Dakota Beacon

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Obama is the worst of the worst: morally vacuous and economically illiterate. The socialist-minded messiah is allowed to gather all the wealth that he can wrap into his messiah-like arms, but we "capitalists" must be subject to messianic whims of fairness. It does not even occur to the messiah that limiting what an individual can earn limits the destinations to which the individual can disperse the earnings. Of course, the assumption at work in the messiah's mind is that government should take the "excess" earnings and distribute as government deems "fair."

Lord Omdahl has observed that many ordinary citizens of this state flash copies of the Constitution about without the necessary intellectual pedigree.  Having real jobs and families in the real world, these people may not have had time to study the documents of the Founding Fathers to the depth required by Lord Omdahl.  Never mind that constitutional lawyers differ widely on the interpretation and applicability of these documents, never mind that an entire branch of government composed of some very bright people has been created to interpret the Constitution according to the intentions of the Founding Fathers—and never mind that the resurrection of popular interest in the Constitution among the general population is something praiseworthy.  His Lordship has pronounced that the average North Dakotan is not to concern himself with matters best left to his superiors. Lacking the level of insight required (Lord Omdahl’s), the rest of us should just shut up!

They call themselves the Red River Freethinkers! Well, they’re half right. They are from the Fargo Red River area, and I assume they are not incarcerated, so that makes them free; but thinkers they are not. If they really were thinkers you would think that they would be able to read and think through our Constitution well enough that they would understand its intentions.

The demoralization of the left will affect 2010, but the biggest bite could be in 2012, when Obama faces voters again.   If an Obama Malaise keeps growing after 2010, that could embolden leftist Democrats to challenge him for the nomination - that happened to Johnson in 1968 and to Carter in 1980.  We have a chance and we must not throw it away.  Now is the time to be energized, be bold, and be sure.  If the left is tired, scared, and unsure that is our chance to reclaim America.  Carter led us to Reagan.  Obama may lead us to a similar victory. 

Arizona has thrown a small wrench into the works of Democrats’ “Plan B”, or fallback option.  In the face of mounting hostility to its programs and awareness of the flawed underlying political philosophy by an increasingly angry and activated voting public, it appears that only a massive version of “Ballot Box 13” can turn the trick and pull the Democrat chestnuts out of the inferno.  The current edition of the tried-and-true method would depend on illegal aliens voting by means of “amnesty”.  This is the reason for the hysterical race baiting on the Left in reaction to the people of Arizona acting in their own defense.

America's national security and America's economic security are tied directly to America's energy security. Yet the Obama administration seems determined to use every tool at its disposal to unilaterally disarm the exploration and recovery of our own natural resources while dictators and communist regimes happily enable our dependency on foreign energy.

All of these intrusions on states' rights are aimed right at fossil fuels and the energy economy and are driven by political ideology rather than economic and scientific reality.

Bacchus has a vision, and like all radical environmentalists with a vision, he is prepared to force "trade rules" on the entire world to bring the vision to fruition. And also like radical environmentalists, he argues from the fundamentally flawed assumption that "climate change" is human-caused and that humans can do something to stop the climate from changing. Bacchus wants to "hasten the spread of green technologies worldwide." How to achieve the hastening? With "the rules of the World Trade Organization."

The "transfer and dissemination of new technologies" is code for what all global wealth redistributionists envision: forcible handover of technology from wealthy countries to poor countries.

Sure, as Bacchus claims, "Trade can indeed be green--if we use the tools of our rule-based trading system wisely." Wonder who will make the rules.

The majority of Arizona’s schoolchildren are already Hispanic. So, even if you sealed the border today, the state’s future is as an Hispanic society: That’s a given. Maybe it’ll all work out swell. The citizenry never voted for it, but they got it anyway. Because all the smart guys in the limos bemoaning the bigots knew what was best for them.  

What we need is an accountable, diverse, market-driven system available to children and to adults of all ages so that we are motivated to learn and to keep learning all our life.  What is the best hope for Social Security entitlement stability?  Create a system in which those near retirement can learn to do a job that they love, which allows them to contribute rather than consume, and which keeps them active and healthy.  The best hope for our kids is to allow them to fall in love with learning.  If we re-think, and truly re-form education, many social problems will melt away and the future of all Americans will be much brighter.

No rational person would argue that reducing salt consumption wouldn't improve most Americans' health. But two facts suggest reason to pause before accepting the FDA's behavioral manipulation. First, Americans' life expectancy is at the highest it's ever been and rising. Secondly, if the FDA succeeds with salt, the agency will not hesitate to manipulate Americans in other areas as well. Ready to be forced to buy special water--water sold by companies that back Obama? Can't happen? That's what Americans thought about being forced to buy healthcare insurance.

Pennsylvania’s existing tax climate is not generally hospitable to new enterprises, so why burden this emerging industry and its job-creation potential with yet another tax? Governor Ed Rendell, have responded to the discovery of a “clean source of fuel within the state's borders, a source which would help reduce the costs of energy, provide jobs for companies and workers, yield additional tax revenues from existing taxes, and augment local taxes.” In his latest editorial, Dr. Sparks portrays the possible fate of this golden goose and its potential to lay golden eggs.

We’re watching the remaking of America in the image of a closed society by the radical left in the White House and congress. The intended consequences produce tighter federal control over American lives and punishes those who dissent. Through a series of manufactured crises, control is imposed by ever-increasing non-elected bureaucrat regulation (FBI, IRS, ATF, EPA, USDA, HHS, SEC), not by legislation.

As former Bush administration official Stephen Rademaker has argued, you do not go to a car dealer and say ‘I absolutely positively have to have that car and I need it today, how much is it?’ However, that is exactly what the president has done. In an effort to meet arbitrary deadlines, the American negotiators made multiple unnecessary concessions.

This treaty is different from past nuclear reductions in one important aspect,” Varner observes, “It is meant as a ‘down-payment’ on President Obama’s pledge for moving toward a ‘world without nuclear weapons,’ rather than to primarily improve U.S. national security. President Obama needs START to (among other things) justify his Nobel Peace Prize. He will push senators to provide their advice and consent for ratification of a bad treaty.

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So enough with all the punch-pulling about seditious racist homophobes. It was time to go for broke, and bring out Bill Clinton to explain why the Tea Party is the new front in the war on terror. Don’t worry about Iran’s nuclear program, but , if you meet a Tea Party supporter waving some placard about the national debt, try not to catch his eye and back away slowly without making any sudden movements lest he put down his placard and light up his suicide belt.

When Western man stopped believing in God, he needed an alternative jurisprudence to the Natural Law. The first and greatest challenge to the Natural Law was positivism. The basic tenet of positivism is that the law is whatever the sovereign or government says it is. This jurisprudence makes no distinction based on an objective standard between laws that are just and unjust, good and bad.

All questions about the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court boil down to one: Should one honestly construe words in the knowledge that eventually one will face the judgment of God, or should one construe words to achieve whatever one imagines is a good result because might makes right?