Dakota Beacon

It's Saturday, so time for some interesting escape.   This time we explore a unique independent nation - a tropical island in the South Pacific, once the richest nation in the world, now one of the poorest, but fascinating all the same.  Can you find Nauru on a map?  

It is a very short step from a court which wishes an attempted murderer “luck”, as if he were a nephew out for a new job, to the kind of evil seen in the complicity of police and courts in the actual crime of gang rape we see in Britain today.

What if the world had to choose which they'd be better off with, Ellie Gouding or the Salvation Army?  Hers is one more voice in a nauseating choir, weaponizing philanthropy.

When is a search for the truth a “distraction”?

Answer: When the truth might exonerate the intended target of the House of Representatives.

A sprint. A dash. A race to the finish. Whatever the term used, President Trump, and his antagonists in the Deep State and the US House of Representatives are in a race against time. November 2020 is coming and Trump looks like a shoe-in for a second term.

The race is on between the conclusion of multiple investigations now underway targeting those believed to have engaged in malfeasance and criminal activity who thought they could overturn a legitimately elected president and those who would impeach President Trump.

The anti-Trump objective is (you guessed it) to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. Make no mistake. Winning the 2020 election is the ultimate prize and the Democrats with their media accomplices will do anything -- literally -- to win.

Government shutdowns in recent years have greatly inconvenienced innocent citizens and government employees. Recently, Senator Ron Johnson promoted the “Prevent Government Shutdown Act” which aims to prevent the disruptive actions of the past. But is this a common sense bill or is it an admission of defeat for fiscal conservatism? In this article, Dr. Mark Hendrickson looks at Johnson’s proposal and argues that the act “represents a formal surrender to the forces and ideology of Big Government.”

It has been just over a century since the signing of the Armistice, ending the carnage of World War I.  There were 40 million casualties, half of them deaths on the battlefields of Europe.  Have we forgotten so soon?  Yesterday was Veterans' Day here.  In Canada it was Remembrance Day, traditionally a solemn day of gratitude for those who made the ultimate sacrifice.  Sadly, it seems to be out of vogue, or even politically incorrect today to honor them.

AMTRAK YEAH!; THEY REALLY DIDN'T MEAN IT; COMPETITIVE UND PRESIDENT?; DISASTERS; PIPELINE PROTESTERS BOLSTERED; HIGH WAGES NOT ENOUGH; DOLLARS FOR NURSES; MOBILE RECON SYSTEMS; WHAT DOES THIS GET THEM? JOHN CLAVERT - RETIRED POLITICAL SCIENCE TEACHERS; FEWER BIRDS; MISS MONTANA?; DAKTOIDS

One of my grandmother's frequent sayings was, "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."  She was right, of course.  We spend a lot of time complaining about and despairing of the plight of our culture.  Where are the great songs of yesteryear?  Why are our movies generally of such poor quality and content?  What happened?  Why do the current generation turn to such unfufilling entertainment? Where are the great works of art?  We can keep complaining or we could light a candle.  We can find great art and great artists and support them and appreciate them.  It's Sunday - so take time for this.

One of my grandmother's frequent sayings was, "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."  She was right, of course.  We spend a lot of time complaining about and despairing of the plight of our culture.  Where are the great songs of yesteryear?  Why are our movies generally of such poor quality and content?  What happened?  Why do the current generation turn to such unfufilling entertainment? Where are the great works of art?  We can keep complaining or we could light a candle.  We can find great art and great artists and support them and appreciate them.  It's Sunday - so take time for this.

 A Fifteenth Century physician's vision and skill saves the heir to the English throne.

This is simply wrong. The public cannot benefit in the long run from stealing land from one owner and giving it – or selling it – to another. It is not enough to offer “compensation”. No one will ever agree on that compensation being equitable. If a private entity wants to acquire a property, the appropriate move is for that party to make an offer to the owner. Then they can negotiate the amount to be paid or the sale will not happen.

We need to take action to prevent Huawei from enableing China to achieve world domination.  It is important that we make our voice heard quickly in Washington.  

When we steal from one to enrich another or "all others" we steal our own character and lose our soul, sometimes for less than $10.00.

We survived the November 3 end of Daylight Savings Time (DST) with no ill effects -- except those with bruised egos who forgot to turn their clocks back one hour.

If anyone should be held accountable for DST, Ben Franklin must accept the lion‘s share of responsibility. Yes, this is the same Ben Franklin of kites-and-lightning fame.

It’s truly not shocking that a political leader would be a reprobate behind closed doors. From Caligula to the Marquis de Sade to Bill Clinton, the depraved have always been overrepresented among the ruling classes. It is for this reason that what’s even more distressing about the Katie Hill affair than what she did is the reaction to it from the broader society — including “broadminded conservatives” defending her.

Hill, the former Democrat congresswoman whose resignation from office took effect Nov. 1, certainly is our time’s Thoroughly Modern Millie. Her escapades have acquainted us with a new term, “throuple,” and she exhibited the cherished “diversity” in illicit affairs of having relations with both a man and a woman, each of whom held different underling positions. To top it off she was seen in intimate photos with a bong and the now obligatory tramp stamp (oh, yeah, sorry — “body art”).

Is the impeachment process simply an effort to nullify the 2016 election?  Is it even a legal process?  These questions are central.

Oh, dear!  Greta Thunberg is in the wrong place at the wrong time!  She's going to miss the Climate Summit!  What can we do?  We will have no one to straighten us out now.  The summit, which was to have been held in Santiago, Chile, has now been moved to Madrid, Spain.  It would be no big deal to a normal person, but to the emission-less person it is pretty much impossible to solve.  So I've invented a game . . . 

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Military raids, like last weekend’s Operation Kayla to remove ISIS terrorist Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, are complex missions that require highly skilled men and women. Raids also have strategic effects on foreign policy. In this article, Dr. Earl Tilford compares Operation Kayla to a strategically successful raid nearly 50 years ago in Vietnam— Operation Ivory Coast.

It's Sunday!  That means I get to send you a very special treat.  This week it is a little girl from Russia.  You will never forget her.

It is time to fight back when "nice" means to cave in.  Trust me - there is nothing "nice" about being the loser in this fight to the death.  The battle will be engaged (or not) next year.

The new NAEP Scores should have us believing our "house is on fire".  Will we finally take some action?

Ever wonder about people of modest means who were elected to the US House and Senate or who were appointed to high government positons and complete their service decades later as very wealthy people? Many do. Going into office they may have a savings account, some investments, and real estate. In Congress they receive an annual salary ranging from $125k to $175k. When they leave they are millionaires. How does that happen?

The Swamp (establishment) that President Trump vowed to drain has created for itself a lucrative system. No wonder Democrats, Republicans, and Deep State appointees are furious at Trump and his crusade. He is upsetting their very powerful and lucrative applecart.

How do they do it? One way, but not the only way, is to establish a foundation as Congressman Elijah Cummings did with his wife. (Cummings passed away from cancer on October 17, 2019. May he rest in peace.) Once established, just about anything can be done to raise money for the foundation. Relatives may be put in charge of the foundation. They are paid a salary, travel expenses, and entertainment expenses from the foundation. The work is all foundation related as long as the employees and partners are fundraising and asking people for money.

I recently came to a startling realization that has probably not even occurred to Never-Trumpers: Democrats who hate Trump (and there are less of them every day that passes) largely because of his New York inherited lack of tact and unwillingness to back down from a fight… hate his mid-western Vice President even more! Let me repeat with emphasis… they hate Pence more than Trump, probably because they sense that Pence is a masterful salesman of the administration's achievements and future goals.

On the surface, Hillary Clinton’s “Russian asset” attack last week on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard appeared the rambling of a bitter, perhaps unhinged woman. One observer suggested that Clinton was holding a grudge because the Hawaii Democrat supported Bernie Sanders and opposed her rigging of the 2016 primary process against him. Perhaps so. Or maybe, exhibiting typical leftist intolerance of dissent, Gabbard’s anti-war stance really does make her our time’s Leon Trotsky.

But what if Clinton’s attack is actually part of a plan to defeat President Trump in 2020? What if Clinton’s theory that Gabbard may run third-party is, aside from a deep Democrat fear, precisely what more Machiavellian Dems want?

This past weekend, U.S. soldiers of Delta Force cornered Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an underground tunnel. Baghdadi—the leader of the Islamic State—killed himself before being captured. Operation KAYLA MUELLER was a success. In this article, Benjamin V. Allison examines the raid and looks at the future of the terrorist group. He writes, “The leader of the deadliest terrorist group in history is dead. Now what?”

Trump scored a victory in one battle in the war.  Good.  Now we need to get back to the essentials of this war.  It is a war of migration.

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Increasingly, more women are obtaining college degrees compared to men. Many pundits are asserting that the shortage of college-educated men is hurting women. But, is this the case? In this article, Dr. David Ayers summarizes his recent two-part investigation published at the Institute for Family Studies and argues, “The fact is that the so-called shortage of men obtaining four-year college degrees is only a problem if men do not do anything else that is challenging, pays well, and has a future.”