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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." --Aesop 

Kevin Laugherty To The Rescue        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano           Jefferson Review’s own webmaster is a Louisville hero! As Kevin Laugherty was on his way home from working out, driving down Shelbyville Road in his spiffy new truck, he saw a boy running across the busy road shouting, "Someone help me, he's trying to get me!”  Kevin pulled into the parking lot of the Mall in St. Matthews, checked to make sure the boy was alright, and then called the police and followed the man who had tried to kidnap the boy, helping the police catch the man.        (click to read more)

The Tragedy of Dependency         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano         We are all familiar with the sad situation in which an unmarried girl gets pregnant, goes on welfare, becomes dependent upon the government, and never learns to become self-sufficient.  Remaining dependent upon others for her livelihood, she never develops the pride and satisfaction that come from the struggle for independence.  She is trapped in government housing, often surrounded by drugs and crime.  Her children grow up in this unhealthy environment and often repeat the cycle of dependency.  This is a very sad story, and many people have been concerned for a long time about the corrosive effect this dependency has on people in poverty, stripping them of their self-esteem and leaving them at the mercy of government bureaucrats.  However, the story becomes even sadder when the large masses of people in the middle class allow themselves to be similarly seduced into dependency; then, the corrosive effect of dependency is not just on the few in poverty but on the entire society.  Unfortunately, that’s where we are headed today.       (click to read more)

NORML to form Kentucky chapter          The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) held its first organizational meeting Wednesday, February 25^th 2003 at the Iroquois public library in Louisville, Ky.  NORML is a national organization dedicated to the decriminalization of marijuana usage.  NORML was founded in 1970 and has worked to end the draconian penalties for pot possession and usage.  It aims to accomplish this mammoth task by lobbying and educating public officials at to the myths and untruths surrounding marijuana use.  NORML also publishes a newsletter and maintains a legal committee comprised of lawyers who specialize in marijuana related offenses.  The meeting was not large, and drew less than a dozen people, but, as notification of meeting times and places improves, these numbers should swell.         (click to read more)

AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS        By Rod D. Martin, 27 February 2004          Some folks, it seems, just never learn.  Especially doom-and-gloomers.

In 1980, the late economist Julian Simon made a bet with Paul Ehrlich, author of the best-selling 1968 book, "The Population Bomb."       (click to read more)

You mean Ross was right?       by J.V. Mitchell        
In 1992, Ross Perot caught the attention of a large part of the voters with his analysis of the growing debt problem. Suddenly, pols who had never paid any attention to government spending became very aware of the nation's budget deficit.       (click to read more)

The Inventor's Fair

When appointed officials rule the land        by Henry Lamb        There are currently six regional commissions in place, or pending final approval, which impact states from New York to California, from Florida to Washington. Few people realize that these regional commissions even exist or the growing influence they have over the lives of ordinary people by providing the mechanism through which appointed individuals, rather than elected officials, develop public policy.        (click to read more)

"Our preference would be for a more modest (gay marriage) amendment, one that would prevent the federal courts from imposing same-sex marriage on the country, but would not foreclose the possibility of its establishment (at the individual state level) if proponents could succeed in the democratic process. (O)ur amendment would read as follows: 'Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to require any state or the federal government to recognize any marriage except between a man and a woman.'  This would not solve the current problems in Massachusetts and California, but it would prevent them from becoming problems for other states--and in that case, there's no reason to make a federal case out of it."

- James Taranto, Best of the Web, 2/25/04

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