It was 25 years ago that another American president, Ronald Reagan, delivered an extraordinary speech at Fudan, one unknown even to Reagan devotees. It was one of the 40th president’s best moments abroad, akin to his May 1988 speech at Moscow State University. Here, I would like to revisit that speech, not simply to pay due homage, but to reinforce Reagan’s teachable moment—needed in America in 2009 as much as China in 1984—and perhaps to uplift conservatives in need of some political inspiration.

TORT REFORM, THE BAD GUYS, EARMARKS ARE WASTEFUL, COLLEGIALITY HAS ITS LIMITS, THE DOWNSIDE OF A MONOCULTURE, HE IS IN PRISON FOR LIFE, PRAIRIE SCHOOLS, PRAIRIE CHURCHES, “GRANDMOTHER SCAM”, RON, STOP DIGGING!, DAKTOIDS

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

While having full knowledge that there was evidence to the contrary (as had already been extensively established), Burleigh County State's Attorneys Suhr and Feland still continued to forcefully present deceptive opening and closing statements that the Spencer issues were criminal and even questioned witnesses Jason Wahl, Cammie O’Conner, James Long, Jodi Bjornson, and Billi Peltz to establish and perpetrate this ruse. These repeated, knowingly-disingenuous actions undoubtedly mislead the judge and jury to believe that clearly-known, non-criminal offenses were criminal – in short, they lied to the Judge, jury, and citizens of North Dakota in order to secure a guilty verdict against Sandy Blunt.

Put your faith in God and yourself, not others. No politician is ever going to lift you out of poverty. History proves that politicians who promise to provide for people have evil motives and nothing but contempt for your health and well-being. They will say anything to get you to giving up your individual rights and liberties. The cavalry isn’t coming.

George Washington accepted the congressional request as a cultural consensus regarding the prevailing Christian precepts. On October 3, 1789, President Washington issued the first Thanksgiving Proclamation. Had the American Civil Liberties Union or a media obsessed with anti-religious bias existed at that time, they would probably have condemned the Proclamation as a bigoted, right-wing conspiracy.

We do not have a representative government in America today. Laws are written in unintelligible code by anonymous special interests, and our representatives shield these interests' schemes. The officials do not represent those who elect them; they do not do their job; they do not even try. Instead, they blindly vote for what they have not read, what they do not understand, and what they have no interest in studying.

Tear down that wall …so they can get a better look at me!!! Is there no-one in the White House grown-up enough to say, “Er, Mr President, that’s really the kind of line you get someone else to say about you”? And maybe somebody could have pointed out that November 9^th 1989 isn’t about him but about millions of nobodies whose names are unknown, who lead dreary lives doing unglamorous jobs and going home to drab accommodations, but who at a critical moment in history decided they were no longer going to live in a prison state. They’re no big deal, they’re never going to land a photoshoot for Vanity Fair.

America, circa 2009, is not America, circa 1989.  And you, Mr. Obama, are no Ronald Reagan.  Only WE, the American people, have the power to change this picture.  A strong, free, financially sound and morally straight America has always been a powerful force for peace, prosperity and for good in the world.  A weak, bankrupt America led by a weak, dithering president, is a danger to world peace and prosperity - and in a very poor position to lecture the Chinese leadership about anything.

Why is Obama so arrogant at home, like a tiger in America to a government he agrees with, but so docile, like a mouse overseas, to governments with whom he should disagree? Whose side is he on?? By the way, the definition of “pragmatical” is  (1)“officious; meddlesome; (2) “dogmatic; opinionated; conceited.” A “pragmatic sanction” ; any of various Royal decrees that had the force of fundamental law.  An analogy would be if a thug held you up and demanded “your money or your life.” the pragmatic solution would be to give him the money.  It’s like asking sheep and wolves to “cooperate” on making Thanksgiving Dinner! Or like asking three sheep and three wolves to each contribute “their fair share” to Thanksgiving Dinner. If they put it to a vote and it’s tied, what do think will be for dinner?                       

Since the common form of Liberalism has, in the background, a spiritual motivation, it is accompanied by a misapplied moral or religious zeal.  For Liberals, a Conservative who objects to Liberal programs is not merely wrong, he is a bad person—and not too much farther to the left one hears that he ought to be “reeducated.”  The Conservative, on the other hand, responds as though the issues were rational ones.  He argues from matters-of-fact, i.e., the way human beings have behaved for centuries.  He recommends the application of practical solutions based on actual experience.  How droll!

Born in Everett, Washington on December 4, 1916, Konnerup was shaped by the crucible of the Great Depression. He survived it the old-fashioned, American way: faith and family, himself and his parents, hard work, rugged individualism. For the remainder of his life, he would lament Americans’ slow surrender of responsibility from the self to the federal government.”

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

The trial transcript gives fairly plain and damning evidence that both Feland and Wahl could converse as they did in open court ONLY if they both knew that attorney Hoffman did not know of the November 8, 2007 memo. It smells like a collusion to conspire to commit legal fraud in open court. While admittedly being a legal layman, it seems to me that this behavior is the very essence of perjury; perjury actively induced and supported by Feland.

Government keeps raising the cost of doing business and the handwriting is on the wall. The brain drain has started. In the face of federal takeovers, some former banking and insurance industry executives are testing the waters overseas. Singapore, Switzerland and Dubai are wooing U. S. talent.

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

Once inappropriately added, the sick leave and moving expense issues (which were known by the prosecutors to not be crimes) were used as a major subject basis to portray Blunt unfavorably with innuendo that could not be supported by facts. Had Feland not lied and manipulated these items into the case as crimes, a significant portion of BCSAO’s argument, testimony, and opening/closing statements would have been absent. The effectiveness of portraying Blunt using this blatantly dishonest technique cannot of course be quantified, but I conjecture that it was quite pivotal in procuring an unjustified outcome.

How bad could it get? If the social order breaks down, civil unrest could disrupt markets and shortages of essential goods could occur. The resulting chaos could trigger martial law. A strong leader—a Caesar—could institute some sort of command order. Millions would resent it, but it would be accepted, because the alternative—civil conflict, chronic disorder, and impending starvation—would be intolerable. In such a calamity, Caesar would be the lesser of two evils. The American Republic and Constitution would join earlier democracies in the ashbin of history.

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

Burleigh County State's Attorney's Office withholds a critcal memo stating that much of the Sandy Blunt trial was one big FAT LIE! The memo proved that the N.D. State Auditor's Office had consulted with the N.D. Attorney General's Office to establish that the seperation of David Spencer was INVOLUNTARY. The prosecutor's office knew that the primary issue of their prosecution was false and the State Auditor's Office helped in the deception!

If a wind turbine spins on the prairie, and your ears are stuffed with money, can you still smell pig manure?

The brain-addled “diversity” of General Casey will get some of us killed, and keep all of us cowed. In the days since the killings, the news reports have seemed increasingly like a satirical novel the author’s not quite deft enough to pull off, with bizarre new Catch 22s multiplying like the windmills of your mind: If you’re openly in favor of pouring boiling oil down the throats of infidels, then the Pentagon will put down your emails to foreign jihadists as mere confirmation of your long established “research interests”. If you’re psychotic, the Army will make you a psychiatrist for fear of provoking you. If you gun down a bunch of people, within an hour the FBI will state clearly that we can all relax, there’s no terrorism angle, because, in our over-credentialized society, it doesn’t count unless you’re found to be carrying Permit #57982BQ3a from the relevant State Board of Jihadist Licensing.

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

Informed by N.D. State Auditor's Office that David Spencer's seperation from N.D. Workforce Safety and Insurance was "involuntary", and therefore issues realted to Spencer's seperation were irrelevant, Burleigh County Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland charges Charles "Sandy" Blunt with felony counts anyway!

ITS GOING TO HAPPEN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, BIGGEST OIL PLAY IN THE U.S., THE TRIBES NEED NEW HOUSES, LIVING THE GOOD LIFE IN NORTH DAKOTA, REP. EARL POMEROY, GET THIS NDSU AFFAIR BEHIND US, DISSENTING VOICES, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, EX-CONVICT HANDYMAN, MURDER, MURDER, MURDER, THIS AND THAT, DAKTOIDS

It’s not often that our “V&V Q&A” manages to combine the Berlin Wall and American healthcare—both very much in the news this week—but this one achieves just that. In this latest Q&A, Dr. Paul Kengor, executive director of the Center, interviews Dr. George Schroeder, a physician working in America and a brand new American citizen who was born and raised not far from the Berlin Wall. Today, Dr. Schroeder fights the fight for freedom, including a free-market healthcare system in America. He is eager to share his unique experiences as a physician who has practiced throughout the world.

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

Feland charged and convicted Blunt of not collecting moving expenses from his “friend” Dave Spencer. However, a series of notes in the NDSAO audit working papers show that this issue was fully reviewed by State Auditors with the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office (NDAGO) and that WSI (Blunt) acted appropriately (legally) in not collecting the money since Spencer’s resignation was not “voluntary.”

Contrary to Feland’s and Suhr’s assertions to Judge Romanick and the jury, the issue of Dave Spencer’s sick leave and moving expenses were settled before the audit was ever published in October of 2006. And these prosecutors were clearly advised of this fact no less than 12 months BEFORE Feland lied to the Judge to add these “crimes” against Blunt just weeks before his trial.

Even those who devote their full time to studying markets are frequently humbled when the market confounds their expectations. The reason is simple: individual stocks and market indexes will rise if more people want to buy them than sell them, and fall if more people want to sell. Question: How can anyone know what millions of other people will choose to do on any given day of the week or any year on the calendar?

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

Burleigh County Assistant State’s Attorney Feland lied to the Court (Pre-Trial Hearing, November 3, 2008) in response to Judge Bruce Romanick’s concern “that all of a sudden we say, 30 days out, well, here's another 150,000 dollars when the case has been in the mill for a year.” Feland responded to Judge Romanick’s concern about adding new items relating to David Spencer and a North Dakota Firefighters’ Association safety grant at the last minute.

When will we finally stand up and scream “ENOUGH!”?  Enough of hearing the Left bawling that we’re “racist” if we employ profiling that fends of attacks and saves lives; enough of whitewashing honor killings and child and spousal abuse by calling it “domestic disturbance”; enough of special, state-funded, interest-free mortgage schemes exclusively to benefit Muslims who refuse to adjust to our financial practices; enough of prayer rooms and footbaths in public facilities – places where Christians and Jews may not post the Ten Commandments and where we may not sing Christmas carols; enough of Saudi students who develop into suicide pilots; enough of insane foreigners in robes jerking our airlines around; enough of taxpayers sending Muslim congressmen to Mecca for religious duties; enough strangulation of our sacred American liberty because demented Muslims are threatening to blow us up!

Will Major Hasan be charged with a hate crime under the NDAA that Obama just signed into law? Probably not. His victims were not a protected class of citizens. However, a case may be made that he is an Islamic extremist falling into the category of a home-grown, self-radicalized terrorist.

In anticipation of Veterans Day next week, Dr. Paul Kengor recalls an epic battle that, to this day, is known of by relatively few people. In spite of the battle’s lack of fame, he explains, “Some believe it was the bloodiest battle of World War II.” In “The Forgotten Battle of World War II: Remembering the Aleutian Campaign”, professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Kengor—marks Veterans Day by commemorating “those who served in some faraway place long ago, many of whom paid that ultimate sacrifice.

State's Attorney Richard Riha	Assistant State's Attorney Cynthia Feland	Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr

In my opinion, it has now come to the point where – for the good of Burleigh County, the citizens of the state of North Dakota, and for the assurance of justice -- that Feland, Suhr, and Riha be placed under review for their actions. Their behavior appears to me to be clearly in violation of the mandates of their profession and professional obligations. As free men of a society whose very foundation is the just application of law,  it is critical that each of us as citizens demand that a full and unobstructed investigation is undertaken into the ethical and possibly illegal behavior/actions of Feland, Suhr, Riha, and other individuals so that their misconduct is brought into the antiseptic light of day and thus can not be swept under the rug of local politics.

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What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that’s the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy – in Afghanistan and in Texas.