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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."--Winston Churchill

Odds & Ends:  A Light-Hearted Derby Week In Louisville, Free Speech, Dave Barry’s History of America, and The C-J’s Hawpe     By Theresa Fritz Camoriano      1.  This week has been a beautiful pre-Derby week in Louisville, KY.  The parade went off well, with the very deserving young men of the World Champion Valley Little League getting prime billing.  The boat race was a success, and we hope you selected the winning horses all day long.  (Click to Read More)

The real battle ahead     by Henry Lamb      Now that the smoke is clearing from the skies over Baghdad, the real work begins – helping the people form a government and preventing the United Nations from ruining it. Both tasks are extremely difficult. Success or failure will have profound influence on several generations. (Click to Read More)

The Art of Threat Management      By Mike Straw      Is your family safe? If you spent a million dollars for the most opulent home, complete with the finest "security" equipment money could buy, would you feel safer? Ask fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart, who on June fifth 2002 who was illegally kidnapped at gunpoint from her own bedroom in their six-thousand six hundred square foot, six bedroom house in Salt Lake City Utah, as her terrified nine year old sister, Mary Katherine, looked on and her ignorant parents blissfully slept unaware.  The alarm system was conveniently turned off.  (Click to Read More)

Two constitutions – two countries – but only one people      By Ed Lewis      An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.  Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813  (Click to Read More)

DOES THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE APPLY TO INDIANS?     William Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation      On April 21, amidst the long list of cases that the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not decide on the merits and thus on which it "denied certiorari," was AirStar Helicopter v. National Park Service. AirStar, which flies
recreational tours over portions of Grand Canyon National Park, asked the Court to decide if a 1974 decision of the Court had been overruled by a 1995 decision.
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“Please No More Taxes” Coalition Corrects Budget Secretary Masch on Tax Cuts      Evidence Suggests Pennsylvania Can “Tax Cut Itself to Prosperity”      HARRISBURG – Today, members of the “Please No More Taxes” Coalition corrected Pennsylvania Budget Secretary Michael Masch on his erroneous claims about the economic benefits of reducing the tax burden on Pennsylvanians.    (Click to Read More)

 

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"Guns are completely inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in mortal danger, you are supposed to dial 911, so that the police can arrive on the scene some time later, identify your body and file reports in triplicate."

- Columnist Thomas Sowell

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"Character is power."

--Booker T. Washington

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.  General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.”
-- William Blake

 

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