Dakota Beacon

The recent decision by the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in which it “ruled that the key feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known by many as ‘Obamacare,’ is unconstitutional reminds us that the Constitution creates a federal government of numbered or enumerated powers. When Congress acts, it must stay within the boundaries of those powers. In other words, the federal government is not unlimited; it is limited. … If Congress exceeds those powers, it is acting unconstitutionally and the Supreme Court must rein it in. Chief Judge Dubina and Judge Hull have done exactly that.

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Liberals skip through life, ricocheting from cause to cause. All the while, the manifestations of human behavior that they pretend to address simply relocate. In the new locales, other liberals view the same manifestations as opportunities to feel good about addressing the same presumed causes.

At the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, jump-prevention barriers would probably reduce the number of jumpers–specifically, the number of jumpers from the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. But sadly, taxpayers will have been tapped to pay for yet another futile effort to wish away ugly reality with good intent.

It is simply unprofessional for members of the Board of Higher Education to attack members of the legislature for ensuring their policies are followed and questioning the accountability of The Board.

The Board of Higher Education is a separate branch of government under the North Dakota Constitution as Lloyd Omdahl likes to point out, but the legislature still makes the laws that The Board lives by.  And that very same legislature could put a measure on the ballot to ask the people to change how The Board is designed.

Change can either come internally or externally, and the way things are going, it will probably have to come from the outside.

Tulsa cannot fail to set a precedent.  One way or another your city will play a part in an important issue.  You will either uphold the United States Constitution and its bar against state-supported religion or you will punish a man for acting in his own good conscience to avoid participating in a religion in which he does not believe in contradiction of his own.  You know full well that you would not require a Muslim police officer to participate in a Roman Catholic “training session” or “sensitivity training” so as to interact well with Baptists.  You know this as well as I do and as well as Officer Fields does.  In this light, you can easily see how truly offensive this punishment is to the rest of America.  Please do the right thing and end this nightmare for Officer Fields.  I do not know him (I might well not even like him if I did) but what is right is right. 

This last legislative session Senator Olafson's dishonest effort to kill the Human Life bill was despicable. Those of you who are regular readers of this publication know that I seldom make such overt statements about anyone in public office except the provably dishonest. I am being very, very specific in this case as dishonest bullies should be extricated from public office and from the Republican Party in North Dakota for the sake of honest governance. These types of people in elective office always bring grief to the party eventually. Strong language I know. But I am not alone in my recognition of this Senator’s arrogance and dishonesty. His reputation is well established in both of the legislative houses.

The bottom line is that the US government of our day – like that of the 1920s Germany – is saddled with financial obligations it simply cannot make good upon. When governments face this kind of predicament, a hyper-inflationary depression is almost always the final outcome.

In light of this, holding onto one's gold would seem like a prudent thing to do.

Democrats are still trying to paint the tea part as “radical”. Let’s review this “radicalism”.

I believe that this analysis applies not just to science, but to American society in general. Whether America is in “free-fall decline,” as our reader believes, can be debated. One thing is certain, many Americans have fallen under the spell of the cultural Marxism machine which the progressive public education system now constitutes. Many of today’s younger adults were never taught the vision of a libertarian America created by the founders. Come next November, we will find out whether our decline is a free-fall that cannot be stopped or only a period of rapid but reversible decay brought on by the rise to power of America’s first truly anti-American president.

These healthcare exchanges are unfunded mandates waiting to happen.  The money is there now, but there is no guarantee it will be there later.

Instead of "jumping through all the hoops to get federal grant money" the State of North Dakota should be looking to limit its exposure to the mess that is being created.

A few weeks ago in a post titled, “Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance” (originally ran as “Education Department indoctrinates kids in global warming myths” in American Thinker), I noted that government ideologues are pushing climate change falsehoods on schoolchildren in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. To at least one person, the post’s title and message were not enough to identify me as a disbeliever of Church doctrine. I received the following email from one Sven Lilienström of Germany.

The rioters, meanwhile, have a crude understanding of how the system works. The proprietor of a Bang & Olufsen franchise revealed that the looters had expressed mystification as to why he objected to them stealing his goods. After all, he was insured, wasn’t he? So the insurance would pay for his stolen TVs and DVD players, wouldn’t it? The notion that, ultimately, someone has to pay for the insurance seemed to elude them, in the same way it seems to elude our elites that ultimately someone has to pay for Britain’s system of “National Insurance” - or what Canada calls “Social Insurance” and America “Social Security”.

The problem for the western world is that it has incentivized non-productivity on an industrial scale. For large numbers at the lower end of the spectrum (still quaintly referred to by British reporters as “working class”) the ritual of work - of lifetime employment as a normal feature of life – has been all but bred out by multigenerational dependency. At the upper end of the spectrum, too many of us seem to regard an advanced western society as the geopolitical version of a lavishly endowed charitable foundation that funds somnolent programming on NPR.

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Call the ethanol wealth redistribution scheme a subsidy or a tax credit. Or call the ruse what it certainly is—a sacrament of the Church of the Green Dragon. Names are irrelevant. Renaming a life-sucking parasite a rose leaves the host no less dead. Propping up businesses destined to lose money is a waste of money. All the various fantasy-world counterarguments disintegrate when confronted with real-world data and sound logic.

Vice President Joe Biden made the news again this week. Three weeks ago, Biden was in the news because of reports he had denounced Tea Party members as ‘terrorists,’ a claim his spokespeople have attempted to deny. This week, Biden was in the news because he did not denounce the communist Chinese for their vicious one-child policy, a claim his spokespeople have attempted to deny. Joe Biden has performed an interesting inversion of reality: Tea Party members haven’t killed anyone; China’s one-child policy has generated the deaths of countless millions. Beyond those direct deaths, China grapples with the demographic-cultural nightmare of some 43-million ‘missing women,’ as Chinese families opt to abort baby girls in preference of baby boys.

Please do not be too hard on the Corps of Engineers. They employ some of the best hydrologic, hydraulic, and structural engineers on the planet; and the worst political environment possible, with less then competent politicians having been looking over their shoulders for decades. That micromanagement by politicians must end and be replaced with logic and vigilance that is maintained over time.

The real problem will come decades from now when the high dams are all filled up with silt, something the original designers knew would happen eventually, but ignored because it would not happen in their lifetime and because of the pomposity of politicians in believing that nature can be tamed. So a moratorium of all new building of habitable structures within the natural overbank of the Missouri is an additional necessity.

The axiom that Europeans haven’t the intestinal fortitude to defend themselves and their culture could be just a story. And the story may be part of a meme  war.

Perhaps Europeans can fight, but have simply been paralyzed by stories that they tell themselves. Memes, like parasites, render Europeans incapable of thinking clearly about their own survival. Instead, the Euros live to serve their high-minded ideals. But the ideals, which are the memes, live only to destroy their hosts.

When the Conservative Democrat Bourbons ended Reconstruction, they had reduced the role of blacks but did not try to eliminate them or prevent their advancement. With the overthrow of the Conservative Democrats and beginning in 1890, however, the new governing class of Populists and Progressives replaced reasonable literacy requirements with ones that voters be able to read and explain the state constitution. They used these harsher requirements against the literate as well as the illiterate blacks to achieve a virtually all-white electorate, closed off employment opportunities for blacks, and instituted a regime of racial suppression that lasted more than half a century.

So why would women pregnant with twins want to ‘minus’ one? The main reasons cited in the Times article were ‘social’ and ‘emotional’—not medical. Women want to avoid the stresses and deprivations of raising twins, often even construing their ‘choice’ as an act of love that benefits both the terminated and surviving twin. As one proponent admitted, it is really about women exercising their freedom to ‘fashion their lives how they want.”

An increasingly used ‘medical’ procedure that some women want and some physicians provide—also known as a ‘twin reduction. In the 1970s and 1980s, pro-choice activists ridiculed what they claimed were illegitimate ‘slippery slope’ arguments made by pro-lifers about what moral horrors might be generated by an absolute right to abortion.

The slippery slope is here. And we are picking up speed.

Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for twenty minutes but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign:

“I’ll work every day to try to make Washington DC as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

I wish Governor Perry well in his stated goal of banishing Washington to the periphery of Americans’ lives. One way he could set the tone is by foregoing much of the waste and excess that attends the imperial Presidency. Believe it or not, many presidents and prime ministers manage to get by with only a 14-car or even a four-car motorcade. I know: Hard to imagine, but there it is. A post-prosperity America that has dug itself into a multi-trillion-dollar hole will eventually have to stop digging. When it does so, the Government of the United States will have to learn to do more with less. A good place to start would be restoring the lifestyle of the president to something Calvin Coolidge might recognize.

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The developing story at Dickinson State University has confirmed one thing to those investigating the situation:  taxpayers need whistleblowers in government that do not let fear stop them from doing what is right.

Ever since we started looking into this situation in mid-July, the biggest stumbling block to uncovering the truth has been a distinct fear of retaliation against anyone who "spills the beans."  From day one, the story was the same - "here's some great information, but it didn't come from me." 

We are living through an historic time: What is unfolding before our eyes is nothing less than the unravelling of the present world order.

The immediate cause of this unravelling is the disintegration of the world's reserve currency – the American dollar.

As things are coming to a head, we will have a stark choice: We either honestly face the inescapable consequences of the fix we are in, or we seek a false sense of protection and safety in the arms of our government.