Dakota Beacon

One salient reason the United States has never been invaded by a foreign power is because the population has remained armed under the rights guaranteed by the second amendment to the Constitution.

Then the Guardian told us in 2003 that, “…Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan's first crime wave — murder, fraud, drug offences.” The serpent had struck again.

But, as happens when there is oil money involved, greed and mission creep took over the project, and now the entity created by the legislature has gone into the business of lobbying against private water providers – writing letters to the water commission demanding that permits be denied any time a private business wants to operate in what they consider “their territory”.   

In response to recently being diagnosed with a rare and terminal type of brain cancer, sitcom star Valerie Harper declared, “we are all terminal.”

Upon his death in January 1924, Lenin’s body was embalmed and preserved in a tomb, actually a shrine, in Red Square, whereby the faithful could forever honor the Great One. Etched in the marble holding the Bolshevik godfather’s body is this inscription: “Lenin: The Savior of the World.”

For an atheist state angrily committed to a war on religion, this would seem odd. In fact, however, it is precisely what we came to expect from communist regimes.

The terms conservative and liberal are relatively new; in saner ages, there was no right and left, only right and wrong. That is the mindset we must recapture today, and it's why I long ago stopped calling myself a conservative.

This noxious notion lies at the heart of the "Bush Doctrine." It has been inherited and enhanced by Obama. And the Republican Party must confront it head-on and repudiate it. It absolves hubris and power-lust. It rejects limits - moral, constitutional, and metaphysical. It conjures up an endless parade of Hitlers - Saddam, Osama, Ahmadenijad - and justifies lethal, secret, and unconstitutional means to eliminate them and all others deemed evildoers.

 The Bush Doctrine is the father of the poisonous Obama Doctrine that Rand Paul condemned for thirteen hours last week. That explains the contemptuous response from Senators McCain and Graham. They are joined at the hip with the Bush Doctrine. They are bound to its failure like a ball and chain. No wonder they resent the truth-teller

Whether you like it or hate it, it was not at all irrelevant to Irish history and quite possibly had more to do with that history than Synge or Yeats or O’Casey.  So, no apologies for Irish-American Tin Pan Alley songs from me.

But when examined in its entirety, the Biblical record seems to show that these statements cannot be interpreted in the restrictive way we often construe them. This is because there have been those who attained a saving knowledge of God without having expressly invoked the name of Jesus Christ.

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Senate Bill 2303, passed in the Senate and soon to be voted on in the House, simply places in North Dakota criminal code the definition of a human being as:   

“any member of the species of Homo Sapiens at any stage of development.”

Opponents argue against the bill, predicting unacceptable consequences that quite possibly will result. There are some situations, however, wherein cost-benefit analysis alone simply fails. 

It is easy to be poor; it is harder to understand how wealth is created. Smith changed the approach.

So what of the mistake, made over and over again, of criticizing the Church for being stuck in the past? It is the gripe of a slave of his age. A relativist sees ideas as either old-fashioned or fashionable, as being of the past or on the cutting edge, but none of these characterizations describe the Church.

Worse still is the hypocrisy. Arianna Huffington was campaigning against the SUV some years back while buzzing around on private jets and using more energy than any 10 average Americans. Gabby Giffords’ husband just bought an AR-15, and many pro-gun-control politicians have been found to be pro-gun ownership when it comes to themselves.

Remember those great graduation rates?  These deceptive graduation rates so puffed by school authorities and legislators could be leaving your child vulnerable and academically crippled.   When will he suffer?  In time.  And what will be the price he pays?  A lost job opportunity?  A lost relationship? A decent quality of life? Self respect, perhaps?  And how will this affect his life?   Don’t kid yourself.  The lies believed by parents and some legislators will have a terrible price, and it will be borne by our children.

One area where Grillo does distinguish himself is in his anti-Jewish feelings — in that he’s honest about them. Other Western politicians simply tell Jews they should leave Europe because, well, hells bells, those new Muslim immigrants just don’t want you there. More subtle still is Barack Obama, with his passive-aggressive Israel policy.

What happened instead was that the enemies of conservative principles began to infiltrate the party as "neo-conservatives," "big government conservatives," "pragmatic conservatives," and "compassionate conservatives." They have dragged the Republican Party so far to its left that people now have trouble distinguishing between the parties, just as they did during the Eisenhower years, when the Republicans threw away their 1952 victory.

The problem is that the politicians in Washington have not acted in good faith. Instead, they have committed a gigantic fraud by underfunding the program. The fact of the matter is that we’ve been swindled, and the anger and sense of pending betrayal that many seniors feel is understandable. At the same time, we, the people, need to accept some responsibility for this sorry state of affairs.

The numbers are staggering. It is difficult to identify any ideology or belief system in history that has killed more people, let alone in such a narrow period. It boggles the mind to imagine how one ideology could cause so much pain and suffering. The massive levels of death alone would justify Reagan’s charge that the Soviet Union was an Evil Empire, and that is before one even tries to comprehend (on the spiritual order) the vicious war on religion pursued by the USSR and its associated communist states. As to that, Soviet communists did indeed pursue, as Mikhail Gorbachev put it, a “war on religion.”

So back to our question: could an American be named to succeed Pope Benedict and assume the Chair of Peter? It's possible. If that should come to pass, however, it will be a signal to us all that the Catholic Church intends to impose worldwide the silence on critical moral issues that has prevailed in America since the days when Cardinal Dolan was in the seminary. Which is why I doubt that it will happen.

 Like Martel’s campaigns before them, the Crusades were defensive actions designed to stave off Muslim aggression. Oh, this isn’t what you learned in college, I know. It’s not what we hear from the media. It isn’t what’s portrayed by Hollywood. But it is the truth. And it was explained well by Thomas Madden, Chair of the History Department at Saint Louis University. In “The Real History of the Crusades” he wrote:

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At a time like this, when many are losing their jobs, their homes, their children’s futures and most likely their health, I think to myself, “What would George Washington, our first and probably greatest president, have done?”

And like Obama, Chavez just as quickly jettisoned the words of hope when less-inspiring rhetoric better suited his intentions. He excelled at blaming things on the rich, on profit seekers, on greedy corporations, on nefarious jet-owners and millionaires and billionaires, on banks, on investors, and, of course, on George W. Bush. Unlike Obama, who he spoke of in angelic terms, Chavez called George W. Bush a “devil.”

Virtually no serious armed force of consequence in the world today integrates women into infantry and armor units. This includes Israel, Russia, China and North Korea. They have done so for short periods in the past to compensate for a shortage of men. This was the exception, not the rule.

The battle in North Dakota’s university system has entered “The Theatre of the Absurd”.

It is becoming pretty clear that, while Ham Shirvani may not be the smoothest operator when it comes to navigating the internal politics of North Dakota’s higher education community, there is a concerted effort to make him the scapegoat.  

It’s become pretty clear to be that the best way to solve the problems in higher education is to unify both K-12 and Higher Education into a system of governance that creates direct representation of the public, as well as representation of the legislative and executive branches which approve the appropriations that fund such a unified system.

What if we just agreed that we have a revenue problem and tried to erase the deficit with new taxes alone? After crunching the numbers the question becomes, “What’s the point of all of this?” The first point is that there is, in fact, no feasible scenario wherein you can eliminate a $1 trillion-plus deficit with taxes alone…. So, if you’re not willing to reduce spending and you recognize that there’s no way to eliminate the deficit through tax increases alone, you are left in an endless loop that points inexorably to one conclusion: you don’t actually care one iota about the deficit, or the resulting debt, or the economic crash that is sure to result from this whole absurd mess.”

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Now perhaps you better understand why leftists’ behavior is often so sociopathic. And be afraid, be very afraid.

The Pentagon’s budget has become a political football. Congress and the president are treating it more like a bargaining chip in partisan deficit-reduction strategies rather than as their most solemn constitutional responsibility.