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CHUCK ROGÉR AND ANONYMOUS: WIN THE MEME WAR OR LOSE THE CULTURE—PART I

The axiom that Europeans haven’t the intestinal fortitude to defend themselves and their culture could be just a story. And the story may be part of a meme  war.

Perhaps Europeans can fight, but have simply been paralyzed by stories that they tell themselves. Memes, like parasites, render Europeans incapable of thinking clearly about their own survival. Instead, the Euros live to serve their high-minded ideals. But the ideals, which are the memes, live only to destroy their hosts.



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CHARLES G. MILLS: PROGRESSIVES, POPULISTS, AND THE BLACK SOUTH

When the Conservative Democrat Bourbons ended Reconstruction, they had reduced the role of blacks but did not try to eliminate them or prevent their advancement. With the overthrow of the Conservative Democrats and beginning in 1890, however, the new governing class of Populists and Progressives replaced reasonable literacy requirements with ones that voters be able to read and explain the state constitution. They used these harsher requirements against the literate as well as the illiterate blacks to achieve a virtually all-white electorate, closed off employment opportunities for blacks, and instituted a regime of racial suppression that lasted more than half a century.



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: AUGUST 23, 2011

 

 



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DR. DAVID J. AYERS: ABORTION’S SLIPPERY SLOPE - KILLING THE OTHER TWIN

So why would women pregnant with twins want to ‘minus’ one? The main reasons cited in the Times article were ‘social’ and ‘emotional’—not medical. Women want to avoid the stresses and deprivations of raising twins, often even construing their ‘choice’ as an act of love that benefits both the terminated and surviving twin. As one proponent admitted, it is really about women exercising their freedom to ‘fashion their lives how they want.”

 

An increasingly used ‘medical’ procedure that some women want and some physicians provide—also known as a ‘twin reduction. In the 1970s and 1980s, pro-choice activists ridiculed what they claimed were illegitimate ‘slippery slope’ arguments made by pro-lifers about what moral horrors might be generated by an absolute right to abortion.

 

The slippery slope is here. And we are picking up speed.



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CHUCK ROGÉR: TAXPAYERS AND TAX SPENDERS

Taxpayers and Tax Spenders

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT

By Chuck Rogér

Let’s examine a stunning facet of human nature: When people get something free, they want more of that something even if it means hurting other people.

A recent study conducted by the Mercatus Center finds that “when the tax-price of federally provided benefits is zero, people demand more, even when funded with deficit money.” America’s progressive taxation scheme gives citizens on the low-/non-taxed end “an incentive either to get as much as they can or to avoid as much cost as possible.”



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CHUCK ROGÉR: LABOR DEPARTMENT DECLARES WAR ON PHANTOM DISCRIMINATION

Our Messiah-in-Chief once promised to stop the rise of the oceans. We await the stoppage. Once and for all, naturally-occurring climate phenomena will be forbidden to act naturally against Homo sapiens. With the Labor Department’s promise to eliminate women’s inborn desire to birth and raise children instead of jockeying for the board room, we will also wait with bated breath as Ms. Shiu, Ms. Solis, and Mr. Messiah deliver us from other nefarious natural laws.

Ah, the smell of liberal sanctimoniousness. Smells like victimhood.



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MARK STEYN: THE BORROWED MONEY IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY OF OBAMA

Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for twenty minutes but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign:

“I’ll work every day to try to make Washington DC as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

I wish Governor Perry well in his stated goal of banishing Washington to the periphery of Americans’ lives. One way he could set the tone is by foregoing much of the waste and excess that attends the imperial Presidency. Believe it or not, many presidents and prime ministers manage to get by with only a 14-car or even a four-car motorcade. I know: Hard to imagine, but there it is. A post-prosperity America that has dug itself into a multi-trillion-dollar hole will eventually have to stop digging. When it does so, the Government of the United States will have to learn to do more with less. A good place to start would be restoring the lifestyle of the president to something Calvin Coolidge might recognize.



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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 22, 2011

Winter will arrive before housing is available, someone saw this as a business opportunity, “Fighting Sioux” nickname, no staff members “blew the whistle”, How is the gravely thing working for you?, Man of many talents, ND placed 17th from the bottom, This is one of the last things we had, What convenience store?, The poverty rate is rising, the oil boom has caused a greater gap, Bismarck-Mandan has twice the market potential of Grand Forks, DAKTOIDS



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: TAXPAYERS NEED WHISTLE-BLOWERS

The developing story at Dickinson State University has confirmed one thing to those investigating the situation:  taxpayers need whistleblowers in government that do not let fear stop them from doing what is right.

Ever since we started looking into this situation in mid-July, the biggest stumbling block to uncovering the truth has been a distinct fear of retaliation against anyone who "spills the beans."  From day one, the story was the same - "here's some great information, but it didn't come from me." 



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VASKO KOHLMAYER: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GLOBAL MONEY STANDARD FALLS APART?

We are living through an historic time: What is unfolding before our eyes is nothing less than the unravelling of the present world order.

The immediate cause of this unravelling is the disintegration of the world's reserve currency – the American dollar.

As things are coming to a head, we will have a stark choice: We either honestly face the inescapable consequences of the fix we are in, or we seek a false sense of protection and safety in the arms of our government.



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: AUGUST 17, 2011

 

 



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: DSU INVESTIGATION ENTERS NEW PHASE

The policies in the University System that demand higher enrollment numbers regardless of cost or benefit to the state in the long term have contributed to this situation. 

 

Clearly, there is a loss of focus as to who university officials have been hired to serve - students as future taxpayers, and their taxpaying parents.

 

And the Fargo Forum can minimize this issue all they want, it is still a story worth reporting.



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CHUCK ROGÉR: DID AMERICAN MILITARY OVERINVOLVEMENT HASTEN EUROPE’S CULTURAL DECAY?

 

It has always seemed to me that the argument for American military intervention in other nations rests on shaky ground. Contending that the United States must “police” the world, “build” nations, “spread” democracy, and “fight” for other people’s freedom sounds convincing, even lofty. But sacrificing human and economic treasure to fight for people who’ve shown little willingness to fight for themselves smacks of contrived moral superiority and is logically indefensible.

Progressive high-mindedness has bred the American welfare state. Consequently, trillions must be cut from spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — and Obamacare repealed — if we are to avert a final downslide into a European-style socialist democracy. Yet on the other hand, what about “defense spending”–a grand illusion of linguistic gymnastics? Where will the trillions come from to support the military spending necessitated by a continuation of neocon high-mindedness?



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW:  WHAT DID CHANCELLOR BILL GOETZ KNOW, AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

How much is Chancellor Bill Goetz's actions going to cost North Dakota Taxpayers in legal fees and severance pay?

Now the question for the taxpayers is: "How much will Chancellor Bill Goetz's efforts to cover-up the scandal by firing Richard McCallum as quickly as possible cost the taxpayers by way of severance pay and legal fees?"

 



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JOE SOBRAN: CONSTITUTIONAL AMNESIA

Today Congress doesn't even bother arguing its authority to enact this or that law. It assumes a limitless power to do as it pleases - on gun control, tobacco, "a patients' bill of rights," and such entitlements as Social Security and Medicare. So we now live under the "consolidated" government the Constitution was designed to prevent.

 

The pity is that even conservatives and their legal scholars have forgotten the Constitution and allow their enemies to rewrite the political ground rules. The unequivocal text can't be changed by the courts or superseded by case law. Lincoln understood it; today's conservatives don't.



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: AUGUST 16, 2011

 

 



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SALLY MORRIS: LESSONS FROM IOWA - THE NEXT LAP

 

 

Some interesting inferences may be drawn from the Iowa Straw Poll of 2011, held last weekend.  The first and most obvious, is of course, that Tim Pawlenty’s race is run.  Voters assessed his performance (chiefly against Michele Bachmann) and decided they’d rather have her.  The beleaguered but ever popular Bachmann dealt deftly with the many irrelevant questions handed her by the panel of pundits who clearly wanted to trivialize her candidacy (and failed to do so).  Indeed, when the nation has suffered its first ever bond downgrade, an event in which Bachmann stood out as a leader against the deal that sealed said downgrade, what could they do?  To ask her anything about relevant issues would be to deliver up to her a tacit endorsement. 



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MARK STEYN: BRITAIN’S HARVEST OF BIG GOVERNMENT – FERAL YOUTH AND COWED POLICE

I believe it is regarded as a sign of insanity to start quoting oneself, but at the risk of trying your patience I’ll try one more, because it’s the link between America’s downgraded debt and Britain’s downgraded citizenry:

“The evil of such a system is not the waste of money but the waste of people.”

Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the earth’s surface and a quarter of its population. When you’re imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own.



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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 12, 2011

Minot was one of the most optimistic small cities, Justice comes slowly in Minot, his baby mamma was dead”, he cooked the enrollment books, “If financing can be finalized”, state’s best track and field performers ever, Vikings quarterbacks from the past 12 seasons, less publicized cases of overland flooding, Crystal Springs is a 134 acre lake, closed by landslides, a 20,000 mile bicycle trip,



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: AUGUST 10, 2011

 

 



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HAL NEFF: GOING BROKE WHILE THE “NEEDY” DOING ALRIGHT

Some estimate that our true unemployed number is in the low 20% range. Is that where some of the deficit is going? To keep an additional 11% of our able-bodied people in idleness?

Why work if the benefits of not working are as good as working? Why get out of the house and brave the elements when the food stamps arrive through the mail in a magnetic stripe card? The heating allowance comes in the mail? The unemployment check comes in the mail? The tax preparer does a free return to the IRS who will send a check in the mail for Earned Income Tax Credit. Medicaid is in place for you. Why work?



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MIKE SHATZ: FROM THE SIDE LINE - 08-10-11

Our only grandson (age 6) left us today. He was with us for nine days, and it was  nonstop action. We enjoyed lots of bike rides, motorcycle rides, trampoline, pool, foosball, legos, Sponge Bob Square Pants, and other activities. We played baseball (he is the Cubs, I am the Indians), basketball, and golf. The other day he announced to me that he was not afraid of me. I asked him why that was and he said that I wasn’t the real boss of this house, Gammy (my wife) was. Oh how things have changed (or have they?).



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RUBEN LACKMAN: DICTATORSHIP OF DEMOCRACY -  ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL TO OBAMA’S MIS-DEAL

What in fact is the primary function of the Office of the President?  From where does it get the power?  Power to do what?  From where does the vision of what WE the people want come? 35,000 innocent Mexicans have been slaughtered in Mexico by murdering squads of drug cartels since their President cracked down on the drug traffic. When will Obama order troops down there?  Why has he not done it already, since he is interfering everywhere else in the name of “birthing democracies”?  Study a little history, my friends, while you still have the time and the FREEDOM to do so.  Like Orwell said in Animal farm, ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL---which after the “utopian change” became mysteriously changed, in fact one might even say miraculously changed, to:  BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS!”



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: AUGUST 7, 2011

 

 



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

There are many legislators that have long stuck their necks out in attempts to fix the problems at North Dakota's University System.  They have been shouted down at every turn, and attacked for being too old fashioned. 

Hopefully this latest situation reinforces their zeal to fix these problems.



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CHUCK ROGÉR: AMERICA IS FADING, AND THE RULING CLASS LACKS THE COURAGE TO STOP IT

Neither pack of professional politicians is sincere about reducing spending or debt.  Arguments on left and right continue to go in one ear and out the other.  Both sides cling doggedly to their damned ideological agendas.  And Americans have grown sick of the cesspool government created by all the doggedness, gamesmanship, and dishonesty.  We are stupendously disgusted at coming out on the losing end of immoral deals struck by immoral lawmakers to solve problems which those lawmakers created in the first place. 

Starting over is starting to look like our best option.



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DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: BERNANKE AND THE POTEMKIN ECONOMY

Bernanke’s repeated attempts to patch over the nation’s economic weakness, rottenness, and dead wood with newly created dollars remind me of the ‘Potemkin village’ ruse. The Soviet communists duped foreign visitors into thinking that communism was a viable and prosperous system by steering them to sham factories, stores, villages, etc. that appeared productive, bustling, and attractive. In reality, Potemkin villages were like movie sets, built to disguise the widespread poverty and backwardness that characterized life in the ‘workers’ paradise.’



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MARK STEYN: IT’S A MAD, MAD WORLD - OF GIANT DEBTS

“The United States debt, foreign and domestic, was the price of liberty.”

But in the early 21st century foreign and domestic debt is a threat to liberty. As the Brokest Nation in History drowns in its profligacy, its commissars will grow ever more rapacious and desperate. If you think Obama’s dreary attempt to blame America’s woes on corporate-jet owners is unbecoming to the chief of state, wait till he’s reduced to complaining about two-car families. By the way, if you’re reading this out on the runway at O’Hare, what’s the difference between a corporate jet landing and Obama flying in?

With Air Force One, even when they switch the engines off, all you can hear is the whining.  



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SALLY MORRIS: MICHELE BACHMANN -  A LEADER

Shame on the Republican Party if it allows airheaded commentators spouting hackneyed bromides to mindlessly bash Bachmann and hijack our choices.  We can’t afford to overlook the substantial talents, good sense, experience and ability that this woman brings to the debate.  It is frivolous to suggest that we can: frivolous and potentially fatal to the Republican Party and to the nation to accede to this old-hat political humbug.



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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 4, 2011

Whistling past the graveyard, A tale of a reluctant immigrant, boom times in Williston are not necessarily good times, It’s a very grim picture out wes, can’t find good cowboy monks, oil impact funds, The jury deliberated only four hours, Minot’s five unsolved murders, ND excelled in almost every category, the Buffalo Commons prophec, impact of the recession on Indian reservations, Does this sound like the start of a success story?



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