Dakota Beacon

While we don’t advocate using the kind of language that accurately describes Ms Fluke’s behavior, we cannot help but wonder whether all of this fuss might not better have been spent in bringing our attention to the real, unspeakable suffering of real women in the real world

Congress and President Obama’s administration must realize that defense spending is not the cause of our economic problems. To proceed on such a premise places the United States, our freedom and our interests around the world at risk.  . . . In jeopardy is the highly successful recruitment and retention programs of an all-volunteer military

The bad news is that union operatives and allies, some from outside the area, used a combination of intimidation and lies against parents who had signed petitions to trigger reforms, causing the petition to be rescinded.

The result of the entire public firestorm is that it has delivered to the media a golden opportunity to focus on contraception at a time when Iran is on the cusp of nuclear weapons capability and as the whole Western world's economy is on the verge of tanking because of its indebtedness.

Indeed, over the course of the past century, far too many progressives—in my view—have never believed in equality of the races, today insisting that, left to their own devices, African Americans cannot make it on their own and thus need artificial props like affirmative action to lift them up. Contemporary progressives may say that they believe in equality, but they want government programs that advantage some over others.

To suggest that the absence of a thing could give rise to anything is obviously absurd. But this is exactly the position Richard Dawkins finds himself in. He has to explain the coming into existence of the universe from the absence of the very things which define and comprise it.

. . . ban on new man camps, Gov. Jack Dalrymple talked about the Oil Patch, newcomers are disproportionate victims, common sense not ideology, improprieties which lasted several years, 154 happy future Donald Ducks, U-Mary has a deal with Arizona State University, regional cultural tips for politicians, Most of the schemes failed, Now, all they need is ND investors, GF will be the third community in the nation, Silas Jr is going to prison, big things happen nearly every week, DAKTOIDS . . .

The bottom line in this is becoming ever more clear to some of us who are at leisure to think in the "political mental ward" that the United States has become.  The press is afraid of the truth.  The mechanism for informing the public, so vital to effective and proper self-government, has broken down.  Whether through an essential factor of fear on spec, or through intimidation implied or specific in this particular subject area, it does not really matter.  The result is a people left uninformed about issues critical to their decision making and their future. 

While this crime is making headlines, Coon states that it was merely the horrible culmination of continual racial harassment her son had to endure at East High. Moreover, after conducting an investigation that included extensive interviews with parents and students, I've learned that Coon's son is not alone. Other white students also report a pattern of racial harassment at the high school at the hands of their peers -- and, shockingly, their teachers.A

Evangelicals like to quote a biblical text that God favors those who favor the Jews. However, for them they mean only Jews who make wars and contribute to chaos in the Middle East. Jewish peacemakers are cursed in their view. No tears were shed for Yitzak Rabin who negotiated peace with the Arabs until Israeli fanatics killed him. Indeed Pat Robertson said that Rabin was killed because he was trying to thwart God's plans.

Obama is currently working with Democrat governors to see if he can work with them to get his agenda passed even with a obstructionist Congress and in spite of the pesky constitution. With help from Democrats like Heidi, access to our bank accounts, a willing media, flagrant disregard for the constitution, and his own private army what’s going to stop him?

Scientists have never observed something come from nothing. No scientific experiment or measurement has ever indicated that such a thing is even possible. Not only has no one ever seen this, Dawkins' claim goes against the foundational presupposition of science.

 . . .children in concentrated areas of poverty; Is it too late to reverse the process? why would someone want to ruin such a good thing; “Who’s afraid of the NCAA?” The ND Tea Party asked her to not seek reelection; resist calls to resign; The Sandy Blunt case; Northern Plains agriculture in the next ten years; Mid-sized farms will be squeezed out; 21% of households earn over $100,000; interesting histories of life in ND; Are people in Minot especially naive? DAKTOIDS

Threats and intimidation of decision-makers are not acceptable.

Apologizing to the enemy reflects a gross misunderstanding of the purpose and realities to which “we the people” commit our armed forces in our national interest. We go to war with regret, but without debasing ourselves in what are, essentially, meaningless expressions of hand wringing.

The big winners of Saturday’s Great Statewide Debate are Cramer, for his independent and confident assertion of Constitutional values, and Sand and Sorum for being there, trusting the people enough to put their case before them - and their grace in showing North Dakotans the respect they deserve, even if the other two candidates did not.  

So Higher Education must, by its very nature must always have as it highest goal, the seeking, the never-ending search for the truth, the excellent, the honest, about humanity. When it abandons this quest for greatness in the truly great things, and seeks values in numbers and mass instead of intrinsic self-worth, it has become dysfunctional. 

Today a larger percentage of Americans live in poverty than before Democrats began their “war on poverty”. This is by design.

Under the Obama regime the Party lives on. Glimmers of Marxism should be evident to any moderate who lived during the 1930s through the 1980s.

The hypocrisy of the press on this issue is staggering. All a Republican needs to do is mention God and secular liberals go wild.

. . . the name is honorable, not abusive; DSU should be reformed, not punished; there are dark figures lurking in the shadows; your money goes much further in ND; his path to priesthood was not a straight line; three young farm brothers from Starkweather; limited government and more freedom; Are 18:1 grants too generous?  bravos to the Carrington Cardinaires dance team; Consider avoiding ND if you have FCAS; And Corvettes? Yup, those too; failed miserably; DAKTOIDS

No, it's hard to make a melodrama out of a slow process. The government is less like a bank robber who storms in with ski mask and pistol than like a timid little bank clerk who quietly, over the years, embezzles a large fortune without setting off alarms or getting caught.

Tax Foundation memo outlines ways to improve North Dakota's tax climate - will the legislature and governor listen?

America’s convention center business has been declining for two decades. The 126 million attendees in year 2000 fell to 86 million attendees in 2010. Meanwhile, the amount of convention space has increased from 40 million square feet in 1990, to 53 million square feet in year 2000, and to 70 million square feet in 2010. A former member of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority lamented last year that “Logic rarely has a place in the convention business.”

Local officials have changed their sales pitch, saying that convention centers should no longer be judged by how many hotels rooms, restaurants, and local attractions they help fill. Now the expansion of convention center facilities can “demonstrate to the world that we have unlimited confidence in our city and what it can do, not only as a convention destination but as the center of the most important trends in hospitality, science, health and education.”

The US does not live in a vacuum; we do live in a dangerous world fraught with risk. Here are the primary risks facing the US today in relative order of priority but not necessarily in order of occurrence. Multiple scenarios could evolve

“Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted,” Reagan maintained. “The American experiment in democracy rests on this insight.” He said the discovery of that insight was the “great triumph” of the Founders. Indeed it was.