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“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”-- Mark Twain

Hot Off The Press – Education, Drugs, Judges, EPA      By Theresa Fritz Camoriano         1.     Education - A recent article in The C-J tells the story of the real priorities of Kentucky’s educrats.  Jackson Independent School District spends $5,270 per student and has achieved the kind of success the state claims it wants in all of Kentucky’s schools, while the adjacent Breathitt county school district spends $8,026 per student and continues to fail. If the educrats really cared about the children rather than about their own pocketbooks and power, they would send teams to study the reasons for Jackson’s success and would allow more families to take advantage of Jackson’s successful programs.           (click to read more)

Freedom, Complexity, and Irony       By Gordon Francis Corbett           We do what works;  we avoid what hurts;  we learn to tell the difference.  Since our ancestors left the Olduvai Gorge, this process has, however unevenly, guided our progress and let us create the wonders we see today.

    None comes from that perverse and puzzling category we call, "vice."  Vice is perverse, because its products and services hurt its patrons;  it is puzzling, because, despite that damage, those patrons usually continue to buy them.          (click to read more)

Mad Cow Mania         By George Baumler         Beware you carnivorous connoisseurs of grilled beef flesh -- you'll catch the "mad cow" disease!  At least that's what the control-your-life crowd would have us believe.  It doesn't take much digging to find out that "mad cow disease"(bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE) (in humans Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease CJD) is not nearly as big a threat as Hepatitis A.  However, it should be noted that eating meat and animal products is not politically correct, and therefore any small risk associated with the practice can justifiably be blown out of proportion.  Let's put some proportion back in the equation, while my T-bone gets flash burned on each side.           (click to read more)

KY Legislative alert from Brett Gaspard          I am working with legislators on several bills this session to save taxpayers money, punish criminals and regain lost freedoms, but I need your help to get these bills through the Frankfort shuffle. While there may be more to come, the following legislation is moving now and demands our immediate attention.           (click to read more)

Club for Growth’s Stephen Moore Will Speak in Louisville Feb. 4 Suggesting How Governor Fletcher Can Keep His Promises        By Chris Derry          With the election of Gov. Ernie Fletcher, the political landscape across Kentucky is changing. Over and over, Gov. Fletcher has repeated his campaign mantra, "I will not raise your taxes!"          (click to read more)

Terry's Tidbits       by Terry Gray

THE WAR ON POVERTY TURNS FORTY        by Rod D. Martin, 22 January 2004        "The War on Poverty is over -- and the poor lost."

So said Jack Kemp  well over a decade ago.   Kemp was half-right.  Today, the poor are with us still -- but so is LBJ's War, now entering its 40th year.         (click to read more)
 

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