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"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

--Benjamin Franklin

A Vision For Kentucky          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano             Today, we saw a Kentucky Derby in which outsiders had great success.  The winner was “Smarty” Jones, a Pennsylvania-bred horse with a rider and trainer that never before had participated in a Kentucky Derby.  The third place horse, “Imperialism”, had been trained by a twenty-one-year-old woman, which really must have made all the good old boys sit up and take notice!  One of the great things about competitive sports is that, in the end, it is performance that counts.  If Kentucky’s new governor has his way, performance will also be what counts both in government and business in this state.           (click to read more)

Endangering the Dream: Kentucky's racial divide          (Part one in a three-part series)              By: Mr. Jim Waters

The widening achievement gap in America’s public schools may be the single greatest obstacle standing in the way of fulfilling the hopes kindled by our nation’s civil rights movement. 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once expressed his dream of equality between “little black boys and girls and little white boys and girls.” Only part of his dream has been realized.            (click to read more)
 

Evidence That We Still Are Capable of Self-Government         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

“[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams

Sometimes I am concerned that we Americans have become so spoiled and so immoral that we may no longer be capable self-government and will require a tyrant to impose order on us.  However, I was very encouraged when we recently attended Thunder Over Louisville, an air show and fireworks show attended by almost a million people crammed into a tight space along the Ohio River in downtown Louisville.  Thunder is the opening event in the Kentucky Derby Festival, which is itself a testament to self-government, being entirely funded through voluntary sponsorships and the purchase of thousands of festival pins at $3 each.             (click to read more)

Louisville Metro's affordable housing problem demystified         By George Baumler           The local government of Louisville seems mystified that the surrounding counties are experiencing double digit growth while Metro growth stagnates.  The local liberals lament the building of new housing and throw any roadblocks they can muster to counter these enterprises.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that these roadblocks to new housing add to the costs of new housing.   The end result is that the costs of all housing increase.             (click to read more)

CHRISTIAN  EDUCATION  RESOLUTION

Columbine Aftermath          (source unconfirmed)

Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's sub-committee. The following is a portion of the transcript:

"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers."           (click to read more)

Grab Your Sweater: D.C.'s Feeling a Draft          by Jonathan David Morris            Pictures of young men adorn the masthead on the Selective Service website. A surfer dude with his arms outstretched. A black man in a shirt and tie. A guitarist. A cowboy. A pensive wigger with a backwards cap. They're an All-American lot, or at least represent all Americans. Some wear the straight-faced scowls of men who mean business. The rest are smiling wide.            (click to read more)

Presidential candidates 'shoot it out' for Texas ballot access           It's not every day that presidential candidates take up arms as part of their campaigns, but that's what happened April 28, when two candidates for the Libertarian Party's nomination for president had a "shoot-out" in Dallas, Texas.           (click to read more)

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