Dakota Beacon

. . . editorial calling for the resignation of Hamid Shirvani; Easy to get in, but not easy to get out; It was a weekend of big names; Let’s connect the dots; "Whiter and brighter in the winter, cleaner and greener in the summer”; a long list of grievances against Dean Denise Korniewicz; the #1 (worst) drunk driving state; you may earn $20 million net profit; to support an expansion by Mayo Clinic; We've got some people who can be fairly destructive; Petty annoyance; Here they come again! DAKTOIDS . . . .

Davis remembers this well, as she does the vicious accusation that her father was a nuclear warmonger. To say that liberals were unhinged in their nastiness to Reagan is insufficient. Now, in his death, they'd like to remold him in their own image, crowning him a poster boy for same-sex marriage.

The truth is that, increasingly, Americans are using the state to exact vengeance on people who rub them the wrong way. And we’ve seen this before.

But only one reason fully explains why Wie was so ridiculously over-hyped and overrated: cultural affirmative action.

. . . “Everyone is forewarned”; a city overrun with criminals; the state’s most widely read columnist; Heidi Heitkamp’s first speech; “The tribe is still talking about those needs”; He had the courage and foresight to create USA Today; the university lost a “significant amount” of donor money; ABA threatened to pull the school’s accreditation; property tax assessments; about 100,000 bags will be needed; The Minnesota Wood Choppers; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Academic freedom does not give the instructor the right to ridicule a student’s faith. However, this exercise is larger than academic freedom. It is better discussed as an issue of civility.

It is that last accomplishment—being elected without opposition to the presidency—that is most remarkable. After the bruising election campaign we recently passed through, we may wonder how it was possible that nobody bothered to run against Monroe. Yes, he was an exceptional man, but even great men have enemies.

Trembling with fear of the terrifying conditions which drove them from home, they happily and frequently return thence.  Why?  What, after all, does Chechnya offer when it is no longer considered safe enough to be “home”?  Well, it is a great center of education . . . er, training.  For what?  Well, the main talent on offer in those regions is terror.  They are experts in terror. 

. . . “Blizzard brings North Dakota to a standstill”; “It was my first time driving in snow”; a new record flood; a nationally syndicated loudmouth; “The people are fed up” ; We are being neglected as a tribe; 7 of 10 American Indians now live in metro areas; McKenzie County is a demolition derby; There is no official report about the murders; bittersweet resolution; the nation’s third highest state income tax rate; Let the Buyer Beware; sounded like a herd of horses; Leona was one of 16 children . . . .

How 'bout something light. Here's a "good news" -- "bad news"  joke. The good news is juncos and robins have arrived. The bad news is that  the Redpolls have not yet flown north to the arctic for the summer.

As I waited at what was later revealed to me as the most dangerous bus station in Chicago for my pickup from the dealer, I could not help but remember Benjamin Pryor and Richard E. Browne Jr. from my basic training outfit in Fort Ord, California. Richard was a well spoken black man from an upper middle class neighborhood in Los Angeles, and Benny was a street-smart survivor from the south side of Chicago.

. . . a period of growth and greater economic diversity; Don’t make promises you cannot afford to keep; a critical shortage of affordable housing in the Bakken region counties; The “short sale” was scrutinized by the Modesto Bee; The word is rigor. That’s what the North Dakota system lacks; Rough Rider Hall of Fame in the ND Capitol; the state is vulnerable to corruption; 90 percent of the county’s social services clients are Indian; But the bad guys are increasing faster; the obituaries of interesting Nodaks; he farmed until the time of his death . . . .

In 1913, when the progressive income tax began (and the first 1040 form, with instructions, was only four pages long), the top rate was a mere 7 percent, applied only to the fabulously wealthy (incomes above $500,000). By the time Woodrow Wilson left office in 1921, the great progressive had hiked the upper rate to 73 percent. World War I (for America, 1917-18) had given Wilson a short-term justification, but so did Wilson’s passion for a robust “administrative state.”

Disagreeing with Wilson were the Republication administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, his immediate successors. Along with their Treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, they reduced the upper rate, eventually bringing it down to 25 percent by 1925. In response, the total revenue to the federal Treasury increased significantly, from $700 million to $1 billion, and the budget was repeatedly in surplus.

"A dignified climb-down." Well, Black has written books on both FDR and Nixon, so it's not surprising that he is willing to condemn the "reprehensible" but manages to avoid altogether the mention of "truth" and "sin" - outrages which would cause the world to react with "scorn and incredulity." After all, the Church's teaching on sexual morality merely "assists the Church's numerous and influential enemies in discounting its moral influence" because, remember, "billions" reject the notion of sexual morality, don't they?

He said that being the richest nation on earth begs the question, "If we're so rich, why are we so broke?" The "we" he refers to is not the American worker; it is the government. Harkin sees America not as a land of free people or a nation governed by the people. He believes America is the government; its citizens are simply workers whose efforts, savings, and property belong to the government to take as it sees fit.

The problem  is made manifest in connecting Obama with his failing policies. For too many Americans, there is no connection between Obama's agenda and the direction 
in which the country is headed.

Things got so bad that the British electorate was willing to elect a bona fide conservative to run their government: Margaret Thatcher. This was not some squishy moderate that we in the United States would have called a Rockefeller Republican or (today) a RINO. This was the real McCoy; the genuine article. Here was a new leader who actually understood and could articulate what was wrong with Britain—and had the courage to do something about it.

. . . ND had the fastest personal income growth of all states; ND was creating the basis for a stronger economy; Go to ND fellows -- that’s where the money is; Wheat is still king; UND team never hit its stride; They will always be the Sioux to me; a group of elite, athlete scientists; U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer; Like Father Like Son; Punch a grandfather, go to jail!  he was nabbed with 7.5 pounds of marijuana; Counterfeit clothing in Jamestown? More of the classic ND way of dying; The Pettibone native was a steady person . . . .

. . . a major flood alert; “Toughest Weather City”; toughest abortion laws in the nation; ‘everyone gets a say’ on all issues; $27 million addition to the downtown Civic Center; Grafton officials have a novel idea; Epping is a flyspeck town on the BNSF railroad; the mining and hauling of fracking sand; the Elkhorn Ranch; a drunken couple with no seat belts; two people died in an early morning camper fire; The SD Highway Patrol established a special squad; worked in coal mines during high school; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Before you can debate whether or not there is a right to a thing, you have to know what that thing is. What is marriage? If we agree that it’s the union between a man and woman, then there is no argument because no one is trying to stop any adult American from entering into such a union. Ah, but the anti-marriage (liberal) side will reject this time-honored definition, and this brings us to the point: the marriage debate is not a matter of rights.

We do know, however, that progressives are happy to do with marriage what they do with everything: hand it over to the federal government. Render under government what is government’s. And what is government’s province? It’s anything progressives decide.

Theodosian code banned depraved practices

Every socialist, communist, leftist and fascist has opposed religion. They will permit only one object of faith and that object is the State. Religion is a competitor, and therefore a threat, for which statists have no tolerance. They will go to great lengths to convince people there is no God worthy of their faith except the State.

As I said above, I am not a Roman Catholic.

But, I can like this Pope.

. . . Finally -- some balance! . . . only 15 of the state’s 53 counties were losers; county-by-county health rankings in ND; “Home of the Fighting Sioux”; beware what you wish for, you just might get it; Shirvani was “off to a bit of a rocky start; praised the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela; the dominant voices in their households; she is a victim of Google-type fat-bashing; non-tribal victims and accused; Minnesota companies; Murder in the Oil Patch; rarely is so much expected of one person; DAKTOIDS . . . .

Vladimir Lenin once said that we would sell the communists the rope with which they hang us — little did he know that we’d end up giving it away.

The financial fire brigade knew this and decided to impose a condition on the Cypriot government in order to gain access to any capital infusion for the banks. The condition is that the Cypriot government had to steal depositors’ money.

It seems absolutely paramount that the Republican Party stop dead in its tracks and look at the road map.  Just where does it want to go? 

Isn’t it past time to offer alternatives?  There is no reason in the world why our kids are forced into this one-size-fits-none system while we all go broke paying for Planned Parenthood and union community organizers. 

Some will charge that Clinton has embraced gay marriage out of political opportunism, that she sees the direction of her party, and therefore looking ahead to the 2016 presidential race, there's no way she would oppose gay marriage.

Perhaps there’s some truth to the claims, but I interpret her position as steadily evolving. It's an honest shift, one that thrills liberals.

"In a scathing letter, Mayor Nutter last week requested that the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission consider whether the magazine and Huber deserved to be rebuked for the article." Why is this significant? Well, when we hear about Englishmen, Canadians, Australians, Swedes, or other Westerners being imprisoned or fined for criticizing Islam or homosexuality — yes, this does happen — guess what the instruments of their oppression are.

Human-relations commissions.