Dakota Beacon

What sets the United States of America on a different plane than many other world powers is not the use of force -- it is the motivation for the deployment of troops into a conflict.  This, in my view, is what bears examination on this day set apart to honor those who have served in the military and those men and women who continue to sacrifice for the cause of freedom.  We do not enter another country to conquer or to possess but to liberate from oppression, tyranny and terror.

This Thursday (Nov 11th) our nation will be remembering our veterans in many ceremonies around the country. One of the themes of the American Legion is the "Legion Family." Which includes; the veteran, the spouse, the families, and the communities. Today more than ever the support each and every one of you provides to our armed services is critical as we continue to be a "Nation at War."  Please seek out and attend a veterans day ceremony in your area, I will be attending the events below, stop by and say hello if your in the area!

No matter what progressive does the "arguing," the illogic for income redistribution reduces to condescending preachiness. That preachiness is based on high-and-mighty "moral" positions, positions which have little basis in morality but are filled with feel-good, wealth-destroying ideology. It's amazing that Cohn flat-out acknowledged the progressive modus operandi by titling his piece, "Moral Arguments for Soaking the Rich."

The height of arrogance occurs when one cannot even recognize one's own arrogance. For the typical progressive, arrogance comes naturally and flows effortlessly.

Emil was drafted into the Army in October 1941, and stationed at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. He recalls being in a movie theater, on a date, the evening of December 7, 1941, when the lights suddenly came on. A military officer announced that all active servicemen were required to leave immediately and report to the base—details to follow. Emil talked the officer into allowing him to drive his date home first. When Emil got to the base, he learned about Pearl Harbor.

The Republican Party, with the help of the Tea Party, swept the House of Representatives with a massive pickup of at least 60 seats. The Federal Reserve made another historic announcement with its $600-billion ‘Quantitative Easing’ program (QE2). The October non-farm payroll number came in at a positive 151,000, and the unemployment number remained elevated at 9.6 percent for the month. All of this transpired in the course of one week. So, what’s next? Hold on to your seats.”

Americans have seen the future from the mountain top of Big Government and they don’t like what they see.

For conservatives, libertarians and Tea Party folks, the work starts now for the 2012 elections. No let up. No compromise. Keep the momentum going for the next two years.

This Republican landslide ELIMINATES any grounds to blame Democrats for what happens in the legislature.  If any North Dakota Republican legislator or elected official claims that Democrats are a driving force behind any legislation, that Republican is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

Taking control of spending requires North Dakota Republicans to change how they spend.  Your support will help pull Republican legislators into the right lane and get over the notion that having a surplus justifies spending more.

One time, in what seems to be a long time ago, New England had one heck of a good football team. In 1978, we won the conference championship averaging over 40 points per game. During the regular season, we only gave up one touchdown. It was a big deal back then to go undefeated and un-scored upon. This wasn’t our case because one touchdown had been scored on us, but how it was scored was the interesting story.

In post-Climategate America, people are beginning to appreciate the magnitude of scientific and political trickery that spawned the global warming scare. With the hoax exposed, backdoor methods are being used to control Americans' lives using "climate change" doctrine. Warmists no longer look to the shock and awe of cap and trade. They'll use the EPA.

Implementing destructive policies comes naturally to a president and Congress that forced governmental health care and financial sector takeovers on the American people. But the President hasn't deployed the third weapon in his prosperity-killing arsenal: energy policy "reform." Obama's behavior so far suggests that he wouldn't hesitate to destroy the economy to force America to "go green." With cap and trade dead, totalitarian regulation is Obama's best chance to jam greenness down Americans' throats.

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Outstanding Interview -

THE MICHAEL COREN SHOW

INSUFFICIENTLY ALARMIST

Mark Steyn joins Michael Coren for a wide-ranging TV interview covering a great deal of apocalyptic ground

Compare the economy to a human body that has been bludgeoned. Obviously, it helps when the bludgeoning stops. But just because additional blows aren’t being struck, it doesn’t mean the patient is healthy; the patient is still at risk from internal injuries. Our economy urgently needs a trip to the emergency room for radical surgery and intensive care. The government needs to undo the massive damage it has inflicted on the economy over the last several years. It needs to reverse, not merely halt, runaway spending, and to shrink, not just slow, the growth of the federal bureaucracy.

Orwell's 1984 may not be reality, but 26 years late, America is nevertheless much closer to experiencing the novel's awful predictions. If Obama somehow gets his way, using his herd of czars and regulators, Americans will be told how many times per minute we may exhale (CO₂ "pollution"), how much salt we can consume (blood pressure control to keep Obamacare costs down), how much food we may eat (ditto Obamacare concerns), and what we can and cannot say to each other over the internet.

The news media referred to yesterday’s 32% success rate of the Tea Party as if it were just a passing fad…we in the Tea Party know that is not so…we are in it for the long term. My advice to our own Senator Conrad is to get busy quickly to muster the will among Senate Democrats and Independents to ignore President Obama’s socialist agenda and pass NEW BI-PARTISAN HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM the American People can stomach.

Another manipulator of liberal / progressive Christians was Frank Marshall Davis, mentor to a young man in Hawaii named Barack Obama. I have photo exhibits of Davis’s weekly columns for the CPUSA organ in Hawaii, the Honolulu Record, plus pages from his declassified 600-page FBI file listing his actual Communist Party membership number, which was 47544.

The longer that the environmentalist zealots are in charge of the asylum--the EPA--the longer we're going to see "Loop Scoops"-style drivel peddled to our kids as truth.

Elections have consequences. Americans must now hold the new GOP House majority accountable for enforcing the kind of consequences needed to stop the environmentalist indoctrination insanity.

Our constitution was written to fight poverty by limiting the power of government so that the human spirit may flourish. Its product is the prosperity that we enjoy today. That’s why Democrats loath the principles found in our constitution.

Democrats view the common American with contempt, not with compassion. Their intention is to help themselves, not us. Democrats are at war with the American people and our nation’s founding documents. We ‘the people’ are fighting back.

As Lady Liberty awakens, more will come to realize these truths. Byron Dorgan and Earl Pomeroy have already met Lady Liberty. President Obama and his loyal servant Senator Kent Conrad are next.

You could easily get the impression that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned public displays of the Tenth Amendment. Actually, this hasn't happened, at least not yet. Anyway, adults can still read it in the privacy of their own homes, if they can lay hands on a copy. And in the age of the Internet, it would be hard to suppress completely.

Let’s say you have a Democrat and a Republican running in your district who are (or at least seem) like ideological twins.  They may both talk a good game — and it’s even possible that both may be good people.  But only one of them will feel pressure to join the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Axis.  Only one will have the screws put to him to vote for legislation such as the healthcare disaster, cap-and-tax, the porkulus bill and amnesty for illegals.  Only one of them will be a member of the No-Longer-Your-Grandfather’s-Democrat Party.

It was President Obama himself who recently called on Latino voters to "punish [their] enemies"--white Republicans with whom he seemed to be encouraging Latinos to go to war in order to complete his fundamentally transformative wealth redistribution agenda.

Today's is the most important election in American history--in my humble opinion.

On Iran, the contrast between realist and un-realist doctrines is even starker. Does anyone believe that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, and does anyone not agree that such a development would constitute a massive threat? Anyone? And yet, all indications are that the Obama administration is increasingly accepting of a nuclear Iran and is attempting to reset the world community’s expectations on this issue.

 While individuals are free to deny the reality of human nature in their personal affairs, the world affords no such luxuries to national leaders.

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The Lame Duck Congress Is Just Around The Corner. 

Liberal Democrats around the country that will be defeated on Election Day plan to come back and push their agenda. 

The North Dakota Taxpayers' Association is the only organization in the state preparing for this.

As is customary in the days leading up to an election, the campaign rhetoric is getting heated…. Electoral politics in the United States has long been a contact sport, and politicians have a First Amendment right to spin, distort, and even to fabricate ‘facts.’ It is our responsibility as voters to separate fact from fiction. That is what I hope to accomplish here.

What motivates me is not the use of demagoguery per se, but rather, the irresponsible use of demagoguery that is potentially very dangerous to Americans. I understand the popularity of protectionist rhetoric. It appeals to patriotic feelings and our common nationality. Given this emotional component, it is very difficult for economists to convince laymen of the benefits of trade, but I will try. Here are the economic reasons why trade is preferable to protectionism.

Let's add the Philly car nanny insanity to Madison, Wisconsin bicycle nanny insanity.

For government to assume the responsibility to "take care of" citizens by eliminating all possible hazards would actually make people more susceptible to those hazards by conditioning them to be utterly incapable of looking out for themselves.

A people bred and enabled to be perpetual children by a gargantuan nanny state cannot survive, much less thrive, as a viable culture.

The result was what Stove called "Darwinism's Dilemma." The facts simply didn't - and couldn't - square with the claims of the theory, particularly in its account of human life. And the Darwinians, while claiming to explain evolution and "the descent of man" as an enormous accident of a blind struggle for survival, have had to keep smuggling teleology - purpose - into their arguments.

Anyone who has not attended a performance of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra should seriously consider doing so. My favorite symphonic music is that which just rips my heart out of my chest through the funeral-like tones of the strings section. Other symphony-goers have other preferences. One thing I can promise… you will experience something that enriches your life. You will never know what you are missing if you do not experience at least one evening at the Belle before you pass through this life.

As the car door closes, you see the man’s eyes glaze over.

He drives away in his green Smart Car with a stylized blue and green logo on the door. Beneath the logo lay the words, “To protect and to serve Mother Earth.”

A physics professor once told me, “If you don’t ask the right questions, you won’t get the right answers.”

November 2 approaches and many political questions hang in the balance. So do the answers. The collective choice of the American voters on election day will sort out those answers.