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KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF, NOT HIS FINEST MOMENT, THE POPULAR TWINS, LIKE-MINDED CITIES, FARGO IS AN ENGINE OF GROWTH, FOOD FOR ALMOST ALL, IT’S NOT THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, THEY BECAME ENAMORED WITH THEIR NAME, GOOD NEWS-BAD NEWS, EASY TO SAY, SAY AAAH!, THE SKY IS FALLING, OTHER BAD BROTHERS, REALLY!, DAKTOIDS

What is really at stake in the marriage debate is the attack orchestrated by the powerful on the foundation of virtuous community itself.

Since Aristotle, the family has been recognized as the essential and basic unit of society. It is thus the natural target for any budding tyrant.

As Augustine points out in the preface to his City of God, it is the libido dominandi (the lust for power), not pleasures of the flesh, which constitutes the ruling passion of the City of Man - that community of fallen angels and sinful men that love themselves to the exclusion of love of God.

That isn't to say that aspiring totalitarians are not willing to orchestrate the carnal lust that prevails in the broader population. It serves their purpose to destroy both the vocabulary of virtue and, with it, the possibility of a virtuous, free community.

There’s an unsatisfied market for Christendom’s standard bearer, and Putin perceives an opportunity to exploit it. China won’t do it, Africa can’t, South America wouldn’t and couldn’t. But just as the original Vladimir the Great Christianized the Kievan Rus', just as Charlemagne forged and helped Christianize modern Europe, Putin has a chance to lift the cross — and himself — high.

And the West is a gift that keeps on giving insofar as this goes. Our cultural Marxists are on the march, smell blood and will not stop. They will continue spending us into insolvency, perverting us into prone position, relativizing us into risibility and “immigrationizing” us into irrelevance. Even now, not satisfied with placing another great nail in marriage’s coffin, our militant secularists are making moves to legitimize pedophilia and bestiality. 

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the vehicle used without your knowledge to put into motion a systemic state-wide education revolution. Adoption of the CCSS by North Dakota requires assessment alignment to the standards, curriculum alignment to the standards, technology alignment to the standards, instructional method aligned training, and all manner of requirements. Using money from the taxpayer of N.D. and a number of huge education service providers and who knows who else, an education change of a magnitude that you were never told about is in motion. Is this possible? Yes.

In this interesting Q&A, Dr. Paul Kengor speaks with TheBlaze.com about his new book 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative. Kengor discusses the link between President Reagan’s faith and freedom, Reagan’s stance on nuclear weapons, and the current events in Ukraine. 

The blue exhaust was expected, but the cloud of snow mixed with dry grass spewing from the chute was not. A wad of compact grass shot from the mower, probably the remains of a mouse nest.

Lawn mowers and snow blowers sound alike. With snow still on the ground, I trust that folks think I am running the snow blower. That would seem plausible. Too late, however. A car passes and the driver executes a perfect double take. “What!” he must have thought. “A lawn mower blowing snow?” I turn red at the thought.

Premiere of FX network’s 10-part series “Fargo”, Hotel Minnesot, nuns came from India to serve at the Standing Rock Indian reservation, “the fastest-growing small city in America”, 50,000 does not seem out of question,  Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Social Infrastructure, accredited UAS maintenance training program, $23 billion (yes, billion) economic impact, Titan Machinery, a $2 billion ag and construction equipment company, Saw off the southwestern U.S., he rolled a big Challenger farm tractor, A Minto woman was equally stupid, DAKTOIDS

What was the key to Jesus’ resurrection? Was it not revealed in his prayer in Gethsemane? There he subdued human will and submitted to the Divine Plan: “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42). What a great lesson for us all: In meekness there is might.

Basically, he challenged his enemies to take their best shot at trying to obliterate his life. They failed; it was beyond their power. On the following Sunday morning—that first Easter—the Savior proved his dominion over death and the tomb. He reappeared in resurrection glory, thereby comforting, strengthening, and redeeming humanity with the priceless promise and gift of eternal life.

The primary activity of Barack Obama during the 1994 through 2002 period was education reform in Chicago along with a bunch of people who call themselves Leftists and communists. Many of those people are now actively involved in the implementation of the Common Core Standards in America. Is this either an accident or a coincidence?

Fascism is a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts the nation and even race above the individual and supports a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial or semi-dictatorial leader, coordinates severe economic and social regimentation and forcibly suppresses opposition. We are approaching that dangerous point in our culture.

. . . Trust in state government is higher in ND; “Destination Corridor”along I-29; Usually, ND does not rank in the company of Alabama and W. Virginia; a world governed by the politically correct; A NDSU degree returned 9.5%; NDSU is a very forgiving place; Five new refineries in various stages of construction and planning; pipelines or trains? I just couldn’t hack it here; Anderson is no longer a pharmacist; a life of hard work and significance; DAKTOIDS. . . .

All too often, the GOP has abandoned constitutional principle in order to serve the financial and business interests of America's Crony Class.

Here is a jarring thought: If Christians are never to rebel against unjust government, then America’s Founding Fathers were wrong to rebel against the English crown and parliament to establish a republic where most people’s God-given rights were given greater protections than anywhere else on earth.

Meanwhile, the political class of our nation surround themselves with unbelievable luxury. Beginning with the president, they have hijacked the wealth of the nation; given it to themselves, their friends and their families; and live and vacation in ways the “little guy” could never dream of.

The thumb of the “monarchy” is not so far from returning to our once great nation, despoiling the sacrifices of all those who have suffered and died to secure our diminishing “freedoms”. Of what have we become… and seriously, how much time is left to reverse course?

Ttributes to Mike Jacobs, a world governed by the politically correct, UND is in the NCAA Frozen Four, Minneapolis Star Tribune, largest construction project in ND history, how American children are positioned for success, ND children generally scored above national averages, the plight of the Pothole Region, an extreme shortage of nurses, Road Rage Towing in Williston, He toured the country as a juggler and minstrel, DAKTOIDS

The American political left has always wanted more and more control of education through the centralization of power to the Federal Government. In the early 1990s they tried to push Outcome Based Education on the nation but people figured out what the real deal was and it was rejected. But the leftist/socialist/progressives just keep on trying. Common Core Standards (CCS) is the latest push to have as much of the decision making for all students as possible to come from Washington D.C. by way of bureaucratic dictate, regulation manipulation, and likely financial rewards and penalties. The proponents keep circling back to “rigorous standards”, “preparing to compete in the 21st century”, “accountability”, and all sorts of buzzword mumbo jumbo that sounds great. The technique by the implementers is to keep circling back to the standards and inferring that anyone who does not agree with implementing the CCS is supporting substandard education. But that argument about the CCS is a distraction as the standards are the veneer covering the Trojan Horse. 

This lack of regulation would be welcome if the promise could be believed, but nature abhors a vacuum. We need to understand the dangers that would be involved if international regulation replaces us.

In truth, you are not free to disagree with liberals on this issue. They won’t let you. They will compel you. They will see you in court, in bankruptcy, maybe even in jail.

Liberals tolerate only what they agree with.

"A Rare Triple Treat in the Reagan Tradition"

This helps explain why entities prescribing “equality” — such as the early French republic and all the Marxist killing-field regimes — become the worst tyrannies. Since equality is wholly unnatural, its mullahs must violate man’s nature, must trump it and twist it, in an effort to pound their sinister square peg into the round hole of reality.

As Republicans gather in Minot this week for their state convention I wanted to share something I wrote for one of the greatest Republicans ever!

While Barack Obama’s recent telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin about the Crimean standoff has been widely reported, the exact substance of the discussion has remained a mystery.

That is, until now.

Not only were the state exchanges and the federal web site not fully operational, many who were hired to help citizens navigate the complex health insurance application system were never properly vetted through background checks. Consequently, many criminals and scam artists have been hired, with federal tax dollars, to “help” people sign up for government health insurance.

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

The meeting held in Bismarck on the evening of March 27th, 2014 as claimed by the Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) to be to discuss the “facts and fallacies of Common Core” according to their meeting announcement. How accurate is this claim? In town halls, school board meetings, and a majority of open informational meetings the public is allowed to directly ask questions of “officials” with give and take in a conversational manner so the dialog results in coherent, sequential communication. That is not how it is done in a guided manipulated setting designed to give the appearance to those not familiar with the technique of the controlled outcome process. 

  We don’t need good-soldier cops — we need good-citizen cops.

The down-your-throat-whether-you-want-it-or-not liberalism of Washington DC has come to Bismarck.

"...[P]lanning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and...essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible." (p. 70)

. . . ND has two teams in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournaments; the third phase of Operation Winter’s End; Fargo’s first 2014 homicide; Grand Forks is coming to life; the outlook is not as good in rural GF County and surrounding counties; a small cloud over the Grand Forks economy; rents in North Dakota boomtowns; Watford City was little more than a junction on Highway 85; The planned CHS Spiritwood (near Jamestown) nitrogen fertilizer plant; Agriculture in Ukraine resembles ND; Keystone XL pipeline; The Minot Daily News is the lightweight; DAKTOIDS. . . .