure, ya betcha; “Fighting Sioux”; “I kind of like that logo. What do you think?”  the Brazilian Bombshell; A tall tale? If so, it’s a good one; racially-tinged Jamestown murder trials; Cave fingered Howard; Western ND has changed and become a less safe place; Bismarck is changing; DAKTOIDS . . .

Although it was arguably unjust to make Catholics pay for two school systems, the policy was a blessing in disguise. The parochial schools took nothing from the government, and so they remained free to teach the whole truth without restraint from it.

Have “abortion rights” become so sacred to liberals that they are willing to sacrifice conscience exemptions at the altar of Roe v. Wade? Do they really want to head down this road? I suggest they stop and think hard about what they’re advocating.

It is wrong to think that Obama caved in to political pressure when he announced an “accommodation” at midday on February 10. In fact, he has no authority to either mandate or compromise. In reality, he is hacking away at our First Amendment liberties to promote the “change” he envisions.

A law against homosexual marriage today is no more an instance of bigotry or prejudice than the laws against polygamy that the United States enacted in the 1800s.

96 percent of blacks supported Obama in 2008.  Although, few are as honest as Jackson, who clearly is proud that he never lets politics get in the way of his bigotry.

If History consigned the founding era to a status of historical irrelevance, who can say that progressivism, which is also a product of historical evolution of ideas, will not suffer the same fate? In short, why should we not believe that progressivism was simply the product of a bevy of severely misguided statists who, at the beginning of the 20th century, believed that a sort of benevolent totalitarianism was the wave of the future?

The North Dakota University System is accountable to no one, especially taxpayers.

What’s frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes. But what I have been able to do is move in the right direction. And what I’m going to keep on doing is plot away, very persistent.

Sen. John Hoeven “picked the right issue”; WDAY meteorologist John Wheeler punctured several myths; $1 billion of public; the faltering pace of economic development on Indian reservations; NDSU is suing nearly everybody; deaths and injuries in the oil patch; they’re looking for jobs, not women; bent out of shape about the Oil Patch; Two factors drive farmland prices; The government will make you healthier? DAKTOIDS

I finally caught up on my reading and ordered three great books; “The Myth of the Robber Barons”, “New Deal or Raw Deal”, and “FDR Goes to War”, all by Burton W. Folsom Jr. who is a professor of history and management at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Folsom has written numerous books and countless journal columns.

After excessive taxation of all tax venues forced venture capital into municipal bonds immediately following the war, and after increased estate taxes further drove venture capital into tax exempt foundations during the roaring twenties, it was probably the extensive excise taxes of the early thirties that put the final nails into the coffin of the Industrial Revolution, spawning The Great Depression.

An old adage is a spin-off of the Golden Rule and it goes like this: He who has the gold makes the rules. Towns and counties relying upon one major source of revenue to be distributed by a legislative committee or, worse yet, by a state agency implementing a sterile and impersonal formula drawn up by another legislative committee is something each voter should think through very carefully before voting for or against Measure 2.

Of all fifty states, not one was simply established and imposed by the federal government. Each one entered the union by virtue of its voluntary application. The first Congress proposed a Constitutional amendment - one that was rapidly adopted - which made it express and explicit that every power not specifically delegated by the states to the federal government was "reserved to the states, respectively, or the people." This language is clear: Sovereignty is in the people of the respective states, not of some conglomerate.

Judge Feland’s exclusive defense against suspension of her law license for ethical reasons is that it was all an accident. Inadvertent. Mistake. “I’m sorry, I don’t recall.”

Watch the video.

THE TRUTH WILL NOT SET HER FREE.

During the ethics trial of Feland the Panel examined a primary aspect of the prosecution of Sandy Blunt related to Mr. David Spencer and the fact that charges specific to Spencer were added without establishing probable cause because Feland lied to the trial judge about Spencer issues always being part of the criminal investigation. “From Day One”. This was never true and the hearing panel does not seem to be swallowing this WHOPPER.

Judge Cynthia Feland was found guilty of withholding evidence that the North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Panel found to be “so reckless as to constitute a knowing disregard of the discovery requirement contained in Rule 3.8.”.

“It is simply the idea,” said Reagan, “the basis of this country and of our religion, the idea of the dignity of man, the idea that deep within the heart of each one of us is something so God-like and precious that no individual or group has a right to impose his or its will upon the people so well as they can decide for themselves.”

I’ve written a lot in the past about these hate-crime double standards, but have nothing more to say here.  The story speaks for itself.

We hear those opposing Measure 2 that, while fixing property taxes is necessary Measure 2 isn’t the right way. Not only is it the right way it’s the only way. The only beneficiaaary of property taxes is the government itself.

Cynthia Feland is basing her attorney ethics defense on her assertion that not turning over evidence to a defendant was an "accident", an "oversight", an "ommission". That claim is characteristic of a pattern frequently employed that might best be described as itself is one of her Prosecutor Prevarication Proclivity (PPP) techniques.

The Burleigh County State’s Attorney’s Office (BCSAO) added three additional criminal items to the Charles (Sandy) Blunt criminal charges just prior to Blunt’s trial in December of 2008.

The trial judge questioned the validity of adding these items as probable cause to charge must be established in a hearing before the trial.

BCSAO avoided probable cause examination by making the false claim that the charges that Blunt had illegally allowed former Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) employee David Spencer to get paid for sick leave when he was not sick, Blunt did not seek to obtain half of the relocation moving expenses from Spencer due because Spencer had allegedly resigned “voluntarily” from WSI, committing monies to the North Dakota State Fire Fighter’s Association without proper authorization/authority.

BCSAO falsely assured trial judge Bruce Romanick that the sick leave, moving expenses, and Fire Fighter’s Grant had been part of the investigation from “day one” and “the get-go”.

BCSAO did not have any idea that these issues existed and much less were possibly illegal until months after the August 2007 preliminary hearing.

BCSAO has repeatedly perpetrated this lie to the North Dakota Supreme Court and Judge Romanick.

Judge Cynthia Feland reiterated this lie numerous times during her June 2011 attorney ethics trial and in the proceedings leading up to that trial.

Hal Hase reviews the book, Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Ron Powers:  In the midst of reading of the ferocious combat, and the awful losses, one cannot help think of all those young men who died.  They died in their teens and twenties.  Some had never kissed a girl.  They would not go home to college or family. They would never have the gift of their own families and grandchildren. One’s heart simply breaks in contemplation.  How can we as a nation, as a people, ever pay the debt we owe them? 

 The original consensus broke down during the New Deal, when Franklin Roosevelt claimed that the Great Depression had created emergency conditions requiring both centralized power and lax interpretation of the Constitution. Constitutional restrictions on the federal government became meaningless as Roosevelt construed such phrases as "general welfare" and "interstate commerce" to be almost infinitely elastic. During World War II, the "general welfare" warranted the incarceration of all Japanese-Americans; there was no logical reason why it couldn't have been invoked to justify killing them all.

North Dakota’s Big Black Eye Becoming Evident

The National Workman’s Compensation Insurance community tells the businesses of America of the TRAVESTY  that has been the persecution/prosecution of Sandy Blunt.

“Collectively we speak to thousands within our industry every day. Our opinions have been clear; this situation needs the light of truth shone brightly upon it. The time and resources expended prosecuting a man on such questionable grounds should be more closely examined, by the business community, workers compensation professionals and the media in North Dakota.”

2020 & Beyond; opening salvos in the 2012 governor race; news from the oil patch is so dramatic' GF’s surprising economic growth; degrees in petroleum engineering;  BNSF Railway runs 33 trains through Minot; see the stars; small Montana towns near the ND border; a river of drugs; When is race relevant in reporting? conflict of interest and corruption; crime on Indian reservations; the teenage Deese brothers terrorize the small town;  a resurgence of meth; DAKTOIDS