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This begins to answer the other part of our question “Why”: For whom did our soldiers die? Obviously, it wasn't for themselves. They laid down their lives so that others—originally Americans, but later, people of many nationalities—might live and enjoy the blessings of liberty. Scores, if not hundreds of millions, of people are not only alive, but are free today, because Americans took up arms and laid down their lives for the sake of others. The Bible says, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13, ESV). Those fallen heroes, whom we remember on Memorial Day, indeed loved much.

Adolf Hitler said that since the average person had a very limited memory and a “slowness of understanding,” it was necessary to use only short, catchy slogans and repeat them often. Sound familiar?

 This choice requires short term pain for long term gain. If we want to have a strong military, we can’t continue to let spending mushroom with tens of millions of working-age Americans living lives of dependence on welfare, Obamacare, disability and a myriad of other taxpayer funded programs. We must stand up to our growing entitlement culture. For America to be strong and the world to be safe, the vast, vast majority of individual Americans must choose to work hard and not be dependent.

Citing dissenting Catholics, who are indeed numerous these days, the Times heralds the day when Pope Francis will employ his “radical new leadership style” to catch up with “the modern world [that] has left the Church behind.”

One might find it curious that both of these leading U.N. scions of the Culture of Death are Americans, considering that the U.N. has some 200 member states.

On reflection, however, it is no surprise: under the Obama Administration, the U.S. is today the most avidly pro-abortion government in the world.

Ironically, that debate was held in Washington’s Constitution Hall ­ yet only one candidate mentioned the Constitution, or its requirement for a congressional Declaration of War for such actions.

Santorum directed most of his fire that night at that lone constitutionalist, Rep. Ron Paul, whose defense of the Constitution had garnered significant support. He specifically criticized George W. Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, which everyone else on the stage had supported.

Obama’s focus is on income redistribution. His aim is to take from those who have created and preserved the American economy and give to those whom he designates are more worthy. This is the rationale for thievery. You want it. The other guy has it. Obama will take it for you. He has mired America in unprecedented levels of debt -- $6.5 TRILLION in five years.

Remembering “beloved friends and relatives who were sacrificed in the ordeal of battle” should inspire citizens to redouble their “exertions in a mighty striving” for “the long-sought basis of an unbreakable, righteous peace.” Truman urged Americans “to acknowledge our need for divine guidance” and to pray that “permanent peace may prevail among men.”

The beliefs that motivated the Founding Fathers, Kirk pointed out, flowered from these roots: ³From Israel... America inherited an understanding of the sanctity of law. Certain root principles of justice exist, arising from the nature which God has conferred upon man; law is a means for realizing those principles, so far as we can. That assumption was in the minds of the men who wrote the Declaration... and the Constitution.... A conviction of man¹s sinfulness and of the need for laws to restrain every man¹s will and appetites, influenced the legislators of the colonies and of the Republic.... Thomas Jefferson, rationalist though he was, declared that in matters of political power, one must not trust in the alleged goodness of man, but Œbind him down with the chains of the Constitution.¹²

Risky week for key executives in ND, UND planning to strangle the golden goose?, East Grand Forks lost track of $510,000 loan, CNN Money claims the five best states in which to retire include ND and SD, Grand Forks - only place where multiple UAS can fly concurrently, Lo$$ of the Fighting Sioux, Utah to continue to use the name Utes, Chicken Little radioactive waste, Two ND counties & half of state's traffic deaths, An inept life of crime, Amtak in ND - bus ride Fargo to Minot

A man with a conscience (malformed though it is), Siegel laments that the NBA is “a league where three-quarters of the players are black, but fewer than half the coaches and not even a fifth of the league office staff are black, as of October, 2013, and every majority team owner except Michael Jordan is white.” But there’s an easy remedy.

Institute a quota ensuring that whites, and other races, get proportionate representation among NBA players.

By establishment of religion is meant the setting up or recognizing of a state church, or at least the conferring upon one church of special favors and advantages which are denied to others. It was never intended by the Constitution that the government should be prohibited from recognizing religion, or that religious worship should never be provided for in cases where a proper recognition of Divine Providence in the working of government might seem to require it, and where it might be done without drawing invidious distinctions between different religious beliefs, organizations, or sects.

Learning to be Grandpa is like reviewing old tricks with the same old dog. Fortunately for the grandkids, my tricks are easy tricks to learn. They are tailored for the age group on both ends of the spectrum.

Now with another new grandchild, I’m catching the hang of it. I figure the more time I spend with our grandchildren, the more proficient I’ll become. There is something to the old admonition “practice makes perfect.” Come to think of it that maxim cuts two ways.

Only Grandpas can be Grandpas, and a wise Grandpa will find his niche.

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (DPI) spokesman Dale Wetzel was repeatedly asked if the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by North Dakota was more than just adopting standards but was it in fact a “systemic” reform of our state’s education system. To which he responded that it was NOT. I will hereby state (and please imprint this in your mind for future reference), that this CCSS business is about much, much, much, much, much, much, much more than just some standards. Interwoven into this whole effort is a systemic shift of power and that power shift may not be to the parent and taxpayers of North Dakota.

Unless the Republican Party trusts voters to be honest, it will eventually be replaced by a coalition of libertarians, tea partiers, independents, and conservative former-Democrats and former union members. Recent union elections indicate that 80% of union members would bolt if membership were voluntary. This coalition I would call the Workers Party… not to be confused with the socialist workers party… because using the words “socialist” and “worker” in the same sentence is outrageous. And the Democrats and newly recruited Republi-crats I would refer to as the Skimmers Party. The future of the Republican Party lies in the balance… and I think time is not on the side of the Republican status quo. Either the party becomes one of “selfless conservatives” or it will die on the vine.

Now, thanks to the United Nations and its NATO subsidiary, any such dispute seems poised become a regional or even a world conflagration. U.N. and NATO leaders seem desirous of injecting their organizations and their forces. And, if they succeed, existing treaty obligations will require the U.S. to participate, even lead the response.


All of which points to reasons why the United States should withdraw from NATO and its parent, the United Nations.

The League of Women Voters seems a benign civic minded organization that simply puts on candidate forums. But those forums have a format that may be designed to be controlling and perhaps manipulative. The forums do not allow the open process of public questioning like a meeting where elected officials respond to questions that are designed to allow give and take until the questions are fully answered in a completely transparent fashion. The League controls the questions and thus the public’s perception of the process. I have observed this type of process being commonly used by various leftist/liberal/progressive organizations. Based on their own literature, the League of Women Voters is demonstrably that type of organization.

If a candidate or legislator participates in a forum conducted by the League of Women Voters are they, by their participation, assisting to legitimize an organization that actively is involved in advocating the elective destruction of unborn babies? Are candidates running for public office being involved in a “setup” when participating in League sponsored events? Based on all of the evidence that I can find the answer to the last question is absolutely YES! 

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If we are muzzled and must speak in cryptic code words or maintain some kind of perceived political correctness we no longer have a government by the people nor even slightly influenced by the people. 

One doesn't have to preach the Gospel to attract the persecutor¹s attention. Merely standing up for Gospel truths eight years ago got the wealthy CEO of Mozilla fired. On every front, the very mention of reality (and what is more real than the family?) is offensive to the Thought Police who are the Vanguard of the Culture of Death.

Word seems to get around fast. Colleges around the country are instituting 'triggering' policies, requiring professors to notify students of any assigned material that might offend them. Like everything else in Big Brother's arsenal, this draconian salvo turns reality upside down: what was once academic freedom is now an intellectual straitjacket. After all, if truth is anything we want it to be, so is falsehood.

On July 4th of 2014 renowned scholar, author, presidential advisor, and movie writer/producer Dinesh D'Souza will release his latest movie entitled “America.”

The theme music of that movie began as a suggestion in a Bismarck kitchen that a composer create a symphony. And he did, and the rest as they say, is history.

And you thought not much could happen in September at a street fair in Bismarck…..

As for duty, to sit idly by while the feds violate the contract and trample rights makes one complicit in the crime, an accessory perhaps before, and certainly during and after, the fact.

This, mind you, is the main reason I side with Cliven Bundy. The particulars of the case are irrelevant because the feds long ago demonstrated their ill will and illegitimacy. As for The Blue Pill Times, it’s great it has discovered the value of the rule of law. Now all it need do is reveal what entity truly undermined it and the manifold ways in which it has been done. Of course, this would mean actually presenting, for the first time, “All the News That's Fit to Print.”

Citizens will be pleased to know that the large majority of their tax dollars went to pay for government benefits. More than 49 percent of 2013 tax dollars went to major federal entitlements including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. An additional 20 percent paid for other federal benefits including federal retirement, disability, unemployment and welfare such as food stamps and housing assistance. Excluded so is the impact of Obamacare which really won’t be felt until tax year 2014.

Talking taxes, here is a great irony. Two powerful and influential individuals had oversight of the US tax code. One was Timothy Geithner who recently headed up the US Treasury Department. The other was former congressman Charles Rangel who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee. Both favored higher taxes on Americans across the board -- and both were tax cheats.

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What is really at stake in the marriage debate is the attack orchestrated by the powerful on the foundation of virtuous community itself.

Since Aristotle, the family has been recognized as the essential and basic unit of society. It is thus the natural target for any budding tyrant.

As Augustine points out in the preface to his City of God, it is the libido dominandi (the lust for power), not pleasures of the flesh, which constitutes the ruling passion of the City of Man - that community of fallen angels and sinful men that love themselves to the exclusion of love of God.

That isn't to say that aspiring totalitarians are not willing to orchestrate the carnal lust that prevails in the broader population. It serves their purpose to destroy both the vocabulary of virtue and, with it, the possibility of a virtuous, free community.

There’s an unsatisfied market for Christendom’s standard bearer, and Putin perceives an opportunity to exploit it. China won’t do it, Africa can’t, South America wouldn’t and couldn’t. But just as the original Vladimir the Great Christianized the Kievan Rus', just as Charlemagne forged and helped Christianize modern Europe, Putin has a chance to lift the cross — and himself — high.

And the West is a gift that keeps on giving insofar as this goes. Our cultural Marxists are on the march, smell blood and will not stop. They will continue spending us into insolvency, perverting us into prone position, relativizing us into risibility and “immigrationizing” us into irrelevance. Even now, not satisfied with placing another great nail in marriage’s coffin, our militant secularists are making moves to legitimize pedophilia and bestiality. 

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the vehicle used without your knowledge to put into motion a systemic state-wide education revolution. Adoption of the CCSS by North Dakota requires assessment alignment to the standards, curriculum alignment to the standards, technology alignment to the standards, instructional method aligned training, and all manner of requirements. Using money from the taxpayer of N.D. and a number of huge education service providers and who knows who else, an education change of a magnitude that you were never told about is in motion. Is this possible? Yes.

In this interesting Q&A, Dr. Paul Kengor speaks with TheBlaze.com about his new book 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative. Kengor discusses the link between President Reagan’s faith and freedom, Reagan’s stance on nuclear weapons, and the current events in Ukraine. 

The blue exhaust was expected, but the cloud of snow mixed with dry grass spewing from the chute was not. A wad of compact grass shot from the mower, probably the remains of a mouse nest.

Lawn mowers and snow blowers sound alike. With snow still on the ground, I trust that folks think I am running the snow blower. That would seem plausible. Too late, however. A car passes and the driver executes a perfect double take. “What!” he must have thought. “A lawn mower blowing snow?” I turn red at the thought.

Premiere of FX network’s 10-part series “Fargo”, Hotel Minnesot, nuns came from India to serve at the Standing Rock Indian reservation, “the fastest-growing small city in America”, 50,000 does not seem out of question,  Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Social Infrastructure, accredited UAS maintenance training program, $23 billion (yes, billion) economic impact, Titan Machinery, a $2 billion ag and construction equipment company, Saw off the southwestern U.S., he rolled a big Challenger farm tractor, A Minto woman was equally stupid, DAKTOIDS