Dakota Beacon

The print edition of The Dakota Beacon magazine will be in the mail and on the streets of North Dakota starting today!

This economist doesn’t know the future, and this article isn’t giving investment advice. Gold prices may continue to soar or they may get caught in a deflationary downdraft. I will, however, make one categorical assertion: Gold is warning us that our country is on the wrong track

One day, I could see the eyes straying from me while talking about Napoleon, and how smart a general he was. I moved over and pulled down a map of Shakespearian England, and there was a Playboy Centerfold staring me in the face.

America has, for far too long, acted contrary to our national interests.  As a consequence the weakened fabric of America is weakening world peace and safety.  We must put our house in order.  America must be, first and foremost, the land of Americans and American values.  If we fail in this, American will no longer be the beacon of light which has beckoned the hard-working, forward-looking, courageous pioneers who have powered this great nation.

There is a frightening comparison between the Health Care Plans proposed by Democrats and the Holocaust. However, it isn’t the one Representative Alan Grayson (D-Florida) has made in his drive to have the Democratic plan imposed on Americans. The proposed Democratic Health Care Plans contain many of the same elements the Nazi’s plan to eliminate Europe’s Jews (i.e. the Holocaust) in the 1930’s and 40’s.

It would seem that nothing could be more important to America’s and the world’s future than the education of our young people.  They will inherit our country with all its problems and they must solve them.  They must carry on the work of freedom.  It is shocking that we are allowing the NEA and AFT to shortchange them.  How cynical!  How soulless.  How sad.

With Islam so prevalent in today’s news, this topic warrants scrutiny. The fact is that the Muslim population worldwide is expanding and shifting. It is prudent to familiarize ourselves with the reality of Islam. Consulting resources discussing the Islamic phenomenon would extend our comprehension. Here are a few suggestions.

Rush Limbaugh’s remarks are “divisive”; Anita Dunn’s are entirely
normal. But don’t worry, the new Fairness Doctrine will take care of the
problem.

Democracy cannot function when truth is routinely ignored and nothing can be believed by the voters.  The preservation of rules for determining who is lying deliberately, who is merely sloppy with facts, and who is telling the truth is important – critical, really – to a healthy federal republic.  Who could object to demanding honesty in the media or from our elected officials?  Only those who profit by lies.

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Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS. And bought a mule for $100.

NDSU PRESIDENT JOSEPH CHAPMAN, UND PRESIDENT ROBERT KELLEY, REALLY BUGGED!, ND YOUTH COUNCIL, PROFIT OR DISASTER, PATRON SAINT AND STAR OF THE WELK SHOW, KARL ROVE, “I PREDICT A LANDSLIDE OF SUPPORT”, OUNCE OF COMMON SENSE, THE DEATH PENALTY, THE HAPPIEST FOUR YEARS OF HIS LIFE, IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE, ALL AGE 100 OR OVER

If we want to fix “health care insurance” we must return it to what insurance is intended to do – insure against the major and unexpected happening, not to fund everything that happens to us.

We are the receivers, the other end of this bargain, without which it could not succeed for the Socialists.  They bank on our greed and acquisitiveness.  Our City Councils grab for Community Development Block Grants, our State legislatures grasp at funds for various projects.  We encourage them and reward them for their “success”.  Winning one of these grants is looked upon as a feather in the cap of the applicant.  But what we need to focus on is that these grants will cripple us with increased state taxes even while they take away our power to make our own decisions about what we want to do with them.  It’s a Socialist’s paradise and we hand it to them every time we take the money.  Banks that took TARP money learned this the hard way.  Let’s learn from their experience.

What could possibly go wrong with health care designed by these people/

Obama’s priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?

The assumption is that money pumped into the economy will “create jobs” thereby “improving the economy.” This simplistic view is touted in easily consumable sound bites.

There is, however, another more realistic and definitive understanding of the term “stimulus,” one a bit more insightful and sane.

Neither views are mutually exclusive, but the second makes more economic sense.

For those who disagree, explain how an $11 trillion dollar debt with plans to increase it another $10 trillion shows discipline or leadership.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out one doesn’t’ pay off debt by doubling it.  Where does government get money?  Only from taxpayers.  Think about it.

If we continue to incur debt and fail to control spending, say a prayer and prepare for the crash.

The bias, per se, is not a danger to democracy.  The majority of Americans can find information easily on the internet and the unrealistic dogma taught our children in classrooms fades fast in the real world of family, work, and community.  The dangers – and they are very real dangers – of leftist institutional bias are these:  (1) The leftist establishment acts like subsidiaries of Standard Oil and does not compete against itself, and (2) The leftist establishment lies about its bias.

This, then, should be the question to every network, every newspaper, and every other organ of media Leftism:  Why do you lie about your beliefs?  Why do you conceal your biases?  Once the left can answer that question honestly, the real dangers of Leftism will be gone.

“Here is an actual answering machine message that you just have to hear…take a listen for a great laugh”

The Committee for Community Involvement is an exclusive nonpartisan coalition of Valley City area citizens working together for the following purposes:

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions . . . .  Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.’ Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man.

This is how Democrats win Senate majorities.  Legislatures run by corrupt politicians change the law on senatorial succession and bad governors declare phony “emergencies.”  Indicted governors pick United States senators. Lawfully nominated senate candidates “resign” and the party, not the Democrat voters of New Jersey, hand-pick his replacement and the state supreme court endorses this illegal action.  The dreary pattern is the same:  Democrats lust for a Senate majority, and they will cheat to get it.

Capturing oral history from military personnel before they pass on is a noble initiative for veterans’ organizations. Gallant efforts though these are, a complementary perspective would advance these histories by also capturing the stories of the women who served with and supported their warrior husbands behind the scenes.

A cowboy from Texas attends a social function where Barack Obama is trying to gather more support for his Health Plan. Once he discovers the cowboy is from President Bush’s home area, he starts to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and single syllable words.

Now we are told that a man such as Polanski cannot be subject to anything so footling as morality: He cannot “transgress” it because, by definition, he transcends it. Yet all truly great art is made in the tension between freedom and constraint. In demanding that an artist be placed above the laws of man, Harvey Weinstein & Co are also putting him beyond the possibility of art. Which may explain the present state of the movie industry.

There is absolutely nothing like the passion of a mother who loves her children and her country.

There will be a generation of North Dakota children raised in Pinwheel Land who will have never seen, and will have no memory of, an unspoiled, uncluttered view. The black silhouettes of giant wind turbines will scar both sunrise and sunset.