Dakota Beacon

Dissatisfaction with the elitist dictators of western Europe has spread to Portugal.  This ancient nation seems to moving in the right direction. Let's hope Chenga grows.

We are in danger of being permanently silenced.  The enemy is already here.

When class envy is exploited, there is no longer a reason to strive to become exceptional if it results in a person becoming a target of vitriol and hatred. This results in the strangling of the American dream.

Victor Davis Hanson's article is so concise and instructive it is worth recapping. Quoting his opening words, “Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited amount of good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft; they must be either hidden or redistributed. Envy rather than admiration of success reigns.”

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month­­—and Respect Life Month—yet there have been very few reminders of this: PSA? Social media campaigns? News coverage? In this article that first appeared at The American Spectator, Dr. Paul Kengor shares a personal example and highlights the need to champion human dignity and life—all life. He writes, “The month is not marked by any signature symbols, nor by the Down Syndrome children who were eliminated. Their lives were erased before they were born. We should take pride, however, in those who are here, and we should not fear or halt those yet to be born.”

It’s time for states to enact state laws to protect our children.

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“Bipartisan” is defined as anything consisting of, or supported by, members of two parties, especially the two major political parties. That is the definition.

As practiced, however, bipartisanship is used as a public opinion weapon in the hands of a skilled practitioner. The idea is that bipartisanship will help beat an opponent into submission. Seeking cooperation is one thing. What is actually done is something else. Calls for bipartisanship become a semantics power game.

Words? Just words? Say one thing; do another. Bipartisanship as used by Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi implies that Republicans must compromise their core beliefs to agree with Democrats. Democrats never compromise theirs. There will always be wishy-washy, moderate Never-Trump Republicans in the House and the Senate willing to “reach across the aisle” in an act of bipartisan surrender to join with Democrats. That move is typically in one direction – left.

From global exploration (Columbus Day) to global "climate change" - Columbus Day might be a good time to honor the seeking of truth about our planet.  For example, we should have an open mind when it comes to knowing the history and prehistory of our planet.  Only in this way will we be able to find answers to our concerns about climate change today.

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The Left is at it again.  Grand Forks' City Council has trashed Columbus, turning a day honoring a man and an event into a tetherless, meaningless muddle called "Indigenous People's Day".  Shame on them.

Constituents trying to control Congress by punishing them just makes no sense at all.  Why would a good person want to run for office in order to be humiliated and punished?  We need to use logic and normal human nature to get desired results, not pointless punishment.  We should make this kind of public service so desireable as to attract the very best candidates, not the sleaziest or least capable.

A person running for office cares about the people who can either put him in office or replace him.  A person who is NOT running has nothing to lose by brushing you off. Why should he care?  

News used to be all about Russia, Russia, Russia. Then it was Stormy, Stormy, Stormy. Now it is impeach, impeach, impeach. The same old song and dance about the left getting rid of Trump grows old after awhile. There is a lot of other news out here but a conscious effort by the media chooses not to cover it.

Meanwhile, congress is forever telling us what we, the people, want. “The American people want…XYZ.” And absolutely nothing was accomplished by congress for two and one-half years. What we really want is fairness in news coverage, fairness in the political process, and an honest day’s work from those we elect.

Well, elections have consequences.  We have a militant anti-Christian Attorney General in office now and we will be dealing with a lot of this kind of thing.  Court cases also have consequences, so it will be important to follow this case.

Will it be "strong and free" or will it descend into advanced socialism, conducted there by the unholy tag team of the NDP and the Conservative Party?  Or will Canadians choose to support Maxime Bernier?

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When peddling left-wing equality policy, there’s no selling point quite like claiming there are too many whiteys about. So when there aren’t, you simply dissemble. A case in point is the effort by Mayor Bill de Blasio to “diversify” NYC’s “Elite Eight” public high schools.

De Blasio and his schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, are unhappy there aren’t “enough” blacks and Hispanics at the elite schools, so they’d cooked up a scheme to eliminate the institutions’ admissions exams (which, ensuring that only the most capable students gain entrance, are the only reason the schools are elite in the first place).

 Do these people not see the evil they are promoting and the despair they are dispensing through these ridiculous programs? 

In a very real sense, America as we have known it is very much on the brink of disappearing. Progressives, Democrats, and assorted leftists maintain that America has never been a force for good in the world, they advocate “blame America first,” and they believe the United States is the focus of evil. They want to reshape America from the way it was originally founded.

Those who cannot – or will not – accept the outcome of the 2016 election still seek to overturn it. Two and one half years after the fact, the fight to overturn the election of Donald Trump continues. Never in the history of our nation has such vicious hatred underscored the illegitimate attempt to annul the results of a valid election.

It is too bad that the American experiment is ending in this way. If it was to end, though, this is the only way it could. By stupidity in the service of treachery.

We bid farewell today to another icon of the music world, a woman of great talent, energy and vision.  Jessye Norman:  September 15, 1945 - September 30, 2019.

Over the past year, there has been much talk about collusion. One danger when discussing the concept is confusing it with communication. And, communication between national leaders is essential. In this article, military and foreign policy fellow Dr. Earl Tilford highlights two examples when communication helped avoid a global disaster. He writes, “Secrecy in communications with world leaders is a necessary presidential imperative essential to preventing crises going catastrophic. We can be very thankful that collusion worked twice.”

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On Saturday, our world grew dimmer, as the man known throughout the Latin world as "El Principe de la Cancion" passed away.

North Dakota might be behind San Francisco, but everything that is out there finally shows up on our doorstep here in the remote corner of the Upper Midwest. 

There are so many adversaries aligned against Trump. But he has one very major advantage. Those who are blinded by hatred beyond reason really do suffer from a mental health issue. For Trump’s sake, it will be their undoing.

At heart, aside from his persona and actions, Trump is a patriot putting America above all else in the world.

One wag attempted eloquence. “Sometimes a country needs a Mother Teresa and sometime it needs a Dirty Harry.”

The inept political Ruling Class, both Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative, has earned for itself, and America, a Dirty Harry.

So far, Sweden has tried a number of the things propsed for America by the Left.  Let's see how it's working out.

Greta is still in the news, still ranting incoherently and her fragile condition is beginning to show.

Danger lurks throughout America.  We should heed warnings from those who actually know what they're talking about.  

We should, of course, protect ourselves when we are attacked. We should provide some help to our allies when they are invaded. We do not, however, need to defend every Saudi citizen regarded as a traitor by the Saudis, even if he does write newspaper articles from America. We do not need to beat our chests in outrage every time an adversary spies on us; we should instead just adopt some ruthless defenses against the spies. Above all, however, we should get over the idea that a government is an enemy just because it is nasty, or even just because it is undemocratic.

Making other countries conform to USA standards is not a function of the U.S. government.