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"I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle upon his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him." -- Richard Rumbold (before being hanged 1679)

The Real Thanksgiving Story          by Theresa Fritz Camoriano          When I was a child, I learned in school about the pilgrims, about the indians teaching them to plant corn, and about the Thanksgiving celebration.  We made turkeys out of construction paper and dressed in the hats and collars of the pilgrims; we ate turkey, corn, and cranberry sauce, but we never learned the real Thanksgiving story.  Only when I began home schooling my daughter and reading history from original sources did I learn the real lessons from the Plymouth colony.             (Click to Read More)

To Gov.-elect Fletcher: Lead school choice initiative for Kentucky          By Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions          A wise man once said: “If you encourage something, you get more of it; if you discourage something, you get less of it.”            (Click to Read More)

What Ever Happened To The American Dream?          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano           We Americans used to admire creative risk-takers -- people who risked their reputations, their health, their financial security, and even their lives pursuing their dreams.  People like Christopher Columbus, Lewis and Clark, or the astronauts, who dared to venture out to discover new places.  People like Martin Luther King, who risked being killed as he stood up for equal rights.  Entrepreneurs who mortgage the house and risk everything on a new business venture.  Mountain climbers, athletes, artists, and others who dare to try new, unconventional approaches as they pursue their dreams.  We used to understand that there was more to life than good health and a fat bank account – that life was about enthusiastically pursuing our dreams, for standing up for what is right -- not just about surviving.  What has happened to us?           (Click to Read More)

Brave Banner         By Tom Preble           Damn, I’ve hit a dog!  Right under the front bumper and a sickening bump as he went under the duals. The school bus is stopped, brake set, flashers on.  I turn off the engine, grab the key and tell the kids to sit tight as I run out the door.  The dog is of a good, medium size but he doesn’t seem so now.  A tiny crumpled mass lies on the clean, empty dirt road.  Why is it that death seems to shrink us?  The vault of purple blue morning sky and expansive prairie accentuate Banner’s smallness.  Yes I know his name, I know this dog.           (Click to Read More)

Meal tax proposal "supersizes" tax burden         By Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions         Few policy proposals illustrate government’s insatiable appetite for gobbling up taxpayers’ money more than the current push to layer another tax on restaurant meals in Kentucky’s largest cities. “Wait a minute,” cry supporters in Frankfort. “We don’t support increasing taxes on restaurant meals. We just believe local communities should have the option of raising additional revenue.”           (Click to Read More)

The Civil Rights Laws & The Growth of Government          by Harry Browne         The political process always manages to turn idealistic dreams inside out. For an excellent example, look no further than the civil rights laws passed in the last 40 years.           (Click to Read More)

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be 'cured' against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we 'ought to have known better,' is to be treated as a human person made in God's image."
-- C.S. Lewis

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