Dakota Beacon

Glenn Beck is out in front of everyone on what is going on in American politics. Watch these two very important (and entertaining) videos to find out what America will be talking about next!

Landowners who want to learn more about the Northern Plains National Heritage Area are invited to a meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, at the Doublewood Inn in Bismarck.

Obama is weak and passive in foreign policy and Liz Cheney explains in two minutes and 44 seconds just exactly how Obama has put us in an extremely dangerous position.

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

I have been a Rotarian for about 47 years and we have a “test” that each Rotarian is expected to abide by in his/her personal, business and community life. It would be an excellent guide for every politician when casting his/her vote. It is called THE FOUR-WAY TEST. “Of the things we think, say or do: (1) Is it the TRUTH? (2) Is it FAIR to all concerned? (3) Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? And (4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”

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STEVE FOOL BEAR, RON HIS HORSE IS THUNDER, GIVING “PERPETUAL” USE OF THE FIGHTING SIOUX NICKNAME TO UND, NEW HOUSES FOR UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS, WHAT ND COLUMNISTS ARE SAYING: TOM DENNIS, CLAY JENKINSON, BOTTOMLESS PIT, HOT POTATO, THIS AND THAT, DAKTOIDS

On December 12, 2007 he told thousands of Community Organizers and Acorn people at the Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum with Acorn’s Depak Bhargava as Master of Ceremonies, this video will help you to realize just exactly how dishonest President Obama really is…..

“During the transition, we are going to call all of you in to help shape the agenda. We’re going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for next presidency of the United States of America” – President Barack Obama (12-01-07)

I recently received a questionnaire from a medical doctor, asking my views and trying to generate support for the Presidents Health Care proposals.

I read the questionnaire with some interest, then looked at the source of the letter and the return envelope provided for my reply.

This is in response to Mr Lloyd Omdahl’s column in the Tribune of Sunday Sep’t 20 “Civility is leaving the public square”.  Is Mr Omdahl’s memory failing? Or is there a dual set of behaviors; one for his political pals and another for the despised opposition—those who deserve no civility and respect; hence, they are not considered in his review of public decorum.

Will taxpayers ever say, “Enough!”? For those who believe, with government money, controls don’t come - beware. The financial industry and auto industry have learned the hard way. Freedom of the press is at risk. If these organizations take taxpayer money the bureaucratic offices of government will direct what they do and say. There will certainly be another Czar to oversee such a program. For those who wish to see the outcome read George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” or Ayn Rand’s, “Atlas Shrugged”. Better yet, look at Russia, Iran, Columbia and Venezuela.

Because of the potential to kill millions of birds from global warming emissions, we're going to kill millions of birds with wind turbines.

We should hold our political representatives to standards of factual truth. By contrast it is proper and appropriate to disagree on policy and philosophy differences and do so aggressively. However, pointing out when someone makes inaccurate statements, intentional or not, should be the hallmark of a free and vibrant political system. Attempting to stifle holding elected officials responsible for factually incorrect and misleading statements is the road to chaos and eventually the loss of liberty and freedom.

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After years of outstanding free economic education of the public on KFYR radio Eugene Graner was summarily dismissed after a succinct explanation of how the ignorance of markets drives the policy of elected officials to the detriment of North Dakota citizens. Rejoice N.D. friends…..he is back beginning Monday, September 21!

We’ve got the windmills and more are coming.  Add a few large clown heads to the mix and we can have the hunting experience equivalent of a round of miniature golf.

The loss of money due to the lack of interest in hunting North Dakota’s pinwheel prairies could be made up by copyrighting and marketing a “Hunting the Wind Farms of North Dakota” video game.

We are, President Obama informs us, in need of health care reform.  Congress may be deadlocked on the issue.  Obama seems to speak as if congressional inaction on improving healthcare means no federal action on improving healthcare.  He needs to read the Constitution and, even more, he needs to review all the powers which Congress and federal courts have given to the Presidency.  President Obama could take action to improve our nation’s healthcare system right now.

But that assumes that President Obama actually wants to improve healthcare in America.  In fact, all the countless speeches, all the vastly complex congressional bills, all the relentless insistence that America is in crisis, are all intended to accomplish just one thing:  Obama was to gain giant chunks of power and authority for the federal government at the expenses of individual Americans.  It is not a reform of our healthcare he seeks; it is a reform of the balance between personal liberty and government control. 

Likewise, Obama didn’t “join” himself to the liberal leadership; he the liberal leadership. The Administration didn’t fall in with the wrong crowd; they are the wrong crowd. Van Jones, Yosi Sergant and Acorn are where Barack Obama’s chosen to live all his adult life.

“We’ve got to do something!” is the mantra of those in our labor unions and government who are desperately trying to get the federal government’s foot wedged in the door to our right to our own health care and insurance decisions, our privacy and, of course, further into our finances.  There’s room for disagreement with the premise that there’s something wrong with our overall health care system - and even more with the idea that it’s any of the federal government’s business.

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The left is morally relativistic at its core, meaning, its members generally don’t believe in Absolute Moral Truth.  Because of this, there is nothing to govern their agenda except for their own desires, their own feelings.  That is to say, a person who understands that we are meant to govern ourselves with that eternal, unchanging moral yardstick called Truth realizes that the end does not justify the means.  Sure, he isn’t perfect, but he understands that he cannot just “follow his heart,” that his emotions aren’t the arbiters of reality.  This is why Saul “the Red” Alinsky instructed his followers to force their adversaries (that means traditionalists) to live up to their own principles.  You see, he understood that we actually have some.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009, Senators Dorgan and Conrad voted for the Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Cass R. Sunstein, to be Administrator of the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Sunstein has a documented record of anti-gun, anti-hunting, animal rights, private property rights legal extremism! 

The U. S. Geological Survey issued a report in April (‘08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big…  It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ‘95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ;  western South Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana ....up to 500 billion barrels. Enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years. All of this abundant, cheap energy but America chases fairy dust….wind, biofuel, solar? What is wrong with this? The religion of Environmentalism!

The mainstream media has done it’s best to ignore the latest Obama Administration scandal. Van Jones was the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs. He was to have been the man in charge of the distribution of $30 BILLION of your dollars. He was fired early Sunday morning (before the Sunday morning political talk shows could prepare?). The truth is that Glenn Beck outed Van Jones who has been an avowed COMMUNIST! We almost had a man overseeing a huge amount of taxpayer money who likely could not even have obtain a rudimentary security clearance to work for a U.S. Defense Department contractor! Have you ever heard the term, “The nuts are running the asylum”? Here is the proof!

Politics and policy will always nip at our heals, but other things are more enduring -- and endearing. For example, the peaceful observation of the birds spells a welcome respite to the acrimony around us. The birds are hearty, resilient and not bothered by the “sophistication” of the world that too often plagues mankind. Theirs, however, is the simple life albeit a struggle for survival.

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The Omnipresent Leader has traditionally been a characteristic feature of Third World basket-case dumps: the conflation of the man and the state is explicit, and ubiquitous.

Altogether now! Let us chant for mankind and use our pens to write, “O beloved Obama, our courageous president, we are all servants defending the hope for you and marching to change.”

Any self-respecting schoolkid, enjoined by his principal to be a “servant” to the head of state, would reply, “Get lost, creep.” And, if they still taught history in American schools, he’d add, “Oh, and by the way, that question was settled in 1776.”

Candidate Obama over, and over promised that health care reform would be the most transparent process ever. He has operated just the opposite. You MUST watch this video.