Dakota Beacon

"Accompanying the decline of institutions and the decay of values in such ages [like ours] is the cultivation of power that becomes increasingly military, or paramilitary, in shape. Such power exists in almost exact proportion to the decline of traditional social and moral authority."

I am confident that some traditional colleges will go out of business in the next 10-15 years due to their inability to adapt.

Our government may intend to do nothing with hundreds of millions of electronic telephone logs and Internet records other than to fight terrorism. We must remember, however, that the same people will not always run the government; if our future leaders decide to misuse this information, they will already have it and will not have to go before a judge again.

Is it that the capons at ESPN have eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and liberalism and think that they, too, can be like God and change even Scripture if so inclined?

If our will is so wanting that we’ll pander on the big thing and not do what any sane nation does instinctively — deport invaders — it’s beyond silly to think we’ll suddenly man-up on the little things (especially since we have no history of doing that, either).

Actually, the IRS is not the virus; it is just the implementation agent. The virus was injected into our Constitution in 1913 with the passage of the 16th Amendment. The 16th Amendment was deemed necessary because our Founding Fathers had wisely prohibited the imposition of income taxes by the federal government.

. . . In short, a person so perfect, he or she can’t be found; This was the paradox that Hamid Shirvani found in ND; The value of the 2012 corn crop in ND equaled wheat; money is burning a hole in their pocket; ND’s high level of social capital; Today's young people today face terrible problems; What would Sigrun Emily think about those young folks? MN has a 17% minority population; The meth is procured in Texas and the Twin Cities; The Prairie Pothole Region; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Under Perón, government agencies gradually got involved in all areas of the economy. We see a similar pattern in the United States–many sectors of the economy now depend on control, encouragement, or direct management. Obamacare is the best example; it is Perónism or corporatism on steroids.

You can elicit whatever response you want depending upon how you phrase the question.  Example:  How do you feel about clean air? For it or against it?  This can be manipulated to support more EPA involvement in our power industry or to support legislation requiring that smokers stand 60 feet from the nearest building.  When you begin by asking whether we support securing our border or protecting our own labor force and end with support of a bill which does neither it’s just part of the game of manipulation.

The test vote on Grassley's amendment says it all. Border security even in the eyes of the Gang of Eight takes second place to amnesty. At this rate our borders will never be secure. This in spite of
 polling data that indicate Americans want border enforcement first by a margin of 4-1.

“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

. . . Top 20 highest-paid public employees in ND; newspaper editors usually don’t stick their necks out; Chinese immersion programs in elementary schools; You have to vote yes or no on the carbon boom; nothing to fear from biotech wheat; two young Montana motorcyclists were hit head on and killed; it will no longer be economical to maintain land lines; The Ramirez story leads to Bismarck; everyone in Williston has a lilac bush; placed the twins in shoe boxes surrounded by hot bricks; paying them a handsome bonus, then killing them; DAKTOIDS . . . .

A terrorist is someone who threatens us or someone we love, our business, our employees, our home, our property.  That would be our government. 

When immigrants move to a country with a different culture and assimilate, they benefit and so does their new homeland. When they arrive and work to change their new homeland to mimic their native homeland, the only outcome is chaos and strife. In short, when the latter occurs, it is nothing short of an invasion with the goal of conquest.

But in their zeal to correct and condemn, Graham’s critics failed to ask the important question: Why did the great evangelist make his statement? Why would a man who so has faithfully preached the gospel of Jesus Christ around the globe say something like this?

So where do we look? We look to our faith, family and friends. The intact family is a safe place of stability and security.

No, the intersex wage gap isn't a bad thing, and it isn't good when it starts to close. The size of that gap correlates with the health of the nuclear family; the larger it is, the greater men's ability to support their families and women's opportunity to stay at home with the children.

The public, however, must not allow corruption and scandal to draw attention away from other equally significant issues. Among those issues is gun control.

Make sure a school official who commits leftist abuse upon a child never works again. Go for the jugular, for the kill shot; give no quarter. Go Roman. It’s only when thousands of the thought police’s decaying corpses of careers are lining the Apian Way that those in darkness will see the light.

  . . . Shirvani has cash and other goodies in his saddlebags totaling nearly $1 million; benefits of capturing the state’s wasted natural gas; “Let’s look forward to life without the nickname.” What about benefits? Sanford Health is pausing and restructuring; Two views of Minnesota taxes; ”Best State-Based Political Reporters”; “Fargo” will not be in Fargo; “It’s a fat girl’s paradise”; The price of progress is about $7.5 million a mile; In May 2009, Alien closed its Fargo plant; a big “moose study”; bible study group was surprised and stunned; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The true rivalry involves altruism and can only exist among true amateurs. It involves a fierce loyalty to team mates and good sportsmanship toward adversaries. All of these virtues are lost if one plays for the prize of becoming a mercenary, paid huge sums to devote an entire life to athletics and to be bought and sold by teams like a piece of merchandise.

Chris Christie has now demonstrated that he is firmly in the pocet of Barack Obama.

When asked by a reporter if he wasn't afraid of how his remarks will be heard, he answered, "No, I wasn't afraid of how they would be heard, I knew how they would be heard."

Is this Administration hell bent on destroying America? Not only is it ignoring the laws of finance; it is ignoring the laws of nature. Blindly or not, Obama is imposing his irrational world view on us.

Sometime in the early 1990s, Andrew experienced a dramatic  epiphany as a result of his probing questions about the liberal orthodox  environment in which he had been raised. The conclusions he reached  shattered all his preconceived liberal notions.

Although intended to be a pejorative term, the term “death panel” accurately reflects decisions that have to be made about whom to save when resources are scarce. We simply do not have the resources to provide as much health care as people might desire for prolonging their lives or the lives of their loved ones. If government pays for health care, as it does for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, limited funds necessitate that sometimes people will be denied access to care. If the decision of who does and who does not get care is not made explicitly by an appointed committee, it will be made by default as scarcity necessitates that some must wait in line for health care.

. . . we have sort of a Wild West; ND has the most bars per capita; The county threatens to close the camps; these are only the Somalis who have been arrested; 2013 grants of the Bush Foundation in St. Paul; “to study the successful oil economy of Norway”; the “voice of doom”; “We are pretty much an industrial city; Shame on you NDSU; politicians from both parties look alike; telemedicine patients of the Fargo VA center; As a child she dreamt of going to America; ND has the welcome sign out; DAKTOIDS . . . .

The resolution was sold to a number of adult volunteer leaders as simply a matter of doing something good for some boys, certainly a goal of Boy Scout leaders. In reality, however, what was sold is a bill of goods.

I believe in representative government, not one epitomized by the flippancy made famous by Pelosi. For example, when leading the Obama Administration's nationalization of health care, she told us that we would know what was in the law when it was passed; and when asked if the proposed law was constitutional, she blithely retorted, "Are you kidding?"

But as to his actual war experiences, we heard almost nothing.  In my dad’s later years, my younger brother had many conversations with him and some of this came out over the occasional glass of beer or in long evenings with little other diversion.  My father was a paratrooper.  I did know that he “cheated” to be allowed to serve as a paratrooper because of his defective vision.  He wanted to jump out of airplanes into jungles under fire because it carried extra pay with it.