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Field Trip to Frankfort – VET Tests, Seatbelts, Tobacco Taxes, King Abramson, and Slime   By Theresa Fritz Camoriano   On Valentine’s day, I took a trip to Frankfort to watch the committee hearing on Senator Seum’s bill to eliminate Vehicle Emissions Testing in Kentucky.  This time, I persuaded my husband to come along as chauffeur, since he had never seen his government in action. 

Talking Trash in the Kentucky Legislature  By Kathy Lyons   Friends, Yes, they're talking trash in the legislature again and it ain't pretty.  I've just sent the following letter to my legislators in Frankfort.  As an environmentalist, I'm appalled at the attempts by certain legislators to improve their image by exploiting the trash issue.  Having read both the bills and reviews by various watchers of bills, I can find no positive effect on the environment as a result of these bills. 

Of course you're going to hell  By George Baumler   “Of course you're going to hell if you don't believe as I do” seems to be the tenet of many religions, though few come right out and say so in so many words.  Since few religions condone actual deviation from their particular dogmas, and since no one can believe in the tenets of all religions without violating one principle or another of a particular faith, it surely follows that each of us is believed to be on the path to hell by at least one faith if not many. 

The Keyboard of Power  By Gordon Francis Corbett   In “Methods of Work of Party Committees,” a selection from which was later re-printed in “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung,” Mao told his followers, “Learn to play the piano.”  He meant that they should “play” their options, as if they were so many piano keys.  He then said, “Some play the piano well and some badly, and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.”

Don't Move Here -  by Tom Preble   I know that city folks think country life is idyllic. They're wrong. Don't move here.

The Truth About Vehicle Emissions Testing (VET)   By Ron Gambrell   When you put braces on a child’s teeth you do so to correct a problem.  The child has teeth in need of straightening.  You know when you put them on that it is a temporary situation.  After a period of time, when the teeth are straight, the braces must come off.  To leave the braces on after the teeth are straight, so that the dentist can continue to make money would be ludicrous.  This is what is happening with Vehicle Emissions Testing (VET) in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Top 10 reasons Louisville needs fresh faces in the new Metro Government  by Woody Oakes

Perpetually learning to crawl by Barry Bright

To Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts  By D. Eric Schansberg (An article explaining the value and importance of patents and other intellectual property - Dr. Schansberg teaches economics at IUS)

The Police State we live in – Or – If it isn’t martial law, then what is?  by Ed Lewis   A large number of people have indicated their fear that we will soon be living in a police state and under martial law.  However, if one investigates the matter, the only conclusion best represented by facts is that we already live in a police state.  We are under martial law even without the ominous appearance of US military people on every street corner.  Here are some interesting facts taken from the Justice Policy Institute:

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