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!

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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.

This video produced by The Wall Street Journal is a brilliant discussion about medicine and freedom. Dr. Donald Palmisano, former President of The American Medical Association (AMA) and head of dissident group of over 10,000 doctors called Coalition to Protect Patient Rights, will try to force AMA to drop their "support" for the public option, calling current legislation "anathema to Doctors and Patients". This is one great video! Highly recommended!

RINOs are few in number; the term “Liberal Republican” is practically an oxymoron, representing only 1% of potential voters. These “mice in the big tent” are scary to the elephants but the real problem begins to materialize when the “mice in the big tent” are placed on the ballot! RINOs in office, working clandestinely and/or openly with Democrats would ultimately destroy the Republican Party “brand”.

It’s conceivable that our politicians really are this ignorant and incompetent, but at some point we must consider the possibility that they know what they are doing, this is by design and they are evil.

These double murders don’t occur in a void, but in a social context against the cultural backdrop formed by our values. Please don’t construe what follows as suggesting collective guilt. What I will suggest is that men murdering their lovers and children is the most extreme manifestation of thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that tend toward death and away from life. The perpetrators are responsible for their crimes. Let’s look around us to see if there are trends in thought in our society that are nourishing a cultural ethos that depreciates the value of individual lives.

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

PROSECUTORS USING MANUFACTURED EXHIBIT TO CLAIM DISHONESTY

ATTORNEY HOFFMAN GOES TO THE HEART OF THE PRESECUTORIAL DECEPTION

THE ULTIMATE DISHONESTY: REVIEW OF THE HIDDEN,  WITHHELD, EXCULPATORY MEMO

AFTER DECEPTION AFTER DECEPTION, FELAND CLAIMS BLUNT NOT HONEST!

Michael Moore incoherently argues that we need to replace “capitalism” with a true American system: “Democracy.”

Ironically, a true capitalist system is the best and most pure system of the democratic ideal: individual consumers and producers engaging in purely voluntary and mutually beneficial exchanges. This could not be more different from government and politics, the hallmarks of which are coercion and dishonesty.

Triumph of Science: Abby Johnson, former director of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas saw an ultrasound video of a child being abborted, quit her job and became a pro-life activist.

Few things I've encountered in my 25-plus years in the insurance business are as outrageous as the prosecution of Sandy Blunt, the former head of the North Dakota work comp fund.

I have no idea what in the hell is going on up in North Dakota, but I do know this. Sandy Blunt is a decent, honest, very capable guy who has been absolutely screwed, apparently in no small part by a prosecutor who broke the law.

For all Obama’s eloquence, he is indecisive. Has no set strategy, yet he demurs on General McChrystal’s recommendations. Victory, he told the nation recently on national TV in an allusion to the surrender of Japan, is not something with which he is comfortable. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is rapidly devolving into a protracted conflict by political fiat

We all need to get active in politics before it is too late! Each of us can start today by joining a political party and then by participating this coming January in the caucuses that nominate candidates for public office. A coming issue of the Dakota Beacon will reveal those in the North Dakota legislature that beg retirement…then it will be up to you, the voters, to hand them their pink slip in January at the caucuses!

At some point the Caesar cult has to manifest itself in an achievement – I mean a real achievement, not merely some dud prize handed out by Norwegian lefties. Afghanistan is his now: Notwithstanding “years of drift”, whether it winds up as victory or defeat or is his call. It’s Obama’s war. It’s Obama’s economy. The stimulus bill is his stimulus, and for $787 billion it created 30,000 new jobs (according to the government) or (according to the Associated Press) 25,000. Either way, you do the math. It’s Obama’s unemployment rate, Obama’s dollar, Obama’s  debt. Pace Valerie Jarrett, the truth is you are the power. And those on the receiving end of it are going to be speaking a lot louder in the months ahead.

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All of which leaves some with the feeling that what we are witnessing in our nation’s capital today simply cannot go on indefinitely; it is not “sustainable,” to use currently fashionable gibberish. A day of reckoning awaits us; or an apocalypse, call it what you will. Time and repetition have attenuated the shock value of facile comparisons to the Great Depression or banana republic economics. Something more profound is at work here, more disturbing.

The people of Afghanistan have a unique opportunity to choose the path that the Honduran people (through their institutions of representative democracy) have courageously chosen in ousting a corrupt and dishonest leader in hopes of something better. And WE HERE IN AMERICA HAD BETTER WAKE UP, because we are only a few procedural votes, some closed door dealings, and a Presidential signature away from losing much of what so many have fought and died for… this right of the individual to act responsibly and choose for himself what is in his own best interest, this constitutional guarantee that we have TAKEN FOR GRANTED for so long… what we call “FREEDOM”. We must all take action… NOW!

The bad news is that, in spite of the strategic retreat of scientists unable to deny earth’s present cooling trend and the dim prospects for a strong international agreement in December, Congress may still pass C&T legislation. The progressive/environmentalist power base of the Democratic Party will rally behind such a bill. It will be joined by some odd bedfellows, e.g., powerful corporations like Goldman Sachs eager to make fortunes by establishing a market for buying and selling CO2 permits.

Today special interests, not reasonable or rational decision makers and leaders, write the laws and direct the spending at all levels of government. These interests ply us with heartbreaking stories of the “good intentions” motivating them. Everyone knows what road is paved by “good intentions”.