Dakota Beacon

“An amazing story of how local newspapers manipulate the news.”

It is beyond remarkable that Heitkamp says she advocates a balanced budget amendment for the United States Constitution with some exceptions. And, in her view, that balanced budget amendment will somehow fix the massive debt of 15.5 trillion dollars, and reverse three consecutive years with over 1 trillion dollars deficit spending.

But it is very sad to see a coalition named “keep it local ND” that adamantly opposes the Measure 2 tax reform. It is a coalition of business interests rather than homeowners. The coalition’s tax priorities are very different than the homeowner’s tax priorities. For the coalition to criticize Measure 2 in order to preserve their business interests and ignore the homeowners interests is very self serving and morally wrong.

Alas, no one in Cuba has a payroll quite like Fidel Castro. At the time, Forbes magazine published its annual list of the world’s wealthiest leaders. Placing eighth was Castro at $110 million—a conservative estimate that doesn’t begin to account for the billions of dollars in land, industry, and resources he has personally confiscated

We should support measure 2 because owning a home should be a right, not a privilege.

Will Americans ever awaken to what has happened to their country? Some vigilant souls have seen it all along. Many were aware of it long before I was. No doubt more are learning every day.

A much more instructive case was decided in May 1935 and involved striking down a law that, if anything, dealt with a much more egregious invasion of the private sector by an act of Congress, the National Industrial Recovery Act, which was part of the original New Deal.

The author argues that the public is always ahead of the politicians and that the time is ripe for an effective leader to win election with real budget cuts.

We’re used to hearing stories about law enforcement being intimidated by organized crime – in places such as Colombia and Mexico. But in the US? This is yet another example of our descent into Third Worldism.

The Republicans in Congress will not go against a sitting president of their own party. They won’t even go against a weak-kneed sitting Speaker as it is now.

Also, what the president refuses to recognize is that the Founders did not intend the federal government to be constituted entirely by direct popular election. The government is to be made up of a mixture of elected and appointed officials to resist, among other things, the power of short-lived majorities to destroy long-standing constitutional protections.

Dean is charged with murdering his mother and stealing her car, Brazilian psychotherapist and creator of Diva Dance, a younger, hipper readership, don’t expect to find obituaries there, the top ranked counties are in the Red River Basin, the extent of disparities may be surprising, The Supreme Court took a pass, Tex Hall, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, the fastest-growing “micropolitan” areas in the nation, DAKTOIDS

They love the inefficient generation of electricity from farms of tall windmills, although these devices bear no resemblance to the classic windmills of travel books. Moreover, the level of maintenance required for a wind farm is high in relation to the electricity generated.

Since there have been lots of earlier films about Christ, you might expect Gibson's critics to name one that got it right - showed just the proper degree of torment - or at least admit that the earlier, softer versions failed to do justice to the horror of nailing a man to a cross.

Their party leaders flagrantly ignored legitimate constitutional objections (and numerous other criticisms) raised by opponents. These objections were so well-placed that they now hold the potential to place a dagger in the heart of their prized legislation.

During the last decade, several major cultural trends—especially increased anxiety, the prominence of our entertainment culture, the impact of the therapeutic worldview, and concerns about the breakdown of the family and the impoverishment of personal relationships—have shaped American views of heaven.

Such metaphysical abstraction threatens not merely to further stretch, but finally to break the Framers' structural design that for 225 years has preserved individual liberty and served as a check on unlimited federal power.

Darth Veder aside, here’s the plan. Stock up on birdseed. You can never have too much birdseed on hand. As a rule, the greater variety of birdseed offered, the greater the variety of birds will visit the feeders

Montana murder case has ND parallels; “a rat’s nest.”;  serial tax evader; Fargo and Bismarck were on the list of flagged school districts; communities formed protective shells; Four-year programs have been overemphasized; “They’re shackled by money, power and greed,”; Mall of America; What if there is a TV adaptation of “Fargo?”; rodeo queen seminar; it’s too early for a swim; Her family reflects ND migration patterns; DAKTOIDS

The author/activist discovered the long-term Marxist crusade to tear-down the United States did not end (as many Americans assumed) when the Berlin Wall came down.

Aside from the Soviet empire and the 100 million people killed at the hands of Communist brutality, Marxism has always had its cultural warriors. Nothing impedes their advance so much as the United States of America.

Our enemies long ago concluded that bringing the U.S. to its knees would involve control of the culture - the everyday lives, and the everyday thoughts, of the citizens.

The framers and those who ratified the Constitution withheld from Congress a plenary police power to enact any law that it deems desirable. Instead, the powers granted to Congress in Article I of the Constitution are limited and enumerated. The 10th Amendment emphasizes this structure by affirming that all powers not given to Congress "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

But has anyone mentioned that he will hold office either way until at least late January of 2013? He will either be a re-elected incumbent or a lame-duck. What is to prevent him from delivering whatever he wants to the Russians before he leaves office and the new guy is sworn in?

We need to be liberated from such dogmatic thinking. We need to be enlightened that local governments will function much better with alternative taxing methods.

Opposition to contraception has been considered to be an eccentricity of Catholics for well over a half century. This is in large part because the opponents of contraception have not evangelized effectively. They have not proclaimed in the public square that contraception is contrary to God's plan for families. They have not told people that the old Episcopalian marriage ceremony was literally correct in explaining why God blessed the institution. They have not spoken about the multiple layers of harm that contraception engenders: harm to the spiritual and emotional lives of those who practice it, harm to the society of so many irresponsible single women and men, and harm to the country from a falling birth rate.

Catholics, in particular, should be telling everyone that contraception is wrong, just as they tell everyone that racism is wrong.

Gingrich has run a really odd campaign, highly negative against first one and then another of his rivals. It would remind one of Roller Derby. He has no cohesive following and can’t possibly win nomination at this point. His viability evaporated several months ago with poll numbers dropping so far as to preclude any margin of error saving him. He is intelligent and pragmatic. He's no Don Quixote. So why does he persist?

Where is the logic in the argument that property tax is the only way to maintain local government control? That is not even an argument because we all know that there are alternative taxing methods to property taxes. We all know that we sustain our State Government with our income taxes. How come the opposition can’t fathom that our local governments can be sustained in a similar way?

What is audacious is Biden’s indefensible claim. But, then, what else can the administration point to with pride? Doubling the national debt in three years? Half-a-billion dollars wasted on Solyndra? The Chevy Volt subsidized at $240,000 a copy?

“Property Tax Revolution” makes some good points. Abolishing property taxes certainly protects home and land ownership from state confiscation for unpaid taxes. It makes a really good point in that repealing the property tax would potentially curtail funding of special interest groups. And, it makes a really, really good point in that abolishing property taxes would probably slow the growth of government

Physical and mental are two wholly different and separate realms which materialistic dialectic cannot bridge. The only way out is to realize that the mind is not the product of the brain, but rather it is the user of the brain.

So many Americans have succumbed to political correctness that they are divorced from reality. In their thinking, America encounters cultural challenges accruing no ill effects