Dakota Beacon

We hear those opposing Measure 2 that, while fixing property taxes is necessary Measure 2 isn’t the right way. Not only is it the right way it’s the only way. The only beneficiaaary of property taxes is the government itself.

Cynthia Feland is basing her attorney ethics defense on her assertion that not turning over evidence to a defendant was an "accident", an "oversight", an "ommission". That claim is characteristic of a pattern frequently employed that might best be described as itself is one of her Prosecutor Prevarication Proclivity (PPP) techniques.

The Burleigh County State’s Attorney’s Office (BCSAO) added three additional criminal items to the Charles (Sandy) Blunt criminal charges just prior to Blunt’s trial in December of 2008.

The trial judge questioned the validity of adding these items as probable cause to charge must be established in a hearing before the trial.

BCSAO avoided probable cause examination by making the false claim that the charges that Blunt had illegally allowed former Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) employee David Spencer to get paid for sick leave when he was not sick, Blunt did not seek to obtain half of the relocation moving expenses from Spencer due because Spencer had allegedly resigned “voluntarily” from WSI, committing monies to the North Dakota State Fire Fighter’s Association without proper authorization/authority.

BCSAO falsely assured trial judge Bruce Romanick that the sick leave, moving expenses, and Fire Fighter’s Grant had been part of the investigation from “day one” and “the get-go”.

BCSAO did not have any idea that these issues existed and much less were possibly illegal until months after the August 2007 preliminary hearing.

BCSAO has repeatedly perpetrated this lie to the North Dakota Supreme Court and Judge Romanick.

Judge Cynthia Feland reiterated this lie numerous times during her June 2011 attorney ethics trial and in the proceedings leading up to that trial.

Hal Hase reviews the book, Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Ron Powers:  In the midst of reading of the ferocious combat, and the awful losses, one cannot help think of all those young men who died.  They died in their teens and twenties.  Some had never kissed a girl.  They would not go home to college or family. They would never have the gift of their own families and grandchildren. One’s heart simply breaks in contemplation.  How can we as a nation, as a people, ever pay the debt we owe them? 

 The original consensus broke down during the New Deal, when Franklin Roosevelt claimed that the Great Depression had created emergency conditions requiring both centralized power and lax interpretation of the Constitution. Constitutional restrictions on the federal government became meaningless as Roosevelt construed such phrases as "general welfare" and "interstate commerce" to be almost infinitely elastic. During World War II, the "general welfare" warranted the incarceration of all Japanese-Americans; there was no logical reason why it couldn't have been invoked to justify killing them all.

North Dakota’s Big Black Eye Becoming Evident

The National Workman’s Compensation Insurance community tells the businesses of America of the TRAVESTY  that has been the persecution/prosecution of Sandy Blunt.

“Collectively we speak to thousands within our industry every day. Our opinions have been clear; this situation needs the light of truth shone brightly upon it. The time and resources expended prosecuting a man on such questionable grounds should be more closely examined, by the business community, workers compensation professionals and the media in North Dakota.”

2020 & Beyond; opening salvos in the 2012 governor race; news from the oil patch is so dramatic' GF’s surprising economic growth; degrees in petroleum engineering;  BNSF Railway runs 33 trains through Minot; see the stars; small Montana towns near the ND border; a river of drugs; When is race relevant in reporting? conflict of interest and corruption; crime on Indian reservations; the teenage Deese brothers terrorize the small town;  a resurgence of meth; DAKTOIDS

Tax Foundation report gives North Dakota a below-average rating for Business Friendly Tax Policy

On January 20, Sebelius and Barack Obama answered Catholics. As Bishop Zubik put it, “On Jan. 20, the Obama administration answered you and me. The response was very simple: ‘To hell with you.’”

In the end, AOAs do not want partisan government. They want self-government. AOAs do not want to exchange Democrat control for Republican control if it means more of the same.

Debate is a constructive way to get the measure of the candidates.  The parties should be trying to field the BEST candidate – not shield their favorite from the scrutiny of the convention delegates and primary voters.  It should be an effective tool FOR THE PARTY ORGANIZATIONS to help them select people who are most fit to govern.

Socialism is a promise from politicians of a utopia void of poverty. Socialists promise food, clothing, housing, retirement income and healthcare for all. They argue that these things should be free in a “fair” and “just” society and would be if it wasn’t for “greedy” rich people. This promise has been made many times, but never once kept because the real objective is the power of government over the people. 

We forgot to file seven years of income tax returns; “trio of life-altering miracles” ; top tourism spot in Canada; Keystone XL pipeline; Who does that leave?; closely related murders in Minot; impersonating a lawyer in ND; Norwegian Christmas in ND; “Startling Oil Patch numbers"; Another hospital merger; What is the Hi-Line?; the bankruptcy plan of Lee Enterprises; Essential Air Services Act; entrepreneur Harold Schafer; “Their communications skills were inadequate”;

The twentieth-century state denied God and the existence of any stable human  nature, both of which imply immutable standards of right and wrong that might  Limit the authority and power of the state. It claimed the power to eradicate  all old laws and replace them with new ones that suited its purposes. Even written constitutions could be "reinterpreted" in keeping with the demands of the New Society. Plain words whose meaning had never been in doubt became "living documents," arbitrarily endowed with wholly new meanings by state officials.

This word appears some seventy-five times in the NewTestament. We should be glad of it, since the news it announces is good indeed.
That news is this: Even though all men are sinners deserving of eternal deathin a place called hell, God has provided a way of escape.

At one point, Obama remarked that Americans are "cynical" about Washington.  His address helps explain why.  His talk of unity was belied by his second-class treatment of Republicans during the address.  The Democrats had printed copies of Obama's text - a simple courtesy denied to Republicans.

THE TEN BIGGEST NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2011:

1.Oil Patch; 2. Flooding Everywhere; 3. Fighting Sioux Redux; 4. The Nation's No.1 Economy; 5. Man Camps; 6. Sour Feelings in Sugarland; 7: Is it a Serious Medical Facility or a Criminal Enterprise? 8. AMTRAK - A Wasteful Model; 9. Somalis in the News; 10. He Knew Nothing

Paul and the other candidates are operating in different political universes. While these other candidates favor the same foreign policy as the one advocated by McCain and Bush and while they are unlikely to make much of a dent in existing social programs, Paul would turn things around dramatically. Unlike the others, he would not be providing a Bush-third term or the McCain presidency that we missed in 2008, but a program of massive dismantling of the federal bureaucracy, including and perhaps especially the Federal Reserves, and a sharp shift away from the liberal internationalism that is the staple of the Republican foreign policy.

The pattern is always the same. First one, then another, then another Redpoll darts onto the feed bag. They fly toward the thistle bag hitting it feet first sticking to it like Velcro. Nice trick for a “thistle missile.”

The reality is, of priorities to meet a full range of threats, or we face total defeat at the high end of the spectrum on the one hand, or death by a thousand cuts through inappropriate organization, doctrine, and training at the lower end.counterinsurgency, irregular warfare, and terrorism are not going away. U.S. national security strategy must, therefore, indulge in a delicate balance.

The great mission of American conservatism — securing the conditions under which liberty flourishes — has always depended on the weaving together of imperfectly compatible principles and applying them to an evolving and elusive political landscape.

Most young athletes think that their time is better spent practicing their passing skills or their swing. There is, of course, nothing wrong with that, but it does make Tebow's conduct seem all the more remarkable. And it also seems to testify to the genuineness of his spiritual beliefs.

The reality is that we should want a do-nothing Congress.　 In fact, we should want a do-nothing president, do-nothing bureaucrats and hope that our military, police, firefighters and judges have to do little.　 And let's just think about where we'd be today if we actually had a do-nothing government for the last many years.　

What greater power can the state claim than the power to redefine human life itself -- to withdraw protection from an entire category of human beings? And what greater power could the Federal Government usurp than the power of the individual states to protect
innocent life from violent death?

Don’t say it.

Don’t write it.

Don’t use it – except to damn it.

If we want economic freedom to live, “capitalism” must die.

The newly rich, or as the French say, “nouveau riche,” have a lot to learn about living with wealth. A related term, “noblesse oblige” (literally “nobility obligates”), implies an honorable or benevolent behavior considered to be the responsibility of persons of high rank or birth -- or new found wealth. Noblesse oblige implies that privilege must be balanced with duty toward those less fortunate. That is a lesson not easily learned.