Dakota Beacon

The US Postal Service was once the pride of the country.  We have all heard the motto about sleet and snow, of course.  That doesn't stop the delivery of our mail, so the saying goes.  What does?  The threat that we might perhaps be receiving a completely legal, FDA-approved medication, that's what.  It seems that there is so much surplus funding in the Postal Service now, with postage at .55 for a letter, that they are able to hire extra people to snoop and intercept our mail.  It's not fentanyl, it's not heroin, it's not the famous Letters of Transit that they are tearing things apart to look for.  It is . . . wait for it . . . Ivermectin!  That's right - the renowned horse dewormer that miscreants around the nation have been using to cure COVID.  Well, obviously we can't have that.  Next thing you know people will be buying aspirin to cure a headache.  

Yesterday we discussed the culpability of many in our government for the intense suffering and death that has been brought about under the guise of "Covid-19".  It continues - in fact, it is intensifying and after the holidays is likely to become even worse if we allow the status quo to prevail.  If you doubt this, just take a good hard look at Australia.  If you want a closer example, look at Canada.  If these nations can fall overnight from nations of free men and women into slave states, you can be assured that it can also happen here, and will.  All of the blood that has been spilled over the past 300 years to win and protect freedom will have been wasted unless we step up in our era, take our turn, and do our part.  In our case, today, what we are called upon to do is to enforce justice.  That is not too large an ask for people who have enjoyed a free republic for 250 years.  It's our turn.  We can no longer sit by while the abuses pile up.  Next it will be you.  Next it will be your family.  The time is now.  We must enofrce our Constitution and protect our own rights.

When the baking starts, can Christmas be far behind? What a grand prelude to a wonderful season.

Home baked goodies make this season one of the favorite times of the year. Nothing compares to a home filled with the aromas of baking together with the melodies of Handel’s “Messiah” and carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir. Only at Christmas!

To be clear, none of this concerns whether you love, hate or are indifferent about Putin. It’s not about whether Russia is right or wrong on Ukraine. It’s about applying Just War Doctrine and, again, recognizing that you can only do so much at a great power’s doorstep.

The prices of gasoline, oil, and natural gas have risen over the last year. In this article, economist Dr. Mark Hendrickson examines the price increase and argues that policies from the White House may be hurting the economy. He writes, “Among other steps designed to restrict domestic production of oil and natural gas, the president canceled completion of the Keystone XL pipeline, banned drilling for oil in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and greatly curtailed the issuance of leases for companies to develop fossil-fuel resources underneath public lands and waters.”

Ever wonder why, when we are hearing every day that taxpayer-funded "vaccines" are totally ineffective in preventing either contraction of the Covid disease or its spread, when we are witnessing horrible "adverse events" from them, hearing dire warnings from many experts (despite the efforts of mainstream and social media to silence them) that they are a threat to our health and lives, that we are being coerced into accepting them - allowing them to be injectred into ourselves and our children?  Where is the sense in this?  Well, there is logic found for everything.  Nothing happens without a reason.  Some reasons are hidden.  Our Constitution has been stood on its head -  the president and a host of un-elected twerps like Anthony Fauci are making the laws while Congress sits on its collective duff conducting a verbal circus of hearings with absolutely no result.  Why?  The only thing that will stop this abuse of power and of the people is to bring Fauci and his kind to justice.  It isn't happening.

It's that time of year again!  Time for government drunk with power to try to shut down anything upbeat or hopeful.  In the case of one small business owner in Albert Lea, Minnesota, this Christmas will be spent away from family, away from her grandchildren, in prison. Her crime?  Trying to keep her business - a restaurant - open so her employees could remain on staff and she could serve her customers.  Oh, and "make money", which is now, according to one Minnesota judge, a crime in this state.  No wonder the state is ranking low in economic outlook.  It is a hole.  A state whose voters elect garbage like Keith Ellison as Attorney General, or Tim Walz as Governor, really deserves a low rank.  

When did we decide that our rights are just "privileges" to be suspended at the whim of some power-mad functionary like Walz?  When did our US Constitution become subject to editing by such people?  Such small people?  This is serious.  Unless we take back our freedoms NOW, there will be none left.  We will consign ourselves to the misery of a totalitarian dictatorship . . . under the direction of a housefly like Tim Walz.  Is this what you want?  If not, it is time for "non-compliance" with nonsensical and illegal orders from inferiors.  Like Walz.  Sadly, there are plenty of Minnesotans who are all too ready to sacrifice the rights of others, at least, to their own fears and cowardice.  I sincerely hope they are not (still) the majority in Minnesota.

Christmas settles around us. Good cheer resounds in neighborhoods and across the marketplace as the hustle and bustle infects the Shopping Season.

Not everyone, however, celebrates the season – and for good reason. They are bound in slavery.

What?! Such talk! At this time of year? Slavery does not exist, especially here in the US. It’s a thing of the past! This is the stuff reparations are made for.

Oh no! Slavery is not a “thing of the past!” It’s here, it’s now, and it’s across America. Case in point – human trafficking! Welcome to one of the most lucrative criminal activities today.

In case you haven’t guessed, my title is another way of characterizing the hoax perpetrated by actor and malefactor Jussie Smollett, currently on trial for falsely claiming he was the victim of a 2019 “hate crime.” It’s a way of framing the frame that would be quite common were the races reversed.

Of course, a white guy today doesn’t have to falsely claim anything to be demonized in media. He just has to be guilty of DWW — Defending While White, à la poor Kyle Rittenhouse or Mark McCloskey. As for Smollett, he pulls a jump-the-shark version of a “hate crime” hoax, and the media (see Robin Roberts et al.) just nod sympathetically.

Last week, an article commenting on Grove City College appeared at the website American Reformer. In this article, Grove City College professor Dr. Carl Trueman reviews the piece at AR and details the College’s firm belief in God’s truth, academic freedom, and intellectual integrity.

Of course, it is often difficult holding the moral line with family, given our emotional attachments to it and the attendant social pressure. But it’s virtually impossible, if not actually so, without God as guide and grace-giver.

In keeping with this, I’d be willing to talk to Andrew Cuomo were he my brother, but he’d hear my mind — and so would the world. I imagine our relationship would be, at best, chilly. There certainly would be a wall between us as you can’t bond on the deepest level with a man who rejects the deepest thing: Truth.

Family is beautiful and a true blessing. It’s even better when put right where it belongs — in second place.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The outcome of this case could fundamentally change abortion laws across the country. In this article that first appeared at The Spectator World, Rachel Bovard details the arguments and considers what this case could signify. She writes, “after 50 years of an abortion regime which has cost tens of millions of lives, has been unmoored from any medical and scientific advances and immune to changing public opinion, Roe and Casey are beginning to show their cracks. Undoing these cases—and returning the decisions surrounding abortion to the states—is a possibility that today seems entirely within reach.”

noun

1. A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized.
2. A morally irresponsible person.
3. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.

We are now learning of the extent and the evil of Dr. Anthony Fauci's "science" and his arrogant exploitation of defenseless animals and now his remorseless abuse of innocent orphan children, here and in Africa.  If we allow him to continue, to go free without answering to the charges we are no better than he.  We will have become a nation of psychopaths, for that is what he is, and his followers and enablers.  If we enable this evil we are evil.  

The first Thanksgiving was Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God, not the Indians, for their many blessings.

            Today, many sing a different tune. Often Thanksgiving exhibits more tension than tolerance. Some conversations proceed tiptoeing on eggshells.

We saw a hint of shortage a year-and-a-half ago when people were stocking up "due to covid".  It was unsettling to say the least - shoppers getting into fights over having too many packages of toilet paper in their carts, grabbing at the last one on the shelf.  Same with soap, etc.  Well, you remember.  That was an artificial shortage - the result of a panic on the part of shoppers.  What we are in for this time around is something a great deal more serious and once we feel the effects of it, it will be a long and difficult task to return to anything "normal".  Like most of our problems this is the fault of our government.  Which means, of course, YOU.  You are the government.  It's America.  So when the government screws up it's because we let them.  Always remember that.  When we allow them to take the wheel and we know they don't know how to drive it is no one's fault but ours.  We need to say no.  Take the scissors away from the two-year-old before he runs down the hall with them.

It’s silly to think the non-sequestered jury wasn’t influenced by the intense media propaganda and implied threats to life, limb and family. It all made a difference, just in Rittenhouse’s case, thankfully, not a life-rending difference.  

But the teen already has been abused. First by the mob last summer, and then later by the system — for the process is the punishment.

Rittenhouse, and America, were failed by the perfidious prosecutor; the pusillanimous judge; the malevolent media; the depraved Democrat Party; and, to a lesser extent, the dithering jury.

Kyle Rittenhouse was, praise God, acquitted. But he did not get a fair trial.

Many of us have become cynical when it comes to our courts and the rule of law.  It's not surprising.  The events of the past three weeks have served to provide some encouragement, however.  Some of us - myself included - really half expected that fear of mob violence would have more to do with the verdict than the facts of the case, and the lengthy wait for the verdict fueled our fears.  The case of Kyle Rittenhouse has raised many questions and they demand our attention and some answers.  Why was this young boy doing the job the police are paid to do?  What happened that he shot and killed or injured three men while trying to help the innocent victims of violence?  What should we expect unless we address these questions?  The case might have finally ended for Rittenhouse - at least the criminal trial.  He may well go on to a number of civil suits.  He has become a symbol for the push back against violence. 

We are in a precarious position right now.  We are at a planned stage of devolution of our society.  There is no real law in many places.  Our families are threatened by not only violent mobs but also by the government we have instituted to protect us.  Our rights are dissolving before our eyes as we are batted back and forth between these two extremes - the police state and the mob.  This is all intended, of course, and we are better off knowing this in order to shepherd our country back onto the rails.  If we don't we will either suffer the violence of blood-thirsty, mindless mobs or the cold steel of government tyranny.  It's all a game.  We need to know what the object is.   

And who the players are.             

Across the nation, many parents are concerned that some public schoolboards and administrators are not listening to their concerns about the direction of their local schools. Nearly 50 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled on a case that protects parents in the educational choices they make for their children: Wisconsin v. Yoder. Is the Yoder decision a powerful and reliable precedent today? In this article, legal scholar Dr. John Sparks revisits Yoder and argues that the decision was a hybrid of two rights: religious liberty and the liberty to educate one’s children.

Our Founding Fathers would be so disgusted.  Look at the criminals we have elected to public office.  Our Constitution, may it rest in peace, called for a government by the people, through the states.  The federal government''s function was to provide national security by protecting our borders, to negotiate treaties with foreign countries, to regulate, as necessary, international trade.  It was never intended to run our schools, our economies, to involve itself in policing us.  Our state governments were responsible for these functions.   Sadly, many of our state governments have allowed rogue governors, such as Newsome, Cuomo and many others, to destroy, rather than help to protect or foster prosperity of the people of their states.  One of the absolute worst is Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota.  Today we have learned another dimension of his deceit and manipulation.

I was shocked to learn that there was a price tag on the Salvation Army.  Apparently they find it worth their while to dance to the tune of Joe Biden and his horrific "vaccine mandates".  Maybe the spanking they got a couple of years ago from Chick-fil-A tamed their spirit.  Whatever the reason, they are no longer icons of piety and beneficence.  They no longer epitomize tolerance and open-heartedness.  They are now the "new" Salvation Army, the go-along-to-get-along folks.  Don't let their stiff uniforms or their winning smiles fool you.  They have found their feet now.  They march to the drum of the pharmaceutical companies that run the government, the doctors and the rest of society.  So the Salvation Army is no longer exceptional and no longer worthy of our respect.  I am profoundly disappointed.  Please share this with anyone you know in the Salvation Army.

When we were kids and science was still being taught in school, we all saw charts similar to this one.  It illustrated very simply and straighforwardly the unbreakable link between plant and animal life and how they are interdependent.  Turns out there isn't enough money in that reality, so other theories needed to be invented.  We got nonsense from the doomsday squad, led by the totally untrained and mis-informed blob, Al Gore.  He wasn't alone, of course, because soon enough a lot of opportunists figured out from watching him how profitable the so-called "green" agenda could be.  "Green" is another example of "Ministry of Truth" language.  If we follow the dictates of the "green" advocates - beginning with their central bug-a-boo, carbon dioxide, we will soon have very little actual green left - most of the "green" will just be in the bank accounts of Gore et al.  

A few lines intended for the veteran on Veterans Day are drawn from Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson. They speak to the hearts of veterans everywhere – the impressions, nostalgia, and emotions unique to the bonds of camaraderie of fellow service members. Enjoy.

It has happened before and it might well happen again - that decent people will take only so much and will, when they reach their limit of tolerance, stand up and call to account those who have abused them.  We did this in 1775 in America.  The shot was "heard 'round the world".  It was a signal that tyranny would be challenged and finally defeated.  It happened in 1946.  The world turned sick of these filthy tyrants who had been responsible for the savaging of Europe, the deaths of so many millions, and simply held trials.  Then the nations who had had enough of the abuse of tyrants drew up the famous Nuremberg Code - which said, in effect, "Never forget.  Never again."  And the respectable nations of the world signed it.  Not until the past two years has the West been so tested.  We have a new crop of tyrants and abusers - Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Anthony Fauci and his Chinese government accomplices, Joe Biden and his whole administration.  These felons must now be held to account for world-wide economic collapse, millions of deaths and unthinkable suffering - delivered by means of the "vaccines".  The whole "pandemic" has been a big show - a magic show, if you will:  watch this hand.  Many were taken in by it, some still are.  But the tide is finally turning for these abusers.  

Inflation is a rising concern in America today. Recently, some top officials at the Federal Reserve have attempted to portray today’s higher inflation as a good thing. Is this the case for the United States? In this article, economist Dr. Mark Hendrickson explores some of the economic theories being discussed and refutes many of the claims. He writes, “In this fairy-tale view, the experts are saying to simply let inflation rise–that is, let the purchasing power of our currency erode at a faster pace–and we will avoid economic pain.”

This is NOT about the efficacy or the safety or the desirability of this or any other vaccine.  It is very stark - it is a matter of who owns our bodies.  If it is us, we have freedom.  It if is anyone else - the government, an employer, an institution of some kind, medical, academic - then we have slavery.  It cannot be put any other way.  Those who have freely chosen, for better or worse, for their own reasons, to take these injections also have an obligation to protect the rights of those who have chosen otherwise.  And they should remember that it isn't over for them.  Today the "fully vaccinated" will find that tomorrow, when the next "booster" and the next, and the next, and the one after that, comes on the market, they will be no better than "unvaccinated" until they are "current".  It is never going to be over, we will never see "normal" again.  The price we are being asked to pay for "beating covid" is too high.  Way too high.  It is everything we have and everything we will ever have and everything future generations (if any there be) will have.  All for "covid"?  How did "covid" - an illness with a 99% and better recovery rate - manage to turn us all to jello?  An interesting question - perhaps one future archeologists and anthropologists will study some day.  In the meantime, the sane left among us must fight back.