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“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” Dante Alighieri

How Our Intelligence Got Smarter – And A Christmas Offer          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano           One interesting bit of information that came out of the capture of Saddam Hussein was that, beginning in mid-summer, the U.S. intelligence folks began seeking information in a new way – from the ground up.  Instead of just questioning a few high level people in Saddam’s administration, they began questioning many very low level people, and, at that point, their intelligence began to improve dramatically.  One low-level aide might not know very much individually, but the leads obtained from a large number of low-level people gradually produced a very useful collection of information.  This should not surprise anyone.  We should all know by now that the collective knowledge and wisdom of the individual, regular old folks is far greater than the knowledge and wisdom of any elite person or group.         (click to read more)

What Happened to The Vaccine?          by J.V. Mitchell            On a recent CNBC program, Jerry Seib was asked, "Why is there a shortage of flu vaccine?" He replied that there are only two companies manufacturing vaccine now. There were twenty five at one time, but the federal government became the largest customer. So, the government was able to control the price, to force it down. It reduced the profit level to a point that most of the manufacturers quit making the vaccine.       (click to read more)

ACT results            By Jim Waters (BIPPS)          Former Courier-Journal editorial page editor Herbert Agar, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is credited with saying, "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."        (click to read more)

Will Tobacco Profits Lie On The Wrong Side Of The Law?           by Terry Gray         I’ve jumped up and down and screamed it.  I’ve calmly explained about smoking bans and used facts as support.  I’ve warned of a coming prohibition amid the smiles of antis.  It just seems that no matter what I do or what evidence is placed in front of these wonderful, compassionate folks, they still do stupid stuff.       (click to read more)

JUDICIAL TYRANNY: FROM PARENTAL RIGHTS TO TERRI’S LAW            by John William Kurowski, founder, American Constitutional Research Service          On Oct. 21, 2003, Florida’s Legislature passed a bill know as “Terri’s Law”, authorizing Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene in a case in which Judge Greer ordered a feeding tube to be removed from Terri Schiavo who was, and had been, in an incapacitated state for a number of years.       (click to read more)

100 YEARS FROM KITTY HAWK         by Rod D. Martin, 17 December 2003         When Orville and Wilbur Wright launched their Flyer into the history books, one hundred years ago this day, they could not possibly have imagined the consequences of their act.       (click to read more)

"The man of system . . . seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board; he does not consider that the pieces on the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress  upon it."

– Adam Smith

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