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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	July 7, 2003
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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
-- P.J. O'Rourke

Why Do We Have Government Schools? By Theresa Fritz Camoriano Before we take any steps forward to reform education (again), we ought to take a few steps back to look at the big picture and consider why government schools were begun in the first place. Many people assume that government schools were created because large numbers of people were not able to obtain an education, but the evidence does not support that assumption. In fact, before government took control of education, the American system of decentralized, private education worked very well, and literacy rates were high. (Click to Read More)

The price of freedom by Henry Lamb One by one, 56 men walked to the table and each one deliberately affixed his signature. Each man considered the consequences of his action. The best any of them could hope for was a bloody war; the worst – a hanging tree. (Click to Read More)

Terry's Tidbits by Terry Gray

Have you ever noticed? By Pat Pending Have you ever noticed that the people who push the hardest for the government to be generous with other people’s money are often the same people who are the most tight-fisted with their own money? And, at the same time, have you ever noticed that the people who press for restraint in government spending are often the most generous with their own funds? (Click to Read More)

Freedom Outlawed in LEFT-ington, KY, Formerly Known as Lexington, KY by Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter Today, the local "liberal rag" we "Leftingtonians" are forced to accept as our newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, disrespectfully known as the Heraldo-Liberal by this reporter, and known by many others as the Marxist-Leader, proudly stated that our illustrious elected officials have voted to outlaw smoking in public places. Additionally, they voted to condemn a privately owned and well-run water company in order to steal it from its owners using the fear tactic of evil "foreign ownership" as the reason. (Click to Read More)

"For Free Schools and Against Roman Catholicism"

"It's well past time for [Leftism] to be declared a religion and banned from public schools. Allowing Christians to be one of many after-school groups induces hysteria not just because liberals hate religion. It's because the public school is their temple. Children must be taught to love Big Brother, welcoming him to take over our schools, our bank accounts, our property, even our toilet bowls." --Ann Coulter

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
-- F.A. Hayek

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”-- Alexander Tytler

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