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- Becoming slaves to the government – by John Porter
- It’s nice to know from the guy in charge of sales at GM that actual sales really don’t matter, in the same way that Democrats want us to believe that Obama’s actual job performance doesn’t really matter either. It makes sense, though, when you think about it.The Volt and Obama: two brands best known for crashing and burning everything around them. — John Ransom
- Cherry Picking and Charter Schools – by Jim Waters
- This nation isn’t great because we work as a team with the president as our captain. America is great because America is free. It is great not because we put our self-interest aside, but because we have the right to pursue happiness. – Jonah Goldberg
- Charter School Rally in Frankfort
- Romney’s tax returns reveal the most generous charitable donor in recent history. The Romneys donated about 14 percent to charity in 2010 and about 19 percent in 2011. — Mona Charen
- Why is the solution always less freedom for the good guys? Theresa Camoriano
- If the bland and inoffensive moderate was in fact the key to victory, Dewey would have won a landslide victory over Truman in 1948, and John McCain would have beaten Barack Obama in 2008….Sometimes caution can be carried to the point where it is dangerous. When the Super Bowl is on the line, you don’t go with the quarterback who is least likely to throw an interception. You go with the one most likely to throw a touchdown pass. – Thomas Sowell
- Action alert on KY compulsory education bill from Sheri Quinn
- 2nd Amendment alert from Sheri Quinn
- Industrial hemp alert from Sheri Quinn
- “I will not sit idly by while PIPA and SOPA eliminate the constitutionally protected rights to due process and free speech. For these reasons, I have pledged to oppose, filibuster and do everything in my power to stop government censorship of the Internet.” — Senator Rand Paul
- Jan 19 – Bowling Green KY tea party meeting
- Jan. 23 Louisville 912 meeting – David Adams will give KY legislative update
- America Today – sharing or stealing? – John Holshouser
- How can we help each other? – by Theresa Camoriano
- KY legislative alert from Sheri Quinn re Sudafed bills
- This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We must offer an alternative vision. I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. In these difficult times, we cannot abandon the core values that define us as unique–We are One Nation, Under God. — Mitt Romney
- Future Shock – legislators stoking the coals on Kentucky’s runaway pension train – Jim Waters
- Despite the fact that, according to the Senate, the Senate is most emphatically not in recess, and despite the fact that they have been meeting every two days even over the holiday, the Obama administration has taken it upon themselves to declare that the Senate is in fact in recess and has made recess appointments to both the NRLB and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. — Leon J. Wolf (The Senate must not allow this assault on the Constitution to go unanswered.)
- Different kinds of intelligence – by Theresa Camoriano
- There are no guarantees, no matter whom the Republicans vote for in the primaries. Why not vote for the candidate who has shown the best track record of accomplishments, both in office and in the debates? That is Newt Gingrich. With all his shortcomings, his record shows that he knows how to get the job done in Washington. — Thomas Sowell
- January 15 meeting of Bennett Girls in Louisville on precinct politics
- January 23 meeting of Louisville912 – David Adams will give update on KY politics
- “[The election] is a referendum on the American idea, not on Barack Obama and his handling of the economy… It is, ‘Do you want to reclaim the founding principles that made us exceptional and great, an opportunity society with a circumscribed safety net? Or do you want the cradle-to-grave welfare state?’ ” — Paul Ryan
- John Yarmuth proposes Constitutional Amendment to further restrict our freedom of speech – by Theresa Camoriano
- Newt Gingrich courageously opposed the bailout of Freddie Mac, even when it was supported by a Republican President. If voters really want to target the guilty parties in the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae debacle, they should be voting against Barack Obama and those Republicans and Democrats still in Congress who voted for the taxpayer-funded bailout of the failed mortgage giants — not Newt Gingrich. -- George Rasley
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American progressives remind me of the top echelon of Soviet Communists: so confident in their condescension to people outside their circle, so in love with their rhetoric about fairness and the welfare of the masses, and so indifferent to the real fate of individual human beings. — Svetlana Kunin
- The real WMD, better known as Saddam Hussein, was always hiding in plain sight. Over the course of 25 years he and his henchmen gassed, assassinated, machine-gunned and otherwise murdered somewhere between one million and two million people. That’s a big number, the equivalent of a dozen or so Hiroshimas. — Bret Stephens wsj.com
- Romney is a smooth talker, but what did he actually accomplish as governor of Massachusetts, compared to what Gingrich accomplished as speaker of the House? When you don’t accomplish much, you don’t ruffle many feathers. But is that what we want? Can you name one important positive thing that Romney accomplished as governor of Massachusetts? Can anyone? Does a candidate who represents the bland leading the bland increase the chances of victory in November 2012? — Thomas Sowell
- Looking outside of ourselves this Christmas – by Theresa Camoriano
- The Gross Domestic Product of the United States is about $15 trillion, and state, local and federal spending is about $6.7 trillion. So we are $800 billion away from taking half of GDP out of the private sector, and the new health care bureaucracy is coming. Once it comes, if it does, government will be larger than society. – Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, in Imprimis
- Not looking for a messiah – just a truthful public servant – by Theresa Camoriano
- A learning challenged mind is a terrible thing to waste – Jim Waters
- Newt sees change as a constant and a continuum, in which the future is reshaped by the way in which incentives are altered and power put in the hands of people who will not willingly cede it back. — Dan McLaughlin (Red State)
- For Obama to be defeated next year, the GOP’s conservative grassroots will have to be on fire. Romney couldn’t do it with a flamethrower and napalm. The difference between Newt and Mitt? Newt has a core conservative philosophy which he sometimes misapplies. Mitt has no core philosophy to misapply…. If you’re waiting for the perfect candidate who could actually win to come along, we could all be in shackles and leg-irons sitting in an Obama reeducation camp by the time he or she arrives. — Don Feder
- More keys to happiness – by Theresa Camoriano
- Action item: If we really want the Senate GOP to turn the corner, we need guys like Ron Johnson at the table. It is important that if you have a Republican Senator you call them today 202-224-3121 and ask them to support Senator Johnson for Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairman. — Erick Erickson
- Senator Rand Paul demanded roll call vote, and proposition was defeated, with Senators Levin and McCain changing their votes when they knew they would be on the record
- Senator Rand Paul update
- Playing the blame game – by Richard Lewis
- The grabby 1 percent, who account for 20 percent of the national income, pay 37 percent of the federal income tax. — Paul Greenberg
- Fudging results with jobs at stake is no laughing matter – Jim Waters
- In an era of $1 trillion-plus deficits and a $15 trillion national debt, we would like to think that a national consensus could be reached to eliminate handouts to individuals and companies with net incomes above $1 million….The Robber Barons today aren’t those who made fortunes by giving people what they want—whether they are Bill Gates, Michael Dell or LeBron James—but those legal bandits who make their fortunes by using political influence to plunder the Treasury. .. there is now more than $200 billion in annual income transfers every year to Americans whose incomes exceed $1 million. Washington’s myriad subsidy schemes betray the middle class and the poor in ways that sanctimonious politicians who talk incessantly about “fairness” seldom admit to. – economists Stephen Moore and Walter Williams
- At some point in the recent past, America moved from the Gilded Age to the Gelded Age. It’s no longer considered polite to beat up bullies — that’s simply not “tolerant.”… We will teach [boys] that fighting bullies is the same as being a bully…. We live in a world of bullies. So long as we continue to psychologically castrate our own boys, the bullies of the world will continue winning. – Ben Shapiro
- Rand Paul week in review and Rand Paul news clips
- The paradox is that the welfare state, designed to improve security and dampen social conflict, now looms as an engine for insecurity, conflict and disappointment. Facing the hard questions of finding a sustainable balance between individual protections and better economic growth, the Europeans have spent years dawdling. The parallel with our situation is all too obvious. — Robert J. Samuelson
- Penn-gate and Pension Payouts – by Jim Waters
- Before meeting Justice Thomas, I respected him immensely. After meeting him, my admiration grew exponentially. Again, call me corny, but I was affected in a spiritual way—like I was a better person for having been in the presence of this good man. I don’t feel that way often. Godspeed, Justice Thomas. And thank you not only for what you are doing but also for who you are. – Dr. Mark Hendrickson
- I occasionally hire a man to do bulldozer work on my ranch. He doesn’t know a lot about foreign policy, but he knows a lot about the economics of the bulldozing business. In his freedom to pursue that business and to be the best he can be at it, he’s the equal of any man. He’s proud, he’s independent, and he knows his trade as well as anybody else in America knows theirs. That’s what America is about. For me, today’s battle, as it was in 1980, is not just about prosperity or goods and services. It’s about freedom, and it’s about the kind of character that only freedom creates. — Phil Gramm
- Thanksgiving 2022 – from a reader
- The New Aristocracy – by Theresa Camoriano
- “Witnessing the Republicans and the Democrats bicker over the U.S. debt is like watching two drunks argue over a bar bill on the Titanic.
- Lessons about the national debt
- How progressivism creates crony capitalism and corrupt government
- Ode to the welfare state from 1949
- There is a battle raging in America – John Porter
- With the exception of our declining public education system, the single greatest obstacle to our nation’s future economic growth is a near-total lack of understanding of our vast energy resources….We import half our oil because of the political decisions we make, not because we lack abundant oil resources. Similarly, we have abundant natural gas and coal resources that can inexpensively power our nation for centuries—if only the government does not aggressively block domestic energy production. – Jay Lehr
- Romney the RINO – Don Feder
- The reason Gates is very wealthy is millions upon millions of people voluntarily reached into their pockets and handed over $300 or $400 for a Microsoft product. Those who think he has too much money are really registering disagreement with decisions made by millions of their fellow men. — Walter Williams
- Honor among pushers – by Randy Walters
- In Mitt Romney, establishment Republicans have the perfect vessel for the content-free campaigns they prefer to run, but Romney won’t spark the conservative revolution that is poised to sweep President Obama from the White House and elect down-ballot conservatives across the country. If conservatives acquiesce in the nomination of Romney — and Republicans run the content-free campaign his handlers plan — then Washington’s inside elite will maintain their hold on the Party, but at the cost of losing winnable elections for the Senate, Congress and Governor. And they’ll saddle America with another four years of Barack Obama as President. — Richard Viguerie
- Climategate 2 – thousands more documents released, show more coverup
- Bureaucratic dominance does not merely lower material living standards or reduce profit opportunities. It crushes lives and dreams. — Sheldon Richman
- Being Thankful Leads to Happiness – by Theresa Camoriano
- “There is never a right time to do wrong and there is never a wrong time to do right.” — Lou Holtz
- Liberty University becomes safer by allowing concealed carry on campus
- Obama Scandal Tracker
- Man in the mirror: change your ways – by Jim Waters (KY schools cover up poor performance)
- The Tea Party budget proposal
- Senator Rand Paul news clips
- How Hal Rogers and other KY Republicans (except Rand Paul) are destroying the Republican brand – throwing the TEA party under the omnibus
- President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy, Jr., netted a $1.4 billion bailout for his company, BrightSource, through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official. It seems the Solyndra scandal is just the tip of the “green” iceberg.
- Osi speaks about Mitt Romney
- People over profits? – Theresa Camoriano
- Brooks Wicker, candidate for KY third district, criticizes Super Committee
- I’ve heard too many horror stories of people who protected “good old Uncle Charlie” or “good old Coach Sandusky” instead of protecting children. You must have absolute moral clarity: Child molesters belong in jail where they can’t hurt children. If you don’t call the police, then you are an accomplice and no better than a molester yourself. — Michael Reagan (son of President Reagan and a victim of child sexual abuse)
- A Thanksgiving Lesson for President Obama – by Theresa Camoriano
- “Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”— Elie Wiesel
- The opposite of compassion – by Theresa Camoriano
- Money does not equal happiness, Brooks said, citing research on lottery winners and welfare programs. “If you don’t earn it, it won’t bring you happiness. True happiness comes from earned success,” he said. The flip side to earned success is learned helplessness, which leads to unhappiness, he said. “We need a free enterprise system that recognizes this. A belief in free enterprise means we also help others find opportunities. When we take the risk out of life, we take the life out of life,” Brooks concluded. “Free enterprise is a noble system, built not on envy but aspiration.” Debate between Jim Wallis and Arthur Brooks
- How to bring power back to the people – Bill Whittle video
- One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license. – P.J. O’Rourke
- Islamophobia – a manufactured crisis to crush dissent – Don Feder
- Senator Rand Paul newsclips
- The bridge in your mind – Bill Whittle (7 minute video – how the Western mind succeeds)
- Senator Rand Paul news clips
- Red State interview of Rick Perry on foreign policy and why he got into politics – 5 minutes
- Defense wins championships – not jobs – by Jim Waters
- Equality, egalite, was what the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, Mao’s Revolution of 1949, Castro’s Revolution of 1959 and Pol Pot’s revolution of 1975 claimed to be about. This was the Big Lie, for all those revolutions that triumphed in the name of equality were marked by mass murders of the old ruling class, the rise of a new ruling class more brutal and tyrannical, and the immiseration of the people in whose name the revolution was supposedly fought….behind the latest crusade against inequality lie motives other than any love of the poor. They are resentment, envy and greed for what the wealthy have, and an insatiable lust for power. – Pat Buchanan
- Are you happy? – Randy Walters
- The 90% black vote for Democrats is like money in the bank on election day. A prominent black conservative who offers an alternative view of the world is a serious danger politically, because if that alternative view has the net effect of reducing the black vote for Democrats just to 75%, the Democrats are in big trouble at election time. In this political context, merely defeating a black conservative at the polls or at confirmation hearings is not enough. He must be destroyed as an influence in the future — and character assassination is the most obvious way to do it. — Thomas Sowell
- Ann Coulter’s interesting story about a pattern behind the sexual harassment allegations that have been coming out of Chicago
- No, the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
- Are the people who lift,
And the people who lean. - Wherever you go you’ll find the world’s masses
Are always divided into just these two classes.
And oddly enough, you’ll find too, I ween,
There’s only one lifter,
To twenty who lean.
- Are the people who lift,
- Richard Viguerie: Kentucky GOP made a big mistake
- We’ve watched the fall – John Holshouser
- Act for America meeting about the Muslim Brotherhood November 10 in Louisville
- Counterfeit capitalism – Trick or treat? – by Jim Waters
- Now, Go Out and Vote! – by Theresa Camoriano
- Briefing on international affairs by a former Reagan advisor
- Kemper within striking distance in KY Auditor’s race
- With Romney stuck in the twenties, the Republican nomination may not be decided until the convention. This means Romney is not “inevitable,” and there is no reason why conservatives and Tea Partiers have to once again settle for an establishment nominee. – Richard Viguerie
- Random Thoughts – John Holshouser
- Rand Paul effort to get money for bridges fails
- Occupy Wall Street preaches that the “1 percent” got rich by exploiting the “99 percent.” The Tea Party believes that with greater freedom and less government, we could all be more prosperous and productive. One is rooted in envy, the other in self-respect. What distinguishes them, you might say, is the culture of the Tenth Commandment. That distinction is showing up in many ways, not least in the latest police reports. — Jeff Jacoby
- A listing of Romney flip-flops – Erick Erickson
- Obama’s 32-month report card
- A new American Christmas Tradition
- Open letter to Governor Beshear
- As an immigrant from a socialist country, I for some reason don’t feel abused by the 1% of American “millionaires and billionaires.” Instead, I feel lucky to live in the USA. — Svetlana Kunin
- Marilyn Parker’s thoughts on the Nov 8 election in KY
- If the government has been sending too much of the taxpayers’ money to people in Wall Street — or anywhere else — then the irresponsibility or corruption of politicians is the problem. …Maybe some of the bankers or financiers should have turned down the millions and billions that politicians were offering them. But sainthood is no more common in Wall Street than on Pennsylvania Avenue — or in the media or academia, for that matter. — Thomas Sowell
- Rep. Ron Crimm prefiles bill re Kentucky Retirement double dipping
- Information about Kentucky candidates for Nov. 8 election
- Frederick Douglass’ Root – by Theresa Camoriano
- The trouble with the [Occupy Wall Street] movement is that it’s centered around two concepts, both of which are abject lies. First and foremost, it doesn’t represent ninety-nine percent of anything, no mater how many time the protesters themselves, their enablers, or a corrupt mainstream media repeats the slogan. Second, there is nothing inherently virtuous about being poor or middle class, any more than there is anything inherently evil about being wealthy. … And make no mistake: it is a virus that infects every ethnic group, both genders and, as you may have guessed, every income class. Until some kind of national integrity is restored, everything else comes down to dealing with the symptoms of the problem instead of the problem itself. How do you restore integrity? One self-aware person at a time coming to the realization that without it, you’re nothing but the member of a mob, whether that mob resides in Zuccotti Park, a bank boardroom, or the Beltway in Washington, D.C. You want to camp out all winter and rail against the inequities of the world? Knock yourself out.” –columnist Arnold Ahlert
- Herman Cain’s smokin’ new ad
- What kind of equality do you favor? – Theresa Camoriano
- Declaring war on class warfare – Jim Waters
- How is it possible? – John Holshouser
- Louisville TEA Party and Rand Paul endorse John Kemper for KY state auditor
- Rand Paul news clips – proposing spending cuts, and more
- Indictment for vote fraud in Southern Indiana
- Obama nails it – by John Holshouser
- Rick Perry announced his tax plan today, which I’ll go on record as saying I, El Rushbo, think is great. It’s fabulous. I like it. And the left is coming unhinged. – Rush Limbaugh
- Rick Perry 30-second ad on job creation
- Democrats rake in Wall Street cash
- TEA and Occupy? – Randy Walters
- Chocola, Norquist, Forbes prefer Perry’s economic plan
- Todd P’Pool for Attorney General Rally with Mayor Rudy Giuliani Wednesday Oct 26 3 pm in Louisville
- School Choice town hall Oct 26 in Louisville
- Louisville Tea Party Social with endorsed candidates Sunday, Oct. 30
- The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich. — P. J. O’Rourke
- Chips, Anyone – Randy Walters
- In the war over class, Mitt Romney is already waving a white flag. And therein lies one of his chief liabilities as a Republican nominee or president. - Kimberly Strassel – Wall Street Journal
- Bennett Girls Louisville Convention Was a Great Success – by Theresa Camoriano
- Louisville 912 meeting will be Monday, Oct. 24 – Topic: Emergency Preparedness
- Ron Paul plan to restore America
- Rand Paul on 800 page education bill with no time for hearings or to read the bill – this is an example of how the system is broken (5 minutes)
- Open letter regarding free speech
- We will miss Mike Moreland
- GE gets more corporate welfare
- ‘Occupy public pension feeding troughs’ – by Jim Waters
- The shut up and work act of 2012 – David Adams
- I don’t believe it – John Holshouser
- The morality of capitalism – free pdf download of book
- Whose speech are we protecting? – by David Adams
- Loose Cannon Terry Gray
- Simple Constitutional Principles – John Holshouser
- Nov. 19 – Kentucky Right to Life Conference w/ Jay Sekulow speaking on religious freedom issues – in Louisville
- Candidates – John Holshouser
- Loss of free speech in KY – David Adams
- Last week, Senator Rand Paul hosted an event called “Property Wrongs: A Discussion with the Victims of the U.S. Government’s Assault on Private Property.” — Jack Hunter
- Why is Congressman Yarmuth so negative?
- Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to “spread the wealth,” Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty. — Thomas Sowell
- Police arrest occupiers? – by Randy Walters
- A letter to my elected officials – by Theresa Camoriano
- Rand Paul schools the senate establishment
- Candidates endorsed by Louisville Tea Party
- Louisville Metro Council eliminates transparency for union contracts – Marilyn Parker
- “We’re standing on top of the next American economic boom. It’s the energy that’s under this country.” — Rick Perry
- Are you prepared for natural disasters, terrorist strikes, and more? David Allen, security specialist, will speak on emergency preparedness at the Louisville 912 meeting.
- We need big business to stop living off the taxpayer dole. We need a new age of corporate welfare reform like the welfare reform of the 1990s. — Erick Erickson
- Libertarians say crony capitalism is the problem
- Louisville Metro Council tongue kissed the unions last night – from Mandy Connell’s blog
- Among the many school choice advances in 2011 was the enactment of a revolutionary new option in Arizona: Education Savings Accounts (ESA).
- Big Brother, Meet the Big Bad Judge – by Jim Waters
- Occupy Wall Street Protesters confuse Capitalism with Crony Capitalism – CEI
- KY Tea Party needs to demand more – David Adams
- Did Pearson company buy KY testing contract by giving Terry Holliday an all-expense-paid junket to China? (New York Times scoops KY newspapers)
- Too Simple? – Randy Walters
- Private groups gorging at state pension trough – Bluegrass Institute
- In defending TARP, Romney and Cain firmly aligned themselves with the Washington-Wall Street axis that put-over the greatest crony capitalist raid ever perpetrated on the U.S. Treasury, and they also reminded Tea Party and conservative movement voters why they can not be trusted to change Washington’s insider culture. — Richard Viguerie
