Dakota Beacon

"Freedom is a fragile thing” Reagan continued, “and it is never more than one generation away from extinction. Freedom is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly, by each and every generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again. Knowing this, it is hard to explain to those who even today would question the people’s capacity for self-rule. Will they answer this; if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern anyone else?”

the big head, 100 oil rigs are at work,  Teachers’ Fund for Retirement, Dakota Growers, Don’t mess with a good thing, Gophers meeting the UND Sioux at “The Ralph” , The unlicensed caterer mowed down 180 people, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Northwest Area Water Supply, City Council has hijacked half of the tax, DAKTOIDS

What part of “no” do these tyrants and thugs not understand? Do they understand that they serve us and that they don’t rule over us? Perhaps they would understand a catchy phrase like “It’s about our freedom stupid”. Of course they would, but the problem is that our freedom is what they are after.

Can you believe it has been 25 years since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power? Gorbachev seized the reins of the Soviet state on March 11, 1985. As an illustration of how much the world has changed since—in part because of Gorbachev. The media jumps at anniversaries of historical figures and events. For those of us who write about history, we, too, seize these opportunities to teach history, especially history Americans should know.

Coach Dale Brown:

"Kevin Cramer is an American patriot and one of the most caring, principled, and talented men I have ever met.  We desperately need him in congress because he will always tell the truth and be a servant-leader that recognizes he works for us."

The ball is in his court - he can use his seniority to set his party straight - or he can sitback and not take a position until it is clear what will happen.

Fighting for North Dakota? Leadership...........?

Voters are awakening to the truth that honest, hard-working, God-fearing, family supporting Americans are generous supporters of all true disasters, whether international, national, community, or individual, and will always make the best, most honest, most ethical, most moral, most “American” public servants.  These “wanna-be-dictators” and “big-brothers” and  “Nurse Rachets” should take this “tea-tide” to heart, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN VOTER ALREADY HAS!!  Especially the young voters! And once they have seen the hand-writing on the wall” and “heard the Siren’s Song” on the tele-prompter, and felt the “Iron Heel” of the jack-boots of the Army of appointed Gestapo Czars, they will shout a GREAT BIG, “NO!” at election time.  They already have done that.  And that is America’s best Change and only Hope!

I just cannot decide if this is hilarious or tragic. But, after veneration of Barrack Obama (who has not uttered a true word that anyone has ever heard or recorded) at their 2009 convention, I suppose it all makes sense that the party would give hosannas to the second most dishonest man ever to occupy national office. As you watch the N.D. Democrat convention or read about it, keep in mind that the whole event was not really paid for by N.D. Democrats. About 90% of the cash that keeps the state party alive comes from out of state.

The Bismarck Tribune has posted a story on their website about the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigating charges of perjury, criminal conspiracy, false statement, and misapplication of entrusted property.

Overlooked is the fact that at least one witness during the trial of Sandy Blunt likely committed perjury while giving testimony. See if you can figure out who that perjurer might have been by reading the articles in that section.

In a recent conversation, Candidate Paul Sorum speculated on this remarkable concept:  “I strongly feel that I have an excellent chance of winning the election.  It is a fact that 40% of North Dakota voters are truly independent.  Recent polls and recent elections indicate that independent voters overwhelmingly vote for the most conservative candidate.  Now, should Jon Hoeven be the Republican nominee, North Dakota Democrats will run the most conservative candidate they can field – one distinctly to the right of Hoeven, which won’t be that hard to find, given his liberal views.  They understand that voters will go with the more conservative candidate.  However, if I am the Republican nominee this won’t work for the simple reason that I am a true Conservative!”

We must all be tolerant and accepting of those who choose this path, but we must draw the line at the promotion of such lifestyles as “mainstream” when we know them to be a variation of the human sexual condition and contrary to our spiritual mandate to procreate. Homosexuality must be tolerated, even embraced, for the diversity it brings. Promotion and marketing of the lifestyle and attempts toward conversion of heterosexuals to increase GLBT numbers, however, is contrary to our values as a Judeo-Christian society.

Offences named:

Criminal Conspiracy

Perjury

False Statement

Misapplication of Entrusted Property

In conclusion, I support Cramer without hesitation or qualification in his bid for Congress.  He has consistently shown the will to FIGHT for North Dakota citizens as a public servant.

Those who pronounced the eclipse of conservatism at the beginning of the twenty-first century are deathly afraid of conservatism’s virtual ascendancy. Thanks to great thinkers like Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli and Cardinal John Henry Newman followed by contemporary thinkers like William F. Buckley, Jr., Irving Kristol and Russell Kirk, conservatism is once again rising.

I know this over-dramatizes the point, but there truly are certain individuals so incredibly knowledgeable in their areas of expertise—possessing a vast reservoir of information within the invisible shelves of their minds—that when they leave this world, that information turns to ashes with them. They are, really, national treasures—irreplaceable. When it comes to the history of arguably the most fascinating of centuries—the 20th century—and specifically the long battle against militant Soviet communism, which stretched from 1917-91 as the predominant, defining ideological conflict of the last 100 years, few figures knew as much as Arnold Beichman. … Arnold passed away on February 17 at the age of 96, gleefully outliving the miserable Soviet Union and its seedy cast of butchers and tormentors, and taking with him not only body and soul but mind—a mind overflowing with valuable information. That which Arnold was unable to record on paper, or transfer to others who recorded it on paper, has gone with him, now irretrievable.

The law says we cannot be discriminated against because of our religion.  I believe that religion is important in a child’s life but, whether atheism is a religion or not it should not ever be used as a reason to deny custody to an otherwise fit and wonderful parent.

It has since come to my attention that parents who profess to be atheist are being denied custody because of their beliefs.

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

Sandy Blunt was tried and convicted after Burleigh County State's Attorneys withheld a critical item of exculpatory evidence. When major health insurance expert Joseph Paduda presses Cynthia Feland on the particulars of the withheld evidence he gets nothing but full on PREVARICATING PROSECUTOR! Although Cynthia Feland continues to prevaricate at every turn, it does not change the fact that she withheld one particular memo that would have proven her primary prosecution witness, Auditor Jason Wahl, of the North Dakota State Auditor's Office was being much, much less than truthful on the most important material matters of the trial!

Was her action illegal? According to the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. law, YES!

I’ve been bandying comparisons with Britain and France but that hardly begins to convey the scale of it. Obamacare represents the government annexation of “one-sixth of the US economy” - ie, the equivalent of the entire British or French economy, or the entire Indian economy twice over. Nobody has ever attempted this level of centralized planning for an advanced society of 300 million people. Even the control-freaks of the European Union have never tried to impose a unitary “comprehensive” health care system from Galway to Greece.  The Soviet Union did, of course, and we know how that worked out.

Since the recession began in 2008, a period during which approximately eight million private-sector workers lost their jobs and millions more saw their income decline, the number of federal employees is increasing at a 7 percent per-year rate and their income is holding up quite nicely. … [The] average federal worker’s pay and benefits now approximates $120,000 per year, or roughly double the compensation of the average private-sector employee. Factor out the lavish government fringe benefits and look at salary only, and the civil servant is still far ahead: $71,197 vs. $49,935

Score: Bats 2, McClean County 0, Minot AFB has a nuclear mission, he did not go down quietly, NDSU president, Schuff Steel, Follow The Sun, 50th in the nation, their school bus hit a cow, Mr. Constitution, lured by the sirens of California, hockey rivalry between the U.S. and Canada, UND’s Energy and Environmental Research Center, Roundup Ready seed,

The sad and tragic fact is that sex-selective abortion is being practiced here in America; albeit quietly.  Doctors report that 25-30% of all abortions performed in the United States are done AFTER AN ULTRA SOUND; AFTER the sex of the baby is determined. Is a “male-bias” at work here too? What do you think?

It seems that the total reproductive freedom that pro-abortionists and feminists claim will give women true equality with men; may in fact, have dire, unintended consequences. Once again, our interference with “God’s Plan”; has come back to haunt us.

There is a geometric progression of consequences in the politics of arrogance, and politics informs all decisions in government, the military, and society in general. The inherent resistance to criticism and blindness to reality that are characteristic of oversized egos magnify such consequences.

Sometimes nations beat the math and survive the politics of arrogance practiced by leaders who identify their personal fortunes with the destiny of their country. Sometimes they do not. It is almost impossible to conceive of the United States over the next decade ‘beating the math. Efforts to create a European-style social democracy likely will produce a European outcome: a debt-ridden menagerie of stagnant societies smothered under a thick cloak of bureaucratic mediocrities oozing with self-importance. The prevailing politics of ‘never letting a serious crisis go to waste’ so far has generated national debt estimates that cannot possibly be sustained without the United States suffering in economic terms what imperial Germany did in military terms during the Great War.

Government, utilities, banks, education, land development; potential powerful brokers steering the “distribution of tax revenues” derived from hard working North Dakotans…to the tune of $141 Million over twelve years. Voters beware…this is not the last you will hear of these “economic development schemes”. Keep your “no new taxes” signs at the ready!

NDPERS manages, among other things, the retirement plans of public employees in North Dakota.  Nearly all state employees and many local government employees are invested in the NDPERS as a major portion of their retirement plans.

Now, much like Social Security, NDPERS is on a pathway to insolvency.  Their own figures show that, without a drastic increase in funding, NDPERS will be insolvent by 2038.  Unlike the Federal Government with Social Security, the state cannot simply write IOUs to itself to cover the difference.

The NDPERS fund currently has $284.1 million in unfunded liabilities - however, that shortfall will expand exponentially until 2038 (or sooner) when it cannot meet its obligations.