Northern Valley Beacon

News, notes, and observations from the James River Valley in northern South Dakota with special attention to reviewing the performance of the media--old and new. E-Mail to MinneKota@gmail.com

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

On real fake news

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The newspaper I worked for hired a journalistic "hero," who had served a month in jail in Colorado for refusing to reveal a news s...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The proctology caucus and the end of America

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The matter of Donald Trump is not one of partisan politics.  It is a matter of what comprises decency.  A colleague calls the MAGA cult the ...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Gaslighting an entire nation

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  The Republican Convention was an exercise in mass gaslighting.  Its premise was that anything negative in Trump's past was a malevolen...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

What does the banishment of Woke, DEI, and the like really mean?

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First, it means that the mean, petty, and stupid have triumphed.  And that the rest of the population isn't literate enough to understan...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

On shooting the pooch

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Gov. Noem has published an account of shooting her dog Cricket because he, among other things, enjoyed chicken dinners, but did not obtain t...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

24 former Trump associates who denounce him

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  Many people think that if Americans voted Donald Trump into the office of president again, it would effectively be a vote to end the democ...
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Friday, March 22, 2024

Aberdeen is a killing field

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On a balmy, clear Wednesday last November about 15 minutes after noon, two cars pulled into the parking lot at the YMCA.  The occupant of on...
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