Dakota Beacon

If you EVER GET A CHANCE to see One Republic at a live performance…drive the 500 miles or whatever it takes. Bounce a check…rob a bank…for cryin’out loud even hitchhike if you have to…just get there!

Jane was silent for a moment. Then she turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a University? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. The president’s face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. And Jane and Leland Stanford got up and walked away, home to Palo Alto, California, where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

Platforms have become tired compromises on endless subjects.  No one reads or cares about platforms anymore.  It need not be so.  Republicans should use the vehicle of a platform at a convention with conservatives and RINOs to create a real plan for peaceful, revolutionary change – a binding contract promising definite things.   Those who use few words mean the words they use.  Brevity forces attention on the actual words used.  Such a revolutionary platform would recapture our nation and give it a new birth of freedom.

Some months ago a friend of mine proposed the notion that Obama was possessed of some physical and psychological quirks that might indicate the presence of Asperger’s Syndrome (high-functioning autism).

Before going on to discuss this possibility, strong caveats are due: (1)  I am not a mental health professional of any kind; (2) Even for a professional, “diagnosis-at-a-distance” is usually a bad practice, and (3) it appears from what little I’ve read that Asperger’s is a difficult diagnosis to make.

Out of state donors think the Senate race is already settled, Pomeroy is one of 40 congress members selected for special help, the city of the gods, The case illustrates the near futility of death sentences, Quotes from Notable North Dakotans, Are Minot police too nonchalant?, “When life hands you lemons”, western ND newspapers are hiring, The report concludes efforts to reduce GHG “must be global”, Oliver County (coal) is Number 1 with a $60,000 average annual wage, How did the center get there?, World’s Largest Buffalo, Twins Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, Tex Hall ran the tribes into a financial hole, DAKTOIDS

If Scottish plans for conversion of the power grid to wind energy were to proceed unaltered, and the winds continue to behave as winds behave--blowing sometimes and not blowing at other times--then according to the researcher that performed the wind farm analysis, "with very high demand and very low output—the only thing is to turn customers off."

A million words would not be as effective as a single tee shirt on a single guy at an airport. This is a MUST SEE.

As the Tea Party movement in America becomes more and more important, those who don’t understand it or are afraid of its growing strength, ie..liberal politicians and the liberal media, are telling more and more lies about the group. My question, a rhetorical one, is “do you think they lie about other things too?”

Night settles on the charade of media neutrality and objectivity. News coverage has been anything but neutral. Today the bias is more blatant than ever. So, here is the question. Is the decline of the mainstream media a sign of 24/7 cable news coverage and the internet? Or, is the decline a sign of an increasingly leftward tilt driving readers and viewers to an alternative media?

It is another stunning “Twilight Zone moment; another ignominious contribution to the ‘you-can’t-make-this-up’ category”—the erection of a Joseph Stalin statue at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia. “Predictably,” Dr. Paul Kengor bemoans, “the mainstream press is not talking about this. … [T]hey are largely uninterested in the horrors of communism.”

So free yourself.  Laugh at the “racism” shtick.  Make it a badge of honor.  Call leftists what they are: cowards, bigots, liars, demagogues, and, worst of all by far, enemies of Truth.  Fight fire with fire.  Remember, millions of good Americans are sick and tired of political correctness and will stand with you.  So just say to our leftist legal aliens: If you like name-calling and you want to fight, OK.  I’m a racist, sexist homophobe, and I’m in your face.  What’s it to ya’?

When I taught all the social studies (Grades 7 - 12) at New England High School I liked to have order in my room. The desks were always lined up in a straight row (with the troublemakers in the front, so I had easy access to them). And we operated in a timely fashion. I liked order and timing and learning and consistency. One time, the Home Ec. Department decided to have a sleep over at the school.....

Ongoing North Dakota Taxpayers' Association (NDTA) investigations indicate that the publicly funded North Dakota State Data Center (NDSDC) has been politically active.  Director Richard Rathge asserts no public funding -  Legislative Council Reports prove otherwise.

The victory of the West in the Cold War was an accomplishment of the American people, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Venerable John Paul II, and above all, Ronald Reagan. George H. W. Bush was President when the Berlin Wall was torn down and the Red flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time, but these were the fruits of Reagan's policies. Bush did not waver from his predecessor's policies because he knew that, if he did, Baroness Thatcher would be on the telephone.

The watered-down Marxism of Political Correctness holds that we can erase the inherent differences between men and women, such as the natural aggressiveness of young boys and nurturing drives of girls, by re-programming their behavior and language, resulting in idiotic social and educational policies that are both tragic and comic.

In a “Where’s Waldo” rip-off, the people of North Dakota were introduced to a game last summer called “Where’s Pomeroy”.

Pomeroy sightings are starting to happen again. He is on the TV and radio. Oh, an election is coming up and now he wants OUR votes. Sorry, I am too important and my time is too valuable, let’s play “where’s my constituents”.

A recent headline last proclaimed: “Conservatives Still Outnumber Moderates, Liberals.” The Gallup/USA Today poll concluded 43% Americans describe themselves as conservative, 35% moderate and 20% liberal. What really caught my eye, however, was the labeling of the categories as “ideologies.”

Announcement of this poll coincided with something I was reading in pursuit of my summer agenda. Specifically, I uncovered one of the finest descriptions of conservatism I’ve seen stated -- ever.

Minneapolis or Denver?, top destinations for ND flyers, GF Herald is bullish about the ND oil industry, Booms, by definition, come and go, What is The Forum’s objective?, shortage of labor in the oil industry, The oil boom is accelerating, U.S. Highway 52 in ND is a workhorse, Bismarck Tribune, God’s Global Barnyard, rolling 1,300 pound hay bales, Take Dakota College at Bottineau, Indian Candy, A 200-seat restaurant called Jake’s, DAKTOIDS,

At the end of 2010, if nothing is done the tax cuts that were implemented in 2001 will disappear.  With them, a considerable tax break for the lowest income earners.  

When private businesses serve customers poorly, their revenues decline. If their losses are severe enough, they fold. Exactly the opposite happens with bureaucracies. If they fail to get the job done, Congress typically appropriates more funds for them…. [T]he same dynamic will play out with Obamacare, too, unless it is repealed. It’s the nature of the beast.

When it comes to ethics, people suddenly trust the guys who cannot be trusted on anything else. The inconsistency shows the lack of clear thought that Americans are capable of putting into life's questions. People's reasoning power has been damaged by decades of emotional liberalism. The body politic is weak and susceptible to a relentless onslaught of nonsense from the mainstream media and academia.

Perhaps most importantly, the abolishment of the property tax would return us to the spending levels of year 2000 as adjusted for inflation. That kind of fiscal discipline would unleash the biggest boom in North Dakota’s history with virtually no end in sight. The next decade would see most of our youth staying right here in North Dakota to enjoy the prosperity created by their parents and grandparents.

In 2001, a completely new 10% bracket was created for the first $8,500 worth of income.  Prior to that, this level paid 15%.  If the these tax cuts are not extended, that income level will have to pay another $350 each year in taxes.

 This represents a 50% increase in taxes for this income level.

It is important that we “remember that our founding fathers, like ourselves and every generation of mankind, were born into a world they did not make. Yet no generation did more to remake for the better, the world they inherited.” The debt that we, and indeed the world owes this unbelievable group of men, can never be repaid.

Honoring our soldiers and veterans involves more than simply handing out someone else’s money or taking a taxpayer funded trip to pose for pictures with them. It includes speaking out against those who slander them and most importantly preserving the principles of freedom that they fought, bled, suffered and died for.  In Pomeroy’s case, it simply means going against his party.

Strange art and radical politics focus otherwise purposeless lives. Snubbing the notion of a free society, elitists concentrate on shackling society in chains fashioned from impossibly perfect models of economics and human nature. Many artsy-fartsy Santa Feans' real motivation comes across as no different from liberals' motivation in general: getting high on the feel-good that flows from contrived virtue.

More money is not the cure for depressions, as can be seen by contrasting the depression of 1920-21 with the early 1930s. The money supply contracted to a comparable degree both times, but in the ‘20s prices and wages were more flexible (that is, free of government intervention), so that they could adjust and bring supply and demand into balance. In short, markets work if government stays out of the way.

"Genius" Barrack and George W. talk to grade school children. Makes you kind of wonder......

“ticking time bomb”, Devils Lake covers over 700 square miles, Ramsey County Commissioner Joe Belford, Fargo native climbs Mt. Rainier, It's time to close, ND has a growing problem with elderly drivers, -- and that's only Sheriff Doug Howard, Tracy Potter know this all too well, $380,000 of out-of-state travel expenses, 100  Best Places to Live, Fargo is very high on the GF list of suspects, Fargo-Moorhead is becoming older and blacker, But we have no choice now, we can't unring the bell, 61 steady years, Daktoids

All of the aforementioned brings us to an important point: Illegal migration isn’t the problem.

It’s an exacerbation of the problem. 

And if we’re going to support our current legal-immigration scheme, why get so worked up over illegal migration?  We are already supporting a legal cultural death by a thousand cuts; we are already supporting the importation of nearly a million socialist-leaning voters every year.  All amnesty does is expedite the process.

The norm in man’s history has been to keep unassimilable foreign elements out of one’s land, not invite them in.  Of course, another norm of man has been the will to survive.  I’m not sure that’s an instinct we still possess.